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Speaker 1: Explained podcast on this lovely Thursday morning. I am so

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Speaker 1: thankful all of you guys are here to share a

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Speaker 1: delicious cup of coffee with me. We're gonna be talking

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Speaker 1: about a fantastic subject today in Hebrews chapter one, that

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Speaker 1: Jesus is above the angels and how all of the

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Speaker 1: prophecy in the Old Testament proves this. And we're also

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Speaker 1: going to talk about how Jesus is not Michael the

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Speaker 1: Archangel based upon some biblical facts in the Old Testament.

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Speaker 1: So stay tuned for this discussion. All right, faith listeners,

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to jump right into this topic. But first,

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Speaker 1: And now that you have all your things for today's episode,

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Speaker 1: let's go ahead and read Hebrews chapter one five through fourteen.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to be jumping around in scripture a lot today,

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Speaker 1: possibly more than I ever have before. So forgive me

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Speaker 1: if I forget where I'm going from time to time,

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Speaker 1: because there's so many tabs opened in my computer right

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Speaker 1: now that I might mix them up. So forgive me

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Speaker 1: for that. In advance, Let's read Hebrews one five through

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Speaker 1: fourteen for t which of the angels did he say

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Speaker 1: at any time you are my son? And today I

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Speaker 1: have become your father. And again I will be to

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Speaker 1: him a father, and he will be to me a son.

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Speaker 1: When he again brings in the firstborn into the world,

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Speaker 1: he says, Let all the angels of God worship him.

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Speaker 1: Of the angels, he says, he makes his angels wins

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Speaker 1: and his servants a flame of fire. But of the Son,

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Speaker 1: he says, Your throne, O, God, is forever and ever.

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Speaker 1: The scepter of uprighteousness is the scepter of your kingdom.

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Speaker 1: You have loved righteousness and hate iniquity. Therefore, God, your God,

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Speaker 1: has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

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Speaker 1: And you Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of

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Speaker 1: the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.

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Speaker 1: They will perish, but you continue, they will all grow

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Speaker 1: old like a garment does. You will roll them up

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Speaker 1: like a mantle, and they will be changed. But you

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Speaker 1: are the same. Your years won't fail. But which of

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Speaker 1: the angels has he told at any time sit at

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Speaker 1: of your feet? Aren't they all serving spirits? Send out

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Speaker 1: to do service for the sake of those who will

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Speaker 1: inherit salvation. When we started Hebrews on Tuesday, I talked

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Speaker 1: about the points that you need to understand about Jesus

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Speaker 1: thing I mentioned is that firstly, you have to realize

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Speaker 1: that Jesus was not created. In John chapter one, it

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Speaker 1: mentions that Jesus was in the beginning with God the Father,

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Speaker 1: and that Jesus was the creator. Everything was created through Jesus.

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Speaker 1: And that's also what Hebrews one mentions as well, that

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Speaker 1: been created because he is the creator. And secondly, we

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Speaker 1: proves his divinity is that he is able to be

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Speaker 1: near God the Father. And actually, something I did not

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Speaker 1: mention on Tuesday that I just thought of. Whenever we

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Speaker 1: see God's glory talked about in scripture, it is overwhelming

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Speaker 1: to the point of somebody feeling like they're going to die.

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Speaker 1: Like whenever a human being encounters God's glory, they fall

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Speaker 1: as dead because they probably believe that they are going

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Speaker 1: When Ezekiel has visions of God's glory, he sees these

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Speaker 1: starting in verse five, it says, for to which of

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Speaker 1: at any time? You are my son. Today I have

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Speaker 1: both of those verses show that Jesus already existed, because

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Speaker 1: this shows that Jesus was not born, he was not created,

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Speaker 1: as his son. That's actually what some versions do translate it,

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Speaker 1: what it comes down to. Actually, Jesus is God's only son.

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Speaker 1: He's the only begotten son. Now don't forget that word begotten,

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Speaker 1: just a second. But you might be like, well, jen

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Speaker 1: and God has a lot of sons. It actually says

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Speaker 1: in scripture that we, like humans, are God's sons and daughters.

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Speaker 1: And it also says that the angels are God's sons

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Speaker 1: one and read verse six real quick. Here's what it

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Speaker 1: came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan also came among them. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so that verse shows pretty clearly that the angels are

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Speaker 1: also called God's sons. And not to mention, the New

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Speaker 1: be God's created sons, You and I might be God's

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Speaker 1: adopted sons, but Jesus is the only begotten son. In fact,

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Speaker 1: everlasting life. That's from the King James version. And we

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Speaker 1: chapter five, you are my son today I have begotten you.

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Speaker 1: And that word begotten is actually very important. Let's go

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Speaker 1: adjective frequently translated in the Bible as only begotten. It

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Speaker 1: a really important word to understand when talking about Jesus

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Speaker 1: to Deuteronomy thirty two, verse forty three, it says for

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Speaker 1: not look into why are current bibles don't include the

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