1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,800 what we're trying to accomplish. 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:08,760 Today we're coming to Hebrews chapter number 10. 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:10,560 And I've been waiting about two months 4 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:12,960 to tell you this stuff, so I'm excited about it. 5 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:17,760 Have you ever had somebody say 6 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:23,600 that something that they had had sentimental value? 7 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:24,720 You've ever heard that? 8 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:29,720 Yesterday my wife had me put some things 9 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:33,920 into storage from our garage, 10 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:36,600 and I asked her what she was wanting me to move 11 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:38,760 because it was heavy. 12 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:44,800 There were several boxes, one box had some of our girls 13 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,600 stuffed animals, that part wasn't heavy, 14 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,960 but the other things that were in there were, 15 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:52,960 I'm not that weak, okay, that's bad. 16 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:57,000 They're toys and clothes, and one of the boxes 17 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,960 had my old yearbooks in it, my basketball 18 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:03,360 for my senior year, back when I was good at things. 19 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,480 And there's a box of our wedding photos, 20 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:12,120 and as much as, and all my old CDs from high school, 21 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,760 you guys remember CDs, they're like little records, 22 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:18,040 you know, that was fun. 23 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:23,040 Most of the time I'm a person that likes to throw things away. 24 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:28,400 Why are we leaving it here? 25 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:29,760 I don't want stacks everywhere, 26 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:31,560 let's get rid of it, right? 27 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:33,240 If you can take a picture of it, 28 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:34,840 it doesn't take up as much space, you know, 29 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:37,120 and then throw it away, that's awesome, right? 30 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:37,960 So, 31 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:42,960 that's my favorite person here, right? 32 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:51,960 Laughing more than they should have, amen, that's good. 33 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:57,560 So yeah, we all have things that have 34 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:59,960 sentimental value to us, don't they? 35 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:04,480 I've been in the homes of some people that I love 36 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,520 who've lost loved ones prematurely. 37 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,960 We're on the internet, so I won't talk too much about them, 38 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:17,360 but, because they may see what I had to say, 39 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:22,360 but I know people that have lost kids, you know, 40 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:26,560 and having lost their kids, 41 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:30,880 when you don't have your kid anymore, 42 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,560 the things that remind you of them become more precious. 43 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:39,560 And I've been in homes of people that have had 44 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:42,760 their kid's room look the way it is, 45 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:43,960 because they lost their kid, 46 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:46,720 and they didn't want to touch it or change it, 47 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:50,120 because it would be like saying, buy to them, right? 48 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,220 When the actual is gone, 49 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:55,760 the symbol becomes so much more important. 50 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:58,440 What you remember about them, 51 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:02,260 the problem is the picture isn't them. 52 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:06,760 It's just the thing that we have to remember them by. 53 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:11,000 When the person is gone, 54 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,520 all you have of them is a shadow of who they are. 55 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:18,480 You have memories, you have pictures, you have images, 56 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:22,080 and those images are important when that's all you have. 57 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:27,560 The good news is, if you know Christ is your savior, 58 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:32,080 it's not goodbye forever, it's see you later. 59 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:33,360 Are you glad about that? 60 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:38,560 And so in the meantime, those pictures may be precious, 61 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:39,960 but you know, one day you'll see them again, 62 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:41,820 and that's a pretty cool thing. 63 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,960 In today's text, we find the preacher, 64 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:47,920 that's what I'll call him, 65 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:51,320 because we don't know who the person who wrote 66 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,480 the book of Acts or the book of Hebrews is. 67 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:58,320 There are some that say they think it's Paul. 68 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:00,160 I could see that being the case. 69 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:02,080 We'll call him the preacher. 70 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:04,120 And the preacher, we get to chapter 10, 71 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:06,400 and chapter 10 comes after chapter nine. 72 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:08,760 Write that down. 73 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:15,340 And when he gets to chapter 10, he uses this phrase, 74 00:04:15,340 --> 00:04:18,400 he says in verse one, for the law, 75 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:21,120 having a, what's the next word? 76 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:25,200 A shadow of good things to come. 77 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:28,040 That's what the law was. 78 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:29,720 It was a picture of the good things to come. 79 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:31,440 He's talking about that ceremonial law. 80 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,560 He's talking about the sacrifices. 81 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,160 It was a picture of a shadow of good things to come, 82 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:40,200 and not the very image of the things. 83 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:45,280 That shadow, that's what he's talking about, 84 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:47,480 can never, say never, 85 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:52,480 can never with those sacrifices, 86 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,480 which they offered year by year continually, 87 00:04:55,480 --> 00:05:00,200 make the comers their unto perfect. 88 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,400 The word here for shadow is the Greek word skiya. 89 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:10,000 It refers to a pale shadow or a nebulous, ambiguous shadow 90 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,640 as opposed to a sharp, distinct one. 91 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:16,560 The law and the ceremonies and the rituals 92 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:21,560 that we find in the enumerated and obeyed and done 93 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,080 in the Old Testament, 94 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,760 were all just an ambiguous shadow 95 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,560 of all that Christ would bring to us. 96 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:33,920 One writer said it this way, 97 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,480 they were form without substance. 98 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,080 They portrayed something real, 99 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,760 but they themselves were not real. 100 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:49,480 We are back today in the study of Hebrews, 101 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,560 and since it has been since the end of June, 102 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,520 since we've been in here, let me just catch everybody up. 103 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:57,080 There may be some new people here, 104 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,880 and we are super glad that you are here. 105 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,680 So let me just catch up where we have been. 106 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:05,040 The theme of the book of Hebrews 107 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,520 is what we have named the series, 108 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:11,360 and that's Jesus is greater. 109 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,880 Jesus is greater, he is better. 110 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:20,880 Jesus is superior in every way to the features 111 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:24,960 and the people connected with the Old Covenant. 112 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:29,400 Well, when you get a Bible and you open your Bible 113 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:32,440 to the index, and if you're at that part 114 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:34,040 in your Christian life where you still need to go 115 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,920 to the index, don't be ashamed of that. 116 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:40,360 That's fine, we all start somewhere, okay? 117 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:41,560 But when you do and you go, 118 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,240 you see the books of the Old Testament, 119 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,920 and you see the books of the New Testament. 120 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:52,920 That word Testament is the same word as the word Covenant. 121 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:55,000 Covenant, Testament. 122 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,080 In this text we're gonna look at today, 123 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:00,800 he even uses the word, like we would use the word will, 124 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,960 a last will and Testament. 125 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:06,440 Yes, we'll see that in a second. 126 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:11,440 And what the writer of Hebrews, the preacher is preaching, 127 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:14,520 and we get to chapter 10 and all throughout, 128 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:17,240 he's talking, and this is why we've named it this, 129 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:20,720 he's talking to the Hebrews, okay? 130 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,120 And people, some who are believers, 131 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:26,160 some who are regenerate, 132 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:28,480 some who are maybe intellectually convinced 133 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:33,240 of Jesus' Messiahship, but not necessarily saved, 134 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:35,280 and then some who aren't saved at all, 135 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,720 but because of their Jewishness and because of their background, 136 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,440 they believe in all of the Old Covenant, 137 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,440 and what the writer of Hebrews is trying to do is to say, 138 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:47,440 hey, we have something new. 139 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:50,200 We have something better. 140 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:54,120 What happened in the Old was a shadow or an image 141 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,480 or a picture, we now have the real. 142 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,120 We have something better, you know what we have? 143 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:05,560 Jesus, Jesus is greater. 144 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:07,960 Jesus, he said in the first few chapters, 145 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:10,040 is a better revelation. 146 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:12,480 In times past, he's spoken unto us, 147 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:14,240 and to our fathers by the prophets, 148 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,560 and these last days, he's spoken unto us through his son. 149 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:18,440 He's better. 150 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:22,920 He's better than Moses, better than Moses. 151 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,840 Moses gave us the Old Testament, he gave us the law, 152 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:29,960 he gave us Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, 153 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,280 Numbers and Deuteronomy, and even today, 154 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:35,960 if you don't have those five, we're in trouble. 155 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:39,080 They're foundational, and if the foundations be broken, 156 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:40,680 who can lay anything there on? 157 00:08:40,680 --> 00:08:43,960 And so better than Moses, yes, he was better than Moses. 158 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:45,560 When we get to chapter five, 159 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:48,960 we began to see that Christ is a better priest. 160 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:50,200 He has a better priesthood. 161 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:52,600 There's the old Aaronic priesthood, 162 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:55,560 the priesthood of Aaron, Moses's brother, 163 00:08:55,560 --> 00:08:58,680 who God ordained to be the order of priests, 164 00:08:58,680 --> 00:09:00,600 the Levites, we're gonna talk about them today. 165 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,440 And then there's the order of Melchizedek, 166 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:06,560 the order of priests that Jesus comes from. 167 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:09,760 And so he is a better priesthood. 168 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:11,840 And as we moved along in Hebrews, 169 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:16,480 the author, the preacher, goes on to speak of the covenant 170 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:18,400 and the sacrifice of Jesus. 171 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:21,400 And just to catch us up with where we were back in 172 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:25,000 May and June, before we took that detour, 173 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:29,400 we were in chapter nine, and we saw in chapter nine 174 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:31,720 the need for a sacrifice. 175 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:35,400 Not just the old sacrifices, but a new one. 176 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,680 In chapter nine, verse 16, it says, 177 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:41,040 for where a testament is, 178 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:44,560 where a testament is, where a covenant is, 179 00:09:44,560 --> 00:09:47,280 where a last will and testament is, 180 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:52,280 there must also of necessity be the death of a testador. 181 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:54,120 Where there is a testament, 182 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:56,120 using the word like we would use a will, 183 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,200 there must be a death. 184 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:00,760 You can write all you want in the will, 185 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:05,600 but that will is not in functioning until a person dies. 186 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:07,040 Do you get it? 187 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:10,600 So he's saying, there's the need for a death. 188 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:15,600 The old covenant demanded death to make that will valid. 189 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,760 We also see that there was a need for sacrifice 190 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:22,000 in the necessity of blood in chapter nine. 191 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:26,120 In verse number 22, it says talking about the old covenant, 192 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,040 referring to the new covenant, 193 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:33,360 and almost all things are by the law purged with blood. 194 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:34,520 He says, in the old testament, 195 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:38,840 they would sacrifice those sheep and bulls and doves and goats, 196 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:42,720 and they would sacrifice them by killing them. 197 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:45,360 There would be the shedding of blood. 198 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:49,160 It was a picture, but he says here in verse 22, 199 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:53,160 almost all things are by the law purged or cleaned or purified 200 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:55,320 with blood, and without the shedding of blood 201 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:58,040 is no remission. 202 00:10:58,040 --> 00:10:59,400 Remission means forgiveness. 203 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:02,400 There's no forgiveness unless there's been a death, 204 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,760 and that death came about by the shedding of blood. 205 00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:11,240 The old covenant with its sacrifices pointed to the blood, 206 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:15,040 to the necessity of blood for the forgiveness of sins. 207 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:19,760 And so we have in the death of Christ a substitutionary death 208 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:24,000 and a blood payment for sins for us. 209 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:29,720 We also see the need for sacrifice described in chapter nine, 210 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:32,200 that salvation demands substitution. 211 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:33,760 If you look at verse 28, 212 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:37,800 and this leads us up right to the very end of the chapter. 213 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:41,400 So Christ was once, how many times? 214 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:46,400 Once offered to bear the sins of many, 215 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:51,440 and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time 216 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:55,720 without sin unto salvation. 217 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:01,800 He shall return in robes of wide. 218 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:02,640 You get it? 219 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:05,080 And we're gonna go be with him. 220 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:06,720 Anybody excited about that? 221 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:07,960 It's gonna be amazing. 222 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:11,520 And so today we're gonna continue on. 223 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:16,080 In chapter 10, he continues on to talk about this sacrifice, 224 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,640 and he's making the case, and I want you to see the case, 225 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:21,120 but not just to see it. 226 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:22,880 Here's what I want today. 227 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:27,800 If you're not trusting in Christ's sacrifice for your sins 228 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,640 to make you right with him and get you to heaven, 229 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:31,640 today's the day. 230 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:36,160 There's no other option for you. 231 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:41,160 I mean, there is separation from God forever. 232 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:45,600 Paying for your sin yourself. 233 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:50,600 It is a bad plan to try to pay for it yourself. 234 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:53,520 The check's already been written. 235 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:56,480 The payment's already been made, 236 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,120 and it's better than the old one. 237 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:01,640 It's better than the old covenant, 238 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,360 because the old covenant wasn't really even intended 239 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:05,600 to pay for your sin. 240 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:09,720 It was intended to picture the one for all gift 241 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:10,920 that was given. 242 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:12,320 That's what it's about. 243 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:14,560 And so today, you should trust 244 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:17,120 in Jesus Christ's sacrifice for sin. 245 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:18,240 It's your only shot. 246 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:22,200 Because it's superior to the old covenant in two ways. 247 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:23,760 Here's the first one. 248 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:26,560 The first way that it's superior is this. 249 00:13:26,560 --> 00:13:31,560 Number one, Jesus Christ's sacrifice takes away sin. 250 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:34,680 Here's another way of saying it. 251 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:35,760 It worked. 252 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:38,440 It works. 253 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:41,600 It actually takes away sin. 254 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:44,840 Okay, now that I've led you up to here, 255 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:46,920 let's look at chapter 10, verse one. 256 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:48,240 Now I already read it. 257 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:49,960 Let's read it now with that context. 258 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:52,440 Verse one, for the law having a shadow 259 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:53,520 of the good things to come, 260 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:55,520 and not the very image of the things, 261 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:58,140 can never with those sacrifices, 262 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:01,960 which they offered year by year, all the time, 263 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:05,800 continually make the comers there into perfect. 264 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:09,200 The sacrificial system here referred to as a law 265 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,320 was merely and wonderfully, 266 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:15,600 and wonderfully a shadow of good things to come. 267 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:18,920 It's kind of like anybody have a precious picture 268 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:19,960 of somebody? 269 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:23,800 So a picture that's precious to you? 270 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:25,880 Anybody here have, if you have one, raise your hand. 271 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:26,720 Yeah. 272 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,640 You have something that somebody else had 273 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:31,160 and it was like really precious to you. 274 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:35,240 Paul, not Paul, the preacher is writing to these people 275 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:39,080 and says, I know that for you, the sacrificial system 276 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,640 and all that has a sentimental value. 277 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,160 I'm not trying to say that it was bad. 278 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:46,960 I'm trying to tell you that it was incomplete. 279 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:50,240 I'm not saying the picture on the wall is bad, 280 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:55,240 but the picture is of less value if grandma's still with you. 281 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:57,200 Are you with me? 282 00:14:58,080 --> 00:14:59,240 That's when it's better. 283 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:02,560 And he's saying it was a shadow, 284 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:05,880 the ceremony was a shadow, not the actual, not the real. 285 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:09,080 It's a picture of the wheel and says in verse one, 286 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:12,360 they were not the very image of the things. 287 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:14,600 That word I already mentioned, that's Skiah. 288 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:18,800 This word he says, and not the very image of the things, 289 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,600 that word is the word icon. 290 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:26,520 Icon, there has this idea of an exact representation. 291 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:30,400 The old covenant was the shadow, the New Testament, 292 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,400 the new sacrifice is the substance. 293 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,640 The old ceremonial law and sacrificial systems 294 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:40,440 were pictures, Christ is the substance. 295 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:43,360 And because of this, the Old Testament sacrifices 296 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:45,760 were inferior to Christ's sacrifice. 297 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:46,960 We see this in several ways. 298 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:48,800 First, we see that the sacrifices, 299 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:51,560 and this is in your notes, so you can take extra notes. 300 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:55,560 But the sacrifices could not of themselves 301 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:57,560 give access to God. 302 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:03,560 If it could perfect, it says here, the comers 303 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:06,560 or the worshipers, it would have happened once 304 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:07,560 and then ceased. 305 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:11,560 That's the argument he's making in verse one. 306 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:13,560 If the blood of bulls and goats was enough, 307 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:15,560 they would have done it one time, 308 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:17,560 and then it would have been over. 309 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:19,560 But they didn't do it one time, they had to keep doing it. 310 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:21,560 You know why? 311 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,560 It couldn't fully and finally get rid of sin. 312 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,560 It was just a picture. 313 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:30,560 And they kept sinning. 314 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:34,560 Anybody here have that problem? 315 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:36,560 Who wants to stop sinning? 316 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:38,560 No, you don't. 317 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:42,560 Not all the time. 318 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:43,560 You got that problem? 319 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:44,560 Because I got that problem. 320 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:46,560 I don't want to sin if somebody asks me, 321 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:47,560 I'll raise my hand. 322 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:48,560 Man, I'm a jerk to do that to you guys. 323 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:49,560 I'm sorry. 324 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:51,560 That was probably not good. 325 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,560 That probably wasn't a good thing. 326 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:56,560 But feel this with me. 327 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:58,560 On Sunday, I don't want to sin, 328 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:00,560 but sometimes Tuesday afternoon I have a problem. 329 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:02,560 Anybody with me? 330 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:05,560 Sometimes I want to. 331 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:06,560 Lord help me. 332 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:07,560 Amen. Seriously. 333 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:09,560 Lord help me. 334 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:13,560 The idea here is like perfect is not necessarily 335 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,560 that we're perfect now in the sense that we've stopped sinning. 336 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:19,560 The idea here is acceptable to God. 337 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:23,560 I can't get to God on my own. 338 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:26,560 I can't get to God just with the blood of bulls and goats. 339 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:28,560 God had to make it possible. 340 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:30,560 See, here's the thing, God is so holy. 341 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:32,560 He can't be in the presence of sin. 342 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:34,560 And I'm a sinner. 343 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:36,560 And so are you. 344 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:40,560 So how do I get to a holy God with my sin? 345 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:44,560 I had to have a righteousness which was not mine. 346 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:49,560 I had to be given an alien righteousness. 347 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:50,560 Do you get it? 348 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:55,560 God had to take away my sin and give me perfection. 349 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:56,560 And you know what he did? 350 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:58,560 He did that through his son. 351 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:01,560 He did that through the sacrifice of his son. 352 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:06,560 And so here we find this very, very important idea 353 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:10,560 that the old sacrifices he's trying to convince the Jews 354 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:12,560 he's talking to, they could not perfect 355 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:15,560 or make the worshipper have access to God 356 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:20,560 merely based in those sacrifices. 357 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:24,560 Second, the sacrifices could not of themselves take away sin. 358 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:27,560 The proof that it did not perfect and could not perfect 359 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:30,560 is in God's command, it says in verse two, 360 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:34,560 for then they would not have ceased to be offered 361 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:36,560 because that the worshippers once perished 362 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:38,560 should have no more conscience of sins. 363 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:41,560 But in those sacrifices there's a remembrance again 364 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:44,560 made of sins every year. 365 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:46,560 It is not possible, why? 366 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:48,560 For it is not possible, it says, 367 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:53,560 that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sin. 368 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:58,560 God commanded them to do these sacrifices yearly. 369 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,560 Some sacrifices they did monthly and daily. 370 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:03,560 They did them all the time. 371 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:05,560 Why? 372 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:08,560 Because at best it was a picture of the real that was to come 373 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:11,560 because it was merely a picture of what was to come 374 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:12,560 and not yet come. 375 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:16,560 God's command for that time was that they keep making those sacrifices. 376 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:18,560 And when those under the old covenant believed God 377 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:21,560 in responding to the revelation that they had, 378 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,560 God gave them, you're saying, well, Pastor Ben, 379 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:26,560 are those Old Testament saints not in heaven 380 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:30,560 because their sins weren't forgiven? 381 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:31,560 No. 382 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:33,560 How do they get to heaven? 383 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:35,560 They got to heaven by faith. 384 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:36,560 By faith in what? 385 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:39,560 By faith in the revelation that they had. 386 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:42,560 God says through Paul and Romans, 387 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:46,560 Abraham believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. 388 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:48,560 They got there by faith. 389 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:50,560 They just didn't know what we know. 390 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:52,560 Jesus is in our history. 391 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:56,560 For them it was in their prophecy. 392 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:59,560 And just like I hath not seen nor ear heard, 393 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:01,560 nor has it entered the heart of every man, 394 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,560 what God has for those who love him, 395 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:07,560 we know God has some stuff for us that we do not yet know. 396 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:09,560 Who's looking forward to that? 397 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:11,560 So we by faith look forward to that. 398 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:12,560 I have been saved. 399 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:13,560 I am being saved. 400 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:16,560 One day I will be saved. 401 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:17,560 And I'm so excited for that. 402 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:18,560 That's how it was for them. 403 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:19,560 They had to believe God. 404 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:20,560 It wasn't their works. 405 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:22,560 It wasn't the sacrifices. 406 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:26,560 It was belief in what God had given to them 407 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:27,560 and faith in him. 408 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,560 And then God imputed eventually Christ's righteousness 409 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:32,560 to their account. 410 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:34,560 They're there by Jesus too, 411 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:36,560 even though they didn't know his name. 412 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:37,560 Do you get it? 413 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:38,560 I can tell you this. 414 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:40,560 They know his name now. 415 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:44,560 Because Jesus is greater. 416 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:49,560 So when those under the Old Covenant believe God 417 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:51,560 and respond to the revelation that they had, 418 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:53,560 God imputed righteousness to them. 419 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:56,560 This was made possible as we should see 420 00:20:56,560 --> 00:21:01,560 because of what he says here of the good things to come. 421 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,560 Namely the person in the work of Jesus Christ. 422 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:05,560 So in verses one through four, 423 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:09,560 the preacher makes this case that the sacrificial system 424 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,560 proposed and articulated by the law was merely a picture, 425 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,560 a shadow or an image of the good things to come 426 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,560 and the blood of animals could not take away sins. 427 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,560 He goes on to substantiate this case 428 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,560 by pointing the prophecy about the necessity 429 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:25,560 of another sacrifice. 430 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:27,560 Now I want to tell you something today. 431 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:29,560 And if it's your first time in church, 432 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:30,560 you haven't been in church in a long time, 433 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:35,560 even if you have been, I want you to not let this lay lightly on you. 434 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:39,560 God called this shot. 435 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:44,560 What I mean by that, he said what would happen in the future. 436 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:48,560 He said this is what's going to happen and then he did it. 437 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,560 Which if you believe there's a God, isn't that hard? 438 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:52,560 It's not hard. 439 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:55,560 If you're God you know the being from the beginning. 440 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:57,560 Are you with me? 441 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:01,560 So we have evidence in the Bible that it's divine 442 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,560 because God made a prophecy about what it would happen 443 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:07,560 and then it happened in history. 444 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,560 Okay, so you got to deal with that. 445 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:13,560 He does this, he talks about this in verse five of Hebrews 446 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:15,560 chapter 10, look at what it says. 447 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,560 Wherefore when he cometh into the world he saith, 448 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:22,560 sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, 449 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:26,560 but a body hast thou prepared for me. 450 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:35,560 In verse five, the preacher here refers back to one of the Psalms. 451 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:40,560 He said remember that song we used to sing when we gathered together at Sabbath? 452 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:44,560 That talked about, because the Psalms was just their hymn book, 453 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:45,560 it was their song book. 454 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:46,560 Are you with me? 455 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:50,560 And he says remember Hebrews when we used to sing that song 456 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,560 and in that song it said sacrifice it, 457 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:57,560 this is Psalm 40 verses six through eight, sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, 458 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:00,560 mine ears hast thou opened, burnt offering of, 459 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:05,560 and offering hast thou not required, then said I, low I come. 460 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:06,560 Who's I? 461 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,560 Low I come? 462 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,560 Who is it? 463 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:12,560 In the volume of the book it is written to me, 464 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,560 you have the whole Bible is about Jesus. 465 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,560 Low I come, and the volume of the book is written to me, 466 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,560 I delight to do thy will, oh my God, 467 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:24,560 ye thy law is within my heart. 468 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:29,560 In Hebrews chapter 10 it says that the voice speaking in the text of this Psalm 469 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:33,560 is he who cometh into the world. 470 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:38,560 This of course is Jesus Christ. 471 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:39,560 Who's greater? 472 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,560 Jesus is greater. 473 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:47,560 And it says here sacrifice and offering back to verse five, 474 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:51,560 look at it sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not. 475 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,560 He's saying there's coming a time that even the Psalmist said 476 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,560 that the sacrifices are gonna stop. 477 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,560 Why? 478 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:00,560 Look at the end of the verse. 479 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:04,560 But a body hast thou prepared for me. 480 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,560 What is he talking about? 481 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:12,560 Jesus has always existed. 482 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:19,560 But Jesus didn't always have a body. 483 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:24,560 Jesus has always existed, but he didn't always have a body. 484 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:31,560 When he came born of a virgin, he was conceived of the Holy Spirit 485 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:36,560 and he became fully man while he was fully God. 486 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:37,560 Isn't that awesome? 487 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,560 It's talking here about the incarnation. 488 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:42,560 A body was prepared. 489 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:43,560 Why? 490 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:47,560 So that body could be obedient and then be sacrificed. 491 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,560 That's what he's saying. 492 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:57,560 This quote foretells this incarnation and he compares and contrasts that 493 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,560 with the burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin and the law. 494 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:04,560 He says in verse six again quoting the Psalm and burnt offerings 495 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:08,560 and sacrifice for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 496 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:13,560 Those sacrifices are said to give God who the quote is directed to 497 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:14,560 no pleasure. 498 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,560 What would satisfy a holy God? 499 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:17,560 Verse seven. 500 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:22,560 Then said I lo, I come in the volume of the book it is written of me 501 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:27,560 to do thy will, oh God. 502 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:28,560 This is amazing. 503 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,560 What is he saying? 504 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:36,560 Jesus came to do the will of the Father and this body that was prepared for him. 505 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:40,560 God became man. 506 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,560 Does that blow your mind? 507 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:43,560 It should blow your mind. 508 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,560 God became man. 509 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,560 He came and lived the perfect life. 510 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:53,560 That at least partially was, that statement was fulfilled in Matthew 511 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,560 chapter 26 verse 39. 512 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:56,560 It will be on the board. 513 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:58,560 Here's what it says. 514 00:25:58,560 --> 00:25:59,560 Talking about Jesus. 515 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,560 He went a little further and fell on his face. 516 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:07,560 Jesus in the garden and prayed saying oh my Father if it be possible 517 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,560 let this cup pass from me. 518 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:10,560 The cup of your wrath. 519 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,560 Let it pass from me. 520 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:18,560 Nevertheless not as I will but as thou will. 521 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,560 What was Jesus saying? 522 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,560 I will do what you want. 523 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:28,560 I will come and be obedient. 524 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:34,560 Jesus came to be the full and final once for all sacrifices that 525 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,560 appeases God's wrath because of his perfect obedience. 526 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,560 That's why he goes on to verse 8. 527 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,560 When he said sacrifice, again back to the quote. 528 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,560 When he said, there's a preacher quoting Psalm. 529 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,560 The guy in Hebrew is quoting the Psalm. 530 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:51,560 When he said sacrifice and offering and burn offerings and offering for 531 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,560 send out what is not and neither has pleasure therein which are offered by the law. 532 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,560 Then said he lo I come to do thy will oh God. 533 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:01,560 What is he saying? 534 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:02,560 Verse 9. 535 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:09,560 He taketh away the first that he may establish the second. 536 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,560 What is he saying? 537 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:18,560 He's saying that God through the psalmist prophesied in the words of Jesus 538 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:25,560 that he would come, become incarnate in the body, be obedient unto death. 539 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:31,560 And in saying that he would do that, he ends the first covenant and the first set of 540 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:37,560 sacrifices and the old thing, the old testament so that he could establish the 541 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:41,560 new, the new covenant, the new testament. 542 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:43,560 Does this make sense? 543 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,560 This is really good news. 544 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,560 This is very good news. 545 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:51,560 He was literally fulfilling what it would take for the first covenant to not be 546 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:52,560 needed. 547 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:58,560 Matthew 26, 28, just a few verses before Jesus had been obedient in the 548 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,560 garden, he said this in verse 28. 549 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:08,560 For this is my blood of the new testament, the new covenant. 550 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:13,560 When he was in the upper room with those disciples and he said, hey, see this 551 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:17,560 bread from the Passover, they're doing the Passover thing. 552 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,560 Remember the old testament and the old testament. 553 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:24,560 We would have this meal, this Passover meal and we would break bread and we 554 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:25,560 would eat it. 555 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:30,560 And you used to think of it as what we did remembering how God delivered us in 556 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:31,560 the land of Egypt. 557 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:35,560 Now when you break this bread, that's my body. 558 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:37,560 It's not what I did in the past. 559 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,560 Now it's about what I'm about to do in the future. 560 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,560 This is my body that was broken for you. 561 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:47,560 You see this blood, this cup, you used to drink it remembering what I did in 562 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:48,560 Egypt. 563 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:52,560 Now drink it remembering that my blood was sacrificed for you. 564 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,560 This is the new covenant. 565 00:28:54,560 --> 00:29:01,560 Without the shedding of blood, there's no remission for sin. 566 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,560 That's the new testament. 567 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:08,560 Jesus' body was prepared for obedience and for sacrifice. 568 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:12,560 Our body is a gift of God to us for the stewarding of obedience and 569 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:13,560 sacrifice as well. 570 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:18,560 My salvation, though, is not made possible by my obedience. 571 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,560 It's only made possible because of Christ's obedience. 572 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:25,560 When I'm obedient to the gospel by putting my faith alone through grace 573 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,560 alone, in Christ alone, what happens? 574 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:29,560 God saves me. 575 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,560 Not because of me, but because of Jesus and his blood. 576 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,560 This is true of every person in the world. 577 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:40,560 Nothing can take away our sins, but the blood of Jesus Christ. 578 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:44,560 What can wash away my sin? 579 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:48,560 Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 580 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,560 That's it. 581 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,560 It's a better sacrifice. 582 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,560 The blood of bulls and goats can't do it. 583 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,560 Jesus did it. 584 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,560 If it could, they would have stopped without first covenant. 585 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:07,560 But God foretold and established and performed a second one. 586 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,560 We're not bound by the ceremonial law anymore. 587 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:11,560 Why? 588 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:13,560 Why are we not bound by it? 589 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:14,560 Verse 10. 590 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,560 By the which will. 591 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:17,560 By the which will. 592 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,560 By the which testament. 593 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,560 Because there was a testament. 594 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:22,560 Because there was a will. 595 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:27,560 And that will was fulfilled by a death and fulfilled by the sacrifice. 596 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:39,560 We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for some. 597 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,560 For all. 598 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:43,560 For all. 599 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:45,560 The which will here speaks of that second covenant. 600 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,560 The word covenant and testament. 601 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,560 Testament here are used in the sense of a will. 602 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:56,560 Not only does that will save us, but it also sanctifies us through Jesus' bodily sacrifice. 603 00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:02,560 When we get saved, we are sanctified, set apart positionally. 604 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:08,560 But we are also indwelled, we are going to see so that we can progressively become more 605 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:09,560 and more like Jesus. 606 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,560 And what God predesigned is this. 607 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:16,560 That those who would believe would be sanctified. 608 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,560 Positionally and then progressively. 609 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,560 He didn't say which one was going to be saved. 610 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:27,560 But he said all that who would be saved, I am going to make them holy. 611 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,560 I am going to change them. 612 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:30,560 Isn't that good? 613 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,560 That's what he does. 614 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:37,560 Christ's sacrificial death was offered for everyone. 615 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:39,560 He died for everyone. 616 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:43,560 And this verse is a great statement to point to that reality. 617 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:48,560 And so let's just apply it and then we will move on and I will be quick to be finished today. 618 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:52,560 And I will try not to make that a lie. 619 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:53,560 Here's what he said. 620 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:54,560 Here's what I want you to know. 621 00:31:54,560 --> 00:32:03,560 The only hope that you and I have for having our sin purged is Jesus Christ. 622 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:10,560 When he was on the cross, he said, it is finished. 623 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:18,560 And when he died, the veil in the temple was ripped from top to bottom. 624 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,560 The spirit and the bride say, come. 625 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,560 Because we have been perfected, now we have access to God. 626 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:31,560 Now being justified by grace, by faith it says in Romans 5, we have peace with God and we have access to God. 627 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,560 By faith, into that grace wherein we stand. 628 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,560 God has given us access. 629 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:37,560 Jesus sacrifice can make me perfect. 630 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,560 And then I am acceptable to God. 631 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,560 And I can have a relationship with him and I can know that I can get to him. 632 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:51,560 And when I pray to him, I pray to him and then I pray to the Father in the name of the Son, in the power of the Holy Spirit. 633 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:55,560 And I can have a relationship with him. 634 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,560 How cool is that? 635 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,560 It's all because of what he did. 636 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:06,560 When we believe God takes Christ, when we believe God takes Christ's righteousness and gives it to us, he took our sin and placed it on Jesus on the cross. 637 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:10,560 And when we believe, that's called salvation. 638 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,560 We get saved. 639 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:18,560 Keeping the rules is not the method to be right with God unless one does it perfectly. 640 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:26,560 And the only one with a merited righteousness born without a sin nature is Jesus Christ. 641 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,560 This doesn't mean there's no law to keep. 642 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,560 Of course we keep the moral law. 643 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:44,560 When we trust Christ because of his sacrificial death, God takes our sin and gives us Christ's righteousness and then he grows me through his spirit to help me be obedient because I am saved not to make me saved. 644 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,560 That means my conscience can be purged. 645 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:53,560 Jesus Christ's sacrifice is the only thing that can take away sin. 646 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:59,560 Loved ones, friends, it's your only hope. 647 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:09,560 Jesus Christ's sacrificial death for you so that you don't have to pay for your own sin because he already did. 648 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:18,560 So you should trust in that first covenant and that second covenant because it's superior to the first covenant because it can take away sin. 649 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,560 Here's number two and I'll be quick. 650 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,560 Jesus Christ's sacrifice. 651 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:27,560 Never, never, never, ever, ever, never. 652 00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,560 Never, how many never's do you need? 653 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:35,560 Never, never, never needs to be repeated. 654 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,560 It's done. 655 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:39,560 That's right. 656 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,560 Verse 11, okay? 657 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:56,560 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take away sin. 658 00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:58,560 What was he saying? 659 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:11,560 Here's a contrast that's being made in these next few verses between the priests, those who mediated the first covenant, and Jesus Christ who mediates this covenant. 660 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,560 Here's six comparisons and I'll go through these quickly. 661 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:14,560 Ready? 662 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,560 Six comparisons of the old sacrifice with Christ's sacrifice. 663 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:23,560 Number one, this passage speaks of two different mediators, two different kinds of priests. 664 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:36,560 He says in verse 11 and every priest, talking about the men, earthly priests, while he says, but this man, right? 665 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:44,560 Speaking of Jesus Christ, you have here in verse, that's in verse 12, but this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever. 666 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:46,560 You know what the priest did? 667 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:53,560 The priest's basic ministry so much of the time was to sacrifice animals. 668 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:59,560 An Old Testament priest, and what he did so often, he was basically a butcher. 669 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,560 He would kill animals as sacrifices. 670 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,560 He would do more than that, but that was a big part of what he would do. 671 00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:12,560 And what the preacher here is saying is these priests, these earthly priests, they would stand. 672 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,560 They're always standing, always moving about. 673 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:16,560 They're in the temple, they're always moving. 674 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,560 They're always doing these sacrifices, doing the ceremony. 675 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:26,560 They're all that picture pointing to reality, but they're always killing, always doing these sacrifices. 676 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:31,560 And he says in verse 11, there are sacrifices that can never take away sins. 677 00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:35,560 But you have here that priestly order that did the old sacrifice. 678 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:43,560 And he says, while Jesus became both a priest, there's an Aaronic priesthood and then there's Jesus who's a priest after a new order. 679 00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:45,560 So it talks about two meteors. 680 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:47,560 The passage also talks about two postures. 681 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:51,560 Verse 11 says that the priests do what? What are they doing? 682 00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:58,560 Verse 11, and every priest, what does it say? 683 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,560 Are you with me? What are they doing? 684 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:05,560 They're standing. Who agrees? Do you see it in the verse? 685 00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:08,560 I'm not making this stuff up, people. Come on. 686 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:12,560 Verse 11, and every priest, what does he do? They stand. 687 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:19,560 There were no seats in the holy place where the priest mediated this old covenant. 688 00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:27,560 There was one seat, the mercy seat, and the holy of holies on top of the Ark of the Covenant. 689 00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:32,560 Only one priest could go there every year, and they definitely did not sit on that seat. 690 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:36,560 They sprinkled blood there once a year, and no one dared sit on it. 691 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:40,560 Always standing, never sitting. Why? 692 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:45,560 Because every time I make a new sacrifice, more sin kept happening 693 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:53,560 because the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sin. 694 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,560 They were standing. What was Jesus doing? Verse 12, 695 00:37:56,560 --> 00:38:04,560 but this man, after he had one, offered one sacrifice for sins forever, what did he do? 696 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:09,560 He sat down on the right hand of God. 697 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:14,560 But this man sat down. 698 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:19,560 You know why? He sat down because the work is done. 699 00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:25,560 He sat down because it is finished. 700 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:31,560 It even says, and I love this in verse 13, it even says here that his enemies, 701 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:36,560 he's expecting his enemies to be made his foot stool. 702 00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:53,560 You know what that means? 703 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:59,560 Does he look like he's got any more work to do? 704 00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:03,560 He wins! 705 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:07,560 If your enemy is where you are propping your feet up, are you in control? 706 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:11,560 You better believe it. 707 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:15,560 You ever feel like we are not winning? 708 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:19,560 It's an illusion. 709 00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:27,560 The war ain't over. Jesus is going to win. 710 00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:32,560 He already has. It's just a matter of time. 711 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:36,560 It's a posture of completion and victory. 712 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:42,560 You have two mediators, you have two postures. How often do they have to do it? 713 00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:46,560 Verse 11, the priest standing and ministering continually. 714 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:52,560 But this man, after he had made one sacrifice for sin. How many did he have to do? 715 00:39:52,560 --> 00:40:01,560 Listen, when we take the communion, when we do the Lord's Supper, it's a memorial. 716 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,560 It's a remembering of what's already happened. 717 00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:10,560 When we eat that bread, Jesus isn't dying again. 718 00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:17,560 When we drink that wine, we drink that grape juice, that's not his blood. 719 00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:23,560 It just helps us remember what he did. He doesn't have to die again. 720 00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:25,560 Why are you saying that? 721 00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:29,560 Because there's whole groups of people that say every time you do that, 722 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:33,560 it's Jesus being sacrificed again. That's blasphemy. 723 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:37,560 He doesn't have to do it again. He did it one time for all. 724 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:42,560 He didn't have to die every day. Are you kidding me? 725 00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:47,560 Where's the yet? 726 00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:54,560 It's over, folks. It's already been done. 727 00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:58,560 He made one sacrifice. They made many, he made one. 728 00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:03,560 Where was the location? The priests did that old covenant in an earthly tabernacle. 729 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,560 Where did Jesus mediate this new covenant? 730 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:11,560 This man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, 731 00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:16,560 sat down where? At the right hand of God. 732 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:22,560 Why is there an earthly tabernacle? Because there is a heavenly tabernacle. 733 00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:27,560 What's he doing? He's expecting his enemies to be made his footstool. 734 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:31,560 And the only location is at the right hand of God. 735 00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:35,560 What was the effectiveness of that old one versus that new one? 736 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:40,560 The priest in the old covenant ministered in an earthly tabernacle. 737 00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,560 What was the effectiveness of their sacrifices? 738 00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,560 What does it say in the first verse? 739 00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:52,560 Those offerings that were sacrificed continually for a year could never take away sins. 740 00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:57,560 They could never make the comers their unto perfect. 741 00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:01,560 But what does this say? In verse 14, 742 00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:07,560 4 by one offering, Jesus is the priest and he's the sacrifice. 743 00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:11,560 He's the priest and he's the sacrifice. Verse 14, 744 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:16,560 4 by one offering, he hath perfected forever 745 00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:22,560 them that are sanctified. One time for everybody. 746 00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,560 So what's the practical effect of this for us? 747 00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:29,560 He gives us that in verse 15 to 18 real quick. 748 00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:34,560 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us. 749 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:39,560 For after that he said before, okay, 750 00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:43,560 here's another prophecy. 751 00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:48,560 The preacher who's talking to these Hebrews who understand the Old Testament, 752 00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:53,560 they remembered the Psalm that spoke about a body that would be prepared and Jesus would die. 753 00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:58,560 And with the sacrifice that brought God no pleasure and he would do the will of God. 754 00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,560 That was the first prophecy. Here's another one. 755 00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:06,560 Remember in Jeremiah, if you come to our Sunday school classes, we just learned this in Jeremiah. 756 00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:10,560 He quotes Jeremiah, I believe it's chapter 38. 757 00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:14,560 Oh, chapter 31, I wrote it down. Praise the Lord. 758 00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:18,560 He quotes Jeremiah 31. 759 00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:25,560 In verse 16 to 17, he says, this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, sayeth the Lord. 760 00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:31,560 There's a new covenant coming. The Old Covenant, hey, will you obey the law that I give? 761 00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:34,560 They said we will, then they didn't. 762 00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,560 That's what happened. They broke the covenant. God was still faithful to them. 763 00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:43,560 He had to establish a second because the first one didn't do, the first one was only supposed to point to the second one. 764 00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:46,560 Are you with me? 765 00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:51,560 He says there's a new covenant coming in Jeremiah. Jeremiah speaks on behalf of God and says, 766 00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:54,560 this is what the Lord says is going to happen with this new covenant. 767 00:43:54,560 --> 00:44:00,560 I will put my laws into their hearts. 768 00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:06,560 And in their minds will I write them and their sins and their iniquities will I remember. 769 00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:11,560 Sometimes, what does it say? No more. 770 00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:17,560 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sins. 771 00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:19,560 What is he saying? 772 00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:22,560 God is going to fully and finally forget. 773 00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:27,560 Remember our sins no more. We are forgiven once for all sacrifice believed in. 774 00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:30,560 It's done. You don't have to keep sacrificing. 775 00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:34,560 We don't have to keep doing it. What is he saying in Jeremiah? What is he talking about? 776 00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:38,560 He won't have to tell. What does that mean? 777 00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:44,560 In Jeremiah 31-34 it says, behold the days come, sayeth the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, 778 00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:49,560 with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers. 779 00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:55,560 And the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which my covenant they break, 780 00:44:55,560 --> 00:45:00,560 although as a husband unto them, sayeth the Lord, this shall be the covenant that I will make. 781 00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:05,560 And the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, 782 00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:09,560 they were at Mount Sinai and read the law to them and said, will you do that? 783 00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:13,560 Will you keep that law? They said we will and they didn't. 784 00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,560 Even though God was never stop being faithful to them. 785 00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:21,560 Verse 33, but this shall be the covenant I will make in the house of Israel after those days, 786 00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:26,560 sayeth the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts and I will write it in their hearts 787 00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:31,560 and I will let his neighbor and every man his brother saying, know the Lord, for they shall all know me. 788 00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:35,560 From the least of them to the greatest of them sayeth the Lord, I will forgive their iniquity 789 00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:39,560 and I will remember their sin no more. 790 00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:44,560 Let's wrap this up. Are you ready? We're going to land the plane. 791 00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:49,560 Who wrote the law? Moses did through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. 792 00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:53,560 In the first covenant God wrote on tablets of stone. 793 00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:56,560 In the first covenant he tells people to obey. 794 00:45:56,560 --> 00:46:00,560 He had to tell them to teach the law diligently to their kids. 795 00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:05,560 They had to get people to know the Lord and the people could not do it. 796 00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:09,560 So day after day, year after year they had to sacrifice. 797 00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:13,560 But the blood of bulls and goats cannot make the comers therein too perfect. 798 00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:17,560 But what happens now? What happens in the new covenant? 799 00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:21,560 What happens now because of Christ's sacrifice? Here's what happens. 800 00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:26,560 When you put your faith and trust in Jesus for your sin, 801 00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:30,560 God regenerates you. And it's in that order. 802 00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:34,560 We believe and then he does it. Okay? 803 00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:38,560 And when he does, what's amazing is this? 804 00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:45,560 God sends the author of the covenant to live in your heart. 805 00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:52,560 So to trust in the new covenant is to actually know God. 806 00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:59,560 You have the Holy Spirit of God living inside of you. 807 00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:03,560 If you're a believer, he's indwelling you. 808 00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:07,560 You don't have the Holy Spirit indwelling you. If you don't, you're not saved. 809 00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:13,560 Because of the once for all sacrifice of Jesus Christ and his high priestly mediation for us in heaven. 810 00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,560 Now we have the Holy Spirit in this new covenant age 811 00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:19,560 so that he can bring to mind what we ought to do. 812 00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:24,560 Our sins are forgiven and there is no more reason to continue to do sacrifices. 813 00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:32,560 They've already been paid for and now the Holy Spirit is inside of us and we can be perfected. 814 00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:40,560 The work of salvation to save us can also lead to the work of the Holy Spirit to grow us. 815 00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:46,560 And to use us to declare what he's done to people who don't know. 816 00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:50,560 And then once they know, once they believe, guess what happens to them? 817 00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:57,560 The Holy Spirit comes to live inside of them and to change them from the inside out. 818 00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:03,560 We don't have to do sacrifices. You don't have to keep the ceremonial law. 819 00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:10,560 That's why Jesus said to Peter, rise Peter, kill and eat. 820 00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:28,560 He saw this vision of all this pork, bacon, cheeseburgers coming down from a blanket. 821 00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:34,560 And in the vision he says, rise Peter, kill and eat. And Peter being a good Jew goes, never. 822 00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:40,560 I'm a Jew, I don't eat bacon. Are you kidding me? God, I've never done that. 823 00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:48,560 God says, don't call what I've called clean, unclean. Then he wakes up to... 824 00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:53,560 Who's at the door? He goes downstairs. 825 00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:59,560 He's from Gentile servants saying, hey, our boss, a Roman centurion. 826 00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:04,560 Not a Jew. Who agrees not a Jew? 827 00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:11,560 He wants to talk to you. 828 00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:17,560 Peter goes over to the Roman centurion's place. 829 00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:21,560 He gives him the gospel. The guy gets saved. 830 00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:25,560 The Holy Spirit comes and lives and comes to him. He starts doing the same things. 831 00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:33,560 All the Jews are working. The same evidences of the spirit that was happening with the Jews was now happening with the Gentiles. 832 00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:38,560 Because it was never just about the Jews. 833 00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:44,560 That's why Paul says, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 834 00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:50,560 It's the power of God unto salvation to all who believe, to the Jew first. 835 00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:56,560 But also to the great, to the Gentile. Anybody Gentile in here? 836 00:49:56,560 --> 00:50:02,560 When you ask Jews to raise their hands, they don't like to do that. 837 00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:08,560 It's for us, folks. That sacrifice doesn't have to keep happening and all over and over again. 838 00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:13,560 That's why in the book of Acts, they're like, hey, what do we tell these Gentiles who are coming to Christ to do? 839 00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:18,560 It was like the perfect time to say, hey, have them keep doing all the ceremonial law. 840 00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:22,560 Right? And what do they say? Tell them not to do that. 841 00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:27,560 Do what keeps unity. Tell them not to eat things strangled so that way that they're not making all that Jews mad. 842 00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:30,560 And tell them to flee fornication other than that. 843 00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:37,560 The Holy Spirit is inside of them. He'll figure everything else out. Are you with me? 844 00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:44,560 When he says, I'll do your will, he basically ends the first thing that he can establish the second. 845 00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:50,560 We can have our sins forgiven, not because we brought a sheep with us to church. 846 00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:56,560 Not because of some shadow or picture in the past. We don't have pictures anymore. 847 00:50:56,560 --> 00:51:04,560 We've got the real thing. We have Jesus. And Jesus is greater. 848 00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:16,560 Would you bow your head and close your eyes?