Hebrews – Week 5

Note: This is lightly edited to remove the gaps when Kenny was adjusting the power cord on his phone and to remove some non-related cruise discussion.

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[00:00:00] Introduction

[00:01:04] Discussing the tabernacle furniture

[00:05:08] The altar of incense

[00:08:02] The holy place and the holy of holies

[00:10:23] The Day of Atonement rituals

[00:14:40] The mercy seat and the cherubim

[00:18:01] The ark of the covenant

[00:20:59] Jesus’ sacrifice compared to the old sacrifices

[00:24:09] Hebrews 10:26 explained

[00:25:53] The power of God’s forgiveness

[00:28:55] The purpose of the sacrificial system

[00:31:53] Peter and Lot’s examples of righteousness

[00:35:31] Calling to remember past days of affliction

[00:41:00] Promise of Christ’s return

[00:42:48] Closing and discussion

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[00:00:00] All right, I got about four minutes. After, so we’re just going to go. Ahead and some more will come in and that’ll be fine. Just remember, we’ve got these recorded in the depository. We got that first four lessons in.

[00:00:16] There and this will be lesson five. So a couple more lessons, maybe one. Or two more lessons, we ought to. Wrap this book up so we’ll get started and open in prayer. Father, we just thank you for this night.

[00:00:31] We thank you for the privilege to. Come together and to study Your Word. Pray, Father, that you would just open. Our eyes to see and our ears. To hear, to understand the truth of Your Word.

[00:00:43] And just pray that the Holy Spirit would lead and guide us in all. That’S said and done to just give us understanding. We just thank you again for all that’s come and for this time together. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

[00:00:58] Eating homemade fajitas? Now, that’s not fair.

[00:01:04] All right, I just got back from a barbecue, so I’m pretty happy with. Where I’m at right now. We left off as we’re going through from chapter six to seven, eight, nine. And ten, the writer really gives an. Argument for Christ’s superiority over all the sacrificial system that the Jews experienced for years and years.

[00:01:29] Remember that’s the setting of this is that for years they have been making sacrifices and the law and all these things with the tabernacle and temple worship. And now that Christ has come and. Fulfilled the law, he’s died for the. Sins of the world on the cross. And then his finished work was a shadow.

[00:01:53] All the law and the sacrifices and all that was a shadow of Christ. To come and to die for the. Sins of the world, and he’s fulfilled all that. And now this is where we’re at. And the writer is telling these Hebrews.

[00:02:08] To stop acting like Hebrews. Even though this is what you’ve done. For a long period of time, it’s. No longer needed, it’s no longer effective that Christ has fulfilled all that. And the theme of Hebrews once again is the superiority of Jesus Christ.

[00:02:28] So in chapter seven, he makes the. Comparison of Jesus to Melchizedek and how in his earthly priesthood and how Jesus. Could become our high priest, in that. He did not come from the tribe of Levi, but from the tribe of Judah, like Melchizedek had no beginning, no end, no father, no mother, it says. And that’s basically talking about the genealogies or the history.

[00:02:57] If you look through the genealogies, through the Old Testament, you don’t find anywhere for Melchizedek. Yet Abraham, their father, worshiped him, gave a tithe to him. And. Christ is much like Melchizedek in. That he came from God the Father through the tribe of Judah and is.

[00:03:17] Qualified to be our high priest. So we saw that in chapter seven and chapter eight. The emphasis is now on a better covenant you had the old covenant, the. Old Testament that God made with Israel. And Jesus is a better covenant.

[00:03:32] We see in chapter eight. And in chapter nine tonight we’ll see. As he serves in a better sanctuary. It’s important to understand that what we read tonight, they were very familiar with everything the author was or the writer. The author was God, but the writer was talking about here when he made references to tabernacle worship and the covenants and all this.

[00:03:58] They were very familiar with this type of language. So he’s talking about that Jesus serves in a better sanctuary. We left off in chapter eight, and I just want to go back to verse 13. In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what has become obsolete and is growing old is ready to vanish away.

[00:04:21] We see in Hebrews seven, verses 18. And 19.

[00:04:29] That it says for there. Is verily a disannowing of the commandment. Going before.

[00:04:38] The weaknesses and unprofitableness of it. For the law made nothing perfect, but. The bringing in of a better hope did by the which we draw nigh to God, that better hope is Jesus Christ. And then in Romans eight three, it. Speaks again of how the law was weak in that it was done through the flesh.

[00:05:01] Nothing wrong with the law. God gave the law, ordained the law. But because it was done through the. Flesh by men, it was weak.

[00:05:12] 83 says for what the law could not do, and that it was weak through the flesh. God sending his own Son in likeness of sinful flesh and for sins condemned sin in the flesh. So the law was weak, but God. Sent his Son in the flesh. Remember, we go all the way back to the beginning, or close to the beginning of, I think, chapter three and four, where Jesus became man so he could identify with man in the flesh and died for the sins of the world and condemned sin in his flesh.

[00:05:49] So what the law could not do, Jesus did. So we see the superiority of Jesus. Christ as our high priest there. And God has made a new covenant with his people. So let me get this out of the way.

[00:06:06] So tonight we’ll talk about how he. Was a better priest, he had a. Better covenant, he was better than angels, he was better than Moses, he’s better than the Law. We’ve seen all that throughout all of our studies up to this point. Now he serves in a better sanctuary.

[00:06:26] So the beginning of this, chapter nine. He does a contrast between the earthly. Tabernacle and the heavenly. So we see that then verily the first covenant, verse one of chapter nine. Had also ordinances of divine service and a worldly sanctuary, an earthly sanctuary, for.

[00:06:50] There was a tabernacle made, the first, wherein was the candlesticks and the table. And the showbread, which is called the sanctuary. And after the second veil, the tabernacle, which is called the holiest of all. Which had a golden censor and the. Ark of the Covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot.

[00:07:14] That had manna and Aaron’s rod that butted, and the tables of the Covenant. So just back up a little bit there to that. We’ll just discuss a little bit of it. This was a worldly or earthly sanctuary. And he’s very familiar and I don’t know, I tried to download some pictures where he see if I can do this one here.

[00:07:46] There we go, boy, and I getting techy here. So this is the tabernacle itself. And as you walk through, if you. See in the bottom left hand corner. There would been the first curtain there, and the first section is called the Holy Place.

[00:08:02] And you see to the left would. Be the golden lampstand that burned with. Oil and had a wick that daily. The high priest would have to or the priest would have to tend to. And fill with oil and trim the.

[00:08:17] Wicks and all those things. And this was the only light in the tabernacle. This is a picture of Christ. Everything about the tabernacle points to Christ. He is the light of the world.

[00:08:29] This was the only light in this area. It was, by the way, I think was 15 x 30. If I remember my dimensions right, the. Whole thing was 15 x 45. But then if you look to the.

[00:08:45] Right, you see the table. It says and then he breaks it. Down in here and the show bread. So the table, which we call the. Table of Showbread, the bread that was.

[00:08:56] On it, that was a place of. Fellowship that the priest would eat of those things and every week would change it out and they would eat this show bread in the place of fellowship. And if you can look at the picture right before, in the middle there, you see another curtain with some symbols on it. They were angels or cherubims embroidered in gold. There was this altar of incense.

[00:09:21] We call it it calls it here the golden sensor, or censors translated there altar. So we have this golden sensor, and. Then through the curtain you see the. Ark of the Covenant. I think I have well, let me.

[00:09:41] Back up before I get to that. In this writing here, it almost seems confusing of what’s going on, because everybody teaches that the three pieces of furniture in the Holy Place is the lampstand, the table showbread, and the altar of incense. But the way this reads, it almost. Sounds like the altar of incense is inside the Holy of Holies. Well, it wasn’t.

[00:10:07] It causes a lot of people to. Question and say, well, this is a. Contradiction of scripture, because if you go back to Exodus 30, where he’s talking. About this, it seems to contradict it. Doesn’T contradict because this altar of incense was a place of prayer.

[00:10:23] This is where the high priest would begin his day. There he would go out to the brazen altar out in the courtyard and get a coal off of the brazen. Altar, and he would bring it in. And burn incense before the Lord. And he would begin his day and end his day with this.

[00:10:42] This was a place of prayer. And you see other references, especially in Revelation, of the sweet smelling the prayers of the saints is a sweet smelling savor in the nostrils of God. And the incense that burns that God had told him to burn there. So they burnt that there. But the only way you enter into.

[00:11:04] The presence of God through prayer is. By the Ark of the Covenant. So they sort of were intertwined together. And I think that’s why the writer writes it this way together here, is you don’t go before God except for. In prayer, and you don’t go to.

[00:11:21] Him in prayer except through the blood of Jesus. So it all sort of tied together. And I believe that’s why the writer wrote it this way.

[00:11:30] We read here let me back up. The altar of incense is actually in. The Holy of Holies, right in front of the curtain, right before the Holy of Holies. The holy place. The holy place is the first section where the Ark of the Covenant is holy of Holies.

[00:11:51] I think I said that wrong. I’m talking too fast. Got too much on my mind, I guess. So we read in Exodus 30. I just want to go back and sort of tie this together for you.

[00:12:02] Exodus 30, verses one through ten. And thou shalt make an altar to. Burn incense upon of shittam wood shalt thou make it. A cubic shall be the length and the breadth and four square. And it shall be and two cubits shall be the height thereof, and the.

[00:12:18] Horns thereof shall be the same. And thou shalt overlay them with pure. Gold and the top thereof, and the. Sides thereof about the horns thereof. And thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold.

[00:12:30] So there’s this little crown around the top of it. I think I’ve got a picture of that I’ll put up there for you. So this was the altar of incense. And you see the horns of it. And it’s made out of a kaya wood.

[00:12:44] Some places in Scripture, say, or Shidam wood, this wood was very withstood rot and worms very well would not decay, would not go, and they overlaid it with gold and they put these horns on it. And in the middle of it there, you see where they burnt the incense. It had two golden rings. Verse four of Exodus 30, that thou. Shalt make under the crown of it by the two corners thereupon upon the.

[00:13:16] Two sides of it shalt thou make it. And thou shalt be for spaces of the staves to bear withal. So these little rings you see on. The four corners, they would put these. Rods through there that were overlaid with gold, and that’s how they carried it.

[00:13:32] Because remember, the tabernacle of Moses was. Mobile as they moved around and wandered through the wilderness. They’d have to wrap it up and do all this ritual to the priesthood. Nobody else was allowed, but the Levitical. Tribe would would wrap all this stuff.

[00:13:54] Up and put these staves through these. Rings, and that’s how they carried it as they traveled. So this is why he’s explaining this here. But I want you to see and. Thou shalt put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony.

[00:14:10] So even in that wording, the altar of incense, the veil and the holy of holies and the ark of the testament, almost seems like there’s something that. All goes together before the mercy seat that is over the testimony where I will meet. So this tabernacle means dwelling place. It’s a place where God meets man. In the Old Testament and would dwell.

[00:14:40] With man on the day of atonement. The high priest would take the blood. In there and offer the blood for. The sins of the people. And it says the shekinah glory of God would shine down.

[00:14:52] I think I have another picture of. The ark of the covenant with the cherubims and their wings stretched forward. I just want you to see all this because he talks about this a lot tonight. So the ministry of the just want. To explain verse four, the golden altar.

[00:15:10] Or censor, and the ark, they were separated by a curtain, but they very. Much had a lot to do with each other. So I think that’s why the writer put it this way, because this ministry pertained a lot to the holy of holies was important. And it’s a picture of us, a. Picture of prayer as we come to God and we pray to God through.

[00:15:36] The blood of Jesus Christ, we can. Enter boldly into the throne of grace. Well, to the Hebrew people, the throne of grace, where God was, was the holy of holies. So as they wandered through the wilderness. As they traveled, this is where God met them.

[00:15:57] But today we have access right into the presence of God through the blood of Jesus.

[00:16:08] The altar there had incense. He said, you shall burn.

[00:16:13] Incense, burn thereon sweet incense. Verse seven of Exodus 30. Every morning when he dressed the lamps. And he shall burn incense upon it. And when Aaron lied the lamps at evening, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations.

[00:16:34] Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burn offerings, nor meat offerings, neither shall ye pour drink offerings thereon. So God was very particular on what. Happened here and how it happened at the beginning of the day, at the end of the day, that’s where the high priest would begin his day and end his day in prayer. I think that’s a good example to us. We wake up in the morning, we present ourselves to the Lord, a living sacrifice.

[00:17:05] Here am I, Lord, send me, what would you have me do today? And at the end of the day. Thank you, Lord, for this day, thank you for your blessings and we end our day in prayer. And I think that’s a good example of our Christian walk and how we ought to do this. Now, this incense, just for a side.

[00:17:24] Note, was a special mixture of herbs. And spices that was only to be. Used as a burnt incense. And you can read about that. I won’t go into it tonight in Exodus 30, verses 34 through 38.

[00:17:41] So.

[00:17:44] That’S the altar of incense there that it’s talking about in verse four. So I hope that’s clear to everybody there. Now, he goes on to describe.

[00:18:01] The. Ark of the Covenant, which is like this, you had the two cherubims and I’ll just go ahead and it talks. About the mercy seat on it. We’ve heard of that. And under this mercy seat so you see the staves in the picture there.

[00:18:21] If you don’t know where I’m looking, I’ve got in the Chat there, I put up some pictures, the staves that. They would carry it. This again was made of Akaya wood overlaid with gold. The Akaya wood is a picture of. His humanity, overlaid with gold is a.

[00:18:37] Picture of his deity. And you see the cherubims with their wings stretched forward over this flat area on top. This is actually a lid, like we’d. Say, a lid to a box. And this lid is the mercy seat.

[00:18:51] And these cherubims in verse five and over at the cherubims of glory shadowed. The mercy seat of which we cannot speak particularly. So these cherubims had their outstretched arms. Over the mercy seat. And in between these cherubims, you see.

[00:19:10] Several residences in Scripture where it talks. About between the cherubims. This is where he’s talking about the mercy seat. When the high priest would sacrifice and bring the blood in, he would sprinkle it seven times in the middle there. Under the wings of the cherubims.

[00:19:29] And that was where he applied the. Blood on the mercy seat. And cherubims often in Scripture are always protecting the holiness of God, you see? And there’s never just one cherubim or cherubim, there’s cherubims. It seems that in most times in Scripture, remember in Genesis three when he drove Adam and Eve out of the.

[00:19:54] Garden, he put cherubims per laurel at. The gate of the garden to protect. The tree of life and to keep them out of the garden. We see when jesus, Rose. Our great High Priest, the Lamb of God which takes away the sins of.

[00:20:14] The world when he rose from the. Dead in the account of John. In John chapter 20, verse twelve they. Came up to the sepulchre the tomb and seeing two angels in white sitting the one at the head and the other at the feet where the body of Jesus laid. So perfect picture of the tabernacle and of Moses, of the cherubims overshadowing where Jesus was laid.

[00:20:44] Just a neat picture. Interesting thing to me that the two. Cherubims on the Ark of the Covenant. And then when Jordan saw them, there was two angels sitting at the head and at the foot of where Jesus laid. So I just thought that was interesting.

[00:20:59] I thought I would bring that out to you again. If y’all have any questions or something. You don’t understand, please throw it in. The chat or stop me. And I’ll be sure this is clear.

[00:21:10] To you, but I just wanted to. Explain a little bit, because he goes. In pretty good detail about the Ark of the Covenant or the tabernacle in. The Old Testament, in the temple, and very interesting study. It really opens up a lot of scripture to me.

[00:21:27] And as I studied the tabernacle and just made the whole Bible come together. For me, I know it’s Old Testament. I know it’s for the Hebrew, but. A lot of things that said in. The rest of Scripture, you see, can.

[00:21:43] Understand now because of what they’re describing in the tabernacle. So we go to verse six. Now, when these things were thus ordained. The priest went always into the first. Tabernacle and accomplishing the service of God.

[00:22:02] But in the second, the high priest. Went high priest only once a year, not without blood, which he offered for. Himself and for the heirs of the people.

[00:22:18] It was inaccessible to people. We see in these two verses. No one was allowed to go here. But the high priest. Oh, by the way, tonight I’m reading in King James and I did that on purpose because when we get to chapter ten, I think it’s important.

[00:22:38] I just like the way the King James puts it and I understand it, but she’s doing it in the ESV, which is fine. I normally read out of ESV, but. Just a little side note there. So it was not accessible to just. Anyone, only the priest or the high priest.

[00:22:54] And the priest, the tribe of Levi were permitted to do work in the tabernacle when only the high priest could. Go once a year with the blood. To offer the sins for himself and for the people. So just interesting, now that our high priest has entered, once we’ll talk about later, we have access right into the holy of holies or to the throne of God.

[00:23:25] I want to for a second here. Just talk about the duties of the priest a little bit and what he would do.

[00:23:36] Normally the high priest looked like this his garments, this was the garments of. The high priest with his ephod and. All these different things and the miter on his head that said holiness to the Lord the breastplate that had the twelve stones, each representing a tribe of Israel. And that was a picture of that. The twelve tribes of Israel was near and dear to his heart as he.

[00:24:03] Ministered to the Lord on their behalf. And in this little ephod here you had the URiM and the thuram that they would make decisions. And there’s some speculation and talk about that, but a lot of people just believe it was a white stone and a black stone. And when they had to make a decision a lot of time you’ll see where the king would go. I think Saul went and some others.

[00:24:26] And they’d ask the high priest, what about this? And he’d pull a URiM or, you. Know, one meant yes and one meant no. And that’s how they made know. My wife and I flip a quarter now, so I guess that’s our no.

[00:24:41] That’s a very good way of making decisions, but that’s what they did back in that time. So if you see about the URiM and Thuram, that’s what that’s about. But on the Day of Atonement or. Yom Kippur, yom means day and Kippur means covering. The Day of covering or the Day.

[00:25:00] Of Atonement.

[00:25:03] The Jewish calendar started. The first day of the year was I can’t pronounce a lot of these. Rosh Hashanah, some of you may be. Better than I am was the beginning. Of the new year.

[00:25:17] So at the beginning of that new. Year, for nine days they would do. A self denial kind of thing and seeking to get closer to the Lord. It was almost like a time of fasting that they were preparing for Yom Kippur and the Day of Atonement on day ten. So the new year started for nine days.

[00:25:40] They just sort of didn’t do much. And they sought the Lord to get close to the Lord. What sins that I need to confess and all these other things that they would do. And they would deprive themselves of different things until the Day of Atonement, on day ten. Then the high priest normally wore this garment as he ministered and he would begin the day that way.

[00:26:07] But then when it got later into. The ceremony of it the high priest would wear just a white covering. I forget the technical name of it. But he would take off all of his priestly garb all the gold and. All the colors and all those things that people just really looked up to.

[00:26:31] It was a beautiful thing to see the high priest in his priestly garments. But on the Day of Atonement he just wore white. This too is a picture of Christ jesus left his glory in heaven and. Became a man to serve as our. High priest to die for the sins of the world.

[00:26:51] So even in that every little part. Of the tabernacle points in one way. Or another to the work of Jesus Christ. When he came to die for the sins of the world as he came and entered to be our high priest. So on the Day of Atonement, he would do this.

[00:27:09] There were several washings that he would do. Remember we talked about the labor. We see that one where he would. Wash in this big bowl, the labor that had the mirrors in it. And as he washed, he would see.

[00:27:24] Himself saying that, I am the one that needs cleansing as much as the. Sins of the people. This is a picture of God’s word. This was made of bronze, which is symbolic of judgment. As we look into the word of God, it judges us.

[00:27:42] It convicts us of any wrongdoings or. Things that we need cleansing of. So he would wash at the thing and go to the altar of incense that we talked about before the Lord, and he would offer these sacrifices on that day. There were several things, and one of them was these two goats. They had the scapegoat.

[00:28:06] And again, there’s a Jewish name for it, but I’m not that good with Jewish names. So there was two goats, and one they would sacrifice, and one they would tie a red ribbon around his horns and send him off into the wilderness to run away. This was where a picture of Christ dying for our sins on the cross. And shedding his blood. And because of that, the priest was.

[00:28:34] Lay his hands on this scapegoat, tie this red ribbon and send him off in reference to I will remember their. Sins no more because of the blood. Of Jesus, this scapegoat would go to be seen no more. This was a representative of our sins being taken away once and for all. And this was part of the Day of Atonement.

[00:28:56] And the red heifer that was sacrificed, and the rams and the sprinkling of. The blood on the mercy seat, all. This took place on the Day of Atonement. And then on day 15, after the new year, you had the Feast of Tabernacles, where they celebrated that God had forgiven or their sins had been atoned for another year. And so they did this often.

[00:29:23] They did this every year. And I just wanted you to get a picture of what they were so accustomed to, why they struggled so hard. With now that Jesus has done this. And this is what the writer is saying, he’s fulfilled all this. He became our high priest, a better high priest, a better covenant.

[00:29:43] Now he’s serving in a better sanctuary. A better tabernacle for us. He says in verse eight. Is there any questions on that to that point? I know I’m rushing through this.

[00:29:55] I just want to be sure everybody’s got it. If there’s. Nothing else. Romans eight. The Holy Ghost.

[00:30:03] This signifying that the way into the. Holiest of all was not yet made. Manifest while as the first tabernacle was yet standing. So the first tabernacle was just temporary. It was a shadow of things to come, but also a figure, as we’ll.

[00:30:23] See in a few minutes, of a. Same thing, a light thing in heavenly places. So the Holy Ghost has revealed to. Us now he’s saying, and they understood they couldn’t go into the Holy of Holies, but we see where Jesus died on the cross. The veil was rent from top to.

[00:30:44] Bottom, saying that whosoever will may come. Through the blood of Jesus? But the Old Testament thing was a. Temporary shadow of things to come, of. Better things to come, as it says, and also a figure of something in heaven.

[00:31:04] We’ll look at that here in just. A little bit more. So the ministry of the Old Testament tabernacle or temple, you need to understand, was an external expression of their faith. They believed what God said. They believed again, as I said last.

[00:31:24] Week, I think in our study, I believe in the Old Testament, they were saved just like we are today, by grace, through faith. The grace didn’t seem so apparent as it is today. I understand that, but it was by faith, and you go all the way back to Abraham by faith. God counted Abraham righteous. So I believe that they were saved the same way.

[00:31:49] But this was an external expression of their faith as they offered these sacrifices. As a picture or of a shadow. Of a better thing to come, which is Jesus Christ. So they look toward Christ. We look back to Christ and what he did for us on the cross.

[00:32:06] So we’ll see in the next couple. Of verses that he talks about it being an external ministry, which was a figure in verse nine for a time then present. It served its purpose is basically what he’s saying, in which we offered both gifts and sacrifices. Now listen to this next part. That could not make Him that did the service perfect as pertaining to conscience, the law and all that sacrificial system could not make them perfect.

[00:32:42] It was impossible. It was just a picture. What makes us perfect is only the blood of Jesus. I think this ties back with Hebrews six six, as I was talking about. It’s impossible to renew them under repentance if you’re offering sacrifices.

[00:32:59] It can’t do it. It can’t make you perfect. Only the blood of Jesus could have done that. And with you offering sacrifices, all you’re doing is trampling underfoot the Son of God because these sacrifices of calves and. Lambs and red Heifers and all this.

[00:33:16] Was all a picture of Christ in his shed blood. And if you’re continuing to do that, you’re just saying that his blood wasn’t good enough. I need to go back and keep doing these things. And I think this is the whole thing of the problem that he was addressing in Hebrews. Hebrews?

[00:33:32] Stop acting like Hebrews. Verse ten, which stood only in meats and drinks and divers, washings and carnal ordinances, man made. Ordinances imposing on them until the time of reformation, until the time of fulfillment, of the time that it would all come to fruition. And Jesus revealed, I am he. I am as John the Badger said, behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world.

[00:34:02] This is the time where Christ fulfilled that. And it said, I am the one that is promised, I am all those sacrifices that spoke of me. He says Moses spoke of me. This is how Moses spoke of me. And doing these sacrificial systems and all that, it was all about Jesus.

[00:34:20] So now in the next several verses we see the superiority of Christ with. His work in a heavenly sanctuary. Not an earthly sanctuary, not a carnal sanctuary sanctuary, but a heavenly, a better sanctuary that our Savior works in. Verse eleven. But Christ become a high priest of good things to come.

[00:34:48] When Christ came and he died as our high priest and did his priestly work, there was better things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building. The writers wanted the readers to focus their attention on the things of heaven and not on the things of earth. Get your mind off of all this tabernacle worship that we’ve done for thousands of years. And because of Christ, our focus is now on heaven in heavenly places, it. Says, and he’s trying to get their attention.

[00:35:29] Our high priest is now in heaven, making as a mediator between us and God. The high priest of the Old Testament was a mediator between God and the people. So Jesus now is our mediator in heavenly places. And in Jesus doing it in heavenly places, it is more effective to deal with sin. Verse twelve he said, neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by.

[00:36:00] His own blood he entered once into. The holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. That’s Hebrews 912. For if the blood of bulls and. Goats, and blood of bulls, and of.

[00:36:14] Goats, and of the ashes, and of. Heifer sprinkled the unclean thing sanctified to the purifying of the flesh. The writer again it is discussing and showing him the inferiority of animal sacrifices. It could not make him that did the service, or it could not make those who sacrificed these animals perfect. But he began to lay the foundation here for verse ten.

[00:36:44] I always like how in Hebrews the writer just really in the chapter, if you’ll look at the verses before, he always just gives you a glimpse of what’s coming, what he’s going to talk about next? And here’s what he’s talking about a better sacrifice than those of bulls and guts. Verse 14 of chapter nine. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God. So see the tabernacle and all that ritual and religion of that cannot purge or make those perfect as pertaining to God.

[00:37:27] But the blood of Jesus does. The power of Jesus blood to cleanse us of our sins, to purge us of our sins, and from dead works. These dead works member in Hebrews six one is the works of the law and the sacrificial system. These are dead works and we go away from those things to serve the living God. The last part of verse 14 there.

[00:37:57] So we’re moving from an outward expression in our flesh to an inward expression, our conscience. That’s what he said, I will write my laws on their hearts. It’s no longer an outward expression of our faith, but an inward from the inside out is an expression. The Holy Spirit lives within us, Christ lives in us. It’s an inward thing today, not so much an outward thing, it was a ritual kind of thing.

[00:38:26] In the Old Testament today is by. A new and living way that we. Serve God through a sincere heart. So we see this here in this. Thing that the blood of Jesus, how much more shall the blood of Christ without spot to God.

[00:38:47] It was very important that these sacrifices were made and that they would examine the Heifer, they examined the Lamb and make sure there was no blemishes on it. Why? Because it was a picture of Christ without sin, without spot, there was no sin in him. He was the perfect lamb of God. To die for the sins of the world.

[00:39:12] So all that points to Christ. Now in verse 15 for this cause he is the mediator or the Go. Between, the reconcilier, the intercessor of the. New Testament, that by means of death. For the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first Testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

[00:39:40] So the promise that was given to Abraham of many nations would be blessed because of through Him and through his seed, Jesus would come through Israel, jesus would come and die for the sins of the so. And because of his death on the cross, we have that promise of eternal life. He is our mediator. There is no more need for a high priest. There is no need for the Old Testament.

[00:40:13] He began a New Testament, verse 16 for where a testament is, there must also be a necessity of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is enforced after men die, otherwise it is no strength at all why the testator liveth.

[00:40:37] This goes back to what we talk about. Whether there’s a will, someone that passes away, and the executor of the state has to I’m actually the executor of my dad’s estate now, trying to work. Through all that he passed away a. Month or two ago. And working through all that, making sure his last wishes are carried out exactly well, like you wanted it for the will, but it really wasn’t in effect until he had passed away.

[00:41:06] Jesus. The New Testament wasn’t in effect until Jesus died and rose again for us on the cross. And so the death of the testator. Introduced the New Testament, the new covenant that God would make not only with Israel. A lot of people say, oh, it’s just for Israel.

[00:41:25] No, there’s a new testament for us that only by the blood of Jesus are we saved. Only by the blood of Jesus are. We placed into the body of Christ, baptized with the Holy Spirit, and we have access to the throne of God through Jesus. This is the new covenant with us, and this New Testament begins, and we have the promise of eternal inheritance, of eternal life with him because of what he did for us on the cross. But what’s also needed about that is that not only did Jesus die that enforced the testament or the agreement, he rose again.

[00:42:08] So Jesus is not only because of. His death, it enforced the will, I. Guess we would say today, or the. Testament that he rose again. He becomes the executor of it.

[00:42:22] As you know, it’d be awesome. My dad was here, and somehow he. Could know, I know I’ve died, and. I’m going to make sure my will is carried out exactly like I wrote. It down for you all.

[00:42:35] And there’s no fussing, no fighting. This is what Jesus has done. He died. The New Testament is enforced. He rose again to now become the executor or the go between the mediator of that testament.

[00:42:51] And I think that’s just awesome there to think that it’s not just left up to man. It’s not left up to anybody. But Jesus enforces this testament. He is the mediator between us and God. He told the disciples in Luke 22 20, this is a new testament or covenant or will in my blood, which is shed for you.

[00:43:17] So he’s saying there that the New. Testament, that because of my blood will. Begin a new covenant with man because. Of what I do on the cross and my death barrel and my resurrection.

[00:43:34] I didn’t know I was getting so late on time. All right. Whereupon neither the first Testament, verse 18, was dedicated without blood. For when Moses had spoken every precept of all the people according to the. Law, he took the blood of calves.

[00:43:50] And of goats, and with water and scarlet wool, and hisop, and sprinkled both the book and all the people. The Book, the law saying, this is the blood of the testament which God. Hath enjoined unto you. Moreover, he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry.

[00:44:16] Even the old covenant was established on. The basis of blood. Hebrews 919 through 21 is taken from. Exodus 24, verses three through eight, the. Account of the ratifying of the old.

[00:44:32] Covenant coming about by Moses and the people of Israel. And it’s interesting to me here in Exodus 24, in particular, verse three, when Moses read all the law and said what all that they were supposed to do, the people responded in verse three. And all the Lord had said, we will do. That was their response. But look what Moses response was.

[00:45:00] Then Moses shed blood, stating, you cannot do what the Lord has said apart from the shedding of blood. You can’t do these don’t. As I’ve said before in our study, god knew we could not keep this law. It was just to point us to Christ to show me that I need a savior. And Moses made that very clear that, no, you cannot do it.

[00:45:26] It’s only through the shedding of blood that we will be found righteous in. The eyes of God. So it says in verse 22, and. Almost all things are by the law, purged with blood. Without the shedding of blood is no remission.

[00:45:42] A lot of people put on there. Of sin, but there’s no remission. And that’s what it’s saying here. There is no covering for sin. There is no payment for sin apart from the shedding of blood.

[00:45:58] And I’ve heard people ask that before. Why blood? The Old Testament is so bloody and why would God choose blood? I don’t know, other than God ordained it, that sin was to be covered by blood or death. We see that with Adam and Eve.

[00:46:14] As I’ve said, that when they sinned. And they tried to cover themselves with fig leaves. That’s religion. We try to cover ourselves, we try to do it ourselves, and we cover ourselves with these fig leaves that Adam and Eve did. And God couldn’t know.

[00:46:30] Something must die. And a ram, I think what it was, died. He took the skins of that ram. And covered their nakedness to cover their shame and to cover their sin. It was instituted by God all the way back into the beginning.

[00:46:47] The only covering for sin was through. The shedding of blood. He also said, as in Leviticus 1711. For the life of the flesh is in the blood. And I think that’s pretty key there as to just give us a little insight.

[00:47:02] Why it was so important to God that sin be covered by blood is because there is life in blood. Without the blood, there is no life. And the life of the flesh, all that we have is from our blood flowing through our body and through our veins and arteries to oxygenate and to build muscles and do it. That’s where we get our life. It’s through the blood.

[00:47:29] We get our life through the blood of Jesus Christ. So only the blood gives life. Now, verse 23, it was therefore necessary. That the patterns of things in the. Heavens here again, he’s talking about, get.

[00:47:44] Your mind off of the earthly tabernacle temple, all that worship, and look to the pattern in heaven, the things that’s. Going on in heaven. We should purify these things, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. These patterns or types were purified by the blood of animals in the Old Testament.

[00:48:08] In the original sanctuary was purified, but the sanctuary in heaven was purified by the blood of the Son of God. This was a far better, far greater price of sacrifice than any of the sacrificial animals in the Old Testament. So he’s still talking about a better ministry that Christ has in heavenly places. I believe, as I’ve told you all before, that there is a set up much like this in heaven before the throne of God. And I believe there’s probably a mercy seat in heaven where Jesus applied his blood on the mercy seat in heaven before the throne of God for the sins of the world, to atone for the sins of the world.

[00:48:59] And it’s evident here’s what he’s talking is patterns of things in the heavens. For Christ has not entered verse 24 into the holy places made with hands, not an earthly tabernacle which are figures of the true. Here again, I think it’s a figure of what the true is or what something in heaven but into heaven itself. Now to appear in the presence of God. For us his ministry represents fulfillment.

[00:49:33] It’s complete, his ministry is final. It point out the obvious difference between the Old Covenant ministry and the New Covenant ministry. The Old Covenant was by men, by sinful men. They were weak through the flesh. The New Covenant was by Jesus the Son of God, who was without sin, who entered into the very presence of God and the throne in heaven to apply his blood on the mercy seat for us.

[00:50:04] So it is a better ministry, a better tabernacle that Jesus serves in in heavenly places, nor yet that he should offer Himself often. See, Jesus, he said no, they did. This every year, continually, year after year. And by the way, they offered other sacrifices throughout the year for different things and all that, but only on the day of tobit was the other part. But they all the time offering sacrifices for sins and different things and transgressions that they had done.

[00:50:40] But it says nor yet that he. Jesus, should offer Himself often as the. High priest entered into the holy place every year with the blood of others. For then he must often have suffered. Since the foundations of the world.

[00:51:00] But now, once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Now that’s not the end of the. World as the end of the millennium. Or all that, that’s these last days, from the time of Christ till now is referred to in scripture often as the last days or the end of time. All things are fulfilled.

[00:51:23] And now it’s like all the Old Testament. We were climbing up the hill, it came to his apex at the top of the hill with the cross and the resurrection of Christ and the sentient into heaven for us. And now the creation is on its. Downhill slope, its final days, and he’s put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself once and for all. I don’t know how to express it.

[00:51:51] It is finished, he is complete. The work of Christ on the cross is completed. Work, it’s final and it is eternal. There’s nothing to be added to it. There’s nothing to be taken away from it.

[00:52:05] He died never to do it again. We’ll see that again in a little bit here. And it says that appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many, and unto them. That look for Him shall he appear the second time without sin, unto salvation.

[00:52:30] So Christ died once for the sins of the world. He faced our judgment for us on our behalf. He paid our sin debt, and he offered for the sins of the whole world that we see in that second part of verse 28. So he shall appear a second time without sin unto salvation. Christ appeared the first time to take away the sins of the world.

[00:52:57] He appears the second time not to. Take away sin, but to take us. Home for eternity, completing our salvation. Now, please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. Our salvation is complete in Christ.

[00:53:13] We trusted Him, our personal savior. You are saved, you are on your way to heaven. You don’t have to wait till you die to figure that out. John tells us in one John 513, these things have I written that you may know that you have eternal life, so we can know that now. But what I’m saying here to complete.

[00:53:33] Our salvation is our salvation is completed with Christ. But the final step, I guess for lack of better word, we receive our glorified bodies to live with Him forever in eternity. So salvation is complete. But the process, we’re in our sanctification process right now, but when we received our glorified bodies in heaven, our salvation is complete for eternity. And that’s what those verses are referring to.

[00:54:10] So it’s not saying that Jesus is. Coming back without sin. He’s not coming back to conquer sin or to deal with sin, but he’s coming back victorious as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. So that’s chapter nine. Any questions or thoughts on that?

[00:54:35] All right, I’m going to pull up chapter ten here. If there’s anything you all can say it, type it, whatever you want to do, and if not, we’ll go into chapter ten and pull that up. Get me a drink of water, my mouth is dry. I hope this is helpful to you all and encouraging to you to understand this.

[00:55:08] Okay? So just to recap again, chapter seven. Christ is our High Priest. After the order of melchizedek, but he is a better high priest. Chapter eight, the emphasis on Christ brings in a better covenant, a new covenant, and then chapter nine, he serves in a better sanctuary.

[00:55:35] Now, we’re going to see in chapter. Ten, he concludes this section with the. Argument that Christ is a better sacrifice than all that they have ever known. And he was a better sanctuary. Now he’s going to talk about their sacrifices.

[00:55:52] He’s really just explaining to these Hebrews that it is done. Stop being Hebrew, stop going back to. The law, stop going back and putting. This yoke of bondage around your neck, as Paul says. And once again, for those who haven’t been here before, you can galatians, chapter.

[00:56:11] Five, or Galatians five, the whole thing really goes along well with Hebrews. And who has bewitched you? Did you receive the Holy Spirit by. Faith or by the law, basically, is what he’s saying there. And in chapter five, he’s saying if you’re going back to the sacrificial system and doing all these things, christ is becoming no effect to you.

[00:56:33] And this is what they were doing. These judaizers were saying, yeah, Jesus died on the cross and all that, but you still got to do the law, you still got to do this, you. Still got to do that. And so they were struggling back and forth with this. We see this all through the New.

[00:56:48] Testament of their struggle to make the. Transition from the old covenant, the old. Way to the new and living way. Through the blood of Jesus Christ. Now he’s going to go into a better sacrifice.

[00:57:04] Now he says here for the law. Having a shadow of good things to. Come, it’s just a shadow.

[00:57:14] As I said, it’s weak because it was done through the flesh, because the weaknesses of man and sinful man, even the high priest was sinful. He offered not only the sacrifice for the people, but for his own self. And so it was a shadow of good things to come. Jesus Christ was the good thing to come, and not the very image of those things. It was a good representation, but not.

[00:57:41] An exact and it says it was. A shadow of those things to come, not the very image of those things. Can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year, continually make the comers there unto perfect. For then would they have not ceased. To be offered, because that the worshippers.

[00:58:02] Once purged, should have had no more conscience of sin. If the law and the sacrificial system. Could have made those perfect, could have. Made all those people perfect, then they. Wouldn’T have done it every year.

[00:58:17] They could have done it once and for all. There was no more need for sacrifice. If it could have made them perfect, those who draw near, those Israelites who draw near to worship, then they would have stopped to do those things. But then in verse three, but in those sacrifice, there was a remembrance again made of sin every year. So see, that it wasn’t to make them perfect.

[00:58:44] The sacrificial system and the law and all that was just a constant reminder of I am sinful and I need a savior, and God has promised a savior to come. They didn’t know it was going to, I don’t think in the Old Testament there were some pictures of Christ, the Son of God, if those who understood it. But for the most part, I don’t believe most of them understood that God would become man. He would send his own son to. Die for the sins of the know.

[00:59:17] They didn’t know his name would be Jesus, that progressive revelation thing. But now. They look toward that just the promise of God. As Abraham said, God himself will provide a sacrifice. How, who, when and why, Abraham didn’t understand, but he believed God, that he would pay for the sins of the world one way or another.

[00:59:41] So if those sacrifices could have taken. Away sins, they would have ceased. But those sacrifices, as he says in verse three, was only to remind them of their sinfulness. It wasn’t meant to take away sin. So those who tell you that, oh.

[00:59:59] Yeah, they were saved through the sacrificial system and the law and all that. No, they were not. They were saved by faith, by believing God. And this was an outward expression of their faith. All right?

[01:00:12] So I hope that’s clear to everybody. Now, verse four, chapter ten four. For it is not possible that the. Blood of bulls and of goats should take away sin. See, it would never take away sin.

[01:00:25] Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, sacrifice and offerings thou wouldst. Not, but a body thou hast prepared for me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. Thou hast no pleasure. Then said I lo.

[01:00:42] I am. Come. In the volume of the book, it. Is written of me to do thy will, O God. Now, this is quoting Psalms 40 and.

[01:00:53] There’S another reference there in Matthew 26 39. This is what Jesus is saying I have come to do the will of the Father. So we see here almost a I forget the technical term for it, but when the Old Testament brings out Scripture, and it’s actually a quote of what Jesus would later say, or Jesus quotes. It, it is speaking of Jesus himself. Sacrifice and all thou wouldst not but a body you prepared for me.

[01:01:24] Jesus became flesh and burn, offerings and sacrifice for sin. Thou hast no pleasure. All this Old Testament sacrificial system, god. Has no pleasure in that. It doesn’t take away sin.

[01:01:37] It doesn’t solve our sin problem. Only Jesus comes and he says in. Verse seven, I’m come in the volume. Of the book, it is written of. Me, the law and all the Old Testament.

[01:01:49] Now we have the completed New Testament. It is all about jesus. It all is about him. It is all written of Him and his work on the cross and Him being our mediator between us and God, and then dying for the sins of the world. It’s all about Jesus.

[01:02:08] So verse eight above, when he said. Sacrifice an offering and burn offerings and offerings for sin thou wouldst not. Neither hast pleasure therein which are offered by the law. So God took no pleasure in that. It didn’t accomplish that.

[01:02:25] It was weak. That’s why he sent his son. Then he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will, o God. He taketh away the first that he. May establish the second, the first covenant.

[01:02:37] The Law, the sacrificial system. Now he’s fulfilled all that on the cross and his death, burial and resurrection. And establishes a new covenant. He set aside the law, the external ministry, the act of religion. See, I hope you understand that anything we do that we think we can.

[01:02:59] Get to help ourselves get to God is religion. And God’s not interested in religion. What God’s interested in is a broken and contrite heart, as David said. What God’s interested in is a relationship with you, an internal, where you have Christ in you. And he establishes the Second, which is an internal ministry.

[01:03:22] It’s the act of our heart. So Jesus says out of abundance of. The heart, the mouth speaketh, it’s no. Longer external, but an internal. And that’s what we have today.

[01:03:35] That he’s written his laws on our. Hearts and on our minds and through. The work of the Holy Spirit reveals that to us. And we serve Him with a true. Heart, not just because it’s ritual or.

[01:03:48] It’S religion, but because we love Him. Because we know he loves us and we want to serve Him by the which verse ten we are sanctified through. The offering of the blood of Jesus. Christ, once for all. We are sanctified.

[01:04:06] We are set apart through the blood of Jesus Christ, once and for all. That Jesus loved the Father and the world, he submitted himself to the will. Of the Father, not because the Law said to, but because of love, because. Of his great love for the Father, because of his love for the world, he did the will of the Father to reconcile man back to God. John 1431 he says in Jesus speaking.

[01:04:38] But that the world may know that I love the Father and as the. Father gave me commandment, even, so I do arise. Let’s go hence. And in John 15 nine as the. Father has loved me, so I have loved you.

[01:04:55] Continue in my love. Well, there’s a good message for a lot of these TikTok people. We don’t see much love there, but I’ll get off my soapbox. Philippians two six through eight, who, being. In the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation and took upon Him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men.

[01:05:19] And being found in the fashion as a man, he humbled himself.

[01:05:26] He humbled himself and became obedient unto. Death, even the death of the cross. So now we’ll go on to verse eleven. And every high priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take away sins. So he’s just really driving this home that the blood of bulls and goats and all this could never take away sin.

[01:05:56] But this man, Jesus, is who he’s referring to after he had offered one. Sacrifice himself for the sins forever, sat. Down at the right hand of God, from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. See, we see here again a very important thing that he’s driving home to these Hebrew people that in the old tabernacle and temple of all the furniture in there, as I’ve told y’all, what was the one thing missing? There was no chairs.

[01:06:31] There was no place for the high priest to he. And that’s because the work was never done. But Jesus, when he finished his work. The finished work of Christ on the cross, he was able to set down because it was finished. And he sat down at the right.

[01:06:49] Hand of the Father, Hebrews one three. Who being in the brightness of his glory and the expressed image of his. Person and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had. By Himself purged our sins, set down at the right of the majesty on high. So just reiterating again here the fact that he set down is evidence of his finished work.

[01:07:17] It is finished. For by one offering he hath perfected. Forever them that are sanctified. Perfected until we sin again. Perfected until we get tired of it and walk away.

[01:07:32] No, he had perfected forever. And we’ll talk about a little more about that in just a few minutes. I’ll get into that at the end of this chapter. I hope we get yeah, we should get there. So he’s being made the sanctification process.

[01:07:53] Them that are sanctified, we are being sanctified, we’re being made into the image of his dear Son. Yes, our salvation is complete and we are saved at the point of salvation. Then we start our sanctification process. We saw that in the beginning of Hebrews chapter six, our justification sanctification and then our glorification. So this is the covenant, verse 16, that I will make with them after.

[01:08:21] Those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws in their hearts and in their minds will I write them and their sins, and iniquities will I remember no more. Now, where the remissions of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

[01:08:39] Where sin is paid for, where the remissions of sins is, where sin stopped, the covering sin is paid for once and for all. There was no more need for a sacrificial system. There. Was no more need for that. And then as I said earlier, he.

[01:08:55] Writes these laws this on our hearts and on our minds, that we may know Him with a true heart and. Serve Him in spirit and truth. So he’s written that on our hearts. And verse 17 their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Remember the scapegoat and the one they sent away was symbolic of his remembering our sins no more because we are washed in the blood of Jesus and.

[01:09:23] When God sees us, he sees His Son. We stand righteous before Him because of. The blood of Jesus. He remembers our sin no more. That ought to be encouraging to all of us, having therefore brethren boldness to.

[01:09:39] Enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. See, this is something the Hebrews listeners would never have thought of, that we. Could have boldness to go into the holiest. That was only for the High priest. He’s saying now that Jesus has done.

[01:09:59] This, the veil was rent. We have the boldness to enter into the holiest of holies through the blood of Jesus. We don’t need a high priest. Our high priest is in heaven making intercession for us and he has opened wide the gate to us that we. May enter in by a new and living way.

[01:10:20] Verse 20 which he hath concentrated for. Us through the veil, that is to say his flesh. So through his flesh, through his broken body, who died for our sins on. The cross he has made access to the very throne of God. We go boldly into the throne of grace.

[01:10:42] We cry up, I want to say. We crawl up in his lap and. Cry abba Father, because of what Jesus did for us on the cross. Well, that’s good stuff. Just trying to get my composure here.

[01:10:59] I don’t want to go to preaching, I’m trying to maintain control. Y’all y’all know I get a little. Bit excited sometimes but that’s just awesome. Stuff to know there. Don’t let Satan tear you down and he’ll want to bring your sins up to you all the time, how terrible you are and how awful you are.

[01:11:17] And I can just see Jesus sitting at the right hand of the Father and when he makes intercession it’s not like he’s up there pleading a case with the Father and saying oh no, I died for know we’ve heard preachers say that and I think I’ve probably even done that before. But I’ve had a new understanding that he’s sitting at the right hand of. The Father and he sits there and. As he sits there and the accuser of the brethren comes before him say, you know, Kenny’s a sorry rascal and you see what he did. The Father just looks down at the Son’s hand and sees him nailed starred.

[01:11:51] Hands and says yeah, I know, but my son died for his sin and. He’S covered by the blood of Jesus. Oh my goodness. That’s awesome. The only scars that we’ll have, a brand new glorified body.

[01:12:10] We’ll be all things made new and. No more sickness, no more pain. And I believe all of our scars will be gone. But there’ll be some scars in heaven. And that’s the precious Lamb of God.

[01:12:22] I believe those scars will be there forever as a constant reminder to us of what he did for us on the cross through the veil that is his flesh that was broken for us on the cross. Amen. Amen. Amen.

[01:12:41] We can enter into the presence of. God through his broken body, through his shed blood. When we do communion or the Lord’s Supper, the broken pieces of bread is his body. The cup of juice. And some churches depend on who you go to.

[01:12:56] May drink actual wine is representative of his blood. And it is a remembrance for us to identify and to say that what he did for us on the cross. I have access to the very throne of God. And having verse 21 and having a. High priest over the house of God verse nine, the priestly ministry of Christ in the heavenly see Jesus.

[01:13:22] Why it’s such a better sacrifice, a better temple, a better high priest is because he’s right there in the presence of God. A high priest right before the throne. Of God, day and night, with his. Nailed, scarred hands and the scarred in his side and a reminder of what Christ did for us on the cross. Verse 24 says, for Christ has not entered I’m getting ahead, I know, but think it’s a good place to read this.

[01:13:51] For Christ is not entered into holy places made by hands this tabernacle here on earth, which is a figure of the truth, but into the heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for us.

[01:14:06] So verse 22. Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith. Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure. Water, we are washed in the I. Love that old song.

[01:14:23] Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? In the soul cleansing blood of the. Lamb are you washed we come to. Him in a true heart. What’s a true heart?

[01:14:35] I acknowledge him. I acknowledge him. I am a sinner, but I am. Washed in the blood of Jesus Christ. So I therefore come in full assurance, not of what I did, but of what he did for me on the.

[01:14:49] Cross, what my Savior did for me. I know I’m a sinful man, but I know that Jesus died for my sins on the cross. Therefore I come with the full assurance. Of faith, not wavering. There’s nothing I can do to bring.

[01:15:06] Me any closer to God than what Jesus did for me on the cross. So verse 23. Let us hold fast the profession of. Our faith without wavering. For he is faithful that promised.

[01:15:21] And we talked about earlier in the. Promise that God made in the last part of chapter six. God promised it, he and sealed it with his own self with an oath. And God cannot back out of a. Promise that I give unto them eternal.

[01:15:39] Life and they shall never perish. We are safe and secure forever in the blood of Jesus Christ. Let us hold fast to the profession of our faith. Not going back is what he’s saying here to the law and the sacrificial system. Don’t go back to all that.

[01:15:59] There’s nothing for you there. It cannot wash away your sins. It cannot bring you to place of repentance. All you’re doing is doing a symbolic or a shadow of crucifying the Son of God all over again. Let us consider one another to provoke.

[01:16:15] Unto love and into good works not dead works. That’s what Jesus told us when he left. He told his disciples, they will know. You are my disciples if you love one another. How many times did Jesus say the most important thing is to love?

[01:16:31] How many times did Paul say the most important thing is to say is that we love one another. Let us consider one another and provoke unto love, unto perfection in love and the good works, not dead works of the law. And we see in Hebrews six one these old dead works. This is what he’s talking about in six, I think chapter ten and six to me just sort of tie and chapter six was a glimpse and then I call chapter seven the grand finale. He just ties it all together, six nine through ten.

[01:17:08] But love that we are better persuaded, better things of you and things that accompany salvation. Though thus we speak. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and your labor of love which you have showed toward his name and that you minister to the saints and do minister. That’s what he’s saying here. Get away from all this sacrificial system and all this constant reminder of your sin and shame and let’s go on to perfection.

[01:17:37] Let’s go on to loving one another, encouraging one another, producing good fruits and good crops and not be bound and taken back again to those sacrificial system in the law. Get away from that. He’s telling them to do it. And go on to things that accompany salvation. I’m sorry guys, I’m trying to calm down but this is just good stuff.

[01:18:05] Verse 25. Not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together as a manner of some is, but exhorting one another and so much more as you see the day approaching. Now I think this verse is here. And it’s a very good verse for us today. That the importance of going to church.

[01:18:24] I mean, you can do online church. We can do this online. But you know what, all you are. Here in this voice chat. I can’t put my arm around you.

[01:18:34] And love on you. I’m a hugger kind of person and just tell you how much I love you and I appreciate you. I’m praying for you. There’s nothing better than that, than that personal fellowship that we have. I wish somehow we could all get together someday before heaven.

[01:18:49] If not, we’ll do it in heaven. But we’ll get together and encourage and love on one another. So it’s important for us to assemble ourselves together. But I think the reason he puts. This in here is, okay, he’s telling.

[01:19:04] These Hebrew writers, do away of all that temple worship where you always came together. He said, do away with all that. You don’t need that, it’s all complete. So he’s almost anticipating these people think it’s not important to go to church. And saying, no, don’t not come together.

[01:19:23] It’s still important that you come together to love on one another, to edify one another, to encourage one another, lift one another up. But don’t come together for sacrificial stuff. Come together in love and just enjoy the finished work of Jesus Christ that you have been washed in the blood. And it’s so much more important as the days get worse and worse and worse as we see Paul talk about and Peter talks about in the last days how things will get. It’s important that we come together.

[01:19:55] He’s encouraging these Hebrews don’t forsake that now. Don’t stop coming together. Just don’t come together and do sacrifices. Don’t come together and do all those things that you’ve done for thousand years. Come together in love.

[01:20:09] It’s no longer come together to confess sins and make offering for sacrifices, but to edify one another, encourage one another. And to love one another. And that is so true today for us all. I get a lot out of this. I enjoy this with you all, but man, it would sure would be nice.

[01:20:28] And after we get through, we just. Sort of stand around and talk and love on one another and pray for. One another and help one another. Those are just great times. Now, verse 26, verse that a lot of people have a lot of problem with.

[01:20:43] And I hope by now you have. The context of Hebrews, hebrews, stop being Hebrews. Jesus is enough. He is superior, he is supreme. And you’re going back to the sacrificial system and you keep doing this.

[01:21:00] So what he says here, for if. We sin willfully after that we have. Received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin. Now, the NIV says if we deliberately. Keep sinning, I don’t think it’s a good interpretation.

[01:21:19] That’s not what this is saying in the context of what he’s saying here. If you go all the way back. To the beginning, the first verse of. Chapter ten, he’s talking about this sacrificial system. And if you keep going back to.

[01:21:33] That and you sin and you go. Back to the second, there is no more sacrifice for sin. It’s complete in Jesus Christ. It’s not talking about if we go on sinning deliberately. The ESV says that too.

[01:21:51] I just don’t think that’s a good translation. It doesn’t fit the context of what he’s talking about. It doesn’t fit the context of Hebrews. I’m sorry, I don’t have that belief that I’m saying. If we willfully one, it could apply to non believers.

[01:22:09] If we willfully reject the Holy Spirit, if we sin, that one sin. If we willfully sin the rejection of the finished work of the Holy Spirit or the finished work of Christ for. Salvation, there’s nothing left. So as an unbeliever, if you reject the calling of the Holy Spirit that you’re a sinner and you need a savior and you say, I don’t want that stuff, and you continue to do. That, you’re not going to work your.

[01:22:40] Way to heaven, there’s nothing else to get you to heaven. There is no sacrifice for you. You are not washed in the blood. Of Jesus, I think is what that verse is saying. But a lot of people want to say, based on the different translations nowadays, that, oh, if we do a willful.

[01:22:57] Sin or we deliberately sin, then there’s. No sacrifice for sin. Now, where in scripture does it tell you that? Where else in scripture does it tell you that? I find nowhere.

[01:23:10] My Bible tells me that Jesus paid the sin debt once and for all. All sins, past, present and future, are. Paid for on the cross through the. Blood of my Savior. So that doesn’t fit.

[01:23:26] There’s no sacrifice for sin if I deliberately sin. That doesn’t fit anywhere in scripture. I think what he’s saying here, like I said, one, you could apply it to a non believer who’s trying to work his way to heaven or try. To do something, but there’s no more. Sacrifice for sin than Jesus Christ.

[01:23:45] There’s no other way to do it other than through the blood of Jesus. Now.

[01:23:53] Jesus even says in Matthew 1231. Through 32, he says wherefore I say. Unto you, all manner of sin and. Blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men all sins doesn’t say there’s not a sacrifice. For sin if you do it deliberately.

[01:24:09] He says all sins will be forgiven. Men, but one sin, the blasphemy against. The Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. So if we go on sinning rejecting the truth, the knowledge of the truth. That the Holy Spirit reveals to you people, there’s nothing else to save you.

[01:24:29] There is no other sacrifice for sin but Jesus Christ. That’s the way I interpret Hebrews 1026. I know there’s a lot of people different, I know a lot of translations. Say it different, but in the context of these.

[01:24:51] A better ministry, a better. Tabernacle, and a better sacrifice, it’s what he’s saying here. And you could say to my battery, just said it’s about to die. I hope it lasts here for a few more minutes. It could be to us as Christians too, guys.

[01:25:14] We sin and we think so many. Times we fall short and we sin daily and we confess our sin and then we say, I need to get back in church. I need to do this. I need to do this for a little. I better start teaching Sunday school, I better put more money in the offering plate, I better help a little lady across the street, I better go street preach.

[01:25:31] I better do this to sort of. Get in good favor with God again, because I fell short and because I sinned. There is no more sacrifice. You’re trying to, just like they did, do a sacrifice for a sin. You’re trying to do something to gain favor with God.

[01:25:51] And there is no way but through the blood of Jesus Christ, there is no other sacrifice for sin but through. The blood of Jesus Christ. That’s what those verses are saying. So I hope that’s clear to you. Maybe if you have a difference on.

[01:26:09] That, you could tell me. But I’m pretty firm in what I. Believe about that, in the context of what’s going on in Hebrews, and especially chapter ten. So if we reject that, if an unbeliever rejects that, that his blood, the. Sacrifice for sin, what has he got.

[01:26:30] To look forward to but a certain. Fearful verse 27 looking for of judgment. A fire indignation which shall devour the adversaries? If you reject the blood of Jesus. Christ on the cross, you have no expectation.

[01:26:49] The only other expectation for you is God’s wrath on your sin. It’s paid for once and for all. All you have to do is accept it. But if you reject it, there is. Nothing else, and God’s wrath will fall.

[01:27:03] On you and you will spend eternity. In hell because you did not accept. Jesus as your personal Savior, to reject Christ and to continue in this law, all you can expect is judgment and death. Two Corinthians 36, who also has made us ministers of a New Testament, not by the letter or the law, but by the Spirit. For the letter killeth, but the Spirit gives life.

[01:27:31] So in Christ, if we’ve accepted him, we have life and life. We have no worries or no fear. Of death because of what Christ does. We have no fear of God’s wrath on us because of sin. We are washed in the blood of Jesus Christ.

[01:27:48] He goes on to say here and pairing back to the law, that he. That despised Moses law died without mercy under two or three witnesses in the Old Testament. If you despise the law of God, they would stone you. You were cast out. It was tough.

[01:28:12] And how much more sore punishment suppose. Ye shall he be through thought worthy. Who trotted underfoot the Son of God, reject the finished work of Christ. And we can compare this again to Hebrews six six not rejecting but crucifying again, putting Him to open shame. You trotted underfoot.

[01:28:35] We see the same words there in Hebrews six six. So these sacrificial system just again is. Just crucifying all over the Son of God, and has counted the blood of. The covenant, wherewith he was sanctified an. Unholy thing and hath done despite on.

[01:28:55] The spirit of grace. So unbeliever. If you’re rejecting the calling of the Holy Spirit on you that you’re a sinner and you need to be saved, that spirit of grace, that is another term for the Holy Spirit. You’re rejecting that there’s nothing left for you but condemnation. Christians, you are washed in the blood.

[01:29:19] And when Satan comes and you fall or you fall and do something wrong and Satan just beats you up about it and you think you got to do XYZ to get back in good standings with God. That’s not true. You are in good stand. There’s consequences for our sins, but all he wants us to do is to come back to agree with Him. That was a sin.

[01:29:40] And he is faithful and just, and. He has forgiven us of that sin. I will remember your sins no more. Verse 30 will we know him that said vengeance is mine, vengeance belong unto me. I will recompense, says the Lord.

[01:29:57] And again the Lord shall judge his people. This is a quote from Deuteronomy 32. 35. We forget, I think sometimes you hear so much on people talking and on TikTok about your sin, that sin, you better not sin. As a Christian, Paul struggled with sin.

[01:30:18] I struggle with sin. And going back to verse 26 of. Willful sin, I think if everybody was. Honest with ourselves, we’re all guilty of willful sin. Does that mean our sins are no longer covered?

[01:30:29] Absolutely not. See, we forget how powerful God is and how fully capable he is of correcting his children. We forget the power of the cross and what it does for us, what the precious blood of Jesus did for us on the cross. We forget the power that’s in that. And how we focus a lot of.

[01:30:53] Times on our sins and forget the. Power of God we’ll talk about in chapter twelve. If you’re his children, he’s going to correct you. And these people that go around saying all the time, you just think you’re saved and you just live any old way you want to. No, I cannot.

[01:31:13] One, the Holy Spirit guides me in the right path and I may disobey Him. But when I step out of line hebrews Twelve, just giving you a glimpse of it. Our Heavenly Father will correct his children. We forget that that he’s up there taking care of matters. He’s not just sitting there saying, oh well, there he goes again.

[01:31:34] Just let him keep wondering. No, he’s going to correct his children. And if he doesn’t correct his children, it says we’re bastards and we are not his children. So don’t focus on so much on that person and that person sin, but on the power of God. I think a great example of that.

[01:31:53] If anybody could have lost salvation if anybody in Old Testament could have lost. Well, Peter, he denied Christ three times. Jesus said, if you deny me before men, I’ll deny you for the Father. Father. Well, Peter might have been trouble because.

[01:32:11] He did it three times, but Peter. Didn’T lose his salvation. Then Peter writes in two peter two verses, six through nine, he’s talking about Sodom and Gomorrah. And Lot. He says, and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example.

[01:32:32] Unto those that after should live ungodly. And delivered just Lot vexed with a filthy conversation of the wicked. Now, he delivered Lot, you remember, in his two daughters.

[01:32:52] Daughters in law, I. Think is what it was. So it wasn’t just Lot singular. Just Lot means that he was just. In the eyes of God.

[01:33:02] Well, how do I know that? Keep reading for that righteous man. In God’s eyes, Lot was righteous, but. He was vexed with a filthy conversation of the wicked. And it says in the next part that righteous man dwelling among them in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with the unlawful deeds.

[01:33:30] If anybody could have lost their salvation. It should have been Lot. But God saw him as righteous. How? Because he believed God.

[01:33:41] Not by works of the law. He believed what God said. But he fell in sin. He didn’t lose his salvation. Look at verse nine of two, Peter.

[01:33:50] Two. For the Lord knoweth how to deliver. The Godly out of temptation and to. Reserve the unjust unto the day of. Judgment to be punished.

[01:34:03] God knows what’s going on. God is all powerful. God will correct his children. He will deliver them out of their place where they shouldn’t be is what. We see with Lot.

[01:34:15] God saw Lot as righteous. Lot didn’t lose his salvation. God kept him by his power. God kept him, and he delivered Lot. So I’ll tell you, anybody that wants to say you can lose your salvation, I say, Show me.

[01:34:33] There’s nowhere in Scripture you can take. Scripture out of context and try to. Twist it around and say it. But there’s nowhere in Scripture within context that anyone ever lost their salvation. What about Judas?

[01:34:47] Judas was never saved. I studied that years ago of if you look back through Judas, he never. Once called Jesus Lord. He always referred to him as good. Teacher, as rabbi, different things like that.

[01:35:02] But he was never Lord to Judas. He never professed him as his Lord and Savior. Judas was never saved to start with. So that’s another subject for another day. But no one ever has lost their salvation.

[01:35:19] Well, I hope my battery holds out here. I think I’m good. The rest of it’s a lot of just self explanatory. So to reject Christ leaves nothing but judgment. And listen to this here.

[01:35:31] It is a fearful thing verse 31, to fall in the hands of a. Living God, but call to remembrance the. Former days in which after you were illuminated you endured great fight of afflictions. See here the writer almost sounds like Paul writing here because it’s a lot of the same. He’s admonishing them and he sort of breaks off to that and he says.

[01:35:53] Guys, you’re going to continue doing these. Sacrifices and doing this stuff. He says, God’s going to take care of you. And believe me people, it’s a fearful thing to fall in the hands of a living God. God’s got this under control.

[01:36:08] You don’t have to go around pointing out everybody’s sins and telling they do this and they do that and they’ll try for a few days or weeks or months to do better and then they’ll fall right back into the same old addiction they had. That’s why you see that over and over and over. We understand that we rest in Christ and his finished work on the cross and being led by the Holy Spirit, presenting our bodies as a living sacrifice. To the Lord every day. Then he makes us and conforms us in the image of his dear Son.

[01:36:40] That’s a good study. That Romans chapter twelve by the way, too. And I look at that not so much as a command, but a way. To live the Christian life that we. Begin every day, presenting our body like.

[01:36:54] Isaiah did when he come before the. Lord and confessed that he was a man of unclean lips. And they took a coal from off the altar in heaven and touched Isaiah’s lips and cleansed his lips. And then God said, who will go. For me, who shall I send?

[01:37:13] And Isaiah says, here am I, Lord. Send me. See we understand that what we have. In Christ and all those things that. We have in Him and he cleanses of our sin.

[01:37:26] Then he gives us the abilities and the gifts and the talent, the things to serve Him and to go for Him. So anyway, I’ll move on. I got sort of sidetracked. Sorry about that. Hope I caught that rabbit.

[01:37:42] Yeah, I’m just plugging in my daughter. I got one while we’re worried about us. I may have to transfer let me just take a minute here. I’m going to to have transfer the power. Verse 33 partly wish you were made.

[01:38:00] A gazing stock both by reproaches I. Guess you can hear me good. Okay, good. Because I’m leaving this app and going to my Bible. I’m doing everything from my phone now.

[01:38:12] For reproaches and afflictions. Probably wish you could became companions of. Them that were of use for we had compassion of me in my bond. See that sounds a lot like Paul, doesn’t it? And took joyfully the spoiling of your goods knowing that in yourselves that you.

[01:38:29] Have in Heaven a better and enduring substance. I think what he’s telling them there. And why he’s telling that you remember. After the resurrection and these Jews were. Converting to Christianity, that they suffered a.

[01:38:46] Lot of were, as you saw, where Paul had imprisoned them and beat them and put them to death, they were suffering a lot of persecution and trials. And where Paul took up, you see, in two corinthians where he took up. Offerings to send back to Jerusalem for the poor. Because if they had converted to Christianity. They had a log or a list.

[01:39:10] There of who were Jews. And if you were on this list, you could get a job, you could. Do a lot of things, but if. You converted to Christianity, you were taken off the list. And so they became poor and they were suffering a lot of persecution because of Christ.

[01:39:27] And so some of them may have. Been tempted to go back to that. Judicial system even though they accepted Jesus as their Savior so they could be in good graces and keep their jobs. And it was just a lot going on there. And I think this is core to.

[01:39:45] What he’s dealing with here, all this. Suffering and in your bonds and that’s. Imprisonment, he says, don’t cast away the confidence, therefore cast not away, therefore the confidence which hath great repents of ward. All these trials we’re having here on. Earth are just for a time.

[01:40:10] They’re temporary, but eternal things is what matters. And that’s our great reward. For we have the need of patience that after you have done the will. Of God, you might receive the promise. So don’t continue to go back to this law.

[01:40:28] Don’t try to appease, for even though. Persecution is great. Don’T go back to. That system of sacrifices and things.

[01:40:41] For. Yet a little while. And he that shall come will come and will not tarry. Now, that is a promise of the return of Christ for his people, the return of Christ to set up his.

[01:41:00] I believe in the rapture. I don’t know how a lot of. You may not, but I believe in the Rapture where Christ meets us in the clouds. That’s not the second coming of Christ. The second coming of Christ, he touches down on the Mount of Olives and.

[01:41:16] Defeats the Antichrist and the false prophets. And all that, and then sets his millennial kingdom. And this is a promise that he’s going to come, and he will come and will not tarry. You will receive the promise of that. And he says, don’t draw back.

[01:41:31] The promises of God are good. He says, now the just shall live by faith. If any man draw back, my soul. Hath no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition, but of them.

[01:41:48] That believe to the saving of the soul. So again he gives us a glimpse. Here of what’s coming up next. The judge shall live by faith. Don’t keep doing the sacrificial system.

[01:42:03] Don’t doing these dead works. You’re saved by grace through faith. Live by grace through faith. Hold on to that. God’s promises are still true.

[01:42:13] He promised us, I will come and. I will bring you unto myself. I will return for you. And he’s saying, you can rest assured of this promise. Just be patient.

[01:42:25] Be steadfast in the ministry in which you are called, being washed in the blood of Jesus. So I think that’s all I had on that. My computer is still booting up and probably be booting up for the next 15 minutes. But anybody got any comments or anything? Any questions that you would like to add?

[01:42:48] I want to thank you all for being here. Good crowd again tonight. I’ve been watching the notes and trying to make sure I wasn’t missing something.

[01:43:00] Is all that pretty clear. Was it helpful to people? Sorry I had all the technical difficulties. I’ll try not do that anymore. You’re welcome.

[01:43:09] You’re welcome. Yes. She wrote down all the verses. Yeah. Good job.

[01:43:17] Thank you. Well you’re just on it there again. This recording will be in the depository under my name. Under the Hebrew study will be lesson number five.

[01:43:31] I hope this was a great help to you and maybe brings out more understanding of Hebrews. And we’re going to get in. Oh. I need to ask you all a question. I think it was easy to follow and straightforward.

[01:43:45] Thank you for your study. Thank you all for being here. Next week my wife and I will. Be celebrating 40 years of marriage anniversary. My bride and I, and we’re going on a cruise.

[01:43:59] So Saturday night I will be on a cruise ship and.

[01:44:07] I can get the wi fi and try to do it from there. Or we can take a week off. Or I can ask JD. If he would like to do it or somebody else. Y’all tell me what’s your what’s your pleasure?

[01:44:20] On.

[01:44:23] Know I would say the wi. Fi would be fine, but you’ve ever. Been on a cruise? The WiFi is not a lot to. Speak of your time with your wife on your anniversary.

[01:44:37] We can go a week and then pick up the following week when you all get back. Okay. That’d be all right with you all? That’s fine with me. But like I said JD could do it.

[01:44:50] We got 1112 and 13 and we’ll be done. But I’ll do whatever you all want to do, but if that’s all right agreeable there. But we’ll just take next week off. And I’ll see you when I get back. Guys, thank you again.

[01:45:09] We can talk about cruise and all that, but just want to make sure there’s no questions or anything. And I guess we need to close in prayer.

[01:45:20] Would anybody like to close us in prayer tonight? Don’t all jump at one time. Now you are bashful. All right, I will. All right.

[01:45:30] Thank you, Lord. If you follow Lord from above, we want to thank you for who you are. Thank you for our salvation. Thank you for this discord. Thank you for Pastor Kenny and his leadership to teach it.

[01:45:42] And we pray for our worship experiences tomorrow. And thank you for allowing us to meet in Christ. Let me pray. Amen. Amen.

[01:45:52] Thank you, sir. Now we can chat and whatever. I feel like we’ve officially closed out the study, so y’all hang around, we’ll. Talk fellowship, whatever you want to do.