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review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. Thank you, Pastor Webin, if you would. Turn with me to

Hebrews chapter 13. Hebrews chapter 13, and we'll be considering verses 7 as well as 7 through 17 through 19 this morning

and as you're turning there let me briefly orient you in the book of Hebrews the book of Hebrews

is really all about one thing though it says many many, many things and many glorious things,

it's really about one main thing, and that is that Jesus Christ is greater than all of his

forerunners, and he's better than all of his rivals. He's ruling the cosmos from the right

hand of the Father as our great prophet, priest, and king, and that as our

great prophet, priest and king, having thrown down all of his enemies, he is sending his people out

into the world to conquer a new Canaan, which is every nation for his glory. So that's the heart

of the book of Hebrews. Christ is better. Christ has conquered.

All of his enemies fade before him, all of his forerunners, though they were great, great prophets,

great priests, great kings. Christ is better than all of them. He's the substance that all of them were pointing to.

He's the substance that was casting the shadow that all of them really were. And so now he's making

this new humanity in his own image and he's making those people, the father's making those people through unity with Christ,

union with Christ, in the holy places. And as his representatives on earth, he's transforming

his people and sending them out to do his work, to convert the nations, to disciple the nations,

baptize the nations. And maybe one of the things that you might think

if you understand that message is, okay, Christ is, he's the better prophet. He speaks forth the

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