Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

Thank you. Good evening. It's always a joy, privilege to come to Gateway. We are forever grateful for

your pastor, wife and family as they have been so close to us as well as this great church and how

you have walked with us through some of the difficult hours, particularly over these last few years,

that we have had as a family and we appreciate that personally and ministerially as you have

supported us both locally and nationally, financially, as we have taken God's truth around the world.

So I never want to come here and not express our personal and collective gratitude for you,

the leadership here and how much we appreciate all the gateway is to this community and the blessing

it is to the Church of Jesus Christ, international. My daughter, Priscilla Shire, was at the mall with my

my grandson, her third son named Jude and they were at the escalator and Jude was walking up

an escalator that was going down. The escalator was going down but he was walking up. I'm sure you've

had some of your children do that, perhaps you've done that. After a while he stopped walking

and we saw the escalator, she saw the escalator pull him down. All he had to do was stay still and the

direction of the escalator would determine where he wound up. You and I are living in a culture that's

going down. We're living in a culture that is headed south and all you've got to do is stay still

and it'll carry you with it. The trajectory that you and I are now facing in every segment of life

and family, of morality, of education, it's going down. You pick the system, it's headed south

at a cataclysmic speed. You don't have to agree with it or you have to do a stand still.

And if you stand still because of where it's headed, it will carry you south.

The second most difficult book in the New Testament to interpret is the Book of Hebrews, the first

being Revelation because of its symbolism. The reason it makes the Book of Hebrews so tough is because

it is operating with an assumption because it was written to Christian Jews and these Jews were

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