In turn, if you would, to the book of Hebrews, chapter five, Hebrews, chapter five.

And we'll get into the Word a little bit tonight. We'll make sure that we have time for communion.

But Hebrews, chapter five, no need to stand just yet in the reading of the Word.

But if you're a no-take or get your pen out, be ready to write this down if you would.

And that is the best way to understand Hebrews, chapter five, is to read Psalm two.

That's what I love, by the way. And you do do about the Bible.

We often challenge you to become very familiar with the Old Testament.

Because without a knowledge of the Old Testament, you'll never appreciate the New Testament.

You see, well, Jack, isn't it the Old at, like, Old? I want to be in the New.

Well, it goes this way. There's the Old Covenant, and there's the New Covenant.

But you need to know, and to appreciate the New Covenant, you've got to find out what was going on in the Old.

And the book of Hebrews is the authorship to those believers who were extremely familiar with the Old Testament,

because they were Jews who we would say became completed Jews, or born again Jews.

Now, people understand this, that the Bible teaches, don't let anybody bamboozle you on this one.

That as Gentiles, we must be born again, but Jews, they keep the law. That's how they go to heaven.

And there's a lot of people talking about that. Did you know that?

There are famous names on so-called Christian TV, that teach that you and I need to be born again,

that the Jews need to keep the law, and that's how they go to heaven.

Did you know that's heretical? Did you know that's wrong?

That to understand the New Testament, you've got to look at the promises made in the Old,

and then what is said in the Old, excuse me, is fulfilled in the New, so much so,

that Jesus spoke to Nicodemus the Jew, the priest, the teacher of Israel,

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