<TITLE>03. Par 9-13</TITLE>L-9 Then bring it on over to the 10th chapter. We come in the law being a shadow of the things to come. We go into the 11th chapter; and it's all about the--the wonderful shadows of the faith, the heroes of faith. How by faith they did such-and-such a thing, and how without us they could not be made perfect, because they are of the shadow of this to come.
And then, we go into the 11th chapter and Paul... Or 12th chapter, Paul saying, "Seeing that we are compassed about by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily beset us, that we would run with patience the race that's set before us."
The 13th chapter, the ending chapter, said--ends up with this, towards the end: that Jesus Christ is all and all, that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever (See?), showing that It was Christ back before the law; It was Christ in the law; It was Christ in the days of grace, and it'll be Christ forever: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. What a beautiful picture the Hebrew letter paints to us.

L-10 Now, beginning again now with the 1st verse, let's go back. Last Sunday, we thought we'd get to the subject of perfection. But then God moved us back and got foreknowledge, showing us where that before the world ever was formed... How many was here last Sunday? Let's see your hands. Did you get it? Before the world was ever formed, we were placed in Christ. Think of it. God being infinite, who cannot lie, cannot speak anything contrary, knows everything just as perfect at the beginning as He is at the ending, and just as perfect at the end as He was the beginning.
God is endless like eternity. You can never find the corner of a perfect circle. You could run and run through ages and eternity, and there'd never, never, never be an end to it, and that's the way God is. And when He... Be first was God which always was; He was infinite, perfect to begin with. And He will always be the same. He never can change. He's perfectly the same.

L-11 Now, this great chain of perfection was broken by time space. Time came because of sin. Let's draw a picture of time. Let's see, a perfect circle, forever, forever, and then all of a once, sin dropped in and put a--a little, as my wife calls it, a little hickey or a little drop in the chain so it comes down now. Eternity continues on, but it's not in its perfect condition.
There's a little gap comes down, breaks over this way, goes out this a way. God had to do that because Satan caused it. And it dropped down to a space of time for the trying, and the perfecting, and for the purging of the lost, that God by His sovereign grace might someday lift that little hickey or gap back into the perfect circle. Then she rolls on just the same. You see it?

L-12 Time... Now, time is this little loop that loops down. Jesus was from eternity to eternity, but He stepped into the time spaces, made flesh, and came through here in order to sanctify or put a streak of Blood all across this place to redeem it and connect it back with God again for all eternity. You see it?
That's all time is. Then God when it started here to end of little kink in the perfect circle but made it a little kink in it; when God started there, He was perfect. Everything He said was perfect. Everything He did--does is perfect. So then the Bible said that Christ Jesus was the Lamb slain from the beginning of the little kink, the beginning of the world. Christ was slain at the beginning.

L-13 Now, He really wasn't slain until four thousand years later. But the reason He was slain then because, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Do you see it, Brother Egan, what I mean? See? He was God in the beginning and when...
Now, Satan could... Did not--did not create this little loop, this little hickey. He didn't create that. Satan cannot create. Satan can only pervert what God has created.


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