1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,000 On Friday night, my girls play volleyball for Heritage Christian School. 2 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Go Lady Minutemen. 3 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:18,000 It's kind of weird, Lady Minutemen. 4 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Anyway, there's some confusion there. 5 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,000 Anyway, but hey, they won. 6 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,000 They both won, which is cool. 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,000 And we were on our way home and it happened. 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,000 We were going to a game about two hours away. 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:35,000 We're about 10 minutes from home coming off of the exit. 10 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:44,000 And that light that you don't want to see on your dash, the check engine light, it came up. 11 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,000 And it didn't just come up and stay solid. 12 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,000 It came up and started flashing. 13 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:59,000 Now, I'm not a mechanic, but I know that a flashing light is worse than a solid light, potentially. 14 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Right. 15 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,000 And so the car was kind of sputtering, then that happened. 16 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,000 And yeah, it wasn't just staying on. 17 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:11,000 It was blinking and that's even more infamous than if it just comes and stays on. 18 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,000 And so we were coming off the exit and heading over the house. 19 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,000 We weren't going very far. 20 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:21,000 And a quick Google search revealed that we better turn the car off. 21 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:26,000 So we pulled it in to our driveway and that's where it has sat ever since. 22 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,000 And luckily it's a holiday weekend. 23 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,000 And so we're going to wait until Tuesday to try to get that fixed. 24 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,000 But thank the Lord for warnings, right? 25 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:41,000 If there wasn't a warning, I would have just had to blame my wife. 26 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:46,000 Because she was the one driving and I probably should be driving, but she was driving for us. 27 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:53,000 But yesterday I went and bought one of those code scanners to find out what the check engine light meant. 28 00:01:53,000 --> 00:02:01,000 And I read the warning that was relevant to us and learned on a forum after a forum online that continuing to drive the vehicle without getting it fixed would be bad. 29 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,000 So that's what we're doing with it. 30 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:07,000 Ignoring the warning is not the answer to our van's woes. 31 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,000 Are you with me? 32 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Ignoring it doesn't make the problem go away. 33 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Small problems can stay small when you heed the warnings. 34 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,000 You get it? 35 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Big problems can be dealt with and warnings, though not fun, should be welcomed, right? 36 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Because if they aren't heeded and they're not responded to, big problems tend to get bigger. 37 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Who agrees with me? 38 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:45,000 That happens. 39 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,000 We are in the book of Hebrews. 40 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,000 And we've been in the book of Hebrews, I think, a little bit over a year. 41 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 We're in chapter number 10 today. 42 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,000 So if you have your Bibles, go to chapter number 10. 43 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:04,000 And we're going to study what Brother Brian read to us this morning. 44 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,000 Hebrews chapter 10 starting in verse 26. 45 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:13,000 The reason I'm bringing up warnings is because this particular passage of Scripture is a warning. 46 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,000 It's a warning. 47 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:22,000 I don't love delivering bad news. 48 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Because you know what they do when somebody brings bad news. 49 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:30,000 What's the saying? Don't shoot the messenger. 50 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Why is that? 51 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Because who likes getting bad news? Nobody. 52 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,000 Nobody likes getting warnings. 53 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:42,000 When my wife said, hey, the check engine lights blinking, I wasn't like, yes, I'm so excited. 54 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,000 I get to hang out with my mechanic. 55 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,000 This is great, right? 56 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,000 But we need them. 57 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,000 We need them. 58 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 We need warnings. 59 00:03:52,000 --> 00:04:00,000 And I'm in chapter 10, verse 26, because the week that I last taught, I was in the verses beforehand. 60 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,000 We're going to go through every verse of the book of Hebrews. 61 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:07,000 And the book here tells us a warning. 62 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,000 It's a warning. 63 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,000 This is a warning. 64 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,000 And you're like, okay, is it for me? 65 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Let me tell you who this warning is for. 66 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:18,000 This warning is to people who think that they are good with God. 67 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:25,000 This is a warning to people who potentially are religious. 68 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,000 It's a warning to people who think they are good. 69 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:38,000 It's a warning to people who have a lot of knowledge about Christ, but who have not trusted in Christ. 70 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:46,000 And I want today's message to be a blinking light on the dashboard of your life if you've not put your trust in Christ. 71 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:54,000 It's also among the most difficult passages of Scripture to interpret in the New Testament. 72 00:04:54,000 --> 00:05:00,000 And so my week this week was a lot of fun trying to figure all this out. 73 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:01,000 It wasn't easy. 74 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Many people have read the warnings in this passage and through a poor interpretation come to a fear of things that are not possible. 75 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Part of the role of a pastor and not just a senior pastor, but any pastor who's worth assault is for them to give a public proclamation of the word like I'm doing now. 76 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:35,000 Preaching to a lot of people, but there's also a private proclamation of the word where that you get one on one and one on three conversations and you declare the word of God to people and private. 77 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:48,000 And in doing that, I have come across in my ministry a lot of times people who come to passages like this passage of Scripture and they go, oh no, maybe I can lose my salvation. 78 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Maybe I'm not good enough for God. 79 00:05:52,000 --> 00:06:03,000 Maybe I'm going to go to hell even though they've placed their faith and trust in Christ. 80 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Many of people have read the warning like that and come to that poor interpretation. 81 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:14,000 But to understand the Holy Spirit's intent, who wrote Hebrews? 82 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,000 We don't know the human author. 83 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Some say it's Paul. 84 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,000 I've heard people say other names. 85 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Here's who I knew wrote it. 86 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 The Holy Spirit wrote it. 87 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 This is God's word. 88 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:29,000 Holy, men of old, spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. 89 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,000 And so this is God's word and here's what I know about the Holy Spirit. 90 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:34,000 God is truth. 91 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:39,000 God's word speaks truth and that means God does not contradict himself. 92 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,000 He does not contradict himself. 93 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:47,000 And so to understand the intent of this passage, we have to explore the context in which he gave this warning. 94 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:52,000 We also have to include where we are now in the flow of the book. 95 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:58,000 So as we studied this particular series for this last almost a year, 96 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:03,000 we said that the theme of the book is the title of the series, Jesus is Greater. 97 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:11,000 And the purpose of the book of Hebrews is to teach us that Jesus is better than anything and everything, 98 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:17,000 especially as it's written to the Hebrews, to everything that came before in the Old Testament. 99 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,000 That Jesus is a greater revelation. 100 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:25,000 He says in chapter one, God who spoke to us in times past by the prophets had in these last days, 101 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:29,000 he spoke into us by his son who he made heir of all things. 102 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,000 And so Jesus is a better revelation. 103 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,000 He walked through and said he's better than the angels. 104 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,000 He's greater than Moses. 105 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,000 He's greater than Abraham. 106 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:49,000 Jesus has a better priesthood that the Old Testament priests were of one order and they were an inferior order 107 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,000 because now there's a better priesthood and now we have a better priest. 108 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:55,000 We don't need a bunch of priests because we have one high priest. 109 00:07:55,000 --> 00:08:02,000 It's the high priest Jesus who sits on a throne next to God the Father and ever lives to make the intercession for us. 110 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,000 That's who we have. 111 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Jesus is our high priest. 112 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,000 He's our great high priest. 113 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:13,000 And so when we got to chapter 10, he's continuing to make a case to Jewish believers specifically, 114 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:19,000 but of course to us as we read it today and sometimes to people who were Jews who had not yet believed, 115 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:25,000 but who understood the Old Testament and he's making the case that only it was Jesus better than all those things 116 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,000 and a better priest. 117 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:32,000 He makes the case that Jesus is a better sacrifice. 118 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:36,000 See the priest would make a sacrifice, right? 119 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:41,000 And that sacrifice, the blood of that sacrifice would atone for their sins in that Jesus, 120 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:48,000 in that God set it up that that was a picturing forward to the sacrifice of Jesus that would come one day. 121 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,000 And so everybody that gets to heaven gets to heaven by Jesus. 122 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,000 Some did it because they put faith in God, looking forward to it. 123 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:56,000 We do it now. 124 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:02,000 We get to heaven by Jesus because we look back at what he does and what he's done and we put our faith and trust in him. 125 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Amen. 126 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:07,000 So when you get to chapter 10, look at chapter 10, look at verse 1. 127 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,000 Here's what he says, talking about that sacrifice. 128 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:15,000 For the law, talking about that Old Covenant, that Old Testament. 129 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things can never with those sacrifices, 130 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:33,000 which they offered up year by year continually make the comers there unto perfect. 131 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Whenever you ever get hot outside and you're outdoors and you want to take a break and so somebody brings out the lemonade, 132 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,000 what do you look for if you want to go take a break? 133 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,000 You look for some shade, right? 134 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,000 You look for some shade. 135 00:09:54,000 --> 00:10:02,000 You go get in a shadow because the shade, the shadow comes because there's something there to create the shadow. 136 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:03,000 There's the sun. 137 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:04,000 There's the tree. 138 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:08,000 And there's the shadow who's grateful for trees on hot days, right? 139 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,000 The shadow's there because the real is there. 140 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,000 If the real wasn't there, there would be no shadow. 141 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Do you get it? 142 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:26,000 He says the law is a shadow of good things to come, but not the, the law is not the image of those things. 143 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,000 The law is not what's creating the shadow. 144 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,000 The law is the shadow. 145 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,000 Do you get it? 146 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,000 It's pointing to something real. 147 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:44,000 And so he says the law can never, verse one, with those sacrifices that they offered year by year, those goats, those, those, the sheep, the turtle doves, 148 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:51,000 the sacrifices that he did all the time, they can never make the comers there unto perfect. 149 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:57,000 It could not satisfy, it could not forgive sins. 150 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:07,000 Verse four tells us this in a very clear way, for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. 151 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Do you get it? 152 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,000 Jesus had to do it. 153 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:15,000 So what sacrifice could fully and finally do that? 154 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,000 Look at verse nine and 10. 155 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:22,000 He says, then said, he lo, I come to do thy will, O God. 156 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:31,000 This is the author of Hebrews, Philhoi spirit, quoting the Old Testament, a prophecy of the New Testament that would come, talking about Jesus. 157 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,000 When he said, lo, I come to do thy will, O God. 158 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Verse nine, he taketh away the first, the first covenant, the shadow, that he may establish the second. 159 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,000 What is he saying? 160 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:58,000 When God, when Jesus obeyed God all the way to the cross, all the way to death on the cross, his sacrifice made it so that the shadow pointed to the real. 161 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:07,000 So that the, the sacrifice, this covenant that was made could do away with the Old Covenant because the new was here. 162 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:14,000 He says this, verse 10, by the which will, Testament inheritance. 163 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:23,000 He says, by that we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 164 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Jesus only had to die once. 165 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:31,000 And his death on the cross wasn't just for the person that made the sacrifice like the Old Testament was. 166 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,000 They brought it and it was just for them, between them and God. 167 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,000 Now this sacrifice is for everybody. 168 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,000 It's for everybody. 169 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Point to who it's for. 170 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,000 It's for everybody. 171 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,000 It's exactly right. 172 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:55,000 The final sacrifice that was needed to fulfill the New Testament or the New Covenant, Jesus Christ's death on the cross was made once for all. 173 00:12:55,000 --> 00:13:01,000 And so the preacher here, what I'm calling the author of Hebrews the preacher, because I don't know if it's Paul. 174 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:05,000 I don't know if it's Apollos. I don't know if it's some unnamed person. 175 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:06,000 I don't know who it is. 176 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,000 I know it's the Holy Spirit through a human author. 177 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:20,000 And this preacher who's talking to a bunch of Jewish people, some saved and some potentially unsaved, is telling them that they can't, he's saying to them, 178 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:24,000 you can forsake the old ceremonies. 179 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:29,000 You can forsake the sacrificial system. 180 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,000 Who thinks that's a good idea? 181 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,000 Who thinks that's good news? 182 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Anybody bringing any sheep with them today? 183 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,000 Who's glad for that, right? 184 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,000 We don't have to do that anymore. 185 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,000 We don't have to sacrifice those animals anymore. 186 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Why? 187 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Jesus died once for all. 188 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:53,000 And by the way, he doesn't have to die over and over and over and over again, as some teach. 189 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:58,000 The Lord's Supper, when we do communion, that's not Jesus dying every time we do it. 190 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:02,000 It's a picture of what was done. 191 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:13,000 And so, they could, he's telling these Jewish people, you can forsake your old ceremonies, the old sacrifices, the old covenant, 192 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:17,000 not because Jesus said they're bad, but because he came and fulfilled it. 193 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Why? 194 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Because Jesus is greater. 195 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:23,000 You can see that in verse 16. 196 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,000 I'm catching you up to where we're going to be today. 197 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:26,000 Verse 16. 198 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:29,000 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days. 199 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,000 This is the new covenant, he says. 200 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:37,000 Sayeth the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds will I write them. 201 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:43,000 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 202 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. 203 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:49,000 What is he saying? 204 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:54,000 He's saying, once you get saved in this new covenant, the Holy Spirit's going to come and live inside of you. 205 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,000 He's going to be the law on your hearts that convicts the word of God. 206 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:01,000 The author of this book gets to live inside of us. 207 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,000 And he convicts us of our sin. 208 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,000 And he gives us life. 209 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:11,000 And because of his once for all sacrifices, now we have forgiveness and sins through him. 210 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,000 And where remission of these is, what does he say? 211 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:18,000 There is no more offering for sin. 212 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:22,000 You don't have to bring the sheep anymore. 213 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:26,000 Jesus doesn't have to die again. 214 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,000 He already did. 215 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Who's thankful for that? 216 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,000 I'm so thankful for that. 217 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:39,000 So what he's saying to these people is you can forsake the shadows of the old covenant because we have a better one. 218 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:50,000 You can stop participating in the old sacrificial system because the once for all sacrifices that those sacrifice signified has been made fully and finally. 219 00:15:50,000 --> 00:16:02,000 And so it is then when we get to this verse, verse 18, that the doctrinal kind of part of the book of Hebrews seems to come to a close. 220 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,000 And he begins to make it practical. 221 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,000 He begins to say, okay, if that's true, what does that mean for us? 222 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:17,000 And that's when we got to verse 19 where he says this, having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiness by the blood of Jesus. 223 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:29,000 These Jewish people would have heard that and said, hey, yeah, now because of Jesus, we don't have to have the holy of holies that only the high priests had to go into once a year. 224 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:36,000 When Jesus died, that veil was broken, that veil was torn, signifying that we can go in there. 225 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:41,000 And what he's saying is we have a high priest in a real temple and Jesus goes on our behalf. 226 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,000 And so now we're the priests. 227 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:52,000 Jesus is our high priest. We can go to God. There's a priest to the believer and we go not because of our own righteousness. 228 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:58,000 How can we go to God now by his son and the blood of his son? That's what he says. 229 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:06,000 We now have boldness. We can go to God into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way. 230 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:09,000 Hey, this Jesus who died gets what happened to him. 231 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,000 He rose again. 232 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,000 He rose again. 233 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:20,000 And so this living way, he consecrated us through the veil, that is to say his flesh and having a high priest over the house of God. 234 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Here's what he says, now that you have all these things, what do we do? 235 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:28,000 Let us draw near with a true heart, full assurance of faith. 236 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:35,000 You know what? Because of what Jesus did, you and I can have a relationship with God and we can be close to God. 237 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:41,000 We can commune with God. You can talk to God and God can talk to you through his word and through his spirit. 238 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:48,000 He says, let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithful that promised. 239 00:17:48,000 --> 00:18:03,000 That is, what do we have to claim now? We have Jesus. Hallelujah. All I have is Christ. Hallelujah. Jesus is my life. 240 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:07,000 Do you get it? 241 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:14,000 And so he says, and you can forsake all that other stuff, but don't do this. 242 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:22,000 Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works, not forsaking the assembling. 243 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:26,000 I told you last time that word was epi-synagogy. 244 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:34,000 Hey, you Jewish people, you can forsake the blood of bulls and goats because you don't need it anymore, but don't forsake getting together. 245 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Don't stop doing that. Don't forsake the assembling of yourselves together as the man or some is, but exhorting, encouraging one another 246 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:47,000 and so much the more as you see the day approaching. You can forsake the sacrificing of the goats and the bulls. 247 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:55,000 You can forsake the ceremonial washings and cleanliness. You can forsake the dietary laws and all God's people said, bacon. 248 00:18:55,000 --> 00:19:06,000 I mean, amen. Right? Amen. I'll amen myself on that. 249 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:13,000 But don't forsake the body of Christ. That's what he's saying. 250 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:19,000 It's the Lord's will that we obey all that Jesus taught the disciples to do. 251 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:26,000 All authority He said is given into me and heaven and earth, go ye therefore and make disciples of all nations, 252 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:34,000 baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe or to obey all that I've commanded you. 253 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:45,000 And, Lord, I'm with you always, even to the end of the world and to the end of the Ion, the age. I'm with you. You go and I'll go with you. 254 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:51,000 It's the Lord's will that we obey all that Jesus taught the disciples to do. And it's at this point, so do you get the idea? 255 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:57,000 You get what we're talking about. He gets to the warning. And here's our text for today. Here's what he says. 256 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:06,000 For if we sin willfully, after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 257 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:16,000 but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and a fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries. 258 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:21,000 Now, like I said, these verses have caused great fear and trembling for people. And I believe on the whole that's a good thing. 259 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:29,000 Let's say that in my backyard I had a well, an old school kind of well. You know, you picture that in your mind. 260 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:36,000 Remember Timmy falling in the well and Lassie has to go get people. Every episode you get that kind of well. 261 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:42,000 And I've got that in my backyard and you let your kids come over and hang out with my kids and play and they're going to go in the backyard to play. 262 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:52,000 If I'm a good host and a good dad, then I'll sit my kids down and I'll sit your kids down and I'd say, hey, we have a lot of fun stuff in the backyard. 263 00:20:52,000 --> 00:21:00,000 We've got trees to climb. We've got footballs. We've got Nerf guns. We've got a trampoline. It's going to be a blast. 264 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:10,000 But back in our backyard there's a well and that well is there and you can fall in the well. You can fall in the well. 265 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:18,000 And if you fall in the well, you'll get hurt. And so you need to stay far away from the well. Just don't even go anywhere near the well. 266 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:27,000 Okay? Who's with me? That's a good warning. Okay. Now, what if I said among these children, among these kids, there was two responses. 267 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:39,000 One response was a kid going, oh, yes, sir, I won't go near the well. And the other one was like, well, Schmel, who cares? 268 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:50,000 Let's all play tag and the well will be the base, right? Which kid should I be worried about? 269 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:57,000 Should I be worried about the kid who's scared? Or should I be worried about the kid who's not scared? 270 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:06,000 Who should I worry about? The kid who's not scared. And so if you read this and there's any kind of, if you're reading the word and you're like, oh, man, this is kind of scary, 271 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:14,000 there may be an indication that you take the things of the Lord very seriously. That you take the Bible seriously. Who agrees it's good to take the Bible seriously? 272 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:20,000 If Jesus gives us a warning, we better figure out who the warnings do, and we better be careful about that. 273 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:32,000 So the big question of these verses then is who is this talking to? Who's being talked to in Hebrews chapter 10 verses 20, 60, 31? 274 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:43,000 And I think there's three options that people have proposed. Some say that, so here's the question, who's being talked about in Hebrews chapter 10, this 26 through 31? 275 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:52,000 One option that people have proposed is these are true Christians who turn away from Christ and then lose their salvation. 276 00:22:52,000 --> 00:23:04,000 Okay, people who were saved, who believed in Jesus, but began to sin, it says here, sin willfully and they sin enough that they pass some kind of line of too much sin or a certain kind of sin. 277 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:13,000 And then because they did that, now they've lost their salvation, there's no hope for them because they lost their salvation. 278 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:19,000 Now, this is not an option because the rest of Scripture does not allow for it. 279 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:26,000 I want to give you four truths from passages where the Holy Spirit teaches, truths that pertain to the eternal security of the believer. 280 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:35,000 Let me give you these four truths, ready? This is kind of an aparitheses in the sermon because I want you to not be worried unless you ought to be. 281 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,000 Are you with me? Okay. 282 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:42,000 Number one, the truth of eternal life. 283 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:46,000 Write this verse down. I'm going to read it to you. It will be on the screen. 284 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:50,000 But if you, you may want to go back and look at these later. Okay. 285 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:56,000 In John chapter 10 verse 27, this is Jesus speaking and he says this, 286 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:00,000 My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. 287 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:07,000 He's saying, my sheep, when I call to my sheep, they respond, right? 288 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:12,000 And I give unto them eternal life and they shall, what does it say? 289 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:24,000 Never perish. If the kind of life that God gives is eternal, can God give eternal life and then that life go away? 290 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:31,000 God doesn't give us eternal life when we go to heaven. He gives us eternal life when we get saved. 291 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:36,000 That's what he's saying. What kind of life does God give? He gives eternal life. 292 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:43,000 Neither shall any man, it says, pluck them out of my hand. How many men can pluck them out of his hand? 293 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:48,000 How many? Give me the universal symbol of how many? 294 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:53,000 Right. None. Does that include you? 295 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:58,000 Can you pluck, are you any man? Can you pluck yourself out of the Father's hand? 296 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:03,000 No, you cannot. Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 297 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:07,000 And my Father, which gave them me, is greater than all. 298 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:15,000 And no man can pluck them out of my Father's hand. Oh, and by the way, I and my Father are one. 299 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:21,000 Jesus talks about those who respond to his call and to his voice to follow him. 300 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,000 He says they have eternal life. Eternal life doesn't start when we die. 301 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,000 Eternal life starts when we get saved. 302 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:33,000 That salvation we receive eternal life and eternal life by definition never ends. 303 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:40,000 He says they will never perish. That's exactly what he told Martha when she came to see him after her brother's death. 304 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,000 She said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. 305 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:54,000 He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever, and liveth and believeth in me shall never die. 306 00:25:54,000 --> 00:26:00,000 You say, Ben, do you think one day you're going to die? No. 307 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:06,000 I don't. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. 308 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:10,000 My body's going to die, but I'm going to be doing great. 309 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:21,000 I'm going to have a new body. It's going to be amazing. 310 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:26,000 Calories won't matter. I'm joking. 311 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:32,000 Here's the thing. Of course, it says in verse 1, 312 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,000 needless shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 313 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,000 This would include some enemies of God who some may think could try. 314 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:44,000 False religious leaders have always tried to exercise control over people by holding condemnation in the afterlife over their heads. 315 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,000 So this designation of any man would include them. 316 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,000 It would also include the person who believes. 317 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,000 I cannot pluck myself from Christ's hand or his father's. 318 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:58,000 If I'm truly saved, then I cannot change my own spiritual condition, because I never could. 319 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,000 Jesus is the one who does that. 320 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,000 Number two, these are coming quick, the truth about God's love. 321 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:10,000 God is love. God is love. 322 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:18,000 He gives us in Romans chapter 8 an exhaustive and extensive list of what can't separate us from his love. 323 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:24,000 He says in Romans 8.34, who is he that condemneth? 324 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:31,000 It is Christ that died, ye rather, that has risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also make an intercession for us. 325 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:35,000 What, who shall separate us from the love of Christ? 326 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:41,000 Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? 327 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,000 As it is written, for thy sake, we are killed all the day long. 328 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,000 We are counted as sheep for the slaughter. 329 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,000 Nay, in all things, we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 330 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,000 For I am persuaded, are you with me? 331 00:27:52,000 --> 00:28:03,000 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, 332 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:11,000 nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 333 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:15,000 Those who know Christ cannot be separated from him by anything. 334 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:20,000 Number three, quickly, the truth of the indwelling spirit. 335 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,000 The truth of the indwelling spirit. 336 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:32,000 1 Corinthians 6-17 says this, he is making a case for being pure with your body sexually. 337 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:36,000 He says this, but he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 338 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:41,000 He says if you are joined to a harlot, you become one flesh and that is not good. 339 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:47,000 But if you that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit, flee fornication, every sin that a man does is without the body. 340 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,000 But he that committed fornication sins against his own body. 341 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,000 What? 342 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:58,000 Know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you? 343 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,000 Which ye have of God and you are not your own for you are bought with a price. 344 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:07,000 Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God's. 345 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:15,000 If you are a believer, the Holy Spirit lives inside of you and even when you sin the Holy Spirit can't leave. 346 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,000 That is what he is saying here. 347 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,000 Don't you understand? 348 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,000 You are going to mess this thing up. 349 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,000 You are going to make him upset. 350 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:30,000 Paul's plea with the Corinthians believers is that they understand the sacredness of their own body is made in God's image and then dwell by that Holy Spirit. 351 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,000 The spirit cannot leave and to live this way dishonors him. 352 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:37,000 You need to give me more proof. 353 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,000 Ephesians 1 verse 12. 354 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,000 Paul is doing a praise anthem to God. 355 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:52,000 He is talking about how we are blessed by the Father and by the Son and then he goes into being blessed by the Spirit when he says this. 356 00:29:52,000 --> 00:30:10,000 That we should be to the praise of his glory who first trusted Christ and whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation and whom also after that you believed you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. 357 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,000 That means he came and dwelt you and he sealed you. 358 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,000 What does that mean? 359 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:21,000 He is the earnest verse 14 of our inheritance and we are sealed by him. 360 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,000 He is in us until when? 361 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:29,000 Until the redemption of the purchased possession under the praise of his glory. 362 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:33,000 Who is the purchased possession? 363 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:48,000 The Holy Spirit coming inside of us is the down payment on the inheritance to tell us that hey, the same God that gave you the Holy Spirit has a whole bunch more he wants to give you in heaven. 364 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:53,000 I am like 87% more excited than you guys are. 365 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,000 Do you understand what you have been given? 366 00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:02,000 And then he says this three chapters later in the same book. 367 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:14,000 Paul says put on the new man which after God has created in righteousness and true holiness, wherefore putting away lying speak every man truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 368 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:19,000 Be ye angry and say not let not the sun go down your wrath. 369 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:28,000 Let him that stole steal no more but rather let him labor working with his hands the thing which is good that he might have to give to those that need. 370 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:35,000 Let no communication proceed out of your mouth but that which is good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace into the hearers. 371 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:46,000 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 372 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,000 You know what that means? 373 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:53,000 If sinning could make the Holy Spirit go away he would. 374 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,000 But he doesn't. 375 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,000 He doesn't. 376 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:06,000 He can't because he's promised not to. 377 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,000 I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. 378 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:13,000 He can't go even when I mess up. 379 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,000 And guess what? 380 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:20,000 If he could he would because I mess up all the time and so do you. 381 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,000 Are you with me? 382 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,000 If you could lose your salvation you already had. 383 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,000 You already have. 384 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,000 You can't because he can't leave. 385 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,000 Isn't that exciting? 386 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,000 I need that because otherwise I'm in trouble. 387 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,000 I'm going to lose him like even while I'm preaching. 388 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:40,000 I can't. 389 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:48,000 I'm sure at some point I'd sinned when I was preaching. 390 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,000 That's how messed up I am. 391 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:51,000 What about you? 392 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:55,000 You ever sinned when you were praying? 393 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,000 God I pray for them. 394 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,000 They are idiots. 395 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,000 Sorry God, I shouldn't have that. 396 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,000 Are you with me? 397 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000 Here's one more truth you have to consider. 398 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,000 Ready? 399 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,000 Here it is. 400 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:13,000 Number four, the truth about false teachers and false believers. 401 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:20,000 Often what's brought up when the conversation of eternal security comes up is a story. 402 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:28,000 I went to a Bible college in Missouri and across town there was the assembly of God 403 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:29,000 Bible college. 404 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,000 I love those people. 405 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,000 I believe they are in Christ. 406 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,000 I love them. 407 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,000 I care about them. 408 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:39,000 I would end up working with people from that more Pentecostal denomination. 409 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,000 I didn't believe in the security of the believer. 410 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,000 I had a buddy that would come in. 411 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:47,000 We did tuxedos and he came in and we get to talk about it. 412 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:51,000 I would go, if you are saved and you know it, say amen. 413 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,000 It's kind of a mean thing. 414 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,000 He is my buddy and I love him. 415 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,000 It's hilarious. 416 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,000 There is a story. 417 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:05,000 The story is, there is someone that made a profession of faith and lived for a long time 418 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,000 like a believer would live. 419 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,000 Now they have left the faith. 420 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,000 They are not going to church. 421 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:20,000 They are running a brothel or some kind of story that sounds really, really bad. 422 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:27,000 What I think the teaching of Scripture would tell us is that not everybody who says they 423 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:31,000 have trusted in Christ or claims to know Christ actually does. 424 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:35,000 Not everybody who claims Christ is saved. 425 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:43,000 First John 2, 18 says, little children, it is the last time and as you heard that antichrist 426 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:48,000 shall come, there are many antichrists, whereby we know it is the last time. 427 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:53,000 They went out from us but they were not of us. 428 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:58,000 For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us. 429 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:04,000 But they went out, they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. 430 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:09,000 This is an instance where there is false teachers, false believers whose works will show that they were 431 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:13,000 never really saved or part of a fellowship of believers. 432 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:22,000 Profession of faith in Christ saying, I have been saved does not always mean that you have been saved. 433 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,000 It doesn't always mean that. 434 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:30,000 Jesus said in Matthew 21, not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord shall enter into the kingdom of God, of heaven. 435 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:35,000 But he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven, many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied 436 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:42,000 in thy name and in thy name cast out devils and in thy name done many wonderful works and then will I profess unto them, 437 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:49,000 I never knew you depart from me ye that work iniquity. 438 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:54,000 So in summary, you can't lose your salvation. 439 00:35:54,000 --> 00:36:01,000 People's claims also aren't always right. Salvation happens in the heart and we don't know ultimately what goes on in a person's heart. 440 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:05,000 We can only know them by their fruit or by their work. 441 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:12,000 So if it's clear from other passages of scripture that this passage cannot teach that someone who is saved can lose their salvation, 442 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,000 what are their options are left to us? 443 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,000 Well, there's two more options. 444 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:25,000 One option would be that this passage is dealing with believers, true Christians, who black slide but are still saved 445 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:30,000 and are warned of enduring the chastening of the Lord. 446 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,000 That would be one other option. 447 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:38,000 Another option that these are talking about those who profess to be Christians but were never truly born again. 448 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:44,000 And then their way of thinking, if they continue to think that way. 449 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:50,000 Those who profess to be Christians but were never truly saved because they rejected Christ's sacrifice. 450 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:56,000 I think there are good people who hold to both positions, but I believe the context points to a straightforward answer. 451 00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:02,000 Let's read the text one more time and we'll get in. That's all my introduction. Here we go. 452 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,000 Verse 26, 453 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:31,000 Whenever anybody preaches or writes to a group of people, I think it's right to think that there are people in the crowd who know Christ and are saved. 454 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:41,000 I also think that there may be in the crowd or in the reception of a letter like the one that the preacher is writing here in Hebrews. 455 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:46,000 That there are those who do not know Christ and are lost. 456 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:53,000 There are also even people who may profess Christ but have never truly put their faith and trust in Him through repentance and faith. 457 00:37:53,000 --> 00:38:02,000 The truth is that when the author says here in verse 26, if and includes himself for if we, 458 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:08,000 I believe that he is saying that those who turn away from Christ through continual habitual sin, 459 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:15,000 especially the sin of forsaking Christ and forsaking Christ's body, they are showing that they never were really saved. 460 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:22,000 He is saying that if you forsake Christ's sacrifice for your sin and go back to any other thing, 461 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:29,000 here especially the old covenant and the old sacrificial system, but really anything else, you're abandoning your only hope. 462 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:35,000 You're showing that you are never truly saved to begin with. 463 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:43,000 I believe that this is a warning to believers to work out their salvation with fear and trembling and to lost people to not hear and understand, 464 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:48,000 to not do this, to hear and understand the gospel and then fail to put their trust in it. 465 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:54,000 Okay, so here's the big idea and the body of my sermon will go much faster than the introduction. 466 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,000 Here's what I want to tell you today. 467 00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:02,000 We must be warned about the danger of rejecting Christ. 468 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:07,000 It is a dangerous thing to reject Christ. 469 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:11,000 It is the most dangerous thing. 470 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:15,000 All you have is Christ. 471 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:20,000 The plane of this world is going down. 472 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,000 It's appointed unto man wants to die. 473 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:29,000 And if you reject the parachute, you have no hope. 474 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,000 Christ is the parachute. 475 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,000 Don't reject Him. 476 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:39,000 Don't know everything about the parachute and fail to put it on. 477 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:44,000 Don't know the dimensions and the color and the manufacturer and when it was made. 478 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:48,000 And everything about it but not put it on. 479 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,000 Put on the parachute. 480 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:55,000 That's Jesus. 481 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:56,000 Here's what He's saying. 482 00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:01,000 We have to be warned about the danger of rejecting Christ by considering three realities of such a rebellion. 483 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:05,000 Number one, there's no remedy for persistent rebellion. 484 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:09,000 What I mean by persistent rebellion here is rebellion against Christ. 485 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:15,000 He says if we sin willfully after we receive the knowledge of the truth, there remain no more sacrifice for sins. 486 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:20,000 Here this idea of sin willingly or willfully means to go on sinning. 487 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,000 The idea of sinning without restraint. 488 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:27,000 Sinning that disregards that Christ died for sins. 489 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,000 Everybody sins. 490 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,000 Everybody sins. 491 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:34,000 Christians sin. 492 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,000 Believers sin. 493 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,000 Just hang out here for a little while. 494 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,000 You'll see Christians sin. 495 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:43,000 We do it. 496 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,000 We're not perfect. 497 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:51,000 But the Bible makes it clear that if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us of all our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 498 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,000 That's not the kind of sin he's talking about here. 499 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:58,000 The sin he's talking about here is a sin like the sin of Judas. 500 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:03,000 Judas was with Jesus. 501 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:09,000 Judas was an exemplary disciple in that they trusted him with the money. 502 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,000 He was the keeper of the purse. 503 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,000 You guys know what I'm talking about. 504 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:13,000 Judas Iscariot. 505 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:14,000 You know what I'm talking about. 506 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,000 Raise your hand. 507 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,000 Judas Iscariot, he saw Jesus. 508 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,000 He saw Jesus do the miracles. 509 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:23,000 He saw Jesus teach like nobody else. 510 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,000 But he loved money. 511 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,000 He loved money. 512 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,000 He loved it so much he took from the purse. 513 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,000 He was stealing from Jesus. 514 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,000 He was stealing from Jesus' disciples. 515 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:38,000 And he stole and he stole and he stole and he stole and he stole and he stole. 516 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,000 And he was never truly repentant. 517 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,000 His faith was not really in Christ. 518 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:51,000 And in the end, he rejected Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. 519 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:56,000 He abandoned the only hope he had. 520 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,000 His was not an issue about knowledge. 521 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,000 Did he know Jesus was God? 522 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,000 Did he know Jesus was the Messiah? 523 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,000 He absolutely did. 524 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:09,000 And when he knew that truth, he did not make the decision to trust Christ. 525 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:13,000 And because he did, what was true, this verse is true of him. 526 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,000 There remaineth no more sacrifice. 527 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,000 Where can he go? 528 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,000 If you reject Jesus, where can you go? 529 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:25,000 The idea is that someone that sins this way is not acknowledging the price that was paid. 530 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:29,000 We must acknowledge the sacrifice that was made for our sin. 531 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,000 That points to its seriousness. 532 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:35,000 Jesus died for us and we must trust in that sacrifice. 533 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:39,000 What is there to look forward to when we reject Christ's sacrifice? 534 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,000 He tells us right here in verse 27. 535 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:44,000 What do we have to look forward to? 536 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:54,000 If we reject Jesus Christ, a certain fearful looking for judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the enemies. 537 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,000 The Bible says that our sin makes us enemies of God. 538 00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,000 God loves his enemies. 539 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:04,000 He loves them so much that he offered his enemies his son. 540 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:11,000 But if his enemies, his adversaries reject the son, guess what they say? 541 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,000 His enemies. 542 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:17,000 And so what's certain fiery judgment? 543 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,000 If we reject Christ, there's no other way. 544 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:25,000 If you reject Christ after having understood the gospel, what's left for you? 545 00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:30,000 If you reject Christ's sacrifice, then you stay in your state as an enemy of God. 546 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,000 So there's no remedy for that kind of persistent rebellion. 547 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,000 Number two, there's no lessening of judgment. 548 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,000 Look at verse number 28. 549 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:41,000 It says this, he that despised Moses' law. 550 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:44,000 Now what was the law? 551 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:49,000 It was a shadow of good things to come. 552 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:50,000 Okay? 553 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,000 He's making a case here. 554 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:57,000 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses. 555 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:00,000 What in the world is he talking about? 556 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:04,000 Well in the Old Testament time, people under the law that rejected the Old Covenant 557 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:08,000 and served other gods were commanded to be put to death. 558 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:12,000 There are preachers referring to Hebrews who knew the Old Covenant. 559 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,000 And you're going to see here in a minute because of what I'm going to read. 560 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,000 I mean he's referring to a specific passage of Scripture. 561 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:22,000 In that passage of Scripture, the sentence being referred to is a rejection of God 562 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,000 and an acceptance of idolatry and all that comes with it. 563 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:31,000 Sexual sin, idol worship, infant sacrifice, blasphemy, rejection of God, lawlessness. 564 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:34,000 What was the law of sentence for that person? 565 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:35,000 It was death. 566 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,000 Look at Deuteronomy chapter 17. 567 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,000 I want to show you this because it makes sense. 568 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,000 This is how we got to the decision about who this is talking to. 569 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:43,000 Look at verse two. 570 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:50,000 This is God, the Holy Spirit through Moses giving the law, talking about this issue. 571 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:51,000 Verse two. 572 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:55,000 If there be found among you within any of thy gates, which the Lord of thy God giveth thee, 573 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,000 man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord of thy God 574 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:04,000 and transgressing his, what's the next word? Covenant. 575 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,000 And hath gone and served what? 576 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:08,000 Other gods. 577 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,000 And what? 578 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:13,000 Worship them. 579 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:21,000 These are people who saw God split the Red Sea, saw God deliver them from Egypt, 580 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:25,000 saw God lead them with the pillar of cloud by night, or the pillar of fire by night, 581 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,000 the pillar of cloud thy day. 582 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:34,000 And having all that knowledge in their history, going and serving and worshiping some other idol, 583 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:38,000 either the sun or moon or any of the hosts of heaven. 584 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,000 Verse four. 585 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:45,000 And behold, it be true in the thing, certain that much, such abomination is wrought in Israel. 586 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:48,000 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which hath committed that wicked thing, 587 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:54,000 unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shall stone them with stones till they die. 588 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:59,000 At the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses shall he that is worthy of death be put to death. 589 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,000 But at the mouth of one witness, he shall not be put to death. 590 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:07,000 The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon them, him to put him to death, 591 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,000 and afterward the hands of all the people. 592 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:15,000 Meaning, if people are making that kind of accusation, they better be the first person to throw the stone, 593 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:18,000 because it's a grievous thing to make that kind of accusation. 594 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,000 Verse seven. 595 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,000 The hands of the witness shall be first put upon them to put them to death, 596 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,000 and afterward the hands of the people. 597 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:28,000 So shalt thou put the evil way from among you. 598 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:35,000 All of these Jews would have understand this kind of willful, habitual rejection of God, 599 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,000 and rejection of God's first covenant. 600 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:43,000 They were rejecting the shadow that was pointing to the real. 601 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,000 And so what was their punishment? 602 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,000 It was capital punishment. 603 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:48,000 So think through the comparison. 604 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:56,000 He says, if in Moses' day capital punishment were to people who rejected the first covenant, 605 00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:06,000 look at what he says, of how much sore punishment suppos ye, shall he be thought worthy who hath 606 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:09,000 trodden under the foot the Son of God. 607 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:13,000 And hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, 608 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:20,000 and hath done despot under the spirit of grace. 609 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:25,000 If under the old covenant rejection of the covenant led to the death at the hands of men, 610 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:29,000 what does rejection of Christ's sacrifice mean in the new covenant? 611 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,000 He lays out three charges. 612 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:37,000 People that have trodden under foot the Son of God, they call the blood of the covenant 613 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:40,000 and a holy thing, the thing that can cleanse them, they call unholy. 614 00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,000 Number three, they insulted the spirit of grace. 615 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:46,000 That word, despite, is the word inu-brizzo. 616 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:47,000 It means to insult. 617 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:53,000 It's close to the word hubrizzo, where we get our word hubris from. 618 00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,000 It's to exercise violence. 619 00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:56,000 It's abuse. 620 00:47:56,000 --> 00:48:01,000 It's to use despitefully, to reproach, to entreat shamefully. 621 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:10,000 Basically, he's saying, God gave his best. 622 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:17,000 And through the spirit calls you to believe in and trust in his best. 623 00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:21,000 And when you take that and you treat it like it's blasphemy, 624 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:25,000 what more could be done? 625 00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:29,000 Will you expect no judgment from that? 626 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:33,000 You already deserve judgment before he gave you that. 627 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,000 And then he gave you that and you reject that. 628 00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,000 It's going to be bad for you. 629 00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,000 That's the warning. 630 00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:46,000 This is not a fun message, but you must hear this. 631 00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:52,000 If you abandon and reject with all that you know now, he's saying to these Hebrews, 632 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:56,000 you are not in danger of less judgment, but more if you reject him. 633 00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:00,000 Some people might think, well, isn't God forgiven when he just overlooked my sin? 634 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:04,000 Praise the Lord, he has overlooked our sin. 635 00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:13,000 But there's one sinful state that he will not overlook when we reject the person and work of Jesus Christ. 636 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:19,000 When we reject the working of the Holy Spirit, it calls us to salvation. 637 00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,000 Here's the danger of rejecting Christ. 638 00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,000 There's no remedy for persistent rebellion. 639 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:24,000 There's no lessening of judgment. 640 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:28,000 Number three, there will be no surprises from the judge. 641 00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:32,000 If that's your position, don't be surprised. 642 00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:35,000 Here's what he says, for we know him that sayeth. 643 00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:42,000 This is the kind of thing Jesus said or God said, vengeance belongeth unto me. 644 00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:45,000 I will recompense, sayeth the Lord. 645 00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,000 And again, the Lord shall judge his people. 646 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,000 Well, I'm Jewish. God won't do that to Jewish people. 647 00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,000 I'm of the seat of Abraham. 648 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:57,000 No, no, if you reject his son, that doesn't matter. 649 00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:02,000 We heard today, God's able to raise up from these stones seat of Abraham. 650 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:06,000 You can't reject God and expect God not to judge. 651 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:13,000 And then he says this, verse 31, it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God. 652 00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:24,000 If you reject the shadow, if you reject the law in the Old Testament and die at men's hands, 653 00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:32,000 how much worse will it be if you reject the new covenant, the Son of God, and fall into God's hands? 654 00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:33,000 Are you with me? 655 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:39,000 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God. 656 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:50,000 This is not a fun message, but I have to tell you, we're in this passage because we're going to teach the whole Council of God. 657 00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:58,000 I want you to know today that if you don't know Christ as your Savior, you are so loved. 658 00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:02,000 You are so loved. 659 00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,000 God gave his best. 660 00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:08,000 He gave his son. 661 00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:13,000 If it was between you and my son, I'm voting for my son. 662 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:16,000 I'm not going to let my son substitute for you. 663 00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:17,000 Are you kidding? 664 00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:18,000 I love you. 665 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:21,000 I'm not doing that, but that's not how God loves. 666 00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:30,000 God committed his love towards us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 667 00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:45,000 But if you reject the provision that God made for salvation, eternal destiny, eternal fire, that's what is there. 668 00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:46,000 You're loved by God. 669 00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:47,000 You're loved by us. 670 00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:51,000 And this is not a fun message, but it's like that plane that's going down. 671 00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:55,000 Christ used a sacrifice for you is the parachute. 672 00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:59,000 Put on the parachute. 673 00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,000 Your parachute isn't your good works. 674 00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:04,000 Your parachute isn't your children's, your church attendance. 675 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:07,000 Your parachute isn't some good deed that you did. 676 00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:10,000 Your parachute is not your grandpa who was a preacher. 677 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:13,000 Your parachute isn't any of those things. 678 00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,000 Your parachute is Jesus. 679 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:19,000 He died for you. 680 00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:26,000 And what he says is, if you confess with your mouth to Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you'll be saved. 681 00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:34,000 What the heart man believes under righteousness and with the mouth, confessions made under salvation. 682 00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:37,000 Who will so ever believe in him shall not be ashamed. 683 00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:44,000 Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 684 00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:47,000 God loves you. 685 00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:57,000 You can put your faith and trust in him today.