Podcasts about Zenaida

El próximo domingo 1 de junio, el país votará por 880 cargos judiciales federales en un proceso electoral que es histórico. ¿Qué está pasando en las calles con las y los candidatos que se inscribieron en esta aventura sin derecho al financiamiento público? Con entrevistas a: Loretta Ortiz, Lenia Batres, César Gutiérrez Priego, Ximena Jiménez, Karina Vaquera, Sharim Guzmán, María del Carmen Rodríguez, Denancy Castañón, Zenaida, Salvador Cruz, Sergio, Elizabeth Juárez y Sandra Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Send us a textTRIGGER WARNING-  For those of you who do not know, this case involves the death of a beautiful, smart, precious, not even 3 year old little girl, and her piece of trash narcissistic egg donor; Casey Anthony.This episode is kinda of, filled with a fair amount of rage...I am angry at the jury, I do not like Jose Baez, and I hate Casey Anthony.  Even, just writing up the description for this episode, evoked a rage in me.  So, if you are one of those folks who send us emails, about not liking the swearing in the pod.... this may not be a good one for you. I did the best I could, considering the demon that I am speaking about.In 2008- 22 year old Casey Marie Anthony, made headlines, after authorities learned that her, nearly 3 year old daughter Caylee had been missing for 31 days. According to Casey, Caylee had been taken by her nanny of- between 1.5-2 years; Zenaida Fernadez Gonzalez.  Casey would say that Zenaida, or 'Zanny the nanny' as she would come to be known, would tell Casey that she does not appreciate what she has, leading Casey to believe, that she had taken her daughter, to teach Casey a lesson, for being a bad mom......... but there was only one problem with that........  just kidding, there is literally 50 problems with that!  Casey lies about absolutely EVERYTHING, but never thinks past the initial lie!!So, why in 2011 was she acquitted of 1st degree murder, aggravated child abuse, and aggravated manslaughter??  enter: Jose Baez- a new criminal defence attorney.  Had only been an attorney for about 5 years at the time that Casey's trial took place.  And, don't worry, I read his book: PRESUMED GUILTY, so that you don't have to.There is no denying Jose is great at what he does.  Right away, he will show the jury everything that the prosecution is going to show them, trying to get a conviction,  and he will down play all of it.  He also plants a different idea of something that COULD have happened, regardless of if he pulled that theory straight out of his ass or not.. and it didn't hurt that they had to pick a jury of 12 people who hadn't watched or read the news, or flipped through a magazine in 3 years...  they wanted jurors, who did not have a preconceived notion on Casey's guilt or innocence  (IMO- idiots.  but what do I know...)We will also go through the most recent documentaries; Peacocks 3 part interview with Casey herself...  what a smouldering heap of trash that was.And even more recently, George and Cindy (Casey's parents) in 2024, watched and responded to the Peacock documentary, and Cindy finally has some hard hitting words Casey.Both part of this will be available right away on our patreon,  but if you need a breather between them, part 2 will be up next Tuesday.Support the showIf you're interested in receiving bonus episodes, early release dates, an everything scary sticker and ‘thank you' as well as a shout out on our regular feed! Please join at Patreon//everythingscarypod571

Vineri, Octombrie 11 - +) Sf. Apostol Filip, unul din cei sapte diaconi; Cuv. Teofan Marturisitorul; Sf. Mc. Zenaida si Filonida

Did you know that St. Paul's cousins were famous saints too? Intelligence and faith ran in his family! These sisters were holy unmercenary doctors, and we think you're going to like them!

Doves are the highest-harvested game bird in the United States, with over 10 million bagged annually.  The high harvest rate isn't surprising, considering dove hunting season is the first hunting season to open for most wing shooters. However, the dove's widespread range no doubt contributes to the large harvest. They can be found in nearly every state and much of Canada. They breed from the west coast to the east coast, as far north as southeast Alaska and south into Mexico. Such a massive range and the ability to live in urban and rural landscapes have kept the dove population robust. 

Esta historia empezó con una pregunta simple: ¿a cuáles invertebrados están cazando las aves en los cerezos silvestres (Prunus virginiana)? Desde ahí, el asunto se puso muy complicado, y aún no sé la respuesta. Pero valió la pena buscar. Este episodio de mi podcast está basada en el estado de Montana, EU, pero la pregunta que nos pone—¿qué están comiendo las aves insectívoras?—es importante por todas partes. Las especies de aves en esta categoría también incluyen a varias que son altamente migratorias (y de cuyas migraciones hablo en varios episodios al comienzo de 2024), incluso los chipes, las pirangas y muchas más. Este episodio se ilustra con varias grabaciones de aves que hice. Escuchamos un carbonero cabecinegro (Poecile atricapillus) que grabé por Spokane Bay en el condado de Lewis and Clark, Montana, EU en noviembre de 2023. Hay una grabación del condado de Boundary, Idaho, EU de mayo de 2017, que incluye cantos de chipe corona negra (Cardellina pusilla), chipe amarillo (Setophaga petechia), mascarita común (Geothlypis trichas), picogordo tigrillo (Pheucticus melanocephalus), mirlo primavera (Turdus migratorius) y ganso canadiense mayor (Branta canadensis). Finalmente, por la conclusión del episodio, también escuchamos una grabación que hice por Lake Helena, condado de Lewis and Clark, Montana, EU en mayo de 2023. Esa grabación incluye un chingo de aves; puedes escuchar cantos de saltapared común (Troglodytes aedon), chipe amarillo (Setophaga petechia), mirlo primavera (Turdus migratorius), huilota común (Zenaida macroura) y agachona norteamericana (Gallinago delicata). Traduje esta historia al español en abril de 2024, gracias al apoyo generoso de mi oyente Lynda Saul. Muchísimas gracias, Lynda.  Este podcast depende del apoyo de mis oyentes para poder seguir. Este apoyo va desde simplemente compartir estas historias con tus amigos, familiares y otros hasta contribuir económicamente. Encuentra más información y un reconocimiento de mis patrocinadores aquí: https://wildwithnature.com/donar/.Puedes ver la transcripción de esta historia, bien ilustrada con mis fotos, aquí: https://wildwithnature.com/2022/06/03/moscas-para-el-almuerzo/

Liry's Jewelry was founded by Liredia and her mother Zenaida in 1989. After fleeing Cuba they worked in Zenaida's garage selling jewelry. After making a small name for themselves locally they were able to get into a small retail space on Armenia Ave in Tampa FL. In the late 90's they were able to move into a bigger location on Hanley road. That location is still home of Liry's Jewelry today. In 2015 Liredias son, Daniel, began running day to day operations. Since then Liry's has expanded to national and international markets thanks to its online presence, as well as domestic wholesale and manufacturing. To this day Liry's is a family owned and operated business. Web: https://lirysjewelry.com About the show: Ash Brown is a gifted American producer, blogger, speaker, media personality and event emcee. The blog on AshSaidit.com showcases exclusive event invites, product reviews and so much more. Her motivational podcast "The Ash Said It Show" is available on major media platforms such as iTunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio & more. This program has 1900+ episodes and over half a million streams worldwide. She uses these mediums to motivate & encourage her audience in the most powerful way. She keeps it real! ► Luxury Women Handbag Discounts: https://www.theofficialathena.... ► Become an Equus Coach®: https://equuscoach.com/?rfsn=7... ► For $5 in ride credit, download the Lyft app using my referral link: https://www.lyft.com/ici/ASH58... ► Review Us: https://itunes.apple.com/us/po... ► Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/c/AshSa... ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1lov... ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ashsa... ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/1loveAsh ► Blog: http://www.ashsaidit.com/blog #atlanta #ashsaidit #theashsaiditshow #ashblogsit #ashsaidit®Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-ash-said-it-show--1213325/support.

Migratory birds connect us. I've been in the state of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, for almost two months now. This is a story of exchange, of our interconnected planet, and of the birds that connect our lands, from Montana to Oaxaca. But in telling it I couldn't ignore the difficult themes of gentrification: that although the birds don't recognize the wall between our countries, it still greatly influences our human lives. I hope that this story stimulates interesting thoughts, conversations, and exchanges! This podcast features the voices of many birds: yellow-rumped warblers (Setophaga coronata) singing and calling from Montana, and calling from their wintering grounds in Oaxaca; and a recording from Las Canteras Park, Oaxaca de Juárez that includes social flycatcher (Myiozetetes similis), Bewick's wren (Thryomanes bewickii), yellow-rumped warbler, house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus), Inca dove (Columbina inca), white-winged dove (Zenaida asiatica), and curve-billed thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre). Also, from Montana's spring and summer, we hear western meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta), American robin (Turdus migratorius), yellow warbler (Setophaga petechia), house wren (Troglodytes aedon), and gray catbird (Dumetella caroliniensis). Find the illustrated transcript of this podcast here: https://wildwithnature.com/2024/02/01/from-montana-to-oaxaca/.

Las aves migratorias nos conectan. He estado casi dos meses ya en el estado de Oaxaca, en el sur de México. Ésta es una historia de intercambio, de nuestro planeta interconectado y de las aves que vinculan nuestras tierras, desde Montana hasta Oaxaca. Pero al contarla no pude ignorar los temas difíciles de la gentrificación: que aunque las aves no reconocen el muro entre nuestros países, aún influye mucho en nuestras vidas humanas. ¡Espero que esta historia estimule pensamientos, conversaciones e intercambios interesantes! El podcast también incluye las voces de varias aves: chipes rabadilla amarilla (Setophaga coronata) cantando y llamando desde Montana, y llamando desde sus tierras invernales en Oaxaca; una grabación del Parque Las Canteras, Oaxaca de Juárez que incluye luisito común (Myiozetetes similis), saltapared cola larga (Thryomanes bewickii), chipe rabadilla amarilla, pinzón mexicano (Haemorhous mexicanus), tortolita cola larga (Columbina inca), paloma alas blancas (Zenaida asiatica) y cuicacoche pico curvo (Toxostoma curvirostre). También, desde la primavera y el verano de Montana, escuchamos el pradero del oeste (Sturnella neglecta), mirlo primavera (Turdus migratorius), chipe amarillo (Setophaga petechia), saltapared común (Troglodytes aedon) y maullador gris (Dumetella caroliniensis). Encuentra la transcripción ilustrada de este podcast aquí: https://wildwithnature.com/2024/02/01/desde-montana-hasta-oaxaca/.

Miercuri, Octombrie 11 - +) Sf. Apostol Filip, unul din cei sapte diaconi; Cuv. Teofan Marturisitorul; Sf. Mc. Zenaida si Filonida

In this episode, a wonderful and insightful educator, Zenaida Morales shares her experience in education and really drives home the importance of connecting with the learners as people throughout the process of teaching them. 

The 34Questions podcast challenges it's guests to answer introspective questions. We intend to leave a memento for the future, revealing our personalities to our descendants.Reaching out, to show them from whom they are coming from. The podcast also serves as a journal entry, a glimpse of the person you are. The past, to the person you will become. Guests participate in a series of games which lead to facing the Wheel of Fate. Whichever number the wheel lands on, is the question that will be asked. No two interviews are exactly alike, as no two people are. Reach out, reach forward. As always, much love. Looking forward to catching you on 34Questions. 

Next episode available from Monday, June 12th with guest Dr. Sarah Zenaida Gould How do Museums Advance History and Social Change?

Miercuri, Iunie 7 - Sf. Mc. Teodot, Episcopul Ancirei; Sf. Mc. Zenaida si Sf. Sebastiani (Inceputul Postului Sfintilor Apostoli)

In this episode, we are joined by guest psychiatrist Dr. Zenaida Tenea to discuss the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a complex mental health condition that is often misunderstood. Dr. Tenea, who has a special interest in burnout, mood disorders, and TLE, provides her expertise and experience in diagnosing this condition. She addresses some of the common misconceptions surrounding schizophrenia and provides insights into the complexities of its diagnosis. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/purplecouchpsych/message

Zenaida hizo un trabajo espectacular ayudada por Lourdes Marín, una psicóloga del equipo de Sevilla. Zenaida tenía TOC de homosexualidad, un TOC bastante típico en el que la persona se pregunta si será gay de manera constante y angustiante. En menos de un año lo superó por completo.

Marti, Octombrie 11 - +) Sf. Apostol Filip, unul din cei sapte diaconi; Cuv. Teofan Marturisitorul; Sf. Mc. Zenaida si Filonida

NotiMundo - Zenaida Yasacama, Avance Mesas Técnicas by FM Mundo 98.1

NotiMundo - Zenaida Yasacama, Semana Decisiva Diálogos con el Gobierno by FM Mundo 98.1

Una familia en Guaymas Norte, Sonora, ha tenido experiencias en su casa al lado de un cementerio. Hoy escuchamos de los hermanos Vanessa y Angel, y de su madre Zenaida.Tienes una historia por compartir? Visita https://NoDormir.com o en Facebook https://Facebook.com/HistoriasdeTerrorPND

NotiMundo - Zenaida Yasacama, CONAIE se Mantendrá Hasta Respuesta Gobierno by FM Mundo 98.1

Marti, Iunie 7 - Sf. Mc. Teodot, Episcopul Ancirei; Sf. Mc. Zenaida si Sf. Sebastiani (Inceputul Postului Sfintilor Apostoli)

On September 19, 2014, during typhoon Mario's rampage in the Philippines, a 75-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her house helper after the latter was discovered stealing items inside her home. The victim was Zenaida Sison, the mother of actress Cherry Pie Picache, who lived alone at her two-story house on Lazcano Street, Barangay Paligsahan, Quezon City. Her killer's name is Michael Flores. He had been working for six months as a houseboy at Sison's residence. Later on, the authorities would find out that the suspect had victimized other families in the past but not as shocking and heartless compared to what he did to Zenaida Sison. WEBSITE ▸ https://phmurderstories.com Episode notes and sources are found here! YOUTUBE ▸ https://bit.ly/3sm11n4 SOCIALS ▸ Facebook — https://bit.ly/33xXEAm ▸ Instagram — https://bit.ly/33BL03r ▸ Tiktok — https://bit.ly/2F4a8pY ▸ Twitter — https://bit.ly/3no4jFq DISCORD SERVER ▸ https://bit.ly/3n38Tuh EPISODE SUGGESTIONS ▸ https://www.phmurderstories.com/file-your-blotter.html SUPPORT US ON PATREON ▸ https://www.patreon.com/phmurderstories AFFILIATE LINKS ▸ Lazada — https://bit.ly/3zQ68kk ▸ Shopee — https://bit.ly/3zIZ7Bv Make sure to use these links before filling up your carts to support our team! DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed by the podcast creators, hosts, and guests do not necessarily reflect the official policy and positions of Podcast Network Asia. Any content provided by the people on the podcast is of their own opinion and is not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual, or anyone or anything.

In today's episode, you'll learn just how today's guest was able to overcome procrastination and how you can too! Today's guest is, Zenaida Cranford, Owner of Zen with Me Life Coaching, LLC, Certified Coach Practitioner, teen mentor, and community Philanthropist and Public Speaker.  Zenaida has made it her mission to end the fast-raising Chronic procrastination that is becoming the new pandemic and resulting in long-term suffering amongst her clients and prospects.   You'll learn the following: ✅ How procrastination can impact your life ✅ What steps you need to take to overcome procrastination ✅ How to rediscover yourself   If you need someone to talk to, book an Encouragement Call with Zenaida  → www.zenwithmelifecoaching.com    Connect with Zenaida to learn more: https://www.instagram.com/zenaida_lifecoach/  https://m.facebook.com/Zenaidalifecoach    Want to learn more about overcoming burnout? Please visit my website for more information  www.burnout2blessed.com Want me to cover a particular topic on the podcast? Email me at  coachinginfo@burnout2blessed.com Remember one step at a time! You've got this :-)

This episode we're talking about Books and Food! (Or Comestibles while Consuming Content!) We discuss finding podcasts in the woods, reading in cafes, cheezos, why you should carry small rocks around with you, dropping food on books, which crustaceans are most likely to be anarchists, lists of cozy mystery novel titles, and how we're (not really) influencers. Plus: Books that have spin-off foods! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Media We Mentioned Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 1 by Ryoko Kui, Drifting Dragons, Vol. 1 by Taku Kuwabara Otherworldly Izakaya Nobu, Vol 1 by Virginia Nitouhei and Natsuya Semikawa The guy being really excited about eating spaghetti Redwall by Brian Jacques (Wikipedia) Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey (Wikipedia) Serve it Forth: Cooking With Anne McCaffrey Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist by Tim Federle Nanny Ogg's Cookbook by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, Tina Hannan, and Paul Kidby One Piece: Pirate Recipes by Sanji  A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers Links, Articles, and Things Cafe Deux Soleils (Apparently it's for sale, someone buy it so RJ can keep going) Zenaida's Cafe Matthew's pastry/tea picture on Instagram Kamala Khan (Wikipedia) Episode 143 - Amish Romance Arthropods of Anarchy Episode 059 - Food and Cooking Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast Thug Kitchen: The Official Cookbook: Eat Like You Give a F*ck by Matt Holloway and Michelle Davis Episode 007 - Cozy Mysteries Feta Attraction by Susannah Hardy Killer Crullers by Jessica Beck Floured Felonies by Jessica Beck Illegally Iced by Jessica Beck Chili Con Carnage by Kylie Logan Chili con Carnage by Hillary Avis (yes, there are TWO books called this) Sconed to Death by Lynn Cahoon (Matthew managed to pronounce this one in a way where the pun title is not obvious…) Strangled Eggs and Ham by Maddie Day Hot and Sour Suspects by Vivien Chien Death by Dumpling by Vivien Chien Fatal Fried Rice by Vivien Chien Dim Sum of All Fears by Vivien Chien Jack Reacher (Wikipedia) Episode 006 - Books in Translation The Dinner by Herman Koch, translated by Sam Garrett Unpacking (video game) (Wikipedia) Turkish delight (Wikipedia) Apparently The Willy Wonka Candy Company no longer exists? The Storm Crow Phileas Fogg snacks (Wikipedia) Sprouted bread (Wikipedia) The Temptation of St. Anthony (Dalí) (Wikipedia) 15 Non-Fiction Relationships/Romance by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé by Michael Arceneaux It's Complicated (But It Doesn't Have to Be): A Modern Guide to Finding and Keeping Love by Paul Carrick Brunson Nedí Nezų (Good Medicine) by Tenille Campbell Respect: Everything a Guy Needs to Know about Sex, Love, and Consent by Inti Chavez Perez Single and Forced to Mingle: A Guide for (Nearly) Any Socially Awkward Situation by Melissa Croce How To Get Over A Boy by Chidera Eggerue That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story by Huda Fahmy If Someone Says "You Complete Me," Run!: Whoopi's Big Book of Relationships by Whoopi Goldberg All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World by Kate Johnson Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities by Kevin A. Patterson She's Just Not That Into You: The Fab Femme's Guide to Queer Love and Dating by Aryka Randall It's Hard to Fight Naked by Niecy Nash Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, April 5th when we'll be discussing the genre of Contemporary Fantasy! Then on Tuesday, April 19th we'll be doing our occasional Non-Bookclub Media Consumption episodes!

Nuestro siguiente invitado a #historiasquecontar es Harold Yaakov Vargas. Nació en Bogotá, Colombia en 1977, sus padres son Luis y Zenaida. Al breve tiempo de su nacimiento emigran al Táchira, Venezuela. Inicia sus estudios musicales en San Cristóbal con la flauta, la cual hereda de su tío materno Abraham quién había sido flautista y pianista, becado para estudiar música en Münster, Alemania. Al graduarse del liceo siguió la tradición familiar de su hermana y primos yendo a la Universidad Simón Bolívar a estudiar Ingeniería, allí creció su contacto con la música y con permiso de sus padres se fue a estudiar al IUDEM, universidad creada por el maestro Abreu para que los jóvenes de las orquestas continuarán su formación y fueran titulados. Luego obtuvo un Master de composición en la USB. Durante ese periodo de estudio hubo un importante ascenso profesional compartiendo escenarios con varios artistas venezolanos entre ellos Gualberto Ibarreto, Maria Teresa Chacín, Cecilia Todd, Francisco Pacheco, Serenata Guayanesa, Gurrufío, El cuarteto, Huascar Barradas, el Pollo Brito. Dos acontecimientos cambiaron su vida, hacerse profesor de música en el Club Hebraica y el nacimiento de su hija Camila. Con el pasar de los años y cinco viajes a la Tierra Prometida encontró su llamado al judaísmo volviéndose parte de su pueblo. Hoy en día es un reconocido productor latinoamericano de música judía y comparte su vida con su esposa Carolina Israel, su hija y sus tres hijos “astros”. Continúan juntos su amor por la música bajo una perspectiva común de servicio y amor a la comunidad, llevándola a nuestros niños, adolescentes adultos y ancianos también. Dentro de sus proyectos más importantes están: ✅ Productor de uno de los discos de la colección de Ilan Chester “Tesoros de la música venezolana”, merecedor del Grammy Latino, ✅ Composición de la suite de cámara “Cantos de la Creación” una de sus obras más importantes. ✅ Festivales comunitarios y Galas “Yom Yerushalaim”, con la orquesta sinfónica juvenil de Chacao (2012) y con la orquesta Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho (2019) donde trabajó como productor musical, arreglista y director de orquesta. #elsistema #musicosvenezolanos HaroldVargasMusic --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tamara-kassab/support

Zenaida was 7 months pregnant when she had her NDE in January of 1976. While she was unconscious for 25 minutes, her experience seemed like 5 million years because time was endless. Shirley D's NDE occurred in November of 1995 when she tried to take her own life. While under anesthesia in January of 2016, …

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Sección del programa La Dosis Diaria, "Cesar te platica una rola", te comparte lo que hay que saber de una canción y que no se puede encontrar en la wikipedia.

Luni, Octombrie 11 - +) Sf. Apostol Filip, unul din cei sapte diaconi; Cuv. Teofan Marturisitorul; Sf. Mc. Zenaida si Filonida

Human Rights Watch says the Mozambican government should immediately assist civilians trapped by fighting in Cabo Delgado province to move to safer areas. According to Human Rights Watch, more than 88,000 people have been displaced from the embattled Palma district following the March attack by Ansar al-Sunna, an armed group linked to the Islamic State (ISIS).

Judd and Nicole are joined by Zenaida Machado (Human Rights Watch) to discuss Angola's anti-corruption campaign, economic diversification, and contributions to peacekeeping, recommending U.S. policy that treats the nation as an equal partner and the versatile Angolan musician, Matias Damásio.

Judd and Nicole are joined by Zenaida Machado (Human Rights Watch) to discuss U.S. policy towards Mozambique on issues ranging from counterterrorism to climate change mitigation and adaptation, recommending holistic approaches to addressing developmental issues and mouthwatering mukapata and prawn dishes.

NotiMundo - Zenaida Yasacama, Retos De La CONAIE by FM Mundo

Hna Zenaida Lezo : June 18, 2021 by Pastor Antonio Carbajal

Luni, Iunie 7 - Sf. Mc. Teodot, Episcopul Ancirei; Sf. Mc. Zenaida si Sf. Sebastiani (Inceputul Postului Sfintilor Apostoli)

Wehka nias - Me voy lejos Canta: Zenaida Vargas a capella Lugar: Xoxocotla, Morelos Náhuatl de Xoxocotla Año de grabación: 1965 Canción de amor en lengua náhuatl de Xoxocotla.

34LinksSpotify + Apple Podcasts: Linktr.ee/34Questions Music by Homage Beats The 34Questions podcast challenges it's guests to answer introspective questions. We intend to leave a memento for the future, revealing our personalities to our descendants.Reaching out, to show them from whom they are coming from.The podcast also serves as a journal entry, a glimpse of the person you are. The past, to the person you will become.Guests participate in a series of games which lead to facing the Wheel of Fate. Whichever number the wheel lands on, is the question that will be asked.No two interviews are exactly alike, as no two people are.Reach out, reach forward. As always, much love.Looking forward to catching you on 34Questions.

Today's framing verse is John 17:22 Today the church commemorates the feast of Zenaida, Philonella, and Hermione] April 2021 meditations are written and recorded by Scott Gunn. Forward Day by Day is published and produced by Forward Movement. Explore our other podcasts, books, and blogs at forwardmovement.org

A senior researcher at Human Rights Watch (HRW) says conversations with Mozambican civilians have revealed that a local group calling itself Al Shabaab may have been responsible for the deadly attack in Palma.  Zenaida Machado was speaking to Radio Islam live from Maputo about the deadly insurgent attack on Palma in Mozambique.

Zenaida García never wanted to leave Puerto Rico. She was forced into the choppy waters of the vaivén and almost lost herself entirely. In this episode of Mosaic, Zenaida reclaims her life.

Welcome back to another episode of the Talking Classical Podcast! We're slightly moving away from the classical music world and exploring the wonderful world of dance and ballet, as in today's podcast, we'll be "zooming in" with former Principal Dancer of The Royal Ballet, Zenaida Yanowsky. Zenaida enjoyed a distinguished career for over twenty years as a dancer with London's Royal Ballet Company. She performed iconic roles such as Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Manon and her infamous, "viral" creation as the Queen of Hearts in Christopher Wheeldon's modern classic 'Alice in Wonderland' (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), premiered at London's Royal Opera House in 2011. Retiring in 2017, Zenaida now teaches and coaches dancers around the world. During this summer, I had the pleasure of talking to her partner on the podcast, renowned British baritone Sir Simon Keenlyside (https://soundcloud.com/talkingclassicalpodcast/ep-35-sir-simon-keenlyside) so I thought that it would be interesting to hear from his other half, as two performers at the highest level in the classical arts. In this podcast, we talk about Zenaida’s journey into dance and ballet, her career highlights in The Royal Ballet, including the creation of new characters/works, the relationship between dancers, conductors and live musicians, and the situation of the arts in the current coronavirus pandemic. Many thanks to Zenaida for taking the time out of her busy schedule to talk to me! Interview recorded 8 September 2020; podcast published 7 December 2020. Zenaida's bio: http://www.roh.org.uk/people/zenaida-yanowsky. Music used in this podcast: Music by audionautix.com. "Alla What (parody)," Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com. Used in full and edited forms for the podcast. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake (Op. 20), Introduction to Act 1. Jules Massenet, Don Quichotte, Introduction to Act One. Both extracts sourced from the European Archive via Musopen (tracks licensed under the Creative Common License Public Domain Mark 1.0). Link to the discussion with Sir David Bintley I referred to in this podcast: Off Pointe (Birmingham Royal Ballet's podcast), Episode 1 - David Bintley and the Will Mossops of Hobson's Choice. https://pod.co/brb-off-pointe/episode-1-david-bintley-and-the-will-mossops-of-hobsons-choice.

Episode 9 na tayo mga Ka-curlz. Madalas na nakikita sa social media, minsan may mga trashtalkan pa. Jojak signs naman ang pagusapan natin at alamin kung sino nga ba ang superior sa mga Zodiacs. Charot! Listen to us as we discuss and discover the zodiac signs of each curl!

We remember the unmercenary saints in the proskomedia—Cosmas and Damian, especially, whom we commemorate this weekend—but I would draw your attention to the earliest of the unmercenaries, the sisters Zenaida and Philonella. There are lessons for us here. Please listen in for what we can learn from these wonderful unmercenary saints who practiced medicine in Thessaly in the first century.

BASK IN BLOOD by Ashley Potter An orphan unwanted by her father, left by her mother, and was an only child. Bravery and strength is all she knows. She strips herself from emotion, time and time again, so nobody can hurt her. But the angels know that she is only dooming her destiny into place. A war is raging, invisible to the citizens of Acym. They cannot see the war—that will be up for Zenaida to decide. She alone will choose whether humanity deserves to live or perish beneath her hidden fire. But the veil is lifting, and time is running out. Her powers are growing stronger. She must choose which side of herself to be. I am Ashley Potter. I am very proud of Zenaida. Zenaida is someone I created out of the desire to be strong in the midst of a dark past. The desire to be strong enough to confront the shadows of the past and emerge victorious while keeping the bonds that mean the most. The internal challenges Zenaida faces makes her stronger as she takes a step into the murky waters of her brutal past and not drown inside. https://www.writersrepublic.com/bookshop/bask-blood http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/ashpotter.mp3

Duminica, Octombrie 11 - +) Sf. Apostol Filip, unul din cei sapte diaconi; Cuv. Teofan Marturisitorul; Sf. Mc. Zenaida si Filonida

Rocio and Mercedes talk to Zenaida Mendez, Director of MNN El Barrio Firehouse Community Center. In this episode we talk about Zenaida's early career as a community activist, what we as a community can do now to stay informed and active, and the upcoming presidential and NYC mayoral election. More info:IG: zenalaunica4Twitter: @LaUnicaZeMendezWebsite: www.mnn.orgThis episode was produced by: Quinton Cameron, Mercedes Ilarraza, and Rocio MendezEdited by: Quinton CameronLogo by: Dylan Rogers

We talk about Zenaida's absolutely broken damage, the power of two Finas in a single unit, and which of the hosts actually enjoyed the new boss rush trial format.

In this episode, the PABIDACO team discusses opportunities for biodiversity research through interdisciplinary work in biology, ecology, social sciences and the humanities. -- Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this podcast are of the speakers' and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Cordillera Studies Center.

Hey y’all! This is the 4th episode in our #EmpowHER series! This weeks guest is the amazing Zenaida and she cane in to share more about her ‘Inspire Self-love’ platform...

Duminica, Iunie 7 - Sf. Mc. Teodot, Episcopul Ancirei; Sf. Mc. Zenaida si Sf. Sebastiani (Inceputul Postului Sfintilor Apostoli)

Duminica, Iunie 7 - Sf. Mc. Teodot, Episcopul Ancirei; Sf. Mc. Zenaida si Sf. Sebastiani (Inceputul Postului Sfintilor Apostoli)

Zeny is a special lady who would make sure I ate a warm meal and treated me like her son! Next thing you know it's 38 years later and here we are podcast'n! She gave mer her time so she gets the 10 questions!

Jordan and Luci are two feminists who have finished annotating the Bible and are now sharing the lesser known stories of important women from the life of the church. Join them to hear discussions of history, weird facts, and even some advice for today's Christian feminists who are trying to pick up where these awesome church mothers left off. If you're enjoying expanding your ideas about Jesus, feminism, progressive Christianity, bad ass Bible ladies, the Episcopal Church, or anything else we've been talking about, get in contact! Blog: twofeministblog.com Email: twofeminists@gmail.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/2FAB Twitter: @twofeminists Instagram: @twofeministsannotate Facebook: @TwoFeministsAnnotatetheBible Theme: Sunday Plans by Silent Partner 

In this episode of the Foundation’s Doing a World of Good podcast, you'll meet Ms. Ana Davis and Dr. Zenaida Gephardt. They discuss the impact of the lack of diversity and inclusion within the field, the journey to becoming your authentic self, and how AIChE is helping to change the landscape for the next generation of women and minorities.

Join Michael and JJ along with Doug Sandler on a trip to Paso Robles wine country - home to over 400 wineries! Since Paso is just about the mid-point between our cities, it's a great place for us to meet in person and check out some pretty awesome wines. On this particular weekend, we did a series of tastings, and will bring you the various episodes over the next few weeks. Don’t forget to subscribe to Something to Wine About so that you don't miss a single episode. While you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! To learn more about your hosts, listen to past episodes, and get to know more wine, go to SomethingToWineAboutPodcast.com and follow us on Facebook.

El Devocional Matutino de la Iglesia Adventista del Séptimo Día en Keene, Texas tiene el propósito de llevar bendición a través del estudio de una porción diaria de la Palabra de Dios. Referencia : E.G.White (1999) El Cristo triunfante Directora: Hna.Nancy Rodríguez Lectora: Hna.Zenaida Argueta

On this episode of Hispanics Lead Right we sit down with Zenaida Denizac who is running for Florida House of Representatives in District 27. We also discuss our Annual Convention and our 2019 Gala Dinner. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rnhafl/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rnhafl/support

Caylee Anthony vanished in June of 2008. A month later, Caylee's grandmother reported her missing, after her mother, Casey Anthony, told her that she was kidnapped. This was only the beginning of the lies. 

Last-minute gifts for your nature-loving friends; making your yard bird-friendly; and the gentle Zenaida macroura — all on our latest show.

En esta ocasión doña Zenaida cuenta su transición desde Barahona a Santo Domingo. Con tan solo 18 años de edad tuvo que empezar a trabajar en la capital para mantener su familia que aún residia en su pueblo natal.

En una narrativa este video describe la infancia de Doña Zenaida, que a sus 88 años de edad todavía recuerda su humilde descendencia. Zenaida Feliz De Trabous nacida un 10 de diciembre de 1928, en Barahona, República Dominicana, expresa como ella tuvo que ayudar a su familia desde temprana edad. Esta luchadora, haciendo tareas del hogar que iban desde ordeñar vacas hasta cruzar ríos con canastas llenas de víveres en la cabeza.

Graves' disease is a condition in which the body produces too much thyroid hormone, essentially the opposite of Hashimoto's hypothyroid.  However, both Hashimoto's and Graves' have an underlying immune component thus making functional medicine a management consideration.  Today we speak with Zenaida who has overcome Graves' with a combination of functional and conventional medicine care, and is now off all medication.  Her case illustrates that both can be used together quite successfully. https://drruscio.com/graves-disease-using-functional-conventional-medicine/ My new book is finally available: Healthy Gut, Healthy You. Click here to learn more: https://drruscio.com/getgutbook/ Looking for more? Check out our resource page that includes how to become a patient, how to pick up a copy of my new book, how to sign up for my clinical training newsletter, and more. https://drruscio.com/resources

Host Cyrus Webb welcomes back author, motivator and his friend Zenaida Roy-Almario to #ConversationsLIVE to discuss how she has used the power of words to impact the lives of people around the world. Zenaida is the author of BRAGN (Be Real and Great Now) and the co-author of A SMILE OF HOPE: The Legacy of AJ Perez. 

Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) Up Close – 2 in a series from My Word We have had regular visitors at our window-mounted feeder so I took the time to capture a few. This video is available in 4k. I recently upgraded my camera and am trying it out on a variety of subjects. See more […] The post Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) Up Close – 2 in a series from My Word [Video] (1:05) appeared first on My Word with Douglas E. Welch.

a conversation with Zenaida, Alysha & Kelly / "what are you?” / complicated experiences: boxes + stereotypes + family + society + insecurities + special super powers of higher consciousness / FYI beyoncé is mixed / the tale of Hannah’s mom & the bonnie wee brown baby

Peter Donegan chats with Zenaida Sengo, Live from Salt Lake City Utah. @sodshow on twitter - facebook The Sodshow Live from Salt Lake City Utah, brought to you by Thyme and Place, this is the first show from the first night of The Sodshow Live. Peter Donegan was there for a little over one week were 6 guests in total, over 2 nights either side of St Patricks Day 2017 were interviewed in front of a live audience. That story is most probably better told by The Salt Lake Tribune. Zenaida Sengo quite literally wrote the book on Airplants. A designer, horticulturist and artist in the western US. She's worked with plants, interiors, landscape and floral design in California since 2001, specialising in drought-tolerant minimal landscapes and unique floral artistry. Zenaida is a specialist in epiphytes and authored Air Plants - The Curious World of Tillandsias. In this richly photographed book one can learn vast amounts about both caring for and designing with Tillandsias. Further info: Zenaida Sengo book: The Curious World of Tillandsias, by Timber Press website: www.zsengo.com More images: The Sodshow Live, Salt Lake City The Sodshow Live Show Team: Event Organiser: Melinda Meservy Brought to you by: Thyme and Place Location: The Mandate Press, Salt Lake City The Sodshow Live Team: The Sodshow Live Host: Peter Donegan Photography: Nick Sokoloff Sound: Greg and Clay, Pale Horse Sound Studios MC: Chris Hollifield You: Thanks you - you were as you are so very beautiful. In House Live Bands: Rusted Reel - night 1 Homo Leviticus - night 2 Thyme and Place, The Sodshow Live Sponsors: Bare Bones Living Hibernian Society of Utah 90.9 KRCL Wasatch Community Gardens and not forgetting The Kings English - Book Shop

Where is your Heart/Jesus was a Public Defender/Do Your Job/This is a God Dream

Even the best of the best have mentors and coaches. Everyone needs a guide to brainstorm ideas, gain perspective, and plan goals. A good mentor will be able to keep a neutral stance and allow their clients the space to grow into leadership. What we're going to talk about: * The best way to find a mentor * What a mentor is and isn't * Does a mentor always have to be a a person? * 5 areas that a mentor will be able to help you * Knowing when it's time for a mentor and when to move on Get info: http://tinyurl.com/mondaynightcalls http://oursimpletraining.com

Zenaida Lorenzo! Zenaida is passionate about psychological research. While most research is considered boring to read and hard to understand, she is committed to making scholarly research insightful, actionable, and applicable to our daily lives. She began her career twenty years ago in NYC as a marketing and sales executive. In 2004, she started her own business, which quickly generated millions of dollars in revenue. Because of her success, she was called upon to speak at conferences across the nation, and she found that participants would often ask to talk privately with her about their challenges, asking how they could experience success in their personal and business life. At first, Zenaida turned to books written by experts, but she quickly realized that the experts were contradicting one another. She also realized she didn’t have the necessary foundation to point those who wanted answers in the right direction. She decided to return to school and dedicate her time to understanding psychological research. Interested in why some people succeed while others don’t, she first studied what creates expert performance. She then studied leadership, motivation, learning, and goal-setting. She is in the process of publishing two books, one on goal-setting and the other on perseverance. Find her at ZenaidaLorenzo.com and UnStopped.Life What are they gonna talk about?: 1. Innoculation: how to talk to people about out of stock products, wait times, customer service issues. 2. The science behind Learned Optimism. 3. What she took away from the Mastermind Event in Florida this past weekend. 4. How her experience as a direct sales impacts her leadership training today. 5. What Monty and Zenaida really think of the law of attraction. Join us for the Monday Night Calls! Every week we have guests that are industry experts, successful entrepreneurs, and Corporate staff. This Young Living Business Training is free to anyone who is looking to build a business, please share with your teams. To get more training, visit http://oursimpletraining.com. Remember BeAPartOfThe.LiveGreenEarnGreenSolution.com and GetLGEGS.com to share and grow your biz efficiently

Zenaida Lorenzo & GRIT! Where would you be if nothing stopped you? Really think about that question. What separates high achievers from everyone else is their ability to keep on taking action regardless of progress or success. Think about it how many talented people do you know who are unsuccessful. And we all know plenty of people who started off with ok talent but for some reason they became successful. Why? They kept taking action and now they are “talented”. One of the greatest gift of perseverance is how it changes your brain. People who persevere learn. And learning equal transformation. It is really the only thing that truly changes your life. Transform your business and your life now! About the presenter: Zenaida Lorenzo was a very successful network marketer who then went on to do secondary scholarly research on achievement. For 6 years, she focus much of her research on achievement and what creates exceptional performance, basically what makes people successful. She is passionate about teaching her program UNSTOPPED. The program EMPOWERS individual with the skills and knowledge on what psychologist find creates extraordinary success. All her techniques are back up by 30+ years of scientific validated research. What you might expect on this call: 1. Zenaida blasting blocks with two “on fire” team members. 2. What’s GRIT? Why does it determine your success. 3. Do most Americans have GRIT? 4. Can you get GRIT if you don’t have it how? 5. Help your team members rock their businesses. Her website: Unstopped.Life Join us for the Monday Night Calls! Every week we have guests that are industry experts, successful entrepreneurs, and Corporate staff. This Young Living Business Training is free to anyone who is looking to build a business, please share with your teams. To get more training, visit http://oursimpletraining.com. Remember BeAPartOfThe.LiveGreenEarnGreenSolution.com and GetLGEGS.com to share and grow your biz efficiently

The plight of the immigrant child is a foremost concern in the integrated scholarship of bilingual education Professor Zenaida Aguirre-Muñoz. The daughter of immigrants herself, Muñoz noticed while growing up that she was singular among friends to be on track for a college education. A desire to work with students that had backgrounds similar to hers led Muñoz, while an undergraduate, to rewarding work and volunteer opportunities that laid the foundation for her research into children's educational experiences. She ultimately earned a doctorate, and through her own teaching and research, Muñoz has impacted the pedagogy of many educators and the learning experiences of many more students. Additionally, Muñoz's expertise has enabled her to serve with numerous organizations, committees, and advisory panels at the state and national levels, however, her contributions within the local community—thanks to Muñoz's emphasis on relationships with area teachers, administrators, and districts—have been the most valuable to her work.

The King of Mashup

The King of Mashup

My guest today Zenaida Roy-Almario is the the author of a new book  titled Rhymes and Reasons to Inspire Positive and Proactive Communicating Young Adults is intended as a guide to help young adults live life positively and to the fullest. A mother herself, Roy- Almario started BRAGN Be Real and Great Now, a company that develops tools to empower young adults to be their best selves, because she was disappointed. The messages shereceieved from educators, life coach experts, the media and parents nationwide telling youth that they should not be and ultimately, were not accountable for conflict resolution and problem-solving within their peer group.  

Are you ready to start living the life that was meant for you? Conversations LIVE radio show host Cyrus Webb welcomes back author Zenaida Roy-Almario to the show to discuss what led her to write Be Real and Great Now (BRAGN) and what she hopes listeners take away from it.  10 AUTOGRAPHED COPIES will be given away during the live show to the first 10 individuals who are LOGGED IN inside the chatroom for the show. Zenaida will also be sharing details about her new project. This is one show you don't want to miss! 

Unless a Grain of Wheat Dies… I think there is a single verse that sums up the dynamic of what I consider to be the greatest story that there is in history over the last 2000 years. The greatest story that there is, there's all kinds of histories you can study, but the greatest story there is, is the building of the church of Jesus Christ over 2000 years. Of individual souls, men and women, boys and girls, people around the world in various settings, various tribes, languages, and peoples, and nations coming to faith in Christ being ingrafted into that living olive tree, being built in as living stones in a rising temple, being in some way incorporated in the body of Christ by faith. That is the story. And it's not always reported as the lead story in the nightly news, I would say it's hardly ever reported that way. But we Christians, we know that that is the story and as I look at the advance of the Gospel through its various eras over the last 20 centuries from that small upper room where there were just a 120 men and women assembled waiting for the gift of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit poured down on the day of Pentecost, and they flooded out into the streets and began preaching to the crowds, the throngs that have been gathered there by the Jewish feast of Pentecost and by the sound of the rushing wind that assembled them right around that place where they were staying, and Peter preached that awesome Pentecost sermon and 3000 repented and believed that day and were added to the church. From that day through, all kinds of dangers, toil, and snares, the church of Jesus Christ has been built as Jesus said, "I will build my church and the gates of Hades will not prove stronger than it." Well, I think there's a verse that sums up the dynamic, the energy, the drive perhaps even the mechanism, the way by which it's happened. John 12:24, Jesus as he was thinking about his own death as he was meeting some Greeks that wanted to meet him and a few of his disciples brought these Greeks, he began thinking about his own death, imminent death. And he said this, in John 12:24, "I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself a single seed, but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit." He was clearly talking about his own death. And the fruit that has come from the death of Christ is incalculable, it is infinite, it will go on for all eternity. But he also spoke in general terms, this is a spiritual principle that if a kernel of wheat refuses to fall into the ground and die remains sterile, no fruit comes from it, but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit. And so Christians, imitators of Christ, followers of Christ have followed his pattern, have laid down their lives for others. They have made of themselves living sacrifices, and in some cases, the martyrs dead sacrifices, so that the blood of martyrs was seed for the church and much fruit has come. And so this morning I want to think about sacrifice, the principle of sacrifice. Every missionary that's ever said goodbye to family and friends and has crossed miles of ocean, or burning sand, or rugged mountains, or into steamy jungles to win converts for Christ, to win people for Christ has made sacrifices, has done it through the principal of sacrifice. Every Christian that ever braved out the lethal dangers of the plague during the 13th century, at other times, the plague broke out in Europe at various times and every Christian that refused to love their own lives so much as to shrink from death, they refused to do that, but nursed and cared for, not only family and friends, but neighbors, unsaved and were willing to risk their lives and in effect trade their own health for the other person's disease nursing them to health while they died to the same plague, has done it from a principle of sacrifice. Every mother who has put in long hours to pray for and to train and to raise up children, up in the middle of the night with sickness, crafting, learning experiences, weeping over their struggles, spiritual, especially, has understood this principle of sacrifice. So also, every father who lays down his life for his family, in the same way for his wife as Christ did for the church and for his children to bring them up in the training, in the nurture, and the admonition of the Lord, has done it out of a principle of sacrifice. Every humble servant in a local church who has denied him or herself sleep so that they can do some kind of ministry like an urban ministry like we had yesterday. The summer sizzle, the cookout which was phenomenal. I praise God for it, great seeds were sown, I saw a lot of laborers from this church going out and I thank you for it and I praise God for all the work that Matthew and Zenaida and many others did to reach out but it's all been done out of a principle of sacrifice. Frankly, every pleasing gift, every act pleasing to God has been done by Christians in a spirit of Christ-honoring, really Christ-imitating, self-denying sacrifice. Every dollar given, every hour spent in prayer, every time that we use our spiritual gifts in a way that pleases him. It's done for the principle of sacrifice. Frankly, I don't think we can do anything loving that isn't a sacrifice. We're going to talk about that today. That is the essence of how love express itself, in cheerful sacrifice for the benefit of another. So the church is advanced in the same way, why are we talking about this today? Well, if you look at the verses that were just read verses 15 and 16, they both mentioned sacrifice. There it says in verse 15, "Through Jesus therefore let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess his name. And then in verse 16, "And do not forget to do good and to share with others for with such sacrifices, God is well pleased." I. More Lessons from the Sacrificial System So this is the second to last sermon that I'll preach in the Book of Hebrews. And it seems reasonable for me as I look at the use of the word sacrifice twice in these verses 15 and 16, to take a step back, and in a big picture look one more time at the sacrificial system, animal sacrifices, because the author is telling us, and we're going to talk more about this one last time that that whole system is finished. It's done but the principle of sacrifice is not and there are still sacrifices of the Christian life and so what I'm going to do is I will exegete and explain verses 15 and 16, but I'm also going to go beyond and take a wider lens view of sacrifice in the new covenant, in the New Testament, and various verses that talk about that principle, how Christians are called on to sacrifice even though the animal sacrificial system is done, and how we are to live out a life of sacrifice from various places in Scripture and bring it all together for you. So that's what we're doing today and the reason is that the author has given us the ending of the Old Covenant, and at the center of that Old Covenant was this principle of animal sacrifice. It was established right from the beginning of redemptive history, right after the fall, you remember how Adam and Eve in the garden ate from the forbidden fruit, the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and immediately their eyes were opened and they realized that they were naked and they tried to cover themselves with fig leaves and God addressed that whole issue at the end of that chapter by covering them with animal skins. And as I said before, the animals don't give them up lightly. Alright, those animals had to die, the shedding of blood had to be done for the covering of their nakedness. And the fact that this was going to be repeated, a clear repeated principle is established right in the very next account. In the next chapter, in Genesis Chapter 4, we have Cain and Abel offering up sacrifices to God, and Cain offered up some of the first fruits of the land and Abel offered some of the first fruits of his flock, of the livestock animals. And it was very clear that Cain was doing the wrong thing. God said to him, "If you do what is right, will you not be accepted?" And so God had established kind of in the white spaces that animal sacrifice was going to be a central part of the religion of sinful man. So Abel, offered up this sacrifice. And then soon after that in the time of Noah, God commanded Noah to take seven clean animals, and two of every unclean animal, and after the flood the first thing that Noah did was built an altar and offered animal sacrifice of the clean animals. Incredible sacrifice given what the flood had done to the earth. Then you see animal sacrifice in the time of the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the building altars, offering animal, animal sacrifice. There's the little boy Isaac saying, "Here is wood and fire, but where is the animal for the sacrifice?" So the animal sacrificial system was up and running from the very beginning, but then it was codified, it was made law by the law of Moses and how that whole Levitical system was set up, how the sons of Aaron would the descendants of Aaron would be the high priests and the tabernacle was built and that's how the animal sacrifice would be done. Well, according to the book of Hebrews all that's finished. It's done. Time for animal sacrifice is over. But though we may be done with the animal sacrificial system, it's not done with us, friends. It still has some things to teach us. This has been a bit of a progressive revelation for me as I go back again and again till I was like, none of us does animal sacrifice, that time is over, and so I kind of shut it down and thought, "Well, I don't have much to learn from it, and little by little, I've seen more and more, and now I see it in kind of a two-step process of what the animal sacrificial system has to teach us now. The first step is it leads us to the cross, the animal sacrificial system leads us from our sinfulness to the cross for redemption. The lessons of the sacrificial system do that. And now we're going to talk about today. It leads us from the cross to heaven in a pattern of life that is described by the sacrificial system. The two parts, they're getting clear and clear to me the more I study. Three Lessons From the Animal Sacrificial System Now you've heard me talk about the first part before, the three great lessons of the animal sacrificial system concerning human salvation. First, all sin deserves the death penalty, the connection between sin and death which God established in the garden of Eden, made very plain. The day you eat of it, you will surely die. The wages of sin is death. "The soul that sins will die," Ezekiel 18. So there's the link in the animal sacrificial system taught at because these animals that you own were not merely confiscated, they weren't sheared for their wool, they were killed, their blood was shed, their blood poured out on the altar, they were killed without the shedding of blood, there could be no forgiveness. So all sin deserves a death penalty, lesson number one. Lesson number two, the death penalty can be paid by a substitute. The animal sacrificial system taught that when the priest laid his hands on the substitute, on the animal and confessed onto to it, Leviticus 16, the sins of the people, and they were in some way mysteriously, spiritually transferred to the substitute and then the substitute was killed and so the death penalty can be paid by a substitute. The substitute, the animal is dead, but you are alive. Second lesson, leading to the cross. The third lesson, leading to the cross is that the substitute cannot be an animal, it's just symbolic, the whole thing is just a teaching tool. The blood of a bull, or ram, or a goat cannot really atone for human sin. And the animal sacrificial system taught this by the endless repetition, the author to Hebrews tells us, just by the fact that they're endlessly repeated year after year shows that they were just symbolic. They were waiting for Christ to come and so in John the Baptist then points at Jesus and says, "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world," he is fulfilling and completing that part of the animal sacrificial system. Jesus, the son of God, shed his blood on the cross, as a sacrifice, he died, without the shedding of blood, there's no forgiveness, by the shedding of animal blood there is no forgiveness, but by the shedding of the blood of Jesus there is. And if we trust in him, our death penalty can be taken off of us and put on him and we are freed. And there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Well, you've heard that from me before, it's good to have it repeated, I've used that dozens and dozens of times in witnessing opportunities. It's very clear, it brings you to the cross, it explains things very, very well. But the sacrificial system's not done with us yet, we still have some more to learn from it. And as you can tell from our verses today, verses 15 and 16, there's still some sacrifices the Lord wants from us, they're just not animals. And so, we have more to learn. The animal sacrificial system still teaches us some things. For example, as you read the Old Covenant, you find from King David, as Araunah the Jebusite wants to give his threshing floor and everything needed for the sacrifice to stop the plague. And David says, "I will not take for the LORD what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing." So sacrifice has to be costly for us just like it was for God. Sacrifice has to be something that costs us something, it's got to be something valuable. And we learned from the Old Covenant as we read the sacrifices had to be given by faith with a brokenness of heart and contrition of spirit. We're going to get more into that in a moment. But the fact that they were cranking out animal sacrifices, but had no repentance and no sense of sorrow or grieving over their sins and no faith toward God, or relationship with God, just the machinery of animals just running all the time, God through the prophet Isaiah said in effect said stop. God said through the prophet Isaiah "The multitude of your sacrifices-- what are they to me? I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats." Stop bringing meaningless offerings. You're incense, and your sacrifices, and new moon festivals, they're detestable to me. Stop it. Because they weren't in repentance, they weren't broken-hearted. So I can learn that from the Old Covenant, sacrificial system, and then from Malachi I can learn that a sacrifice has to be my best. I have to bring my best to God. As the priest were trying to trick God and cheat God. And then, Malachi, he says, "'When you bring blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice crippled or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?' says the LORD Almighty. 'Now implore God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your hands, will he accept you?'-- says the LORD Almighty. 'Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you,' says the LORD Almighty, 'and I will accept no offering from your hands. My name will be great among the nations, from the rising to the setting of the sun. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to my name, because my name will be great among the nations,' says the LORD Almighty. Now just think about what Malachi is saying there. He has a vision for Gentiles bringing him fragrant offerings to the ends of the earth and to the ends of time. But God knew he was going to be shutting down this Jewish Levitical sacrificial system. And so you put the whole thing together, from Malachi it's like those fragrant offerings, those pure sacrifices brought by the nations are going to be what we're talking about, the rest of this message, and they're going to be the best you have to offer. Don't bring me anything lame. Don't bring me anything blind or crippled, bring me your best. II. A New Sacrificial System: In Christ, “In Spirit and In Truth” So those are three additional lessons that I learned from just reading the Old Covenant. Now what I want to do is talk about this new altar that has been established that Hebrews 13 mentions. If you look at it in verse 10, there's this new altar established, this eternal spiritual in the heavens, established through the blood of Christ. He says in verse 10, "We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat." So there is an altar and the altar is for sacrifices, right? There's a new altar set up. And so this is the culmination of the whole meditation the author's been doing on the end of the Old Covenant sacrificial system. The blood of bulls, and goats, and Levitical priests, all that is done but there's still an altar. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, entered the world, as a man, incarnate of the Holy Spirit, he became a priest in the New Order of Melchizedek, a priest king, and he offered, once for all, he died, once for all, to make a sacrifice available for our sins, to cleanse his people perfectly of their guilty consciences, of their sins before God. And in this way, the Old Covenant animal sacrificial system is obsolete forever. So if you were to look back at Hebrews 8:13, don't do it, but I'll just quote it. It says, "By calling this covenant new, he's made the old one obsolete and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear." So God providentially shut down the animal sacrificial system by the Roman army destroying the temple burning it to the ground and has never been permitted to be re-established. And I tell you, God will never again be pleased with animal blood offered to him in worship. It's done forever. There's no need for it, it's gone forever, not like there's no need. It would be insulting to what Christ accomplished on the cross. It's finished, but in the place of that old altar, we have a new altar. And it's established in the heavenly realms, it's described as heavenly, it's not earthly. And we can eat from it metaphorically, spiritually. We have an altar from which those people have no right to eat, we get our eating. Now what's the whole eating thing? Well, back then the animal, the blood was poured out and you still had the flesh and in many cases, the worshipers were permitted to partake of the flesh of what was offered, they were able to eat from it, the priest were and the people too sometimes. Various rules about that. But now, the author is picking up on the eating thing and saying that we have a whole different kind of eating that we're doing now. We're getting spiritual energy and strength from a new kind of sacrificial system that as we offer these sacrifices, we get strong and get energy from this religion, this new way of offering sacrifice to God. And we have a right to eat and they don't, because they still believe in the old system, and they're rejecting Christ, and by their unbelief, they have no right to eat from this. But we, we Christians, we have a new altar. It's in the heavenlies, it's a spiritual altar. And as Jesus said to the Samaritan woman, "Neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. God is Spirit…" You can worship him anywhere. And so you have access to that altar anywhere you go, everywhere, all the time. It's mentioned in the Book of Revelation a few times in Revelation 8, in verse 3, "Another angel at a golden censer came and stood at the altar." So there's this word Altar. It's up in the heavenlies. "And he was given much incense to offer which are the prayers of the saints." One translation says or, "With the prayers of the saints." It doesn't matter from my point. The prayers of the saints are wafting up from that altar to God. You see what I'm saying? And so, as we pray filled with the Spirit, as we're praying what God's told us to pray and that kind of thing, it's like an aroma wafting up before God from this new altar. Do you see? And there it is, in the heavenlies, mentioned again in 8:5 and in Revelation 9:13, as well, this altar in the heavenlies. And this altar's the place on which these sacrifices I'm about to list, if I ever get to it, I'll get to them. They're coming. But these new sacrifices that God wants us to list, to offer, they are made on this spiritual altar in the heavenlies. So our text makes plain that Christ truly is this platform. Look at verse 15, "Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God," etcetera. See, "Through Jesus," Jesus is the altar to some degree, Jesus is the way through by which these sacrifices are made. So the New Covenant change in the sacrificial system is freedom in sacrifice, not freedom from sacrifice. It's a different way of sacrificing now. A different purpose for the sacrifice, Christ once for all, sacrifice, ends forever the sacrifice of atonement. There's no need anymore for any offerings in reference to guilt for sin. It's done. We'll talk about that. We have access, new access. There are no restrictions anymore. You don't have to be a Levite. You don't have to be a son of Aaron. You have free access like it says in Colossians 3, "In Christ, there's neither male nor female, Barbarians, Scythians, slave or free." It doesn't matter what tribe you come from, it doesn't matter what your gender is, you have free access to make offerings to God in this way. Marvelous. And so there's no restrictions in that regard. By the way, I'm not in any way saying they're not gender-based roles in the church, I believe there are, but I'm saying men and women, boys and girls, believers can offer to God, sacrifices that he accepts all the time, and not just can, but should and must every day. Objects of the sacrifice have changed. Animals are no more accepted. Free from physical challenges of the animal sacrificial system. Amen and Amen. I mean, a bull is a big thing. I mean, just trying to get it to come to the temple. I wonder how they did that or you had to carry your little sheep on your shoulders, and all that. It was difficult. And I'm not saying our sacrificial system has not got difficulties, but you're at least free from the animal side to it. The animals are no longer the object of worship. The places I've said, no one place of worship is required. In terms of the time, there's no schedule anymore, mornings and evenings and it's basically the yearly calendar, three times a year and all that, that's all done. It's all been fulfilled. So, we have freedom. As it says, look at verse 15 again, "Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice…" And so we do have sacrifices to make. And so, really, the author at this point is answering charges, I think, that these Christians, this new sect that is everywhere spoken against have no religion. "You don't have a temple, you don't have animals, you don't have a priesthood. You don't have a religion. What do you have?" He says, "No, we actually do. We have sacrifices that we offer." "And so what are they?" Well, they're listed in your bulletin. I'm just going to say them quickly and then describe them. The first is, a sacrifice of a broken and contrite heart. There's a definite order to these that I'm giving you. The sacrifices of a broken and contrite heart. Secondly, the sacrifice of faith in Christ as our once for all atonement. I'm going to argue that those two are fundamental to everything that follows. If you don't understand that then you're probably trying to earn your salvation by works. So we start with those two. Then the, "Link sacrifice," which is the presentation of the body as a living sacrifice to God. And then flowing from that the sacrifice of our earthly comforts in witnessing, that's last week's sermon just a little bit of a redux on that, but the willingness to suffer for others and to bear their approach and to give up comforts, so that others can be brought to faith in Christ as a sacrifice. And I'm going to show it right from the linking the way that the author links them. Number five is the sacrifice of worship or praise, the fruit of lips that confess his name, which is going to do double duty as I'll share in a moment, but worship just the confession of God's name by your lips. And then finally, the sacrifice of good works to benefit others, the giving of your time, your energy, your money, your possessions, given to whoever needs them, as the Lord leads. Those are the sacrifices of the Christian life. And I think they'll cover it, don't you think? I mean, if you look at that and you say, "If I would just do those things and there's just a stream and a wafting aroma of my life, that's a good life." And so, the sacrificial system brings you to the cross. And having done that, it brings you from the cross right up to heaven with a pattern of good works that the Lord has laid out for us. III. Sacrifice #1: A Broken and Contrite Heart Let's look at them one at a time briefly. Sacrifice number one, a broken and contrite heart, of course, this comes from Psalm 51 in verse 17, "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart oh, God, you will not despise." This is foundational to everything that follows. A New Covenant worshiper offering sacrifices to God is continually mindful of their own sinfulness and is humbled by it. And not only that but mindful of their status as a creature. So you are a created being, And you are going to worship God with reverence and awe, because you're a created being, and you are to be humble and broken-hearted over your sin. Now, I have had some rather painful discussions in the last few years with some people who think that this aspect is inappropriate for the Christian life. They say we should never, ever be mindful of our past sins and not be thinking about them or have any sense of shame or any sense of anything. They're forgiven, we're cleansed, we don't go back, we don't think about those things anymore. Friends, that's wrong. I don't know how to say it, it's just wrong. It's just wrong. Alright, tell me why you think it's wrong. Alright, how about 1 Timothy 1:13-15. Go ahead and look there if you would. Put your finger here in the Bible and Let's go back and look at 1 Timothy 1:13-15. 1 Timothy 1:13-15, the apostle Paul is talking about himself. And this is what he says, "Even though I was once a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief. The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. Here is a trustworthy saying Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am the worst." Alright, well, according to the theory of the person who was debating with me on this, Paul just did huge wrong there. First of all, he remembered his past life. He remembered it in detail, he put specific words on it. I was a blasphemer, and I was a persecutor, and I was a violent man, but God's grace was poured out on me abundantly. Are we supposed to help Paul? You shouldn't do that. Stop thinking about what was forgiven. Don't think about it anymore. You're forgiven now. Friends, that makes no sense to me. That's how we celebrate the grace of God to us. What we don't do is wallow in it as though we were not forgiven or that the blood of Christ isn't enough or any of that, that we do not do. But we remember and we're humbled by it. And we're mindful of it and we are thankful to God for the grace that was poured out on us. But we didn't stop there, look at verse 15. Do you see the last few words of whom I was the worst, is that what he says? No, no, no, "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am the worst." So he's not just talking past now, he's talking right here right now, "I, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, I tell you, of myself, as I look at myself, I am the worst sinner on earth." I mean, how could that be? He's an apostle, he's doing all these good works. Well, he is more intimately acquainted with his Romans 7 sin nature, flesh nature than he is with anybody else's. And as he looks at it and all that's been given to him and all that's been lavished on him and he still sins, the very thing he hates, he does and the very thing he wants to do, he doesn't do, he says, "I'm the worst." Friends, it's okay to do this, amen? It's okay, not only okay, it's wonderful because this gives you a broken and contrite heart out of which all of the rest of this comes, so I think we ought to learn to cultivate humility before God. Paul said he's the worst sinner on the face of the earth. And when he wrote 1 Timothy 1, he's an apostle and completely forgiven and joyful and healthy and in salvation. So go to God with deep reverence and humility. Offer to him the sacrifices of a broken and contrite heart that David said God will always accept. And in James 4 it says, "But he gives us more grace, that's why scripture says, God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble." So don't be prideful, be humble and take grace, grace is always for sin, so take grace. And again, 1 Peter 5, "All of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another. Because God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under God's mighty hand that he may lift you up in due time." Humble yourself under him. IV. Sacrifice #2: Faith in the Completed Work of Christ Alright, second sacrifice. Faith in the completed work of Christ. Now, it'd be easy for you to misunderstand. So, I'm emphasizing completed. Once for all, we're not offering a fresh Jesus, like the Roman Catholic priest do in the mass. We are not doing that, don't believe in that. It's done, but what you do need to do as you see the sin in your life as you're mindful of your past, as you're thinking about your present, what's going on, you need to immediately be mindful of and by faith, look upward to a finished work done for you on the cross, the blood of Jesus shed on the cross for you, so by faith, you're humbled, broken, convicted, and then brought right to the cross by the Spirit. Once for all, Jesus himself doesn't keep offering himself at the right hand of God, he doesn't, it's done. This is what's once for all means, it's done forever. So say something like this, "Lord, I've just recounted to you my sins, my feelings. I've allowed my flesh rule me, I've followed the ways of this world and under the rule of the kingdom of the air. Satan's deceived me, I've fallen into temptations. I'm guilty of sin before you, but thanks be to God, you have already fully atoned for all my sins." And as you allow this once for all finished work of Christ to be appropriated again for your new wave of sense of sinfulness, you allow your guilty conscience to be cleansed by that blood, you will revel in this, it will wash over you. This is not your sacrifice, you are not offering anything, but you are by faith recognizing that it was offered for you. Does that make sense? Not again and again, offering. And it's just going to wave and you're going to swim in an ocean of grace and mercy and forgiveness and know how forgiven you are, and how completely righteous you are in the side of God. And so, that's foundational to all the sacrifices that are to follow, right? If you don't do those first, then you're going to be trying to pay for your sins by your good works, like everybody does, but Christians, we don't do that, we do it as forgiven people. We can't improve our standing at all by any sacrifices we offer. And so understand all of the following sacrifices are made through Christ's finished work. Look again at verse 15, go back, leave 1 Timothy now and go back to Hebrews. In Hebrews 13:15, it says "Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice." So we're mindful of our sin, sacrifice number one. We're mindful of Christ's blood shed for us, sacrifice number two. And you know what, it's going to be a strong, powerful dosage of humility, because you know what, the world has been changed by the sacrifices that follow. It's been changed forever by Christians who presented their bodies to God as living sacrifices, boldly went outside the camp and bore their approach of Christ and witness for him. And who were worshipping and praising filled with the spirit, happy in Jesus, delighted in him, like Paul and Silas in the Philippian jail and just praising God and who were sacrificially giving their time and their energy and their money to the poor and needy. The world has been changed by that. And when that starts happening in your life, it would be good for you to be grounded in humility. Amen. When God starts using you huge to do awesome things, it'd be good to start again and again with the first two. Your sinfulness, you see it, you recognize it, you're broken and contrite before it, and yet Jesus paid for it as a foundation. V. Sacrifice #3: Our Bodies in Constant Service to God So, sacrifice number three is your bodies, our bodies in constant service to God. "Therefore, I urge you brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God. This is your spiritual act of worship." so you present your body to God as a living sacrifices. You say, "Now wait a minute, Pastor, that's in Romans. I thought you were an expositor. Aren't we in Hebrews?" Oh, please let me go to cross-reference. Is that okay? So go over to Romans 12:1, don't go there, but you know it. You're going to present, in view of God's mercy to you, in view of the atonement, you're going to present your body. Your body is your vehicle of service to God, your hands, your eyes, your mouth, your ears. Your body is your vehicle of service, present it. What does it mean? He is your Lord, he is your master, he's your king, you are his slave, you are saying, "Take my life and use it whatever way you choose," we sang it already. So, we present "I am fully yours to command." Well, the idea here of holiness as we are holy, we then present our bodies, living bodies as a holy sacrifice, is already established in Hebrews. Go back in Hebrews, to Hebrews 9:14, Hebrews 9:14, and what I want to do is show you that basically Hebrews 9:14 is teaching Romans 12:1, it's the same thing. But Hebrews 9:14 it says, "How much more then will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit, offered himself, unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death," do you see that? What's the rest? "So that we may serve the living God." It's the same thing. In view of God's mercy, cleansed by the blood of Jesus, our conscience cleanse, we are freed now to serve the living God. It's awesome. So it's basically is taught in Hebrews, it's just a little bit clear in Romans with this presentation language. You present your hands, your feet, your eyes to Jesus as your commanding officer to serve. And so, therefore, I would suggest you do this every day. Begin your day by saying, "Lord, I am yours to command. Here is my body, here is my mouth, here is my mind, here is my stomach, here's everything, take me and use me, fill me with your Holy Spirit, use my hands to do godly things, use my mouth to speak messages for your glory. Use my stomach, may it only have in it what you want to have in it today." Alright, amen. I mean, just my feet, may I only walk on those paths you've ordained for me to walk? VI. Sacrifice #4: Our Earthly Comforts in Witnessing for Christ Sacrifice number four, our earthly comforts and witnessing for Christ. This was last week's message, verse 13, "Let us then go to him outside the camp bearing the disgrace he bore." So that is be willing to give up societal comforts, the comfort of good relations with your lost neighbors, and co-workers, and family, be willing to give that up, while you live in community with them, because we're not called on to leave this world, but live in it and to become all things to all people, become Jews to the Jews and Greeks to the Greeks. We do what we can to fit in. But God's calling you fit in but every day walk outside of the gate, be willing to trade it in. And so, that rhythm of fitting in, trading it in, fitting and trading it in is tough and it's a sacrifice. And as you are willing to trade in your earthly comforts and trade in that kind of a pleasant relationship with your lab mate, with your roommate, or your neighbors, you're willing to trade it in because you said the name Jesus and try to witness and try to... That is a sacrifice well pleasing to God. And as you do that, the advance of the Gospel is powerful and beautiful. And the reason we do it is, here we do not have verse 14, an enduring city, but we're looking for the city that is to come. So as we look ahead to our rewards, we notice that verse 14 flows right into verse 15. Look at it, "For here we do not have an enduring city, but we're looking for the city, that is to come "through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess his name." I told you that verse is going to do double duty. Here it's evangelism. The next point, it's going to be worship. But I think it fits either way. First evangelism/missions, as we go outside the camp, as it says, "Therefore," it's linking verse 15, from 14. As we go outside the camp, we are confessing the name of Jesus, we are witnessing, we are saying the Gospel, Jesus is the Son of God, died on the cross. We're confessing doctrine and as we confess that, we're praising and worshipping God in front of lost people. I've said before, that's the best way to do evangelism, celebrate Jesus in front of a lost person. I mean, throw a party for Jesus, they're on the plane or whatever, just be happy about Jesus and if they want to join in fine, if not, just do it anyway, it's joy. And so, as we confess his name, as we worship, we are willing to give up as Jim Elliot put it, "Well, we cannot keep to gain what we cannot lose." We're willing to sacrifice... I think America does comfort probably better than any nation on earth. I mean, we're experts at comfort, experts, bodily comforts, climate-controlled rooms down to the 10th of the degree. I actually have an LCD printout or control where I can dial in, I think, to the 10th of the degree of what temperature I would like. That's pretty awesome. I mean, you can do that with your shower water, I think. You can get your shower water to be exactly the right temperature, whatever you think is best. It's amazing, so well-organized grocery stores, readily accessible Walmarts, smoothly paved roads. As soon as there's a pothole, you wonder where the DOT is and how long it's going to be to fix it. Go on a mission trip. It's like it's a shock when you find the paved road. I remember that, I mean, we were in the western part of China and there was this beautifully paved stretch of road that lasted half a mile, but nothing but rocks on either side. It was one of the most amazing things probably that highway was finished by now, but I'll never forget it, it had been nothing but rock roads up to that point, and then it was smooth for about 41 seconds and it was really kind of exciting. But I mean, we're used to comfort. We're used to high-paying jobs that reduce suffering and maximize pleasure. If you're willing to give all that up for the Gospel, it's a sacrifice that's well pleasing to God. So be willing to start weakening your love for earthly comforts, ask God to give you opportunities every day to stand outside the city gate, and bear Jesus's abuse, speak up for Christ at work. Look for ways to enter into the more personal lives of your co-workers, find out what's going on. So, you can pray for them and witness to them. Make the sacrifice of doing outreaches, like summer sizzle, again, thank you for those that made that sacrifice to be there, make the sacrifice of missions. So we're going to commission another mission team at the end of this worship service in just a few minutes. VII. Sacrifice #5: Praise—the “Fruit of Lips” That Confess Christ And then sacrifice number five, the fruit of lips, praise the fruit of lips that confess Christ through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess his name. Simply put, the finished work of Christ for us should flow out in a river of praise, we should be praising his glorious grace every day, Ephesians 1. And we do that in a kind of a rhythm that God has saved us Psalm 15:15, "Call upon me in the day of trouble, I will deliver you and you will honor me." So as we call on the name of the Lord and he has delivered us from our sins, we then worship him. So we have abundant reasons to just thank God for all of his work in us, all that God has done, and we do that corporately and we do it individually. You can do it continually it says through Jesus let's continually offer. So as you come together for corporate worship, we're just speaking and praising the fruit of lips. And isn't it amazing that he wants to hear anything from our lips at all? It says in Romans 3, "The poison of vipers is on their lips." Isaiah the prophet said, "I'm a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips." You know what, God has the ability to cleanse our mouths, so that we speak words of praise. So how about this, how about instead of Gossip this week, let's praise Jesus? Amen. Instead of slander this week, let's speak fruit of lips that confess his name. Let's do that. Instead of arguing, instead of complaining, let's praise Jesus this week, let's speak it out. We're not supposed to have... I was witnessing one guy, he said, "My faith is an intensely personal and private thing." He's wanting me to stop talking to him about Jesus, I think is what it was, but that's not the way it is for us Christians, we want to speak our praise in the great assembly. So when we come together, we're going to praise and worship him. It might be your favorite song. And you get to sing and praise, because it's one of your favorite songs, it might not be your favorite song. And you get to sing and confess his name anyway. You get to do it like Paul and Silas in the midst of extreme suffering and afflictions, singing praise songs to Jesus. As you confess his name. The final sacrifice, I want to mention to you is good works. Look at verse 16, And do not forget to do good works and to share with others for the sacrifices God is well pleased. Friends, we are his workmanship, we are created in Christ Jesus to do good works. That good work is going to... Those good works will be sacrifices, you're going to give up your time, you're going to give up your money, you're going to give up your energy, you're going to give to do those good works, you're going to share with others. God has sovereignly ordained and any quality of a distribution of wealth even within the church, there's some that are richer than others. And he's done that I think to bring the body of Christ together. So those who are wealthier can, 1 Timothy 6, share with others in need, and so their hearts are drawn together. This is a sacrifice that we can make in serving God. Friends, this is obviously a big topic, it's powerful. But as you look at these sacrifices, these six sacrifices, this is a rhythm of the rest of your life that will carry you. Storing up treasure in heaven with such sacrifices, says God is well pleased. You know what's going to happen? On judgment day, when all of your good works have been refined by fire, and you've made it on the other side and all of your treasures stored up in there, you know what you're going to find in each of those treasures is? It is God's pleasure in what you did. It's God's pleasure in your active evangelism, it's God's pleasure in your secret giving, it's God's pleasure in your prayer life And he will share it with you and he will say, "Well done, good and faithful servant." You've been faithful to a few things. Now, I'm going to put you in charge of many things. Now enter into the joy or the pleasure that I had when you did it." Close with me in prayer.

One Verse Destroys Incarnation What a privilege I have week after week to stand before you and proclaim the word of God, how awesome is the scripture you heard What I just said from Hebrews four Word of God is living and active, it's an amazing thing that you hold in your laps and I'd urge you to get the Bible and just read along with me as I preach because really, that's all I'm doing. I'm really just taking Hebrews, and going, phrase by phrase. There's not a lot of artistry to it. My goal is, I just want you to understand Hebrews 9:23-28 in context today. That's my goal, but it's just an amazing work. The Scripture is it's a miracle and encounter with eternity, that we have with scripture. And let me give you a clear example of what I'm saying, why I'm even beginning the sermon this way. It has to do with Verse 27, Hebrews 9:27 is the first verse that I ever knew in the Book of Hebrews, early in my Christian life as I was learning how to be a witness and trying to share the gospel, someone told me Hebrews 9:7 was an important verse to memorize, and so I did memorize it. Just as a man is destined to die once and after that, to face judgment, that verse is a fountain of truth. And so many things come from it to refute some of the errors that Satan has sown in the hearts of human beings over time. Let me take for an example, the issue of reincarnation. The idea of reincarnation, the idea that after we die, our souls are then in some sense born alive again in some other living being, could be an animal or some other living thing, and that you go through life again, and then you die and go through it again. So, life's a big cycle fundamental to Hinduism and Buddhism, these Eastern religions, but it has been infiltrating the west for centuries. It's not a new thing that people in the West have been interested in reincarnation, but it is distressing to me how much that this false idea of reincarnation has made its way into American culture as a whole. There's a lot of media elite people in Hollywood and other places that embrace the idea of reincarnation, make movies like Robin Williams made a movie, What Dreams May Come. It was about reincarnation, Sylvester Stallone holds to this false teaching, Oprah Winfrey has frequently people on who teach based on these kinds of things, Shirley MacLaine, the actress, of course, believes in this, she said "Life is just like showbiz. You do it again and again until you get it right." Well, that's just absolutely wrong. In Hebrews 9:27, one verse, I tell you, one verse of Scripture is sufficient to explode that false teaching, if you embrace the idea that all scriptures God breathed and that the scripture is perfectly true, then this one text, this one verse is sufficient to destroy the doctrine of reincarnation. A recent poll in 2009 said 24% of American Christians believe in reincarnation, one out of four approximately. That is terrible. It's a false doctrine, it is not true. 31% of European Roman Catholics believe in reincarnation. It's just not true. So I tell you one verse of scripture is sufficient to explode that false doctrine. But it's not just that, there are other false ideas, for example, atheistic materialism, Darwinian evolution. The idea that all we are atoms and molecules. So what that means is that when you die, you're done, you're finished. Parasites eat whatever is left of you and you are gone. There's nothing else, because all you are is a chance assembly of those molecules and whatever it is you think is reality etcetera, is just an accident of time and chance and molecules and physical processes, that's atheistic materialism. That is completely destroyed by this one verse, because it says that it is appointed, we are destined to die once and after that, you see, to face judgment. So what that means is, there is an after that when it comes to death, something will come for each one of us after death, and that is Judgment Day. So away with atheistic materialism, there is something after death. And it also destroys that false idea that wicked people have that they can escape the consequences of their wicked actions by suicide. I think about Adolf Hitler in that bunker as the Red Army was pressing in and about to capture him. He thought to escape the consequences of his dark crimes by going into a back room with his wife of one day, Eva Braun, and apparently it seems biting on a cyanide capsule. And the peace of death just kind of coursed through his veins, and he just lay on a bed somewhere, and he was gone. And he thought to escape. But Hebrews 9:27 won't let him escape. It's just like in Hamlet, when he said To be or not to be, he's contemplating suicide, he's thinking about ending it all, thinking that he's going to escape the pain of his life and the consequences of his sins and he's trying to escape, but he says to sleep per chance to dream. Aye, that's the rub. Yeah, that's the rub. It's more than just a rub. It's a certainty, There is something after death, and suicide is no escape. So you cannot kill a bunch of kids at some camp and then kill yourself and think you're going to escape the consequences of your actions, for it is appointed to each one of us to die and after that, to face judgment, and so therefore this one single verse of the Bible is good for witnessing for evangelism. I think it's our job as evangelists, it's my job as a preacher, as a pastor to communicate a sense of urgency about time. This is an urgent matter here. We are all going to die. It is destined for us to die. And I'm going to talk more about this later, but all of us are going to die. And so Richard Baxter, the Puritan pastor, said I preached as a dying man to dying men. Well, I am a dying man. I don't know of any diagnosis against my health right now, but I'm just telling you, this verse tells me I am a dying man, and you may not know any diagnosis against yourself, but you are a dying man or a dying woman if you're listening to me today and I don't care how old you are, you may be young, but you are in the process of dying, and it is destined for you, it's appointed for you to die once, and after that to face judgment. Are you ready for that? Are you ready for judgment day? Are you ready to stand before your maker? Are you ready to stand before the judge of your actions of your motives are you ready for death? This text stands in front of us and causes us, forces us to look at death, and say, "Am I ready for this?" So yesterday at the outreach and so grateful for Matthew and Zenaida and for all that labored to put on the summer sizzle outreach in the community, Matthew, brother, sweet work, praise God for you. Be patient, be faithful in what you're doing and God will bless what you do. We're sowing seeds in the community. When I see people come to faith in Christ… I was talking to a 14-year-old young African-American gentleman and his friend, maybe he didn't say how old he was, but he's 16, This 14-year-old told me that he was an atheist. I said, "You're too young to be an atheist. How can you be an atheist at age 14?" And so we talked for a while, as long as they would bear, and just the Lord and His grace brought up this verse Hebrews 9:27. Do you know it's appointed to you to die? And after that, to face judgment, whether you're an atheist or not, that's going to happen to you. And then I had the privilege of proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ and I don't know what effect it's going to have. There was no obvious positive feedback but I think those are four different ways. This one single verse is powerful in application, but I have in doing that more or less taken it out of context. But we are told, we're always supposed to be interpreting verses in context, we're told as preachers, you have to get the main idea and preach the main thought in the text, and verse 27 isn't even a finished sentence, just as it is, as man is appointed to die once, and after that, to face judgment, dot dot dot, is there a finish to the thought? Is there something else that comes? Well, you have to read verse 28. So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people. And there's more in verse 28, but there's the completed thought. And so the central idea here is not any of the things I've been discussing so far. The central idea is that Christ died once for all, the supremacy of the death of Christ never needs to be repeated once for all, for every one of God's people, that will end up in Heaven. It was one sacrifice that got him there, and it's Jesus. That's the meaning of the text. And so, I'm going to do both, I've already done both. I've already given you the spin-off doctrines and all that, and I've given you the main idea and all of it is valid friends, this is what scripture does it's a river and ocean of truth that flows through your head, that's the beauty of scripture. It's a miracle to me. So we don't have as much time as I'd like to go through these verses, but how powerful is the word of God? Now what is going on in verses 23-28, we're right in the middle of the doctrinal section of the Book of Hebrews, the author is talking about Christ as our great high priest, who offered the sacrifice of His own blood to God for us in our behalf, and in that way, put an end to all animal sacrifice forever, showed its ineffectiveness, really as anything but a symbolic tool, and ushered in in that way, the new covenant by which we are saved and so the author is going in detail and with some repetition through those concepts, teaching us the significance of the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. And so he's been saying in verses 18-22, that everything in the tabernacle, everything associated with animal sacrifice had to be sprinkled with blood, it had to be cleansed with blood, the blood of the covenant. And it says, in fact the law required that everything be cleansed with blood and without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness. That's where we were last time. I. The Necessity of Purification (vs. 23) And so the author picks up and says, in verse 23, "It was necessary then for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these." So we're right in the middle of a flow of thought and what the author is saying he's in verse 23, he's giving us the absolute necessity of purification. There must be a purification here. That's what he's giving us, He says it's necessary. He uses a strong word in the original language, it is necessary, it is required, that there be this purification by blood. That's what he's saying, And you would say, "Well why is it necessary, why is it required?" Well simply put, in verse 22, the law requires it, God has commanded it, and therefore it must be done. Well, that's the simple answer, but let's go a little deeper. Why did God command it? What forces drove him to make this command? And it has to do with the twin truth of God's absolute perfect holiness, and our defilement in our sins, and if God is going to have a relationship with us, he must purify us we must be made clean from our sin. And that purification has to happen with blood. That's what we're saying here. And so it is necessary, then this purification is necessary. I would say if there's nothing else, if there's a central teaching, if we could go to a central teaching, of the character of God, what is God like? We try to understand the main idea of who is God, there's so many things we could say, but I would put my finger on holiness above everything else, that the Scripture wants us to know that God is holy. So, in Isaiah 6:3, the seraphim are calling to one another, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty, the whole earth is full of His glory." We've said before, say many times, again, there is no other attribute of God spoken of in that way three times. Holy, holy, holy, God is separate from us, and in every way, I think specifically here, I mean separate from wickedness and evil, and sin. He can have nothing to do with it, 1 John 1:5, "God is light, And in Him there is no darkness at all." God cannot dwell with darkness, he cannot be in the presence of wickedness and so there must be purification, that's what it's saying, and we... Apart from Christ, are wicked we are, defiled apart from Christ, cleansing, we are filthy. In that exact same passage, Isaiah felt it, you remember that, he says, "Woe is me, I am ruined! I'm a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips. I'm unclean. And my eyes have seen the king, the Lord Almighty." When you see God's Holiness, you feel your defilement that you're dirty, you're unclean, because of sin, and you needed cleansing, Just like Isaiah had said earlier, in Isaiah Chapter 1 and when God was saying, I don't want your prayers anymore, I don't want your religious actions. Your hands are filled with blood. Take your evil deeds out of my sight, wash and make yourselves clean. I can't be in the presence of filthy people. So there must be this purification you see, at the end of Romans Chapter 1, the apostle Paul just puts together a series of expressions talking about the wickedness of the human race apart from Christ, He says, that apart from Christ, we are "filled with envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice… Gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful, inventors of evil, we disobedient parents, senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless…" That's unclean, God can't dwell with that. And so we must have a cleansing thanks be to Jesus that there is such a cleansing for a sinner like you and me that we can be clean through the blood of Jesus and so it is necessary, this cleansing is necessary. Now, what's amazing to me is the copies of those heavenly things. It's necessary for them to be purified. You might say Why. What are the copies of the heavenly things? Well, the beginning of the chapter in Hebrews 9, he talks about a tabernacle, being set up a tent and it had artifacts and it had an Ark of the Covenant, had an altar table where there was a sacrifice made, it had a lamp stand, it had all of these things. Every one of them were crafted and made by human beings, a heavenly vision, of pattern was given, but they were executed by human beings, they were carried out by people, and therefore, defiled. That's what the author's saying even those things done by the direct command of God, because human beings made them, they had to be purified. And I find this quite fastening we're in Bible for Life, with Nathan Finn and we're looking at how the Spirit of God came on Bezalel. And how the Spirit of God moved him to execute these designs and now Hebrews 9 tells us, once they're done, they have to be purified. That is staggering to me. You can be under the influence of the Spirit doing something God has directly commanded you to do and you need a cleansing and a purification by what you... Because of what you do. And it makes sense, the more you think about it. Are there any of your good work? So you can say, Okay, I got this one alone, Jesus, I don't need your help on this one. This is a pure good work. I did all by myself. It just doesn't work friends, we are so sinful even our best, good works, even in the power of the Spirit still need a purifying force. We still need this purification so those copies of the heavenly things, the tabernacle, the Ark of the Covenant all of those things had to be purified with those sacrifice the animals. They were good for that. A symbolic cleansing, but nothing else. But the heavenly realities, with better sacrifices than these. Now, this is a deep and difficult phrase. It's my job. I've told you before, to bring you into difficulties that you didn't know you had. That's my gift. You didn't know you had a difficulty but you do because it's your text as much as it's mine. Why did the heavenly realities have to be purified? And why is the word sacrifice, plural here when the authors are bound to tell us that only one sacrifice offered one time forever does it? Okay, on the second question, I give you a very simple and clear answer. I have no idea. I don't know. I have no better answer if you... Anyway, I don't know why the word is plural. Different commentators… I read them all, I don't know, nobody knows. Amazingly: The Heavenly Things Needed to Be Purified But the deeper question, why did the heavenly realities have to be purified? That's difficult for me. Some people say it's because the wrath of God against sin kind of, it's like God had a big wrath fit and once it's done, then you kind of have to clean up heaven. Does that sound good to you? Wrong. God's wrath is pure and holy, and righteous, altogether. That's not it. Others say, "Well it's because Satan and his angels messed Heaven up as they rebelled and so Heaven needs to be cleaned up from Satan's rebellion." Does that sound good to you? Not to me either. We're not talking about Satan here, we're not talking about demons here, we're talking about human sin. And human sin, how did that get up there? Heaven's a pure place. How do we understand that? John Owen said that what's happening is that the Old Covenant, the animal sacrifices inaugurated or opened up the tabernacle for business, basically consecrated it and dedicated so it could be used. And in the same way, Jesus's blood opens up and consecrates Heaven for us. That would be good except that that's not what the Word says. It's purified. So, with all due respect to John Owen, I don't know, what to do with that one. Someone else said, "We are ultimately, the Body of Christ is ultimately the heavenly tabernacle where God will dwell with us together." We are the Body of Christ. And we had to be purified. That's better, and maybe right. I think it may be that we are heading toward a perfect world, a new heaven and new earth, the home of righteousness that God intended to dwell with us forever. His throne in our midst, we looking at His face, that's a new world, and that had to be purified because of our sins. He couldn't dwell with us any other way. That's the best I can do with that one. If you want to keep thinking about it, do. That's what the Word of God does. It challenges us to think. But you see the need for purification. Now the rest of the text talks about the purification that was provided and how superior it is, how perfect it is, how effective it is. II. The Superiority of Sacrifice: Christ Himself (vs. 23) And so we have the superiority of the sacrifice. Better sacrifices than these. What is that better sacrifice? It's none other than the blood of Jesus Christ. Jesus shed His blood, and that's a better sacrifice than the animals. The blood of bulls and goats and all of those things could not purify from human sin, it's ineffective and so we had to have a better sacrifice and that sacrifice was offered. Jesus Christ shed His blood on the cross for sins. And so it's so beautiful how it says in 1 Peter Chapter 1, "For you know, that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect, He was chosen before the creation of the world, but has been revealed in these last times now for your sake, through Him you believe in God who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him and so your faith and hope in God. Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth…" and he goes on. Do you see the blood of Jesus purifies us from sin? 1 Peter 1:18-22. That's what Peter is saying, that's the purification. We are purified by a better sacrifice and so Jesus's offerings is better than whatever the Levitical priests offer. They offered the blood of bulls and goats and sheep. Jesus offers His own blood and it's superior, it's better. III. The Superiority of Place: Heaven Itself (vs. 24) We see also it's better in terms of the location, the place. Where did Jesus offer that blood? Look at verse 24, "For Christ did not enter a man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one, he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God's presence." And so we've already seen the man-made sanctuary is the tabernacle. It was made by the command of God. There was nothing wrong with it. It had a purpose. It was made under the inspiration of leading of the Holy Spirit. Bezalel, was filled to the Spirit as he executed those designs. So nothing wrong with it, but it was man-made. It was earthly. Jesus does His work as our great High Priest, in the heavenly sanctuary. The one not made by human hands. And so Jesus has entered heaven on our behalf, for us. Isn't that sweet? Look at those words, He has entered heaven for us. If you're a believer in Christ, He's entered heaven for you, on your behalf. How majestic is that position, that place? Just meditate. Isaiah 57. Isaiah 57:15, it says, "For this is what the high and lofty one says, He who lives forever and whose name is Holy 'I live in a high and holy place.'" Think about that. "I live in a high and holy place." "But also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit." Think about that, too. How did we get there? How do we get to go to the high and holy place? Because Jesus went before us, He entered on our behalf as our high priest, and no ironic, no Levitical priest would have ever been permitted to do so. It would have been physically impossible, for no one ever ascended into heaven except the one who came from Heaven, Jesus. And so no ironic priest could ever physically have gone up there and nor would they have been permitted spiritually because every one of them were sinners, offering sacrifices first for their own sins, and then for the sins of the people. But Jesus has entered heaven on our behalf, and there, He pleads the merit of His blood shed once for all. So look at the superiority of the place God in a high and a holy dwelling place, who looks down from Heaven. Isaiah 40, "He sits and throne above the circle of the Earth, and its people are before Him like grasshoppers." It says in 1 Timothy 6:16, He "Lives in unapproachable light." But Jesus boldly went into the presence of that unapproachable light, to plead the merits of His blood, and bring us there. And so the superiority of place is so clear, so plain. Now, the author is writing this to wean the Jewish believers in the first century, off of the temple. To wean them off. They were raised revering the temple. In their day, in Jesus's day, it would have been Herod's temple, refurbished by a wicked man, a tyrant, really, but a magnificent building and God was still using it, in the Old Covenant way it was still a place where Anna was there and Simian was there. And there was a godly focus. There's nothing wrong with it in that sense, but they were too attached to it, in some way. Solomon knew the limitations when he made it, he said, "But will God really dwell on Earth?" Is that even possible? "Heaven, even the highest heavens cannot contain you, how much less this building, that I've made." Stephen quotes that in Acts 7, says, "But the Most High does not live in houses built by men." And they stoned Stephen for saying it. That he was speaking against the temple of the Lord. "The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord," Jeremiah 7. Just speaking blasphemy against this holy place. Well, it's not blasphemy for Jesus to say, "It's finished, it's done. You don't need the temple anymore, we're finished with it." And so He actually spoke it directly as you remember to His apostles. In Mark 13, they're coming out and He says, they say to Him, "Look teacher, what massive stones, what magnificent buildings." Jesus said, "Do you see all these things? Not one stone will be left on another." Every one will be thrown down. That's pretty plain to me. Do you get it? I mean that's very direct. "No more temple, it's going to be destroyed. You won't need it anymore after I'm done with my work." So the superiority of the place. The author to Hebrew is trying to wean these first century Jewish Christians off of a focus on the temple on to the heavenly work of Jesus. Don't need the temple anymore. And so that's what he's doing. IV. The Superiority of Time: Once for All (vs. 25-26) And so we see also the superiority of time, which I think is the main idea here. Once for all. Isn't that beautiful? Just meditate on that. Once for all. Look at Verses 25 and 26, "Nor did he enter heaven to offer Himself again and again the way the high priest enters the most holy place every year with blood that is not his own. Then Christ would have had to suffer many times, since the creation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself." So the author begins by talking about the superiority of what Christ is doing by way of contrast. He says what He didn't do, in verse 25. He did not enter heaven to offer Himself again and again. So again, speaking gently, but truthfully, I think the idea of the Roman Catholic dry sacrifice for Jesus, offered again and again is just un-Biblical. He doesn't need to be offered again and again. Jesus when we use this language which skates it a little bit close to that of pleading the merit of His blood, just know He's not offering it again and again. It's been offered. And so what the pleading is the intercession is based on a finished work. It's based on an achieved work once for all. Does that makes sense? So He doesn't need to offer it again and again, He doesn't need to enter heaven again and again, it doesn't have to be done. And the author says if that were so then He would have had to suffer many times, since the creation of the world. You could argue that basically every generation He'd have to be incarnate and die on the cross. And in that sense he would be very little different than the animal sacrifices, ineffective. Like a surgeon who has to go in a second and third time on the same patient and you're like, "Alright do you know what you're doing?" It's ineffective. Or pain medication that wears off, and needs to be taken again. How about one pill that handles the whole thing? Amen. One pill, infinitely greater one sacrifice that handles the whole thing. And see the power of that. If I told you there were a medication that could take care of the adverse pain in your life, the rest of your life. One pill would you take it? How much would you pay for it? How much infinitely greater than this one sacrifice, once for all, Jesus made? And so, He's greater than these animals that were offered again and again. We'll get into that topic more in Chapter 10, The repetition shows ineffectiveness. We'll get to that, I don't want to say it now, but once for all. And what that means is that Jesus doesn't have to offer Himself in every generation. He doesn't have to reincarnate and die every generation for the sins of those people, who are at that time. Then Christ would have had to suffer many times, since the creation of the world. But He doesn't need to. Why? Because God has ordained that the cross of Jesus Christ stands in the center of time over all of it. Past, present, future and they're all here in this text. Past, from the creation of the world, until now. Now is right in the text, now is then, you know what I mean, when the author wrote it, the author is saying He doesn't need to suffer again now, He has already done that. And He will not need to suffer again until He returns, and when He returns He's not going to come back to bear sin. He's very clear about that. When He comes back there's no need to bear sin. Why? He's already done that. Never again, and so the cross of Jesus stands over time, over all of time, this linear time, not like reincarnation, going round and round in a big circle. It's a line. Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega, He's the first and the last, the beginning and the end. That's what He is doing and His death is right in the center, and therefore you know what that means. All of the Old Covenant saints were cleansed the same way that we are, through the blood of Jesus. Isn't that magnificent? Moses's murder, and Noah's drunkenness, David's adultery, and murder, all of the sins of those Old Testament saints were covered by Jesus's blood. Paul makes the same point, in Romans Chapter 3, that God had passed over the sins committed beforehand left them unpunished, because He was going to handle it, at the cross. Now, what the author is doing here, is he just extends it from that point forward, to the end of time. All sins of God's people, all of them handled by one sacrifice, once for all. And how powerful is that? How awesome is that? And so the author at the end in Verse 27 and 28, just is making this point, "Just as man is destined to die once," emphasis on once "and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once for the sense of many people." That's the point he's making. Doesn't ever need to be repeated again, it's therefore effective. And so this is the magnificence of the work of Christ. V. The Three Appearings of Christ Now, in the middle of all this, I want you to notice a word that popped up and has become very rich to me, and it's this word appearing or appeared that Christ has appeared, He appears to us. It's used three times, once in verse 24, once in verse 26 and one in verse 28. And it's a powerful word. It has a sense that of hiddenness. And then He shows up. It's a dramatic word. Isn't it awesome? How many times do you want God to show up? Oh, Jesus, would You just show up here with Your power, with Your might, would You just show up? And He appears here, do you see? It's as though He's in some way hidden for long ages past, as it says in Colossians, and now revealed and made known. I get the picture. Just my mind working in illustrations analogies like cavalry over the hill, you're about to get wiped out, you're going to lose the battle. And the cavalry comes up over the hill with a mighty captain and wins the day, and you win the victory. Or perhaps a court trial, where the trial for an innocent person accused of murder is going very badly until the star witness appears in court. We actually use that word, their appearance in court, they appeared there, and it's dramatic. It turns the day. Save the innocent person or athletic analogy, MVP player injured in the first half, in the locker room, nobody expects to see that person again, then suddenly they show up and win the game. Very dramatic, and so it is also I think in Revelation Chapter 5, when the scroll is in the right hand of the one seated on the throne and it seems like no one is there who can take it and then behold the Lion of the tribe of Judah, He appears. Isn't that awesome? So I'm going to get out of the order that the author gives us, try to do it reverently but I'm going to reverse it and put it in redemptive historical order. Incarnation Leading to Crucifixion (vs. 26) First in Verse 26, the Incarnation leading to the crucifixion, "but now He has appeared once for all, at the end of the ages, to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself." Do you see that? He shows up in human form. He appears, born of a virgin, in the fullness of time, He appears. And His appearance goes right to the cross, He appears in front of Pilate, He appears going up the hill, he appears on the cross, He takes away sin, He has appeared for us, to take away sin at the end of the ages by the sacrifice of Himself. I love that phrase, end of the ages, as though this is the culmination of all of human history. The culmination of human history is Jesus appearing at the cross for us, taking away sins. Ascension and Presentation to God in Heaven (vs. 24) The second is in verse 24, Christ "entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God's presence." So after Jesus died, after He rose from the dead, He ascended to Heaven, He then appears for us in the presence of God and just hug those words for us. Jesus is there for you, He's appearing for you in God's presence. Now God the Father expected Him. It's not like He was surprised. "Oh, here's Jesus. Do you have something to say?" Oh no, He knows exactly why the Son is appearing. He is there to open a new enlivening way for us into the very presence of God, and so He has appeared in heaven for us and opened up the way for you and I to go to heaven. Second Coming Glory to Finish Our Salvation (vs. 28) But there is one more appearing yet to come, Amen. Do you see it at the end? The second coming of Christ, Christ returning in glory Verse 28, "Christ will appear a second time, not to bear sin." That's done, "But to bring salvation to those who are waiting for Him." That's the future appearing. Are you yearning for that today? Are you able to say "Maranatha come Lord Jesus." That's what John says at the end of the Book of Revelation. Oh, Jesus, come. Come and bring that kingdom come and bring that glory, we're weary of fighting sin and death and wicked people, just come and bring Your kingdom. And so He's going to come, He's going to come bring salvation to everyone who's waiting for Him. So He's not bringing salvation to everybody. Just to those who by faith, by hope are waiting for Jesus to come. VI. Looking Ahead: Waiting for Christ or Waiting for Judgment (vs. 27- 28) Is that you today? Are you waiting for Jesus to appear the second time? He's going to come. And so therefore, we are looking ahead as Christians, we are looking ahead, we'll talk much more about this in Hebrews 11. Faith, the faith chapter is always about looking forward and looking ahead to what's coming. So "just as man is destined to die once and after that, to face judgment, so Christ also is sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for Him." So death is in your future, you are destined to die. No, I know, I know. There are some biblical exceptions. I love this church. You're a meticulous people. And I appreciate that, I appreciate careful Bible students. You're going to come and talk to me about Enoch. "He didn't die pastor." He walked with God and God took him for he was no more and he could not be found. And you're going to tell me about Elijah, how he went up to heaven in a chariot of fire. And how Elisha watched him go. Look, Enoch and Elijah are a clear exceptions and I still say there's a text that stands over both of them, and that is that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. So at some point they left their flesh and blood, Amen. They were glad to do it by the way. So I don't know what you call that, but I might call it death but at any rate, it was clearly a different way of getting out of this world than any of us can hope to do. Now, God hasn't said He'll never do it again, and you can keep hoping if you'd like to be the next Enoch or the next Elijah. Go ahead and do it. But you need to walk with God first, like they did and be faithful in your generation. And you might also tell me some of you sharper thinking ones. You can say, "Yeah, what about all those people that were raised from the dead, in the Bible." Elijah raise somebody from the dead, Elisha raised somebody from the dead, Jesus raised people from the dead, the apostles raised people from the dead. They didn't die once, now, did they pastor? They died twice. Friends, I know that. This is just the norm here. It could be that you might be raised from the dead, and then die again, 12 years later, that might be in your future. God can do anything. And there is one grand and glorious exception. 1 Corinthians 15 says that the final generation of the human race will not die. "Brothers, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed." And so, if you are, if we are among that final generation, as we hope to see Jesus come in our day, by the way, if you want to know what the price tag on that is, read about it in the Book of Revelation, if you want to be that final generation. I think a nice time in the ICU, might be better. It's up to you. But see, now I'm saying. Pre-trib rapture and all that, on and on it goes. Let's debate it endlessly. But at any rate, the fact of the matter is, there is going to be a generation that will not die in the ordinary way. But friends if you're not the next Enoch and Elijah, and if we're not among the final generation, if the Lord wills to tear you for another two or three centuries, you are going to die. You're going to die and the next time you visit a dying friend in the hospital, think as you're ministering to him or her, some day this will be me. Some day I'm going to die. Are you ready? Because after death, comes judgment. Do you know what that means? It means that you are going to stand before God and He is going to call to account everything you have ever done, every careless word you have spoken, the court will be seated, the books will be open, everything will be read, there'll be nothing covered, there'll be nothing hidden, everything will be uncovered and laid bare. Everything exposed. And on that day, I want to ask you, are you going to be saved? He comes to bring salvation to those who are waiting for Him. Will He save you on that day? Are you in Christ or not? And all you need to do is repent and believe and trust in Him, and you will be saved, on that day. Now, when I say He comes to bring salvation, I mean more than just you'll escape judgment day. I say, as I've said before, you're not done being saved. And He comes to bring the rest of your salvation, with Him. And you know what that entails? It entails a resurrection body, a glorified body and a resurrected world and you are going to live in perfect unity with brothers and sisters in Christ. And better with God Himself in a perfect, resurrected new heaven and new earth. How glorious is that? He is going to bring that salvation to you who are waiting for it. Are you ready? If you're not, then you're looking ahead only to judgment. And I'm not stealing the thunder of Chapter 10, but in 10 and 27, it says if you turn your backs on the Gospel and if you don't believe nothing remains for you accept "a fearful expectation of judgement and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God." That's what you have to look forward to, if you don't believe in Christ. VII. Applications So what application can we take from this? Well, first and foremost, just understand the greatness of the work of Jesus Christ on the cross, once for all, dying for sinners, never again, to be repeated. See the superiority of it and put your hope, your trust fully in that work. Trust in it again. You don't need to tell me, "Well Pastor, I've been Christian of for 22 years." Doesn't matter, trust in Him again, trust in Him now, put your trust in Him now. And set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. Set your hope fully on that time, when He comes back to finish your salvation. In the meantime, work out your salvation with fear and trembling. Let Him give you down payments through the Holy Spirit, make progress in Christ, get involved in the spread of the gospel, that's what we're here to do, to grow in grace in the knowledge of Christ, and to preach the gospel to lost people. So let's be faithful in doing that. And if you are being faithful, if you feel like you've had a good day, there's nothing wrong with that. Praise God for it. Just understand that even those things done by the power of the Spirit and the command of God still need the purifying of Christ's blood. There's nothing we do that's independently pure, you know that, and just know that everything you do whether sin or righteous act stands under the blood of Jesus, that's His great grace to you. And if you are lost, my final word is to you. I speak as a dying man to a dying person, a man or woman, or child, don't leave this sanctuary Christ-less. Don't leave this place without Jesus as your advocate on that final day. Close with me in prayer.

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