In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes the importance of studying the four Gospels to understand the revelation of God the Father through Jesus' earthly life. He highlights how Jesus showed us the Father through his actions and teachings, even when Philip asked to see the Father directly. The preacher also emphasizes the significance of Jesus' sacrifice and victory over sin and the law, which allows us to approach God as our Father. The sermon concludes with a prayer for God to open our eyes and understanding as we delve into His Word.

Open your Bibles to Hebrews chapter 1. Tonight, I want to talk about the beloved heir. Your heir is who will inherit your possessions. And the Bible says several times that Jesus is the God's heir, the Father's heir. And what makes you, first of all, when you have a son and you love your son, he will be your heir. Your son is automatically your heir. And if you have anything to leave, you leave it to your son, unless there's some problem or you cut them out of the will, disinherit them. But what the Word brings out is that not only is Jesus God's heir or his inheritor, because he's his son, we're going to read tonight that God appointed him as his heir. I want you to pray with me, the Lord will help me for a few minutes here. And because this is deep territory, it's like when you start preaching on holiness, the holiness of God, that's deep. Because the holiness of God is unfathomable. We can't understand that. It's so deep and such a big subject. When the angels scream out in heaven, they scream it three times. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, that his holiness, and he's thrice holy. When the Bible says something once, that's important. Three times, over and over and over, we see them in Ezekiel and Isaiah and in the book of Revelation. In Isaiah and Revelation, they're crying out the same thing day and night without ceasing. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord. And the Bible said that cry so loud, God made the temple in heaven with his own hands, with his own power. And those cherubim screamed so loud that the post of the door of the temple that God made. Now think about it. It wasn't one of us or a contractor. God made that temple. And yet the post of the door shake by reason of their cry. As they scream out day and night, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. So when you start talking about God and eternity, you're talking about the biggest thing in the English language. Now I want you to pray with me that God will help me because sometimes you feel foolish. Let me give you an example. The Bible says when it's trying to describe something like God's throne in Ezekiel and in Revelation, the new city, it says it was like unto or as it were or it was like. The reason they're saying that is they're trying to describe something divine and supernatural and unbelievable in human language. It's like the Bible. Some people believe the Bible prophesied cars because the Bible says in one verse in the last days that the chariots shall jostle one another in the broad ways. Well, that sounds like a freeway and cars running into each other. And it says the light shall come out of them like lightning. Sounds like headlights. Well, they'd never seen a car. They couldn't say like a Ford or a Chevrolet or a car because that wasn't a word. There weren't cars, but all they knew was chariots. So they tried to describe in human language something prophetic and indescribable. So when the Bible starts talking about God, you're talking about the indescribable trying to be described. So that's what I'm trying to do, and that's kind of foolish of a human being to do that, but God uses the foolishness of preaching, the Bible says, to reveal himself. Father, in Jesus name, I pray you would just take us into your word just for the next few minutes and open up the word to us. Let us have eyes to see. Open up the eyes of our understanding. Lord, let us grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. I pray you would help us do it in Jesus name. Amen. Now, the book of Hebrews, and if I taught a book of the Bible and I would like to, I would go through the book of Hebrews first because Hebrews is the most misunderstood book. Down through church history, the book of Hebrews is the book that's caused more controversy than even the book of Revelation. The book of Revelation is hard to understand, but it's not as controversial. There are verses in the book of Hebrews that have started whole new movements, whole new heresies, whole new controversies. Great big conferences were called just over verses in the book of Hebrews because there are verses that said, if you fall away, can you come again to repentance? And people were confused by all those verses. They didn't know what they meant. But really, the book of Hebrews has a simple theme. Very simple. Jesus is better. As you go through here, whatever the writer is talking about, and I personally believe that it was Paul, and you know, I'm not dogmatic about that. Just my opinion. I heard a teacher teach that a woman wrote the book of Hebrews. Could have been, I don't know. I know the real power behind it was the Holy Spirit. In the book of Hebrews, basically the theme is Jesus is better. Whatever he brings up, Moses, the law, angels, all the way through the book of Hebrews, he's bringing out Jesus is better. And that's a good, pretty good theme. And that's what he's developing. And let's read just the first few verses here. God, who at sundry times, I'm in Hebrews 1.1, by the way. Hebrews 1.1. God, who at sundry times and in diverse manners spoke in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds, who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high, being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. Now, I want to stop there because I probably won't get any further than that. But first of all, the writer is bringing out back in the Old Testament, God spoke in fragments. He spoke in pieces. You ever be reading a prophecy like in Isaiah or Jeremiah or Ezekiel and it's like God is saying, okay, I see what you Philistines are doing or what you Midianites are doing, what the King of Tyre is doing and I pronounce judgment on you and boils and all of a sudden his name should be called Wonderful, Counselor, Prince of Peace, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father. All of a sudden in the middle of like almost nowhere where this judgment was being pronounced, there's something about Jesus Christ in there and it's in bits and pieces. It's here a little, there a little, line upon line. In the Old Testament, God did, he revealed Jesus in fragments. There were a lot of theophanies in the Old Testament. That's when Jesus appeared in angelic form, that the Son of God would appear to people, not in his fleshly body, which wasn't in this world yet, but in angelic body or in some other form. Those are called theophanies. And all the way through the, I've had people say, but Jesus is in the Old Testament, isn't in the Old Testament. Jesus is in the Old Testament from the beginning of Genesis all the way through the blast of Malachi. He's the tree of life in the Garden of Eden. In Israel's wilderness experience, he was the rock that followed them. Doesn't say that rock was a type of Christ. It says that rock was Christ. I don't understand that, but water came out of the rock. All the way through when, when the angel of the Lord appeared to somebody, almost every theologian believes that was Jesus Christ in angelic form appearing there to them. He's all the way through the Old Testament. I like it when Joshua goes to Jericho and he's sent spies in. He learned from Moses' mistake. He sent two trusted spies and they went in and heard Rahab's story. She said, where have y'all been for 40 years? We've been terrified for 40 years. We heard what your God did to Sihon and Og and how you defeated the Mennonites and all the enemies and God's surely given you this land. This is a heathen prostitute telling them, we knew God gave you that land 40 years ago. And they came back rejoicing, the Bible said. And they ran up to Joshua and said, the inhabitants faint because of us. And they've been wandering around the wilderness for 40 years wondering how can we possibly take the land where God had already given it to them. And Joshua goes up to spy out Jericho and look at Jericho. And he's standing there all of a sudden, there's a man standing there with a drawn sword in his hand. It's the angel of the Lord. Joshua doesn't know who it is and he turns to him and said, are you for us or for them? And the angel basically says, Jesus says, neither one. I'm here to take over. I'm the captain of the Lord's hosts. And the reason they won is not because of them, but because the captain of the Lord's hosts was standing there directing heaven's armies. It's the same thing when David said, should we go up and fight? And God said, no, go over behind the mulberry trees. And when you hear a sound of a going, the King James says in the mulberry trees, then you attack. If you'll look that up in the concordance, the sound of the going means the sound of an army's marching feet. What God said is David, you're not fighting a battle. You can't win this battle. But when you hear me and my army come down and you hear our feet marching through the tops of the mulberry trees, you just fall in behind us all the way through that Lord is appearing. And it's Jesus Christ appearing in angelic form or as a type or a shadow, everything. And what God is bringing out here. God, he used to speak through prophets and through Psalms and through different things and types and shadows. But finally, finally he has spoken in his son. That's why we better get excited about Jesus Christ. We got a group of people running around. They're excited about prophecy or they're excited about faith or they're excited about this or they're excited about that. I don't care about any of that anymore. I'm just sick and tired of it. I just want Jesus Christ. I want his prophecy. I want his faith. I want it through him. I don't want it at all because God, he spoke back then in all kinds of types and figures and bits and pieces and Sunday times and divers manners. It said here a little there a little, but this writer is so excited. He said, but finally now in these last days, God and the Greek, Greek reads like this once and for all has spoken in his son. They did it in types. They did it in bits and pieces, but now he's finally giving us the whole load that, you know, that's what he's saying. And listen, I don't care who you are. I don't care what you think, you know, uh, you know, the guys that started the Mormon church and all these cults and stuff, they had a special revelation. I want you to know that God has said it all. He's not going to add anything else. It's all been said when his son came and lived in this world and died on the cross, that was the period. There's nothing else ever going to be added to that. Even down through eternity, God said it all in his son. That's what this writer's saying. He can't add anything to that. He said it once and for all exclusively, you know, in Colossians it says that God, it pleased the father that in Jesus shall all fullness dwell. You know what I was thinking about today when I was reading that? That means everywhere else is emptiness. Why do people feel so empty and burned out and jaded and bored? Why do Christians sit in church just burned out and bored and jaded? Because they're not where the fullness is. That's Jesus Christ, not church, not a religion, not even Christianity as we know it, but his son is where fullness is. And you can try all these other things. You can go here and you can go there. It's empty. It's empty. You're empty. When I look in here, I'm empty. There's nothing here to satisfy me. Nothing here to thrill me. But God said that in Jesus Christ, all fullness dwells. That means everywhere else you go besides him is as empty and dry as a bone. You can't get anything there. It'll never satisfy you. And this writer, I like the way he writes. It's powerful. He says, half in these last days spoken to us by his son. That's it. He's not adding anything else. Everything he's going to say about his son has been said. We don't understand it all. We never will understand it all. I think through eternity, God's going to pull back another veil. We might go and say, well, Lord, I understand everything about your son now. Okay, just a minute. He pulls back a veil. There's a whole new level you didn't even know was there. And you're going to be thinking about that for another trillion billion years. I didn't know that. You know, one thing I think we can do since God's eternal, eternity doesn't just go forward or wouldn't be eternal, right? It has to go backwards. And time and space is something that God made in eternity. It's like if this circle, and I got somebody's message about using black. I think that was Carmen. I'm going to use black. Gina told me the same thing. Can't see it. Okay, here's eternity out here, this circle. Can you see it better? Here's time and space. God created that. Eternity, this is time and space inside of eternity. All around it is eternity. And I don't know if this is true, but wouldn't this be something if you could go back when we get to heaven and watch the Red Sea part? It's still in God. Time and space is one of his creations. Not just a recreation or a movie, but actually be there and watch Moses. I don't know, I'm just imagining things, but wouldn't that be something? What if we could go back to the cross and see the real suffering and death of Jesus Christ in time and space? We think if I'd only been there, you know, someday the Bible says we'll know as we're known and we're going to be like him. And I don't know, but wouldn't it be something if we could go back in time because God's eternal and it still exists in him and watch what happened at the cross? Wouldn't that be something? That'd be worth going to heaven for, just right there. That's why Paul said, that's my determined purpose in life that I might know him, be made conformable unto his death. You know what Paul said? I want to know every pain he felt. I want to know what that nail felt like. That's how much I love him, how much I want to know him. I want to know everything about his death. I want to be conformed to that. And then I want to know him and his resurrection and his power. You know, it doesn't stop there. And one thing I want to bring out tonight, I've heard a lot of out of balance teaching over the years. And one thing I've heard people say, well, you just study the gospels in Jesus' life and that's where everything's at. Then there's people over here say, forget that, that's over with. The cross is empty. Just forget all that. Just study the resurrected Lord. And the Lord's been showing me the last few months, you've got to have them both. Jesus isn't that humble carpenter anymore. He's not that humble man from Nazarene, the lowly Nazarene. Nazareth is where the people in debt and the scum of the earth live. They all moved to Nazareth. That's why Nathaniel said, can any good thing come out of Nazareth? He was known as the lowly Nazarene or the Jesus of Nazareth. That was a derogatory title. But he's not just Jesus of Nazareth anymore. John knew Jesus of Nazareth. He leaned on his bosom and asked him secrets. But then in the book of Revelation, when he was in the spirit on the Lord's day, he heard that same voice. He recognized it, but it sounded like Niagara Falls had been added to it. It's what it says in the Greek, the sound of many waters. And Jesus started speaking, I'm the first and the last. I'm the alpha and omega. I'm the beginning and the end. And it sounded like Jesus, but it also had an added depth of Niagara Falls behind it. He began to wonder what in the world is going on. I recognize that voice, but it sounds different. It sounds like the voice of many waters. And Jesus also said, I am he that was alive and was dead. The Greek is I got to be dead. What Jesus was saying is that's not like me. I don't usually go around dying, but this one time I died. But then he said, I am alive forevermore. It's never going to happen again. I'm not going to do it anymore. But I did it that one time. I got to be dead, but now I'm alive forevermore. And John turned around to see who that was. And it wasn't that lowly Nazarene anymore. It said he, I felt that his feet is a dead man. Literally, I collapsed on the ground and thought I was dead because his face was shining like the sun. His eyes were like a flame of fire. His feet were like a brass burned in a furnace. That brass was a sign of judgment. His feet had gone through the very judgment of God and were glowing as brass burned in a furnace. He had a leather girdle on and it goes on to describe him. He said that was the resurrected glorified son of the living God. And I fell down at his feet like a dead man. Jesus begins to reveal all these things. Well, you've got to have them both. Jesus, that's who Jesus is right now. If he walked in this room, we'd all go blind. We couldn't even look on him. He's shining like the sun and his strength seven times brighter than the sun. That's the way he would look to us. But if you want to learn what God's like, the characteristics of God, you go back to his earthly life. Because everything he did and everything he said, he saw his father doing it in heaven. Boy, I'd tell you, if I wasn't trying to be Christmassy and stuff, I'd probably shout right now. I want to tell you something. When Jesus was in this world, the biggest statement to me, maybe your will's not like mine. My will's like infinity. It always wants its way. God can beat it to death. How many remember those Carter's Little Liver Pills commercials? They're probably still around. I don't know. Carter's Little Liver Pills. You took them for your liver. Well, when I was at school, they had a joke that they gave somebody Carter's Little Liver Pills all their life and when they died, they had to dig them up three days later and beat their liver to death with a stick. That's how powerful these Carter's Little Liver Pills were. Well, that's the way I feel about my will. I think I've surrendered everything. And you find out you just thought you surrendered everything. Jesus said, I never did my own will. I never did what I wanted. He couldn't ever do what he wanted to do. If we don't get one little thing we want, we throw a hissy fit. We can get 500 million things, but that one thing, it's like the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. There's apple trees, grapefruit trees, mango trees, papaya trees, everything. But I can't have that one tree. And they did. They paid off of it because they were forbidden. If we don't get that one thing, we want to give up and quit. You know what? Jesus never got any of it. He couldn't have a family. He couldn't have a wife, kids. He could only do the Father's will because he had to take the place of the sacrificial lamb. And he had to walk in perfect submission to his Father's will. And he never did everything he saw and everything he did. When I really saw this a few months ago, I really look, I look at Jesus' life totally different now. Everything Jesus did from the time he got up till he went to bed during his earthly life, he did it because his Father told him to do it and showed him what to do. And so that was a revelation from the very heart of the Father God on the throne. Every word the Son said, every miracle, every parable, every story, every blind man, every leper, it was some revelation of the Father heart of God to mankind. If you want to study the Father, go back to Jesus' earthly life in the four Gospels and walk through there and every incident is a new revelation of the Father God on the throne in heaven. That ought to be pretty exciting. Because Jesus' earthly life, that's why you got to study it and walk through there, because he was showing us the Father. Over and over, Philip said, show us the Father. And Philip, he looked at Philip, said, have you been with me so long? Well, three and a half, three years maybe. Well, not that long, but long enough to know. If you've seen me, you've seen the Father. What a revelation. The Holy Spirit can take you through the Gospels and reveal the Father heart of God till the spirit of sonship comes on you and you cry out, Abba, Father, Daddy, God. Think what a revelation that was. The Jews were seeing some God earthquakes and fire up on the mountain. They couldn't touch the mountain. God couldn't be approached. And here comes his son saying, pray like this, our Father. New revelation, our Father which art in heaven. Hallowed, not that unapproachable, far-off, fiery God, but our Father in heaven. Hallowed be thy name. You know why Jesus said that, folks? The Father told him to say it. Tell him who I am. Tell him how much I love him. Jesus said, when you pray, pray like this, our Father which art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. That was the Father speaking through his son. That's why it's exciting to be a Christian. When we walk up to God, when we get to the Lord, we won't be strangers. We won't know very much of him, but we know what he's like. We won't be afraid. We won't be ashamed. We just walk straight up to him. Hello, Father. Because you had already known him now in this life. Well, I gotta hurry. He appointed him heir of all things. You know what I was seeing this week and the last few days really drove this home to me? All creation. All creation. Everything. Is there a fly in here? That's a demon-possessed fly that Pastor Anderson left here. I have heard about that fly. It used to come in his office and torment him. In fact, I killed one today and he got up and flew away. It is a strange fly. Very persistent. Just rebuking. He appointed him heir. Now, I don't understand all this, but I'm beginning to get... You ever start seeing something in the Word and you you don't see it real clear at first, but you know what's out there? You know what's there. You don't understand it all. All creation. The whole universe came through Jesus, by Jesus, and for Jesus. So in other words, we're creation. Everything in the universe, all creation, is for one purpose. It has to do with his Son. With the Son. And once the Son came into this world during his earthly life and submitted himself to his Father, and was raised from the dead, then God said, He's highly exalted him. We just read he gave him a better name than the angels. I don't know if I'm gonna get that far, but I'm gonna talk about that name Sunday morning. Gave him a name that's better than the angels. That's better than any name in the whole universe. And there's a reason why. One of the reasons is when Jesus, when God says to us, worship my Son. We don't say, why? Why should I worship him? Folks, he earned it. When he hung on the cross in agony for your sins and my sins and all the suffering of hell that he went through, he earned our praise. And if we don't praise him, we're gonna have to go to hell where people don't praise God. Amen. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. That's what they don't do in hell. They don't praise God. So everybody that praises God, they're not in hell. So better get serious about praising God. Because hell is separation from God and darkness and torment and no praise or no light. So when we get serious about the Lord and we start seeing what Jesus did for us, one of the things that... You know why people don't get excited on Sunday morning about praising God and praising Jesus Christ? Their God's about that big. He's a Santa Claus. He's an old man with a beard. Isn't that what I want, God? Ho, ho, ho. Merry Christmas. Whatever you want. Here's my computer generated prayer lists of stuff I need. And God goes, ho, ho, ho. Okay. Whatever you need. Or we think that God's like a spare tire. We keep him in the trunk, out of sight. We watch what we want to watch on TV. We do what we want to do. And we're going along all of a sudden. Pow! We have a blowout. Oh, I got to get God out of the trunk. I'm in trouble now. And we go back. God, come on out. Get out of the trunk. I need you now. Oh, you could go on. He's like a puppet. I used to have this Jesus puppet, and I'd put it on my hand here. Isn't that what I need, Jesus? Yeah. Isn't that right, Jesus? Yeah. He's just a puppet that I can manipulate. Whatever I say. That's the will of God. Well, that's why people aren't excited about worshiping God. He's a figment of their imagination. He's their own creation. I told Brother Leon yesterday, C.S. Lewis said, I know that God is not a figment of my imagination because he's not at all like I imagined him to be. That's a pretty good quote. Ray Comfort, people tell him, God doesn't exist. He said, you're right. Your God doesn't exist. You made him up in your mind. That God doesn't exist, but the God of the Bible exists. So when we start getting a vision of creation, why are we here? Why did God make the sun, the moon, the stars, all creation? It has to do with his son. When you look up at night, if you live where you can see some stars, and you see stars, God's telling you something through this creation about his son. After his son was raised from the dead, everything switched from him revealing the father. Now the father is revealing the son. And he sent the Holy Spirit to the whole world for one purpose, to reveal his son. And you say, well, I'm full of the Holy Ghost. Well, I know one way to tell. You're going to be talking about Jesus. You're going to be worshiping Jesus. You're going to be praying to Jesus. And when we get down and worship God, the reason we get excited on Sunday morning and Wednesday night, Sunday night, and every day about worshiping Jesus Christ is we got a vision of how he earned it. He fought every demon and devil in hell. He went through hell and high water. He fought every force of the universe. He came against the law and destroyed it. I'm glad he took the law away from me because that would kill me. He kept it for me. He knew I couldn't keep it. So he did it for me. Every jot, every tittle of the law, every cross. You know when Jesus hung on the cross and said, It is finished. In the Greek, it said, knowing that all things had been accomplished. The Greek word means the last T had been crossed, the last I had been dotted, the last period of input of everything. He said, knowing all things had been accomplished, he asked for a drink because he wants to say something. And he pulls himself up and he says, it is finished. He was talking about it's done. It's over. It's settled. It's off. Don't you know, man, what a feeling of victory when we, when we lay at death's door and we've lived a life pleasing to God. And we don't, we look back with horrible regret. We prayed, we fasted, we witnessed, we knew his son. We're united with his son and we're ready to cross over to the other side. What a place of victory to realize it's finished. Every I was dotted. Every T was crossed. The last period was put. I'm ready to go. That's what Jesus was saying. It all been fulfilled. It's all finished and settled, man. We're going to say that he sat, might probably get there, but he sat down at the right of the majesty on high. After he purged sin by himself, folks, Moses couldn't do it. He got the law from God, but he couldn't purge our sins. Joshua was powerful. He made the sun stand still, but he couldn't purge our sins all the way through the old Testament. John the Baptist, these guys were powerful. Paul was powerful, but they could not purge our sins. It says, we just read by himself. He purged our sins and took them all away and clean them up and did away with them behind the back of God. And now folks, he sat down in the victor's seat at the right hand of God. What a feeling, what a feeling it's going to be someday when we sit down there with him at the right hand of God. It's going to be worth, if you had to crawl across broken glass on your hands and knees for 70 years to get there, it'd be worth every crawl you made, wouldn't it? To sit down at the right hand of Jesus Christ on the throne with him and rule and reign with him for eternity. Well, I'm going to get the next verse and that's it. He appointed him heir. He made all this creation. You know why? As a present for his son. What is Jesus' inheritance? Forgive me, we're messing with this, it's loose. What's Jesus' inheritance? Is it just gold and silver and stuff? How do you know that? Same thing over here. How do you know that? In Psalms 2, God said, Thou art my son, today have I begotten thee. Ask me and I'll give you the heathen, the nations for your inheritance. That's where his inheritance, folks. Why do you think he endured the cross and despised the shame and sat down at the right hand of God for the joy that was set before him? He looked down through time and eternity and he saw me and you. He saw his bride. He saw his church. He saw his body. He saw his people. And it filled him with joy in the midst of the agonies of the damned and the midst of the suffering that we'll never know, understand how horrible that was. He looked down through time, saw us and it filled his heart with joy. We're his inheritance. This is all about us. This is all about the earth too. There's a battle over this earth. Not over the universe. The devil's not way over in Pluto and stuff. It's all in this cosmos around this earth and he's trying to win the victory. And when he became the heir, God said, I don't understand the counsels of God. And if I told you I did, I'd be a liar. And so would anybody else. But I know what happened because the Bible says it did that somewhere back in eternity past, God turned to his son. I don't know what brought this on. He's looking at him and maybe thinking, that's my son, my only son. And he's great. And he turned to him and said, son, I appoint you heir of all things. The universe probably wasn't even created then, but the heavens and the seven heavens or whatever. And all the angels, everything that was gonna come out of the counsels of the Godhead. Son, it's all yours. It's all gonna be yours. I'm gonna give it all to you. It's all your inheritance. It's yours. Someday God turned to him and said that, I believe that's when Satan fell. That's just my opinion. I believe that's when Lucifer stormed out of heaven. His name means morning star. But Jesus was the bright and morning star. Most theologians believe that Lucifer was one of the third archangels, a created being. He was a created being. But God only has one begotten son. By nature, his son. And you know something? That's why I'm gonna tell you Sunday morning, but there is a hatred against the name Jesus because he's his father's son and he's gonna inherit all things. And there's nothing anybody can do about it. The devil can throw fits and turn blue in the face and hold his breath and roar and scream all over this world and stir up nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom. But when all is said and done, God's gonna cleanse this earth and elements are gonna melt like fervent heat and the sky is gonna roll back like a scroll. And there's gonna be the son of man come riding on a white horse and those riding with him with fine linen, clean and white. And his name's written on him, king of kings and Lord of lords, the word of God. And his vesture is gonna be dipped in blood and he's gonna sit on the throne and rule and reign. There's nothing anybody can do about it. Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler, Napoleon Bonaparte, Bill Clinton, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi. They're gonna bow their knee and Lucifer himself. They're gonna bow their knee and confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Why? Because he is Lord and he earned it at Calvary. We worship him, not because we have to because he deserves it and earned our praise. And if we don't praise him, there's just something wrong with that. He said, if these don't praise me, the rocks will cry out. Now, I got about three minutes. Look at this. Who being, I was gonna tell you what he inherited more, but I skipped that. He also made the worlds. You understand why the devil's trying to take Jesus away from the scene? He made it all. It all came, all creation came through him. There's nothing you can see or touch or imagine in this creation that didn't come from Jesus Christ. He made the worlds. And that's why there's such a battle. If Jesus was taken away from the scene, there wouldn't be one more going on in this world. He said, I came to bring a sword. He didn't mean to, but he can't help it. It's because of who he is, his father's son. And it brought a sword into the universe and divided a spirit of rebellion from a spirit of surrender. And then look what he says. Who being the brightness of his glory, the brightness of his glory. I looked this up in every way I could till I was satisfied. Cause I heard this when I was a kid and I never could find it anywhere. But I found it today. The word brightness means a ray out of a ray. A sun out of a sun, a light out of a light. The very root word of this Greek word doesn't just mean light. It means light coming out of light. A ray out of a ray, a sun out of a sun. And what it means in the Greek is, is there's a son like the father God in heaven. And he held up a perfect, exact, flawless mirror like they have in the Hubble telescope. Billion dollar mirror. It's so good. It's so perfect. The reflection is so good that that's Jesus Christ. And God held that up. And the reflection from the father through his son is exactly perfectly like the original light. It's not just light, but it's light coming out of the light. A ray coming out of a ray, a sun coming out of a sun. And when you look at Jesus Christ, you're seeing the exact reflection in a perfect mirror of the father God sitting on the throne. That's what the writer of the Hebrews say. When you saw Jesus, he said, when these apostles preached him and they saw him, they looked at the very exact reflection of his father. Sun out of a sun, ray out of a ray, same nature. And what it really means in the Greek is just as bright as the original. There's no diminishing at all. It's exactly the same. The brightness of his glory. That word glory means something heavy, something weighty, not giggly or giddy or hallelujah. I feel the Lord. That's okay to do that. This is the kind of glory that makes you fall on your face. Isaiah fell on his face and said, whoa, isn't it? People say, well, I saw Jesus hallelujah. You know how you know somebody saw the Lord and laying on their face, weeping their heart out. I saw the Lord and whoa is me. Not going to write a book on it. I'm going to cry about it for 60 years. Don't look so serious. The express image of his person. That word image is the Greek word character. And it means a tool. They used to use a tool to make a stamp. And when they made that stamp on a coin or whatever, it was the exact copy of the original. In other words, here's the mold. They would take it and make the coin or whatever. And the face or whatever on the coin looked exactly like the stamp. And the writer of the Hebrews is saying, when you looked in the face of Jesus Christ, that's the exact character, the exact likeness. If we had the same word, they had the same word. Then we do now it's a Xerox copy. It's what it means. Exact duplicate. It's the exact duplicate of the original. And the writer is saying, when you looked at Jesus Christ, you're seeing the exact duplicate of the father in heaven. And the writer in Colossians chapter one, Paul wrote, he's the exact duplicate of the father. You can go through the whole New Testament and bring it out. And the reason that's so important is there's so many people trying to take Jesus out of the scene. You will never even know the father except through Jesus. You can't say, well, I'm going to bypass Jesus. I'm just going to pray in the name of the great one and this great spirit in the mountains. When Nancy and I went to New Mexico, there were people wandering all over the mountains with crystals and praying to everything. You can do that till you die. There's only, anybody comes in another way is a thief and a robber. There's only one path. It goes through the cross and the tomb. And I'm going to have to quit, but stand.