You are Sacred to God!You are Sacred to God!
Beside Still Waters
Christian Javois explains how the book of Hebrews presents Jesus as the final, sufficient sacrifice and shows that those who trust him are set apart as sacred to God. He combines Bible teaching with personal stories to stress that salvation and identity rest on Christ’s finished work, not religious effort.
1:09:40•4 Apr 2026
You Are Sacred to God: Christian Javois on Hebrews, Grace and Your True Identity
Episode Overview
- Hebrews contrasts Jesus with angels, Moses, Joshua and Levitical rituals to show his absolute supremacy.
- Old covenant sacrifices could remind people of sin but could never truly perfect or bring them to God.
- Through Jesus’ once-for-all sacrifice, believers are set apart and seen by God as perfected and sacred in Christ.
- Salvation rests on trusting Christ’s finished work, like the thief who cried "remember me", not on keeping religious rules.
- Feelings of unworthiness or spiritual "low times" do not change the believer’s secure standing before God because Christ is risen and seated at God’s right hand.
“"You are sacred to God if you've trusted in Christ."”
What can we learn from those who have battled addiction to sin, guilt, and shame? In this sermon-style episode of *Beside Still Waters*, Bible teacher Christian Javois walks his audience through Hebrews and other New Testament passages to show why "you are sacred to God" if you've trusted in Christ. Christian speaks to people who feel unworthy, unsure, or weighed down by their past.
Drawing on the book of Hebrews, he explains how Jewish believers were tempted to go back to old covenant rituals, while Gentiles "didn't have a back to go back to". From there, he contrasts the yearly sacrifices of the high priest with the once-for-all sacrifice of Jesus, the "heir of all things" and the one who "stands before the face of God for us".
You'll hear him unpack big theological words like perfection and sanctification in everyday language, using images such as marriage and the Day of Atonement to show what it means to be set apart: "Having confessed Christ as Saviour… [a sinner] is set apart to God. Set apart as sacred to God.
You are sacred to God if you've trusted in Christ." He stresses that God now sees believers as already perfected in Christ, even though daily life still feels very imperfect. The episode has a warm, earnest tone, mixing Bible exposition with personal stories — from his own conversion at 19 to a pointed conversation with evangelists who tried to add rules to simple faith.
Again and again he returns to grace: salvation as a gift received by calling on Jesus, like the thief on the cross who simply said, "Remember me." If you’re wrestling with doubt, shame, or a sense that you’re "not that bad" yet not really at peace with God, this message offers a clear question: will you let Christ’s finished work, rather than your own effort, define who you are?
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