The Ranch Church Podcast

The Power Of Sacred Space - Pastor Rick Soto - Hebrews 10:19-25

The cross doesn't just forgive you. It gives you access.

In this message, Pastor Rick Soto unpacks Hebrews 10:19-25 to show that the invitation of the gospel goes further than the removal of sin. Through the blood of Jesus and his role as great high priest, you are now welcomed into a sacred space with God, a place of healing, identity, hope, and strength.

Drawing from the "let us" outline in Hebrews 10, Pastor Rick walks through three anchors for the Christian life: draw near, hold fast, and stir one another up. He speaks directly to the growing loss of hope in younger generations and calls the church to actively cultivate real hope together, not wishful thinking, but a confident trust in the promises and presence of God.

This message closes with a pastoral call to vulnerability and prayer. If you need hope, this one is for you.

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Once for All -- Hebrews 10:1-18 - Jeff Clay

The old sacrificial system was never meant to save anyone. It was meant to teach. Every animal brought to the altar was a reminder of sin, and a pointer toward the one sacrifice that would actually settle the debt once and for all.

In Hebrews 10, Jeff Clay shows how the author builds an airtight case for the supremacy of Christ as the perfect high priest. He traces a remarkable pre-incarnate conversation between Jesus and the Father, drawn from Psalm 40 a thousand years before the cross, in which Jesus says with eagerness and joy: here I am, I have come to do your will.

The priests in the old system never sat down. There were no chairs in the tabernacle because the work was never finished. Jesus sat down at the right hand of God. It is done.

This is part of our ongoing series through the book of Hebrews.

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How Can We See Revival in the Valley? -- Matthew 9:35-38 - Dr. Rich Danson

Revival does not start with an event. It starts with a heartbeat. In Matthew 9, Jesus looked at the crowds and was moved with compassion, and that compassion is exactly where Dr. Rich Danson begins this message on what it would take to see genuine revival in the Santa Ynez Valley.

Drawing on his own conversion during the Calvary Chapel revival in South Orange County, a conversation with a Superior Court judge sentencing 136 people a day, and the promise of 2 Chronicles 7:14, Dr. Danson makes a personal and urgent case. The harvest is plentiful. The laborers are few. And the church is the answer, if the church is willing to get clean, get praying, and get out into the world as ambassadors for Christ.

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Before Timothy became one of the most trusted leaders in the early church, two women shaped his faith from childhood. His grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice gave him something no school or program could: a life rooted in God's word, lived out in front of him every day.

In this Mother's Day message, Mike Waliser traces the story of Timothy and the apostle Paul to make a simple and serious point. Children are arrows, as Psalm 127 says, and arrows need a target. But before you can aim them, you have to know where you are aiming yourself.

You cannot pass on what you do not possess.

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Knowing the Lord -- Hebrews 8:1-10 - Pastor Rick Soto

What was God doing before he created anything? Before the universe, before time, before you, the Father and the Son were already in love with each other. That love is the foundation of everything, and you have been invited into it.

In Hebrews 8, Pastor Rick traces five things that Jesus as our high priest actually does: he rules at the right hand of God, he closes the gap between you and God, he cancels your debt of sin, he cements a new covenant by writing God's law on your heart, and he brings goodness and blessing into your life.

This is what it means to know the Lord, not just know about him.

This is part of our ongoing series through the book of Hebrews.

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