I don't think there is a bigger privilege and honor for a man to then to serve the the Creator and the Savior.
Our Lord.
I will tell you something that I have apart from my wife.
I have never told anybody else.
That if you ask me a question about the most important thing in my life.
And when I say more important, I mean that is superior to anything else that exists in a person's life and in my life.
Personally, is a. This moment.
Not particularly this moment. I'm here today, but the moment when, from the mouth and the mind that he has given me, I sent out to people his truth.
This is so. Just so, you know, this is the measure of my life.
I don't want anything to interfere with this.
Anything else more important and more superior than the moment when I use my mouth and my brain to proclaim his truth.
So the message I have prepared today is the result of a long time of meditations, and maybe, as you might have noticed, I am generally a quiet man.
My character is, I am an introverted person. Maybe you have noticed.
I don't say much, but I think a lot, and the message I have today.
So just so, you know, if I am quiet, it's not that I have a problem.
It's just that this is my, my introverted character.
So you are welcome always to talk to me.
I'm not just. I'm not unfriendly. I'm just.
Quiet in my nature. So the message I have today is the result of a long meditation.
Actually, it's a month, even though when the days came near, I thought, like I had forgotten everything but but.
I want to lift up his name today. Here, in the midst of his church, in the midst of his people, through His word and through the give that He has given me, I want to, as as the message the overall message of the letter of Hebrews, the Epistle of Hebrews is to to bring people to
Christ and to know who Christ is, and to help the probably the the Jewish Christians of the the target church, that the the writer is is sending the letter to to fix their eyes upon him.
The solid rock to strengthen their faith to the living.
Up in as far as I know. Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe I'm wrong, but as far as I know, the letter of Hebrews is the only letter where Jesus is described as the anchor.
He's the anchor of our soul, and something else that I have had. I have thought, and I have pondered in my meditation.
Is this that I'm going to tell you right now, and you don't know that.
I have been very inaged and motivated and thankful for you.
There have been 2, you know. There have been many moments, but I will point out tools to individual moments.
You remember we remember we had the padlock for Joannes some some time ago, and I was sitting at the back of the room, and I was thinking, this church is honoring God by honoring us people, that's what you generally do.
You honor gas people, not only the commanded workers. You honour God by honoring His workers and his people, and I'm thinking that the more I know you, the more I love you.
Another moment was when our brother talked about the The Mtis in Ecuador, and I didn't know that Edmund Mcculley was, and his father had this church as their home base and I didn't know that Edm Culley was commanded by this church what is this this is.
A tradition of obedience towards him, a tradition of obedience, of obedience to God for his people to to follow, and to to send people for the great commission and the tradition continues, as far as I know, by doing as will, by mirroring us will and I'm very thankful because there are many things to
learn from you.
But all these situations, all these stories have a a common meeting point, or a common denominator, and that common denominator is Jesus Christ.
He is the reason for everything that happens in church.
And the writer of Hebrews is right. By the way, we still don't know who the writer is, but we know that the author is God we don't know the hand, or probably we think of some hands, but we know that the author the one that inspired, and breathe word to the writer of the letter
is him is God.
And he says, looking unto Jesus, the author, the author and finisher of our faith, so Jesus is the starting point and the finish.
This is Jesus the and he is urging them to fix their eyes on this person.
The starting point, the author and the finisher of our faith.
He is the reason why we are here. He is the reason why we remember him every Sunday and every day in our lives.
So, generally speaking, the just. To give you know, a short general idea of a picture of Hebrews.
He describes Jesus throughout from the first chapter to the last one.
Jesus is the focal point of this letter, and he compares and contrast Jesus with whatever happened in the time of Old Testament.
He describes Jesus as the high priest, and it's very meaningful.
This word, and we see a timeline in the whole letter of Hebrews in the 12 chapters, the twelfth chapters, that Jesus is elevated a superior towards all other actions or traditions, that people did in order to to clean their their sins, and Jesus is compared to the writer
compares to him to the blood of goats, to the blood of bulls, and he says that well, Jesus is, is much more superior than that than those he compares it to the sacrifices to the burned offerings, and many other things that they did and he says that Jesus is a much much more superior and
elevated compared to this earthly human things, to to clean their scenes.
Furthermore, he goes on by saying that, and the reason why they were done, starting from the Leviticus and other parts of the Bible, was to give a picture or an idea that everything you do actually it's a mirror of that who was to come.
And we know even from Exodus, the blood of the Lamb that was put on there on their doors was actually a picture of who was to come, and that was Jesus.
And then he says, then I want to read this. He says that a God spoke to us in various ways, but in the last days he has spoken to us through his Son.
Ok, can we please read it because I don't want to rephrase it?
It is first chapter of Hebrews, probably the first 3 verses.
It's better to read than me having to rephrase it.
It says so. The Epusal of Hebrews, chapter one versus 1, 2, and 3, probably.
So it says, God, who at various times, in the various and in various ways spoke in time past to the Father's, by the prophets.
So he used God used profits. His in this last days, spoken again.
He has spoken, but in a different way. Okay, in the last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he has appointed hair of all things, through whom also he has made the worlds.
Who, being the brightness of His glory, the express image of His person.
I love this explanation, and upholding all things by the word of his power.
When he had by himself purged our scenes, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
This is, I don't know if I need to use the word, but it's mind-blowing.
That gods used different ways in the past.
But finally he knew that the answer was not the lamps. The goats offering sacrifices was his son.
Let me tell you a true story.
From the time I was little to probably the eighth grade, we had a tradition in my family.
Everyid. I think it's called Id Alphaeter.
In English, we slaughtered a lamb in my house, and I remember seeing the lamb and his blood, you know, being slaughtered and his blood coming out of his neck sprinkling the we had the tree there, and that's where we slaughtered him this happened every year, and I remember one particular moment from that
time that I think I or my brother, or my mom. I'm not sure we asked our dad.
We said, Why don't we go and buy meat in the shop rather than slaughter the lambs?
Do you know what the answer was? The answer was this, no, because blood must be shared.
Period. That's what the answer was.
Now our Lem is not a Lem anymore. Our lemons.
Jesus, who shed his blood, not like the lamb, or the bulls, or the sacrifices.
And other things that they needed to be repeated yearly or periodically, not exactly sure how how the or the frequency, but they had to be repeated.
Jesus. The author is saying that is superior to them, because his blood will shed once for all.
No need to repeat that.
So Jesus is a Lamb of God, and the Author of the eternal salvation, and then the writer of Hebrews comes to a point to chapter 13, after he has said what he has said, and has compared also Jesus to the hypothesis, in the order of Mel Keysedeck he comes to
a point when he says this.
A, among other things, in the chapter 13, by the way, and I want to read it, and then I just give a short comment.
He says this.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.
So this is a very bold, very clear-cut upfront statement describing Jesus, personality and character.
It's about his immutability. He never changes. He is always the same.
And when does the writer says this, say this? He says that on chapter 13, the last chapter of the book, among other important things that he says concerning you know, marriage welcoming, you know, believevers of thinking about honoring marriage, brother in love, thinking about prisoners, and among this he also gives this comment that Jesus Christ.
is, some some versions do not have. The verb is, they say, Jesus Christ, the same.
Yesterday today and forever. And it's right, because probably that verb is not found in the in the original Testament.
But anyway, the meaning is the same. It's not very important.
And he says that in the last chapter, because, generally speaking, any kind of writer wants to leave the final thoughts in the last part of any kind of composition that he makes, it can be a letter or whatever, an essay the final chapter the final part we have the conclusion we have a wrap-up.
We have a summary, and that he wants to leave as a takeaway to the readers, and this is one of the takeaways that the writer deems as as vital for the reader to take away that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever and it's not the only place in
the Bible where you can find it. It's in various various places, also in the in the Old, in the Old Testament we have Malachi, threecs.
That, says, I am Lord, I do not change direct speech, not through, not through a writer or a direct speech.
I am lord, I do not change, therefore you are not consumed.
All sons of Jacob, and we know that Bible says, describes the personality of God by saying that God is a consuming fire, and if God says that you are not consumed, you are not consumed, and He doesn't change, and it does not change because he does not change.
I wanted to mention that because it's a very, you know, very short, very clear, coming out from God's mouth.
I do not change so so.
If we make some observation. I just want to do that, because I you know, I want to have to pay complete respect to to the part, to the verse, to the book.
And first of all, the the worst. 13, 8, says Jesus Christ, is the same.
Not God is the same. Why would that make any difference? Not at all.
Ok, we know that. No, but it's another. It's another indicator that the following of the whole letter of Hebrews is on him, and it says, as we read in verse one, that Jesus is the express image of his person.
So when you see Jesus, you see God, so it's the same thing.
Other versions like, I think Esv. Say that he is the God's imprint.
We see the imprint, and we see God, and that imprint is Jesus, and that imprint is immutable.
No, we have that expression like father, like son when you talk about Jesus, it's more than that.
It's an imprint. It's a seal, you see, that.
And you say, Well, this is God, is the original imprint.
The expedition of him, and then analyzing the the version that I have Nkj.
V. The verb is is in Italy, because it, you know.
Probably it. It is not written in the original, but the meaning is the same.
It's in the present, even though he says Jesus is the same.
Yesterday what yesterday? It's in the past, but the verb is in the present. Why?
Because it shows one attributes and number 2. Personality.
No, Jesus was Jesus. It's not Jesus. Jesus has always been, and maybe you have read that you have seen that book.
There is no BC. There is no busy. There has never been a moment in the history of humankind when there was no Jesus, or when that happened before Jesus before Jesus existed before the beginning.
We start with Genesis, and then it says, in the beginning, God, so God has been.
Has existed before the beginning, so there is no BC.
As we write in our books and history, and everything. Then.
Then it continues by saying, yesterday, today, and forever. So yesterday would be before the beginning.
Today, in the present time, and yesterday and tomorrow is in the future.
Tel he comes still in eternity, and I like to say that these 3 words, yesterday, today and forever, is we.
If we find another way to say I would prefer to say, not because I want to change it, but just to better better explain the meaning.
Jesus Christ is the same eternally yesterday, and.
The word same in the Greek language is something that is immutable, something that is fixed, something that we can rely on because it does not arbitrary, changes its meaning, or it's a attributes or his character.
And we we depend on, we rely. We put our lives on him because he is immutable.
He is fixed and changing and unchangeable.
So dear brothers and sisters!
Our God is the same from everlasting to everlasting.
That person is your personal God, my personal God.
Have you ever thought this?
That when we meet Jesus.
When there will be a time when we will meet him, for sure.
Actually we are meeting the person who was before the beginning, the person who was who created and who was at the garden of even who created Adam and Eve the person who who became a man.
God, who became a man.
The person who created the the whole system. The worlds. Chapter chapter one, verse number 2, he concluded, the worlds.
He walked on this planet sometime in the past. He!
This person, a?
Stayed with the disciples, taught him, taught them, ate with them, surprised them in magnificent ways.
This person walked on water. This person from Exodus opened the water.
That people walked on dry ground. These Israelis.
This person was nailed on a tree.
When we meet Jesus, we meet the Person.
Not only that was nailed on a tree.
But the person who cried and said, Elois, Iloil, la Masabakthani!
My God! My God! Why have you forsaken me?
When we meet Jesus, we are meeting the person who was raised on the third day.
You know. A dad raised him from the grave.
A person, the person who was taken up into heaven. And now, as we speak, is sitting on the right hand of God.
This is the person we are talking about. Can you believe that?
And this person, you and me are going to meet one day.
Can you believe that? And to see him? I I to I face-to-face, really is that you?
Yes.
Exactly the same person.
I don't know. I think God brought that that you know to my mind to share with you that the person we meet is the person we are talking about, and we are going to meet is the same who did all things.
Let me tell you a fact. Now. Effect. Okay, this is not my opinion.
It's effect. From year 2,022, Google, the worlds biggest search engine every year.
They make what they call Google in a year. And this year was no different Google. In a year 2,022.
What they feature was. What do people search more in this particular year?
And I saw it like you know, before. You know I saw it in December, and then I've been seeing that, you know, because it I thought well, I would say that in the mess I will include that in a message.
Now listen. This, the most searched question in the Bible in the Google of the year 2,022, was this change?
If you don't believe me, Google, in the year 2,022, you search it in Google again, and you will see that.
Change? Can I change my career? Can I change myself? Can I change my life?
Can I change my outlook? Can I change my hairstyle?
How can I change my hairstyle? This change? We are on the verge of a rennaissance.
The American pronunciation. Can I be original?
It's not there I've maybe I don't want to include that.
But I had another opinion. Maybe. I tell you in private. But you know what you know what I thought.
It was not there, but I'm sure. Okay, this is my opinion.
You may disagree. It's fine. Okay, but I'm sure that maybe some people have searched this have asked this question, can I change my sex?
It was not there. My opinion, you may say no. I agree with you.
How do I read that? I did it like this? People are in search for identity.
You may have a different opinion. It's fine, but the way I see it when people say Can I change this and that?
And they understand that people are looking for their identity.
And people in search for identity, and not finding it. This is the problem.
The world is changing the brothers and sisters. Some of us know it better than me.
The world is changing, politically speaking, economically, currencies are changing, inflation is crazy.
Technologies is changing. You buy the latest iphone.
Then, after 6 months, it's old. Climate is changing global warming temperatures are rising.
People are changing. Well, it's so overwhelming to keep up with this world.
People are changing, attitudes are changing.
Change change is the new, constant.
Our brother, probably in December, said this. He was from Alabama.
I apologize. I do not remember his name, but he said this, that I have quoted.
Usually when I hear something important, I usually take notes, and he said, this things are in this world.
Things are not falling apart. No!
They are falling into place.
I quote, okay, this is not my, my, my idea. I'm just quoting.
So we can say, from this we can say that because this is the you know, the the idea from the Bible.
Of course, but we see that this world is in the right way towards destruction.
Perfect track. Towards this distraction.
But.
We had the professor, who said, When there is a bad there is a problem, but.
Jesus is our solid rock.
He is the same from everlasting to everlasting.
He is all in all, and guess what? Actually his immutability changes everything.
So he is unchanging, but he is able to change everything.
He is able to turn lives around today. Now, as we speak in this ever-changing world, we have a never-changing God.
We don't need to keep up with him. He is the same.
And now, dear brothers and sisters, because Jesus is the same, because Jesus is unchanging.
His love will never fail us.
Here we are again today because of his love. We are here.
We are still breathing because of His love.
Actually, I have a problem with this. It's not about heat.
It's about love.
Because he is love. It's not his love, he is love, he is the source of love.
His care will never stop, because he is unchanging.
That's why, in the same letter we we read, I will never leave you or foresee you.
You know what this world doesn't need change, because.
Because if change was the answer, or reformations, or you know other worldly things, the world would have reached perfection long ago.
We have had enough changes, enough reformations, enough leaders who have try hard to do good things and change the world.
But still the world is not perfect.
So change is not the answer. Jesus is the answer.
This world so desperately needs is Jesus.
I have entered anybody except you know. Gods. People say that what we need, the change that we really need is a change of our heart.
The change starts here.
Than here.
The change starts when.
We repent. The change starts when we bow our heads towards his Majesty.
The change starts when we kneel down towards his glory, and we say, Well, God, I am!
I am a sinner.
If if lives change and the world will change.
You know when earthquake happens, or because I remember that from Turkey another natural disasters, where is God?
Why did God allow this and that and that in a way?
Why doesn't he change? Well, I have good news for you today.
God will never change. Whatever you do. He's already perfect.
That's why we are looking for change, because we know it in our cells that we are not perfect.
And that's why we want to change. But God doesn't need to change, because He is already perfect.
We need to change, not him.
Because brothers are sisters, because Jesus is the same.
His promises do not change his promise for salvation is still relevant.
Today, he promised, for eternal life is the same.
Now we know each other more or less, and maybe when I see a face here, maybe I don't recognize you all, or maybe I don't know you all.
But I had put me something in my heart to tell you.
That if you are someone who have come here today for the first time, or we know several times, but for some reason you have not been able to make the life changing decision of accepting Jesus in your life, if, dear friend, you are in 2 minds, for some reason do you know what the Bible says this this book, says
this today is the day of salvation. So today, if you are hearing, is his voice, not my voice, but his voice.
Do not harden your heart.
Give some room for Jesus. You know why, because he is able to turn your life upside down.
He is able to turn your life around, no matter who you are, no matter where you come from, no matter the color of your skin.
No matter your your academic level, no matter. Your cultural background.
God loves you more than you can imagine.
This is the truth, and I have a responsibility to say that.
God loves you, no matter who you are, or no matter what you might have done on this, on this earth.
Got by also, my dear friend asks another question, says, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?
There is no way, my dear friend, God will never change. It's you and me who needs to change.
By saying, by asking that question, How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?
He's saying that. Well, I'm sorry forever.
There is no other way except Jesus, the unchanging God.
And also the Bible says this, believe in Him. Put your belief, your trust in Him, and you will be saved.
It's not you might. It's not well, there are high chances that you might go to heaven.
No, my different, because God is a sovereign of all, and if he says so, it is so.
Believe, and you will be saved.
You know my different. I know your job and my job are important.
Our families are more important.
Our patients are important.
Our bank account is so important.
But do you know that Jesus overrides them all?
So Jesus, my friend, is more important than you than your life.
We hold our life as if our life is, you know, the the most important thing that exists.
Well, Jesus is more important than your life and my life.
Keep this in mind. Our our life is today and maybe gone forever.
Tomorrow. Our life is just a vapor.
Jesus is more important than your life and my life.
You know what amazes me.
Maybe you have never heard this before, or maybe I have told someone. I don't know.
There are no bureaucracies with God.
Bureaucracies with God. We live in the world of forms, feel a form, fill out forms here they are everywhere.
Maybe some of them are important, but I just don't like them, but it's red tape everywhere.
No need for down payments with God.
Which is this?
Just, you know, a broken down heart, repented heart. It's enough for him.
Niels bowed down. That's all.
No forms to fill out and the signature at the bottom.
No need without with God, you know it gives such such a relief in this world.
We live today. It's such a relief to know that God doesn't need bureaucracies.
Because our God is the same, and we'll never change.
His faithfulness is the same.
And I think dear brothers and sisters, our lives, are a living testimony to this.
That God is faithful.
Our lives are not the same from compared to before. We believed.
The food in our tables every day, and in our fridges.
Is an indicator of his faithfulness, even though sometimes we take them for granted.
His Church continues to praise him again, this is a sign of his faithfulness.
Our life. Stories fail about his faithfulness.
Because Jesus is the same eternally. His word is the same eternally.
We do not need to add anything else to this word. It's enough.
I know that in the past, maybe even present our attempts to just to modify it a bit.
His word doesn't change, because we have a guarantee that he does not change.
So we are talking about his personality today. His character, his personality, never change.
God says what He does.
In this book he says what he does, he says, what he is able also to do, and he also does what he says.
I know that there are some parts which I I don't have them today, but there are some parts in the passage that say that okay.
God change God changed mind in that, and in some, you know, specific situations.
It's true. Okay, but it's not about that.
He may change mind for a good reason, but they all fall within the same scope of unchanging character and personality.
That's why we we rely on him because he does not arbitrarily changes his character.
We do not need. It is very relieving to our bones to know that we do not need to keep up with him, because he's always the same.
The circumstances, our circumstances will change, are changing every day, but he is not so in in the times of Old Testament, and in the times of Jesus, or later, first century, etc.
They had the same book, even though there were different contexts today.
2,023. We have the same book, even though our world has gone, has completely transformed the same.
The same book, the same word.
I'm late. Oh, I'm sorry. So, as a conclusion, dear brothers and sisters, Jesus!
As it is described in the letter of in the Epistle of Hebrews, is the ultimate revelation and sacrifice of God.
The ultimate.
No need for it to be repeated like the lens of, you know, like the blood of lambs that sprinkled, you know the people, or the place, or bulls, or burns burned offerings, etc.
Sacrifices his blood was shed once for all, and no need for other sacrifices to purge or clean our sins in this evil world, that we are living.
We have him as the anchor of our lives is the anchor of our souls.
He is the same eternally.
Our lives are built on him. He is the real, flawless lamb.
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I really mean it, but we don't need. There are no bureaucracies with him.
And his immutability for all of us.
Gives security, gives reliability for everyone. His immutability is so critical for our lives.
And this is the thing that is wanted to. The only thing I wanted to live with you today.
In order to lift his name up to praise Him, to glorify.
Him here in the midst of his people.
And in turn our lives to be blessed and our lives to be.
Motivated and encouraged, and to start another week tomorrow by knowing that, whatever might happen around me, he is there, and changing and unchangeable.
I want to pray, and just to just to praise him, and, you know, lift his name up.
God. I want to thank you more than words can say about your your Jesus, about the the flawless lamb that died for someone like me.
I am so it's so comforting, or God to know that you never change.
You are the same yesterday, today, and forever, and in Jesus name.
I thank you. Amen.
And also I am told to say that the meeting is dismissed.
Thank you, brother, for your message.
Have a good week. Everyone.