All right, turn to Hebrews, chapter 13 and Deuteronomy 11.

Hebrews 13 and Deuteronomy 11.

We'll start with Hebrews 13, and then we'll move to Deuteronomy 11 later in the message.

We're beginning a new series called Jesus.

And what we're going to do is we're going to look at some attributes of Jesus and we're going to look at some

characteristics of Jesus when he was on this earth. And we're going to determine if that's who Jesus was when he was on this earth,

then that's who he is today in our lives.

This scripture in Hebrew is that I want to show you, it's not a long scripture, but it's very

important for us and we'll get to that in just a moment.

But I want you to think about what did Jesus do when

he was on the earth?

What was his occupation?

Carpenter, right?

Mark 6, verse 3 says, is this not the carpenter?

Let me show you just a little something though about

that Greek word. That Greek word is tectone. I know that you love Greek words and so that's the reason

I give them to you.

It's tectone and it's one who uses various materials, wood, stone, and metal

in buildings.

So many times we think of only wood. But at that time a carpenter was also a builder.

There's every reason, this is a definition from a Greek lexicon, there's every reason to believe that in biblical times one who was regarded

as a tectone would be skilled in use of wood and stone and possibly even metal.

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