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Pastor Mark Driscoll here from Real Faith.

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Well, howdy, good to see all of you. I am really glad to see you. I've got a great word for you

today. I love you very much. It's an honor to teach you God's word. If you've got a Bible,

we'll be in Hebrews chapter 7. We're taking about a year going through this really incredible

book of the Bible. And in just a moment, we're going to read

the scripture together, and I'm going to pray for you. But just by way of introduction, one of our

major themes today is going to be intercession. And each week, when I read the word of God over you,

I'm bringing the word of God to you. And as I pray for you, I'm bringing you before the Lord in prayer. And it's a

ministry of intercession. And so we're going to do that today. And we're going to do that in just a

moment. But I want you to know, I really love you and I like you. And I enjoy being the pastor of this

church. And the way you treat me and my family, it is a tremendous blessing. And I'm very, very happy to be here with you

and happy that my family gets to be part of this church family. Really. So what we're going to do

now, all rise. We like to stand and we're going to start by just reading God's word over you. Hebrews 7,

15 through 28th. This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the

likeness of Melchizedek, we talked about him last week, who has become a priest not on the

basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible

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