that you'd bless this night, Lord God, because we're opening your word.

Father, we're lifting up your word that is filled with your name.

Lord, it's filled with the name of your son.

We thank you, you Lord that in Christ Jesus all the promises are

yes and amen as you have grafted us into the common wealth of Israel, the scripture says.

And so Father God, we pray that we would gather near to you now

here in the book of Hebrews tonight. We pray in Jesus name and all God's people said

Amen. Well church family turned to Hebrew chapter 11 and we're back at it, but do keep this in mind.

It's been a long time since I mentioned to you

that the book of Hebrews, Hebrews,

New Testament book.

Probably written, can't prove it, it's not important,

but it seems to have Paul's,

the Apostle Paul's fingerprints all over it.

Whoever wrote it, because he doesn't introduce himself,

whoever wrote it, he's assuming his audience knows who he is. he's assuming that they're going to understand what he talks

about because he is speaking on a level to those who came out of Judaism.

Judaism, churchless, and I'm not slamming Judaism

other than saying this about it. Judaism is what the Jewish religious leadership created

in lieu of receiving Jesus as Messiah or understanding the prophetic scriptures that Messiah

would come. And so they created because listen when man is left alone man will create a religion.

But what happened is that these Hebrews that he's writing to, they saw Jesus as Messiah,

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