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I don't know about y'all. It didn't take me long to be convinced that that's probably the way to go. It's a hard place to love. I'm looking forward to all this being resolved.

I don't know about y'all. But anyway, so this is now the point that he's making. So then verse 8.

Verse 8, although he was a son, he, oh, look at this. How can the health, wealth, and prosperity people read this? They must skip it. They probably don't unpack this a whole lot. Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. Raise your hand if you've learned a lot about God through suffering. Amen.

Why? Gets you focused on him, doesn't it? You're not real distracted. And so he says the example that Jesus was showing us was that we would learn obedience mainly through suffering.

Not a popular message, but you know what? You know why it helps me? It's what my wife spent five years laying out in the book after our youngest son died his earthly death. You know why this is comforting? Because now when I suffer, I know why.

If you want to just get me furious, walk up to somebody that is struggling and say, well, you know, sometimes we just don't know why.

You know what that means? You know, sometimes I forgot to read God's word. He tells us why we suffer all throughout Scripture.

He's not silent on this. Now, we may get to the point where we say i don't understand every detail of what god is doing because it's beyond my comprehension and there are things that i'm seeing years later after something from suffering that i go oh there's another thing but there's never been a moment that i could say in a time of difficulty i don't understand why we suffer he tells us why we suffer.

Here's one right here. To learn obedience. Paul says what? The thorn wasn't removed. Why? To keep him from being conceited.

He didn't say, hey, he won't remove this suffering from me, and I just don't know why. We talked about that back in our study of 2 Corinthians.

James tells us what suffering produces. I mean, Peter tells us in our study of Peter, 1 Peter, chapter 1, verse 6 and 7.

In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials to test the genuineness of your faith.

There's another why. It's all throughout Scripture. Please don't go around telling people that we don't know why we suffer.

Please stop doing that. You guys are too biblically intelligent now. We've talked about this over and over again.

You have failed me if I have been teaching you this many years and you don't know why we suffer. That makes me look bad.

Because I sure have taught you. or you don't take good notes because we've talked about this over and over again. And here it is again.

So verse eight says that he has experienced the suffering of any man. God, the father did not shield him from suffering and he still remained completely God.

Why do you think he didn't shield him from suffering? So he can be there for us when we suffer. Remember what we've said over and over again?

Hey, Jesus, I'm suffering. I've been there. I don't know how I can take another step. I understand. Now keep in mind, we talk a lot about emotional, but Jesus also understands physical suffering.

I'm in a lot of pain. I'm sick. Jesus said, I understand. I know what it's like to be right on the edge of an earthly death and of a human body.

My body was right there and then I actually experienced death. But I know what it's like to what it took to get. I know what it's like to get beaten.

I know what it's like to be in severe pain. I know what it's like to be completely thirsty to the point that you're dying.

So when I don't feel well, you understand. I certainly do. So when I'm laying in hospital bed and I don't know if i'm gonna live you understand how that feels i do then he goes on to say in verse 9 and 10 look who's coming back again his exploits make him the perfect high priest.

And being made perfect, will you please underline that? And being made perfect, he became the source of our eternal salvation to all who obey him.

Uh-oh. Uh-oh. There went universalism right in the toilet, didn't it? So I guess everybody's not going to heaven. So I guess when Jesus paid the price, that didn't mean that just everybody's now in.

No, what he did is he provided us access to full righteousness. He gave us access to forgiveness. He gave us access to redemption. He provided the redemption, but if you reject it, you ain't going. I just said it right here. He was made perfect.

He became the sole source. Hello, John 14, 6. I am the way. I am the life. I am the truth.

I am the way, I am the life I am the truth no one comes to the Father except through me and if you don't obey that then you're out he's made this very clear remember what we said the it is finished either condemns you or it saves you because if you reject it, it condemns you if you receive or it saves you. Because if you reject it, it condemns you.

If you receive it, it saves you. And then he says this, number 10, verse 10, being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

Melchizedek, so he wants them to know. I've told you all the reasons that he is the ultimate high priest, but I want to come back to this point again, and I'll get back to it in Hebrews 7.

There was a priesthood long before Aaron, and that priesthood is the one he comes from.

See him going back to it? And he's going to unpack that more in 7. But does everybody see where we are now? Now, the writer of Hebrews now makes a turn because he's talking about the perfection.

He's talking about the salvation being eternal. I'd make a note of that, too. That helps you. I mean, once you have truly been redeemed, there's no losing that.

Okay? And then he's talking about his position. He's from the priesthood of Mechizedek.

Mechizedek, I keep saying that. I've said it 11 times in a row, and then I messed it up there. Now the Hebrew has deal with with this name now you got to understand this concept of no longer needing a human priest the hebrews are having a hard time chewing that one you got jesus you don't need anybody else they're having a real hard time this is revolutionary okay it's going to take away their entire system of religion, and what the writer of Hebrews is saying is going to be replaced with something far greater.

Aaron, Melchizedek, ritual priest, a royal priest, a priest installed by the laws of Moses, a priest installed before Moses had been born. Christ is not only a real priest, he is the rightful priest. Do not discredit as the high priest, the very son of God. That's what he's saying. And he's telling them y'all need to chew on that. But now he's got a problem as we get to 11.

Now he's got a problem. And I pray about this and I get real concerned about this and I want us all to get ready because we're about to get grilled pretty good.

But we need it. Do you realize what the writer of Hebrews realizes right now? It's like he catches himself. Y'all can't handle this.

And he gets mad. Gosh, I'm working so hard to make this point about Jesus as the ultimate high priest, and it just hit me.

Y'all can't deal with it. You're not far enough along in the faith to hear the depth of the truth that I need to teach you.

And he gets indignant about it. Listen to these verses. About this, we have much to say, and it is hard to explain since you have become dull of hearing.

say and it is hard to explain since you have become dull of hearing. I will tell you this is one of the most difficult discernments that you'll find if you start growing in your faith. When am I casting my pearls before swine and wasting my time? And when am I teaching people that are willing to learn? And the writer of Hebrews is stopping right now saying, I'm ready to really unpack this, but I just realized y'all won't be able to understand it. And you should be able to by now. He's going to make that clear that he thinks they should be able to by now. And I want all of us to apply this to ourselves because I don't understand it.

I really don't. And I did it for a large portion of my life, so I can't understand it. But that doesn't mean it's right.

It is wrong. I remember living far too many years of my life sitting on this is good enough for me.

I've learned plenty. Don't think I'm going to hell. I'd really rather not be bothered with learning anymore.

Dangerous. Dangerous, dangerous, dangerous. The reason why that's dangerous, and I'm speaking from my own experience, is if you're okay with that, something's missing.

There's something out of whack with your relationship with Jesus.

There's something clunky going on. It's not smooth. Because Jesus is so wonderful and so powerful and the Holy Spirit so overwhelming that I now have a hunger for the word of God that frankly, I never had before.

And if you ask me why, I don't know. I just do. He did it. I just do.

He did it. So I can only come to the conclusion that I got my relationship with Christ correct. You know, like, I don't know this world enough to give you a good analogy, but I have been there before. Have you ever been kind of working with something maybe at your house or something like that, and you're trying to get power to something, and it's not working, and you're messing around with the breakers, and you're doing all this kind of stuff, and you're plugging and unplugging and moving, and all of a sudden, whoop, the light comes on.

You go, we're connected. Maybe it's connectivity to Wi-Fi. We're connected. Well, I can only tell you that there was a time early on in my faith when I wasn't connected.

So the desire wasn't there. And so what I had to do is I had to seek and I had to pursue and I had to discipline myself to try to get connected.

And then the connectivity took. And now it's flowing. took and now it's flowing now instead of me begrudgingly looking for the word of god i begrudgingly do something other than that i can't explain that other that's just how powerful jesus is and that's how strong the holy spirit is and so he is saying to them look look at this. He's concerned. He said, you got to face, this is what he's saying. And this is what I want us to take from this today. Are y'all ready?

This is one of the bigger points today. Okay. He's going to force them to face their spiritual immaturity. You got to deal with it. I'm going to force you to deal with it.

you got to deal with it. I'm going to force you to deal with it. The things I need to teach you, I can't. Because I can't make you move on in your sanctification. I can't do it. You have to do it. The power is there, but you got to go get it.

And so look what he says. He says, you are too spiritually immature to grapple with the very truth. And you know what he's being specific about right now? I'm trying to make this deep point about Melchizedek. I don't think y'all can handle it. I don't think you're going to be able to wrap your mind around it. And it is deep. Okay? And it is deep. But he's saying, in the state you're in right now you're sluggish that's what this word means in greek that we're saying dull you're sluggish you know what i mean when something runs smooth versus something running clunky you know what i mean like your engine's rattling versus that thing humming he said your faith is clunky it's sluggish and this is going to require you to be hitting on all cylinders.

And you're just not. Look at 12 through 14. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again.

I'd underline again, that means he's done it before. Again, the basic principles of the oracles of God.

You need milk, not solid food. I can't move on. I can't move on. It's like I remember, he says, what is required for you to live the life that god has called you to you're not willing to do it i remember this very very vividly and some of you may have heard this analogy before it's a true story of back during the days when i played football and i don't do a lot of these football things because sometimes that gets kind of corny and campy but it works here and you could, it could be anything difficult.

But anyway, so when we would go into two a day practices every summer, it was horrifying.

As a matter of fact, I think it delayed my redemption because I wasn't afraid of hell, you know, because people were saying, you know, hell's hot. And I'm like, no, I bet it ain't as hot as two a days, you know what I mean? And so is it humid?

You know, I want to know stuff like that. But, you know, we would practice back in those days when real men played two full practices a day.

Okay. Full contact. Okay. Well, to get warmed up for that, the first couple of days, you had shorts up.

And you wore your shoulder pads and your helmets. And, of course, my dad, God rest his soul, said, everybody looks good in shorts.

We ain't going to find out anything about the team. And if it wasn't a rule, ain't no way we'd have ever been in shorts. But it was a rule, so we had to do that.

And he said, you learn nothing about the team over these days. This is a complete waste of time. All this is is getting us all together because football requires you not to play it in shorts.

It requires all the armor, all you not to play it in shorts. It requires all the armor, all the gear, and all the collision. So we had a guy come off the track team who was very athletic, but he'd never played football before. And so we went out and we went through what we all considered to be an extremely light practice, extremely light. And we were not full contact, but we were buttoned off. Do what that means just not taking everybody to the ground okay and some of those buttoned off you still got a little bit of a collision going and he'd never he'd never experienced that before it wouldn't like track and um so we went in and we were sitting down his locker was right next to mine and full contact was coming up thursday and this this would this is Tuesday and he takes his helmet off and he sits down I go man I hope it's not gonna be that rough every day and I said oh brother you're gonna hate Thursday and I looked at him and I said I don't think you have what it requires to play this game.

You're great at track and we need you on the track team. But I don't think you're cut out for this. Because what what is going to require from you to be on this team, I don't think you are ready for. Maybe one day, but you're not ready now. And to his credit, he went and faced the coaches and told them that, and they said, look, it ain't for everybody.

Go win us some track meets. But what the writer of Hebrews is saying, where I want to take you, I don't think you have what you need. And what frustrates me, unlike this guy who had never had any training on this before, you should be ready.

Don't miss that part. He said, what I'm frustrated about is I can't believe that you're still in this infancy when you really shouldn't be.

Why do you still need milk? And I would ask some of you this. I would ask some of you out there that if some of you are going to have to grow up spiritually, or you're not going to take from these Bible studies, because one of the main reasons this Bible study was put together, do you all remember this, some of you pioneers?

One of the main reasons we put this Bible study together was we're getting off the milk. We're going to come in here and we're going to dive deep into the Scriptures.

And we're going to go word for word through book after book after book, and we're not going to skirt around anything.

We're going all in, deep dive. And I would think, and I know there are women that are part of this too, and I don't mean this, men and women are equal, but they're beautifully distinct.

And I'm embarrassed that I was this way. I love how men claim. They make a claim that men love to be challenged. They make a claim that men love to set a goal and accomplish it.

They make a claim that they want everything to be done excellent. They can't believe they're living in a time where participation trophies are handed out.

they're living in a time where participation trophies are handed out. But they're not embarrassed at all that they are babies in their spiritual life. It doesn't bother them at all that people have to give them a little bottle of milk because they can't eat any meat.

Why does that not embarrass you? I mean, that's embarrassing to me. And I did that for a while. And I'm mortified that I did. Well, that kind of goes back to what we keep saying. There's a lot of things that you may think make you a man. But if you're not a follower of jesus and you don't know his word you're not a man because there's nothing more important or more challenging than that and most of us aren't man enough to do it he said that himself so now he's but don't miss this part now there's here comes some conviction because some of you're going i think i'm good and you're saying you think you're good because you're kind of glossing over these some of you should be teachers by now don't gloss over that because he said it some of you should be teachers by now i'm gonna say that to you some of y'all should be teachers by now.

I'm thankful that you come here, and I hope you keep on coming here, because I teach, but I still go let other people teach me.

So I don't mean leave this Bible study, because you need it. I need it. And I go and hear other people teach me, because I need teaching.

But I would ask you why you aren't teaching somebody else. Because some of you should be by now. So he goes on to the next thing.

He says, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness since he is a child.

but solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice, underline that, to distinguish good from evil.

This does not sound very casual at all, does it? It's not casual at all. Here's those action words again. I get so sick and tired of people getting up, claiming they represent the Word of God, and never talking about, acting as if there's no action at all. There's so many things he's saying right now means take action. Now, certainly we can't, we're not talking about a works-based faith. I mean, a works-based faith. We're not talking about that. We're not talking about that I can work myself into being righteous. But I'm going to tell you what, when it gets to sanctification, there's an awful lot of action going on here. And listen to what he's saying, that this is a problem that they're behind on their duty. You know, one of the things that men never like to be told but this is what he's telling them you're derelict this is not something that is a suggestion this is your duty and you're not doing it and he and he goes on to say this they should be ready to teach but instead they keep needing someone to teach them not deep stuff don. Don't miss that. He said, I can't believe that I'm back on the basic oracles of God. My goodness, can we not move on?

We keep going over the same stuff over and over again. And then when he says you ought to be teachers, the Greek word there means you are ignoring your moral obligation.

You cannot escape the personal responsibility or the accountability for the truth that we have.

You know what I'm saying? You're going to be held to a standard whether you know it or not, so you better know it. It's a moral obligation.

What did Jesus tell us to do be disciples, make disciples teach them all that I have commanded you that's the last thing he said before he ascended back to the Father and the question I have for all of us is are we doing it he said it's a moral obligation it's a lack of obedience not to be teaching somebody.

And you can't teach people things you don't know. And then this is the one that should really mortify us. Verses 13 and 14, you know what he says?

You're behind on your development. Right?