1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Grab those and turn to Hebrews chapter number nine 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:09,660 where we have started to read this morning. 3 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:22,080 How many in the room today are great grandparents? 4 00:00:22,380 --> 00:00:25,500 Great grandparents raise your hand real high. 5 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:26,400 That's awesome. 6 00:00:27,300 --> 00:00:28,700 How many in the room? 7 00:00:28,700 --> 00:00:31,000 This will probably include the same group. 8 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,120 Our grandparents. 9 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:35,320 Okay, very, very good. 10 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:37,520 How many in the room are parents? 11 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:40,640 Look at it, like hold your hands up and look around. 12 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:41,640 Okay, all right. 13 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:44,520 Who in the room has parents? 14 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:45,360 That's everybody, right? 15 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:47,340 Okay, very, very good. 16 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:55,160 Some of us have a lot of kids. 17 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:57,920 Some of us have many, many kids. 18 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,560 Some of us have younger and maybe we just have our own kids. 19 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,440 As a parent, we have a desire. 20 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:08,360 We have a stewardship. 21 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,560 We have a responsibility to raise our kids 22 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,320 in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. 23 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:19,320 And as I'm getting older, I am more and more concerned with 24 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:24,240 what will happen to my kids. 25 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,240 I remember once I had kids realizing, 26 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:31,040 now I'm not just reflected by my own behavior. 27 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,480 I got a little kid, two, three children 28 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,720 that are running around with my same last name. 29 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:42,240 Their actions and behaviors and determine and connect 30 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,260 with people's reputation about me. 31 00:01:45,260 --> 00:01:46,160 So there's that part. 32 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:49,440 But the other part of that is I'm very, very concerned 33 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:53,600 and very invested in the upbringing of my kids 34 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:55,760 and the future of my children. 35 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:58,240 I want my children to thrive. 36 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:00,960 And I want my children to love Jesus. 37 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:05,960 And I want to give them financially. 38 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:08,320 I want to give to my kids financially, 39 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:12,080 but I also want to have a legacy for my kids spiritually. 40 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:13,800 How many are with me on that? 41 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,000 I want my kids to love Jesus. 42 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,120 And I want my kids to love and to follow him. 43 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:24,800 Two kind of different verses I want to bring up 44 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,000 as we begin this message today. 45 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,280 God in Deuteronomy chapter five tells his people, 46 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:33,880 I am a jealous God. 47 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,960 Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children 48 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,920 unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me 49 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:45,520 and showing mercy unto thousands and thousands of them 50 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,140 that love me and keep my commandments. 51 00:02:48,140 --> 00:02:53,140 Proverbs 13, 22, a good man leaveeth an inheritance, 52 00:02:54,580 --> 00:02:57,700 a good man leaveeth his inheritance 53 00:02:57,700 --> 00:03:00,860 to his children's children. 54 00:03:01,860 --> 00:03:05,860 And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just. 55 00:03:05,860 --> 00:03:10,860 We've been studying the priesthood of Jesus 56 00:03:10,980 --> 00:03:13,300 as we've been studying the book of Hebrews 57 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:14,940 in the last few weeks especially. 58 00:03:14,940 --> 00:03:19,180 He is greater, he is better in every way. 59 00:03:19,180 --> 00:03:22,740 Last week we began to study chapter nine 60 00:03:22,740 --> 00:03:26,260 which started out, Hebrews chapter nine started out 61 00:03:26,260 --> 00:03:30,260 by saying this, then verily was the first covenant, 62 00:03:30,260 --> 00:03:34,380 then verily the first covenant had also ordinances 63 00:03:34,380 --> 00:03:39,380 of divine service and a worldly sanctuary. 64 00:03:40,980 --> 00:03:42,700 Now as we study Hebrews chapter nine, 65 00:03:42,700 --> 00:03:46,180 what we come to find is that he uses in that verse 66 00:03:46,180 --> 00:03:48,620 three terms that are gonna help us, 67 00:03:48,620 --> 00:03:50,300 two terms in that verse and then one term 68 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:51,980 we're gonna look at today. 69 00:03:51,980 --> 00:03:53,580 First is the word ordinances. 70 00:03:53,580 --> 00:03:56,300 You guys see the word ordinances there? 71 00:03:56,300 --> 00:03:59,780 The first covenant also ordinances of divine service. 72 00:03:59,780 --> 00:04:04,780 This term was used by everything in the sacrificial system 73 00:04:04,780 --> 00:04:08,540 that was prescribed for the priest to do 74 00:04:08,540 --> 00:04:10,780 to mediate between God and man. 75 00:04:10,780 --> 00:04:14,780 In the Old Testament God gave, he ordained certain things 76 00:04:14,780 --> 00:04:19,780 for the priest to do in that first sanctuary 77 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:21,260 which is the next word. 78 00:04:21,260 --> 00:04:23,060 You see the word here ordinances 79 00:04:23,060 --> 00:04:25,860 and then you say a worldly sanctuary. 80 00:04:25,860 --> 00:04:28,460 We talked about that a lot last week. 81 00:04:28,460 --> 00:04:30,460 That's the word that was ascribed to the inner 82 00:04:30,460 --> 00:04:32,620 and outer parts of the tabernacle, 83 00:04:32,620 --> 00:04:35,060 the holy place and the holy of holies. 84 00:04:35,060 --> 00:04:37,180 So you have ordinances, these are the things 85 00:04:37,180 --> 00:04:40,620 that the priest did in a worldly earthly sanctuary 86 00:04:40,620 --> 00:04:45,620 in that Old Testament and that was the first covenant. 87 00:04:45,820 --> 00:04:49,100 This refers to the Mosaic Covenant. 88 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:53,140 It was also called the Old Covenant in the last, 89 00:04:53,140 --> 00:04:55,780 you guys have your Bible, go to Hebrews chapter eight, 90 00:04:55,780 --> 00:04:59,820 just the page over, it says at the very end 91 00:04:59,820 --> 00:05:01,900 in that he saith, this is verse 13, 92 00:05:01,900 --> 00:05:04,500 in that he saith a new covenant, 93 00:05:04,500 --> 00:05:08,300 he hath made the first old, now that which decays 94 00:05:08,300 --> 00:05:12,620 and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. 95 00:05:12,620 --> 00:05:16,140 So you had ordinances and that were those, 96 00:05:16,140 --> 00:05:19,700 all the things that they would do in that tabernacle, 97 00:05:19,700 --> 00:05:22,900 that worldly sanctuary, they would offer sacrifices, 98 00:05:22,900 --> 00:05:26,500 they would burn incense, they would do all kinds of things. 99 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:28,620 That was all part of the first covenant 100 00:05:28,620 --> 00:05:30,500 and what at the end of chapter eight, 101 00:05:30,500 --> 00:05:33,740 the preacher, the author of Hebrews tells us is, 102 00:05:33,740 --> 00:05:36,260 all that's ready to go away. 103 00:05:36,260 --> 00:05:40,060 It's going, it's gone and the truth of the matter is 104 00:05:40,060 --> 00:05:42,980 we worship differently the same Lord now, 105 00:05:42,980 --> 00:05:45,180 but we worship Him differently, don't we? 106 00:05:45,180 --> 00:05:48,100 Anybody here bring a sheep in this morning? 107 00:05:48,100 --> 00:05:48,980 No, you did not. 108 00:05:48,980 --> 00:05:50,820 We don't have a table of showbread, 109 00:05:50,820 --> 00:05:53,420 we don't have the incense, we don't have a part 110 00:05:53,420 --> 00:05:58,580 of the sanctuary, this place where we meet, 111 00:05:58,580 --> 00:06:00,540 that you can't go into, in fact, 112 00:06:00,540 --> 00:06:02,380 and where we come and worship God, 113 00:06:02,380 --> 00:06:04,340 everybody's welcome to come in here, 114 00:06:04,340 --> 00:06:07,260 men and women, Jew and Greek, male and female, 115 00:06:07,260 --> 00:06:10,220 it doesn't matter, we all come into here to do that. 116 00:06:11,740 --> 00:06:13,700 The preacher has been making the case 117 00:06:13,700 --> 00:06:17,100 that the old covenant, which was mediated 118 00:06:17,100 --> 00:06:21,460 by sacrifices and ordinance made by the old priesthood, 119 00:06:21,460 --> 00:06:23,380 but now we have a new high priest 120 00:06:23,380 --> 00:06:25,740 and that new high priest is Jesus Christ. 121 00:06:26,660 --> 00:06:29,460 And we focus on that old sanctuary or tabernacle 122 00:06:29,460 --> 00:06:33,940 as a picture of a better sanctuary where Christ sits now. 123 00:06:33,940 --> 00:06:36,500 All the things in the old covenant 124 00:06:36,500 --> 00:06:39,420 were picturing something that was real. 125 00:06:39,420 --> 00:06:42,580 There's a real place where God really lives in heaven 126 00:06:42,580 --> 00:06:45,780 and now ever lives to make intercession for us. 127 00:06:45,780 --> 00:06:48,900 We also saw that the old covenant was mediated 128 00:06:48,900 --> 00:06:51,620 by the blood of bulls and goats, 129 00:06:51,620 --> 00:06:53,700 but that Christ's blood is so much better 130 00:06:53,700 --> 00:06:56,420 to purge our consciences and make us clean. 131 00:06:56,420 --> 00:07:01,420 So today we come to this text and we find another term 132 00:07:01,420 --> 00:07:05,540 for the word covenant, it's the word Testament. 133 00:07:05,540 --> 00:07:09,980 If you look at chapter nine verse 15, it says, 134 00:07:09,980 --> 00:07:14,980 and for this cause he is the mediator of the new Testament. 135 00:07:17,300 --> 00:07:21,860 In today's text, we're gonna see the preacher, 136 00:07:21,860 --> 00:07:25,100 the author of Hebrews, begin to expand our understanding 137 00:07:25,100 --> 00:07:27,780 of this incredible word Testament. 138 00:07:27,780 --> 00:07:30,900 Now, we don't use the word Testament very much 139 00:07:30,900 --> 00:07:32,780 in our modern English. 140 00:07:32,780 --> 00:07:35,540 You probably didn't use the word this past week potentially, 141 00:07:35,540 --> 00:07:38,940 except for maybe talking about the old Testament 142 00:07:38,940 --> 00:07:40,980 and the new Testament. 143 00:07:40,980 --> 00:07:43,500 But in everyday language, we don't use it that often, 144 00:07:43,500 --> 00:07:46,380 but we do use it in this way, in a legal way, 145 00:07:46,380 --> 00:07:50,260 when we talk about having to read someone's last will 146 00:07:50,260 --> 00:07:52,340 and Testament. 147 00:07:52,340 --> 00:07:54,180 How many have heard that phrase before? 148 00:07:54,180 --> 00:07:56,920 The last will and Testament. 149 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:00,360 Today's text deals with the Testament 150 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:03,440 and he begins to use that same word for Testament 151 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,320 or covenant or promise. 152 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,960 Now he's using it in the sense of being a will, 153 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:14,960 a Testament, like a last will and Testament. 154 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:19,560 And to prove it to you, this idea continues throughout. 155 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:22,200 If you go to chapter 10, just a page over 156 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:26,120 and look at verse 10, Hebrews 10, 10, 157 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:31,120 he says, by the which will, go back to verse nine, 158 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,640 then said he, lo, I come to do thy will, O God, 159 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,360 he takeeth away the first that he may establish, 160 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,400 take away the first will that he may establish 161 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:46,200 the second verse 10, by the which will, 162 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,320 we are sanctified through the offering of the body 163 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,920 of Jesus Christ once for all. 164 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:55,120 And so today, I've entitled today's message, 165 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:56,320 are you in the will? 166 00:08:57,840 --> 00:08:59,080 Are you in the will? 167 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:04,280 The USA Today reported about a man previously named 168 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:07,040 Tony Chang in a headline that read, 169 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:12,040 billionaire's lover gets 12 years for fake will. 170 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:15,280 Here's what it says. 171 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:17,720 The former lover and fortune teller 172 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,840 of quirky billionaire Nina Wang was sentenced Friday 173 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:24,040 to 12 years in prison after a Hong Kong court 174 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:26,760 found him guilty of forging a will 175 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:30,520 to claim her multi-billion dollar estate. 176 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:33,800 High court Justice Andrew McCrae said Peter Chang's attempt 177 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,600 to pass himself off as the beneficiary 178 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,840 of Nina Wang's fortune, estimated by prosecutors 179 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:42,040 at 83 billion Hong Kong dollars, 180 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:46,400 which is 10.7 billion US, was shameless, wicked, 181 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,440 and born of unparalleled greed. 182 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:53,440 Wang, once Asia's richest woman, died in 2007 183 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:55,920 at age 69 after battling cancer. 184 00:09:55,920 --> 00:10:00,240 Hong Kong police charged Chang after the 2011 ruling 185 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:04,000 that a will purportedly leaving Wang's China Kim group 186 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,600 to him was forged. 187 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:10,200 Later in the article, it says Chang, a 53 year old, 188 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:13,600 father of three was convicted Thursday of forgery 189 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:14,920 and using a false instrument. 190 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:17,720 The judge sentenced him to 12 years on each count 191 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,120 to be served concurrently. 192 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:23,000 Now people around a billionaire may have a strong desire 193 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:24,240 to be in their wills. 194 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:27,960 This guy had such a strong desire to be the heir 195 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:32,360 to those billions that apparently a judge of his peers 196 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:34,280 said that, a jury of his peers, 197 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:36,880 I don't know how a Hong Kong jury system works, 198 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:40,800 but anyway, he was convicted of forging a will. 199 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:41,960 He wanted that money. 200 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:46,640 In those circumstances, people may go to extremes, 201 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:48,600 but we know that it's a rude thing to be asked 202 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:49,680 to be in somebody's will. 203 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:51,880 Isn't it weird to ask that? 204 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:54,560 I would never think it to ask to be in your will. 205 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:57,520 That would be such a weird thing. 206 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:00,120 That's something probably someone ought never asked. 207 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:04,000 Yet God has made an offer to all mankind. 208 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:10,240 God has offered an inheritance to every man, woman, 209 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:12,760 boy and girl. 210 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:16,040 By the which will we are sanctified 211 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:19,000 through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ 212 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:19,840 once for all. 213 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:21,800 It would be rude for us to go to our parents 214 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:23,280 and to ask to be in the will. 215 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,560 You remember when, or to ask to execute the will 216 00:11:27,560 --> 00:11:30,440 as we'll see in a minute before there's a death. 217 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:32,840 Remember the prodigal son? 218 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:34,000 What did the prodigal son do? 219 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,240 He went to his dad and said, 220 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:38,360 dad, give me my inheritance. 221 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:41,680 To which the Jewish crowd hearing that story 222 00:11:41,680 --> 00:11:42,520 would have said, 223 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:45,840 what are you doing? 224 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:47,400 Would you think that would be pretty rude 225 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,160 in an American context? 226 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:50,920 Hey, mom and dad, give me my inheritance. 227 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:53,320 I don't wanna wait till you die, give it to me now. 228 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:56,720 I would never think to ask that. 229 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:57,800 Maybe you wouldn't either. 230 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:01,520 But here's the thing, God has offered inheritance 231 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:02,700 to everyone. 232 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:05,920 And his inheritance is way better 233 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:07,640 than any Asian billionaire woman. 234 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:10,040 He owns everything. 235 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:12,440 And you can be in the will. 236 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:15,480 You can be in the will. 237 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:16,320 If you're in the will, 238 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:18,920 then some amazing things are offered to you. 239 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,360 Here's today's big idea. 240 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:24,080 We can have confidence about our eternal, 241 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:26,720 spiritual and heavenly inheritance 242 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:30,160 because of two features of the new testament, 243 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:32,600 the new will and testament, 244 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:35,560 the covenant, the promise that God has made to us. 245 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:39,440 Now, I feel like I've lost half the audience here today. 246 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,220 So let me put this in better terms. 247 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:48,200 The creator of the universe wants to offer you 248 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:49,520 an inheritance. 249 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,880 It's not theoretical, it's actual. 250 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:58,720 Anybody here heard of a new heaven and a new earth 251 00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:03,160 that are coming and they're coming for those 252 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:04,640 who are in the will. 253 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:08,640 And you can be in the will. 254 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:17,640 You can ask to be in the will 255 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:21,120 and he can say to you what he said to everybody, 256 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:25,320 he that comes to me, I will and know why is cast out. 257 00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:28,960 I could end the sermon there 258 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,160 and you guys could have a really good day. 259 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:34,700 But I want to teach you why this is true. 260 00:13:34,700 --> 00:13:37,800 We want to see two features of this will, 261 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,160 this testament that God has given to us. 262 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:42,960 Feature number one, how the will is mediated. 263 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:44,960 Let's look at how the will is mediated. 264 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:49,960 We'll look first at the benefits of the will. 265 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:52,360 Are you with me? 266 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:54,880 Anybody lost? 267 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:56,520 If you're lost, don't raise your hand. 268 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:57,960 Ask your neighbor, okay? 269 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:01,440 Verse 15, and for this cause, 270 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:04,520 he is the mediator of the new testament 271 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:06,520 that by means of death, 272 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:08,600 for the redemption of the transgressions 273 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:10,880 that were under the first testament, 274 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:14,400 they which are called might receive the promise 275 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,300 of eternal, what's the next word? 276 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:19,600 Inheritance, are you seeing 277 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:22,320 that I'm in the right universe here, right? 278 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:26,320 Inheritance, the new testament, the new covenant, 279 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,500 the new will and testament is mediated by Jesus Christ. 280 00:14:30,500 --> 00:14:31,600 How did he do it? 281 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:36,400 Well, it says here that it was by means of death. 282 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,520 Jesus Christ offered his own body and blood 283 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:42,120 as a sacrifice for our sins. 284 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:46,280 Because of that sacrifice, he is now the mediator 285 00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:49,200 of a new covenant or a new testament. 286 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:52,160 Now, covenants were often made in the Bible 287 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:53,400 with a sacrifice. 288 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,760 We're gonna do a little history lesson this morning. 289 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:58,680 The Abrahamic covenant, the covenant that was made 290 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:02,040 to Abraham, the promise made to Abraham 291 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:03,400 was made with a sacrifice. 292 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:06,160 In Genesis 15, verse nine, it says this, 293 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:09,520 and he said unto him, talking about God saying to Abraham, 294 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:12,200 take a heifer of three years old and a shegoat of three 295 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:14,960 years old and a ram of three years old and a turtle dove 296 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:17,720 and a young pigeon, and he took them unto all these 297 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:19,480 and divided them in the midst. 298 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:22,920 Meaning he didn't take, dividing them didn't mean 299 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:24,720 a couple on this side, a couple that side, 300 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:26,760 dividing them means he cut them in two. 301 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:28,120 He sacrificed them. 302 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:31,000 But the verbs he divided not. 303 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,440 Down in verse 18, it says, in the same day 304 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:35,840 the Lord made a covenant with Abraham saying, 305 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,560 unto thy seed I have given this land, 306 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:40,320 do you see the inheritance there? 307 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:42,640 Do you see that? 308 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:45,320 Unto your seed I have given this land, 309 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,280 that's an inheritance, from the river of Egypt 310 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:50,640 under the great river, the river Euphrates. 311 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:52,680 When God made a covenant with Abraham, 312 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:55,000 there was the sacrifice of animals, 313 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,840 and then that promise that was made. 314 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:00,040 This is true also, the Mosaic covenant. 315 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:03,560 In Exodus 24, it says this, and Moses wrote 316 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:07,640 all the words of the Lord and rose early up in the morning 317 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:09,680 and built in an altar under the hill, 318 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:12,720 and 12 pillars according to the 12 tribes of Israel. 319 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:14,960 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, 320 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:16,640 which offered what? 321 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:19,440 Burn offerings, there's the sacrifices. 322 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:23,520 And sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the Lord. 323 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:27,640 And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, 324 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:30,000 and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar, 325 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:31,880 and then he took the book of the covenant, 326 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:33,600 and he read the audience of the people. 327 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:35,440 This is the covenant that God made. 328 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:36,600 This is the 10 commandments. 329 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:39,000 This is the law that God had given to Moses, 330 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,040 and he read the covenant that God was making to them 331 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:43,400 after sacrificing. 332 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:45,880 He read it to the people. 333 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:48,920 He says, verse seven, he took the book of the covenant 334 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:50,120 and read in the audience of the people, 335 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:52,480 and they said, all that the Lord has said, 336 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:56,360 we will do and be obedient. 337 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,360 And Moses took the blood, what did he do? 338 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:03,120 He sprinkled it on the people and said, 339 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:05,240 behold, the blood of the covenant, 340 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:07,280 which the Lord hath made with you 341 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:10,880 concerning all these words. 342 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:14,920 Notice, here's the point, the blood sacrifice made, 343 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:16,960 notice the blood sacrifice made 344 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:20,760 when the covenant promises were made. 345 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:24,480 God had set a standard that covenants were made 346 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:25,800 with a sacrifice. 347 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:26,800 Do you see the connection? 348 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:28,520 If you see the connection, raise your hands. 349 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:29,360 All right, you see it? 350 00:17:29,360 --> 00:17:32,080 Okay, some of you will never raise your hands. 351 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:32,920 Okay. 352 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,560 Jesus sacrificed on the cross, 353 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:38,120 his sacrifice on the cross, 354 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:42,040 paid for the sins of those who placed their faith, 355 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:45,400 not just for them, it paid for all the sins 356 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:46,600 of the whole world. 357 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:50,600 But it's efficient of those who placed their faith in God 358 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:52,720 through obedience and a following, 359 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:55,160 and this is the point I'm gonna make. 360 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,680 Not only did it pay for those in the future, 361 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,320 it paid for those in the past 362 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:03,000 who placed their faith in God in that first covenant. 363 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,000 That's what it means. 364 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,440 Go back to verse 15, here's what he's saying. 365 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:10,600 And for this cause, he is the meteor of the New Testament, 366 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:15,200 that by means of death, by means of his own death 367 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:17,040 is what it means. 368 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:20,400 For the redemption of the transgressions 369 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:25,400 that were under the first, the old, 370 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:29,640 all these people before Jesus came 371 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:33,160 when they would sin, part of the Mosaic covenant 372 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:35,800 was that you had to offer sacrifices 373 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:37,720 for the sins that you did 374 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:40,520 through the mediation of an old priesthood. 375 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:45,200 And God's economy, what he said was, 376 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:48,960 when you do that, I'll remember your sins no more. 377 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:50,520 But it wasn't through the work, 378 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:52,040 it was because they believed God 379 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:54,840 and because those things pointed to Jesus. 380 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,200 And what this verse tells us was 381 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:58,760 that the blood of bulls and goats 382 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,880 wasn't the thing that got their sins forgiven. 383 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,560 Even the people in the Old Testament were forgiven 384 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:07,040 because Jesus laid down his life, 385 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:08,960 not just for us in the future, 386 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:13,200 but for those sins that were passed, do you get it? 387 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:19,120 So he says, his sacrifice, the covenant was 388 00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:21,280 for the redemption of the transgressions 389 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:23,720 that were under the first Testament, 390 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:26,400 they which are called, that they which are called 391 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:30,360 might receive the promises of eternal inheritance. 392 00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:32,720 Those who followed God before the New Testament 393 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:35,680 sacrificed of Jesus, sacrificed animals 394 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:37,800 and followed the law the best that they knew. 395 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,600 God planned for their redemption 396 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:42,200 and that plan was the sacrifice of Jesus Christ 397 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:43,640 on the cross for the sins. 398 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:45,360 So what was the result for them? 399 00:19:45,360 --> 00:19:47,880 It's the same as the result for us, what was it? 400 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,920 That they might receive the promise 401 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:53,620 of eternal inheritance, what does that mean? 402 00:19:53,620 --> 00:19:57,120 That means salvation in the fullest sense, 403 00:19:57,120 --> 00:20:00,280 salvation in every way. 404 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,640 Notice the use of the word inheritance. 405 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:05,400 As we've already stated, this is speaking of the Testament 406 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:07,520 like a will, a last will and Testament. 407 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:08,760 What's a Testament? 408 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,160 It's the statement by a person 409 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,840 as to what should happen when there are possessions 410 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:15,100 after they die. 411 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:17,960 You with me? 412 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:19,440 Do you have a will? 413 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:22,040 I hope you do, I don't have, 414 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:23,640 I probably need to get one. 415 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:28,120 I have tens and tens of dollars that I need to give 416 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,720 to my kids after they die, right? 417 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,640 That's kind of, you're getting it now, okay. 418 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,880 A Testament is a statement by a person 419 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,560 as to what should happen with their possessions 420 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:49,760 after they die. 421 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:53,600 Our inheritance, now here's the good news, are you ready? 422 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:58,600 Our inheritance from God is already ours in some sense. 423 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:01,600 We already have some of it. 424 00:21:03,360 --> 00:21:06,960 And in another sense, we have an inheritance 425 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:08,740 that we get to possess. 426 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:14,920 If you placed your trust in Jesus Christ, you were saved. 427 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,040 Let me say that again. 428 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:22,040 If you placed your trust in Jesus Christ, you were saved. 429 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,280 If you placed your trust in Jesus Christ, 430 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:27,880 you are being saved. 431 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:29,920 And if you placed your trust in Jesus Christ, 432 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:33,400 one day you will be saved. 433 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:34,400 What do I mean? 434 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,360 There's an inheritance. 435 00:21:36,360 --> 00:21:39,080 This isn't the only place that this is talked about. 436 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:42,200 Ephesians 1-10, you guys remember when we studied Ephesians? 437 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,360 Verse 10 says this, that in the dispensation 438 00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:49,280 of the fullness of times, he, talking about God, 439 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:54,280 might gather together in one all things in Christ, 440 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:58,080 both which are in heaven and which are in earth, 441 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:02,040 even in him, in whom we have obtained, 442 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:05,200 and what does it say? 443 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:08,720 An inheritance being predestinated according to the purpose 444 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,040 of him, which worketh all things after the counsel 445 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,260 of his own will, that we should be to the praise 446 00:22:13,260 --> 00:22:15,240 of his glory who first trusted Christ. 447 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,720 In whom, here's the order, I love this. 448 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:19,160 This makes it super clear. 449 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:20,760 In whom ye also trusted. 450 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:24,480 When you trusted in Christ, you trusted it after that, 451 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,160 you heard the word of truth. 452 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:27,480 How do people get saved? 453 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,360 They get saved when they hear the gospel 454 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:33,440 and then they believe. 455 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:37,720 Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. 456 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,300 You heard the word of truth, you heard the gospel, 457 00:22:40,300 --> 00:22:42,040 the good news of your salvation. 458 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:43,640 Christ died for our sins, he was buried, 459 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:45,680 he rose again for our sins the third day 460 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:47,120 according to the scriptures. 461 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,480 And once you heard it, in whom also after that, 462 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,600 you believed it says here in verse 13, 463 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:57,840 you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. 464 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,920 So if you're saved in here today, 465 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:05,760 you have the Holy Spirit in you, living in you right now. 466 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,440 The third person that turned to is living in you. 467 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,920 If you don't have the Holy Spirit, you're not saved. 468 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:14,240 That's what the Bible teaches. 469 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,120 Now here's the cool thing about this Holy Spirit, 470 00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:22,120 he says verse 14, which is the earnest of our, what? 471 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:28,600 Inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession 472 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:29,640 under the praise of his glory. 473 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:30,480 You know what he says? 474 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:32,480 You know what verse 14 is saying? 475 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:36,240 When you get saved, the Holy Spirit comes to live inside of you. 476 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:38,440 That's the earnest money. 477 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,600 My real-ear friends know what earnest money is, right? 478 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,000 I'm making a down payment now 479 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,240 so that you know more payments coming. 480 00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:49,120 The down payment of our salvation 481 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:51,080 is the third person of the Holy Spirit 482 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,520 coming to live inside of us who are saved. 483 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:58,720 Helping us to know that that earnest money, 484 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:01,000 that more is on the way, it says here, 485 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,200 which is the earnest of our inheritance 486 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,520 until the redemption of the purchased possession. 487 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:07,520 You know what that means? 488 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,000 All that God bought for us, 489 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,000 all that God did for us in redemption, 490 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,680 we're gonna realize one day when we get to heaven. 491 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:17,120 Seriously? 492 00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:18,560 We're gonna get all of it. 493 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,240 We're gonna get to heaven. 494 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:23,720 It's so much better than here. 495 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:25,280 You think Finley's nice? 496 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:29,840 It's a nice little town. 497 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:31,360 We got some nice restaurants. 498 00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:33,920 People are basically nice. 499 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,040 Wait till they're sinless in heaven. 500 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:41,200 It's way better. 501 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,240 And the Holy Spirit is just a down payment of it. 502 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:49,600 You know, I come to church with you people. 503 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:50,640 I love you. 504 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:56,160 And we enjoy some sweet fellowship. 505 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,400 We have fun together. 506 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:00,640 If you don't come to church, you're missing out. 507 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,280 It's so fun being with each other. 508 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,360 People ask me how I'm doing and they care about the answer. 509 00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:08,560 It's not just a greeting. 510 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,040 I watch you people help each other out. 511 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:14,600 You don't think I know, but you do it. 512 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:15,840 I see it. 513 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:19,000 But our fellowship one day is gonna be so much better. 514 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,680 Man, I love, every morning, I just about every morning, 515 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:27,680 I try to get up and I get to read God's word with my coffee. 516 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,920 And all God's people said, I love coffee. 517 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,280 And I love the Bible and I get to read it. 518 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,040 And there's some mornings, not every morning, 519 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:38,920 it's like this, some mornings, it's like, okay. 520 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,400 But some mornings, like, man, God, you are so good to me. 521 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:42,440 I get to pray to him. 522 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,360 And the fellowship I have with him is sweet. 523 00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:45,840 But you know what's gonna happen one day? 524 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:47,800 I'm not just gonna read God's word. 525 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:51,520 One day I'm gonna hear God's word from God himself. 526 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:52,720 And I'm gonna spend time with him. 527 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,720 It's so much better, so much better. 528 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,600 And Paul tells us here in Ephesians 529 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,840 that we're gonna receive an inheritance. 530 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:02,800 We've already received a huge part of it. 531 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:04,320 But more is coming. 532 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,520 And that is called glorification. 533 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:10,880 I'm saved, that's salvation. 534 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,160 I'm growing in Christ, he's in me, that's sanctification. 535 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,040 One day I'm gonna experience salvation 536 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,040 in its fullest sense, glorification. 537 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:20,760 That's gonna be amazing. 538 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,400 Going to be with God in a new body, 539 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,320 on a new heaven and a new earth, 540 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,840 forever free from sin and rewarded 541 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,440 for the things done in the body we have now. 542 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,500 That's all part of our inheritance. 543 00:26:32,500 --> 00:26:36,180 These verses are speaking of those Old Testament saints 544 00:26:36,180 --> 00:26:37,780 who needed their sins forgiven, 545 00:26:37,780 --> 00:26:39,940 who made sacrifices of bulls and goats, 546 00:26:39,940 --> 00:26:42,140 who were given forgiveness fully and finally 547 00:26:42,140 --> 00:26:43,980 because of Jesus Christ. 548 00:26:43,980 --> 00:26:46,900 They have salvation inheritance that was made for them. 549 00:26:46,900 --> 00:26:50,340 And it says here, made for them by means of death, 550 00:26:50,340 --> 00:26:53,380 speaking of the death of Jesus. 551 00:26:53,380 --> 00:26:55,700 So what are the benefits of the will? 552 00:26:55,700 --> 00:26:56,700 How's the will mediated? 553 00:26:56,700 --> 00:26:58,580 Well, first know its benefits. 554 00:26:58,580 --> 00:27:00,740 Redemption for transgressions 555 00:27:00,740 --> 00:27:05,020 and a full inheritance one day, those are the benefits. 556 00:27:05,020 --> 00:27:06,700 Pretty good, aren't they? 557 00:27:06,700 --> 00:27:08,180 You can be in the will. 558 00:27:09,580 --> 00:27:12,220 You can have that right now, forgiveness of sin 559 00:27:12,220 --> 00:27:14,340 and home in heaven one day when you die. 560 00:27:14,340 --> 00:27:16,740 That's what this looks like. 561 00:27:16,740 --> 00:27:17,860 We talked about the benefits, 562 00:27:17,860 --> 00:27:20,140 now let's talk about the benefactor. 563 00:27:20,140 --> 00:27:21,860 The benefactor. 564 00:27:21,860 --> 00:27:23,140 Look at verse 16. 565 00:27:24,660 --> 00:27:26,740 For where a testament is, 566 00:27:27,740 --> 00:27:30,340 there must also of necessity be the death 567 00:27:30,340 --> 00:27:31,660 of a testator. 568 00:27:32,660 --> 00:27:36,420 Now in a will and testament, there's always a benefactor. 569 00:27:36,420 --> 00:27:37,780 What is the will and testament? 570 00:27:37,780 --> 00:27:41,460 It's a written down expression of the desires and promises 571 00:27:41,460 --> 00:27:44,020 of the deceased person for what happens 572 00:27:44,020 --> 00:27:45,860 with all the resources that they stewarded 573 00:27:45,860 --> 00:27:47,420 when they were alive. 574 00:27:47,420 --> 00:27:50,460 This verse is simply saying that with a testament, 575 00:27:50,460 --> 00:27:54,740 with the will, the full benefits of the inheritance 576 00:27:54,740 --> 00:27:56,500 are not activated until the one 577 00:27:56,500 --> 00:27:58,820 who's making the will and testament dies. 578 00:27:58,820 --> 00:28:02,340 The person who's living could write a will 579 00:28:02,340 --> 00:28:04,300 and then later on change the will. 580 00:28:05,580 --> 00:28:08,260 But once he dies, that will is in force. 581 00:28:08,260 --> 00:28:10,340 That's what he says in verse 17. 582 00:28:10,340 --> 00:28:15,340 For a testament is of force after men are, 583 00:28:16,740 --> 00:28:17,580 do you hear it? 584 00:28:17,580 --> 00:28:18,420 Do you see it? 585 00:28:18,420 --> 00:28:19,260 When does it happen? 586 00:28:19,260 --> 00:28:21,820 When they're dead. 587 00:28:21,820 --> 00:28:23,860 Otherwise it is of no strength at all 588 00:28:23,860 --> 00:28:25,820 while the testator liveth. 589 00:28:25,820 --> 00:28:28,140 The will and testaments are just indications 590 00:28:28,140 --> 00:28:31,020 of what the person wants to happen after they deceased. 591 00:28:31,020 --> 00:28:32,940 It's not a force, it's not implemented 592 00:28:32,940 --> 00:28:35,940 until after the death of the benefactor. 593 00:28:35,940 --> 00:28:38,140 That's why in the story of the prodigal son, 594 00:28:38,140 --> 00:28:40,340 it's so offensive for the prodigal 595 00:28:40,340 --> 00:28:42,180 to ask for the inheritance of his father. 596 00:28:42,180 --> 00:28:43,980 He was in essence saying to his father, 597 00:28:43,980 --> 00:28:47,020 I don't wanna wait till you die, I wish you were dead. 598 00:28:48,260 --> 00:28:50,540 The new testament though, bought and paid for 599 00:28:50,540 --> 00:28:53,860 by the blood of Jesus, has been put to death 600 00:28:53,860 --> 00:28:58,100 for Jesus, has been put into force 601 00:28:58,100 --> 00:29:00,940 because the testator died. 602 00:29:02,100 --> 00:29:03,540 But he didn't stay dead. 603 00:29:04,700 --> 00:29:06,780 He rose from the dead. 604 00:29:06,780 --> 00:29:10,220 The death of Jesus Christ has put into play 605 00:29:10,220 --> 00:29:13,940 all of this, the will for those who believe. 606 00:29:13,940 --> 00:29:15,940 It's sufficient for the whole world 607 00:29:15,940 --> 00:29:19,660 and efficient to those who put their trust in him. 608 00:29:19,660 --> 00:29:23,820 And so I ask you again, today, are you in the will? 609 00:29:25,940 --> 00:29:27,140 There's enough for ya. 610 00:29:29,500 --> 00:29:30,660 There's enough for ya. 611 00:29:32,180 --> 00:29:34,700 The death of Jesus Christ is God's gift to me 612 00:29:34,700 --> 00:29:36,940 and the event that initiated those benefits 613 00:29:36,940 --> 00:29:40,180 of his promise to those who believe under the old covenant. 614 00:29:40,180 --> 00:29:42,100 The benefits of this new testament 615 00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:44,540 are just not just off into the someday 616 00:29:44,540 --> 00:29:46,140 in the sweet buy and buy, 617 00:29:46,140 --> 00:29:49,620 the benefits of the inheritance are in the now and now. 618 00:29:49,620 --> 00:29:52,260 Because of our salvation through the death of Jesus, 619 00:29:52,260 --> 00:29:54,140 we have the Holy Spirit. 620 00:29:56,540 --> 00:29:58,380 Because of God's will and election 621 00:29:58,380 --> 00:30:01,100 to give everyone who believes in him the Holy Spirit, 622 00:30:01,100 --> 00:30:03,900 we have the help we need to grow into him 623 00:30:03,900 --> 00:30:06,620 and to everything he wants us to be. 624 00:30:06,620 --> 00:30:08,500 Anybody here fight temptation? 625 00:30:11,540 --> 00:30:13,380 Yeah, like every day. 626 00:30:14,580 --> 00:30:16,380 If you're doing it on your own, 627 00:30:16,380 --> 00:30:17,620 you're gonna mess up. 628 00:30:18,780 --> 00:30:20,500 If you're doing it on your own, 629 00:30:20,500 --> 00:30:22,820 if you're not saved, you are doing it on your own. 630 00:30:22,820 --> 00:30:24,180 If you're not filled with the spirit 631 00:30:24,180 --> 00:30:26,500 or controlled by the spirit, you're doing it on your own. 632 00:30:26,500 --> 00:30:28,540 Some of you are wondering, why do I keep messing up? 633 00:30:28,540 --> 00:30:30,900 Part of it's because you're doing it on your own. 634 00:30:30,900 --> 00:30:32,740 But you don't have to do it on your own. 635 00:30:32,740 --> 00:30:34,660 God's given you the third person of the spirit. 636 00:30:34,660 --> 00:30:36,100 That's part of your inheritance. 637 00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:37,300 You already have it. 638 00:30:37,300 --> 00:30:39,020 Have I told you you already have it? 639 00:30:39,020 --> 00:30:40,220 You already have it. 640 00:30:41,500 --> 00:30:43,300 So God's given his word, 641 00:30:43,300 --> 00:30:44,620 God's given his word. 642 00:30:44,620 --> 00:30:46,620 God's given his people, his church, 643 00:30:46,620 --> 00:30:49,980 he's given his Holy Spirit as part of this down payment to you. 644 00:30:49,980 --> 00:30:53,980 This inheritance to you so you can fight temptation today. 645 00:30:55,380 --> 00:30:56,780 We won't always win it. 646 00:30:56,780 --> 00:30:58,940 One day we're gonna defeat all the temptation 647 00:30:58,940 --> 00:30:59,780 because we're gonna go to heaven 648 00:30:59,780 --> 00:31:01,620 and we're gonna be apart from sin. 649 00:31:01,620 --> 00:31:03,580 But God has given that to you now. 650 00:31:03,580 --> 00:31:06,780 You can have help with that. 651 00:31:06,780 --> 00:31:08,220 You can be in the will. 652 00:31:08,220 --> 00:31:09,820 You can be saved. 653 00:31:09,820 --> 00:31:11,220 The benefits are just incredible. 654 00:31:11,220 --> 00:31:13,220 And our benefactor is Jesus Christ. 655 00:31:13,220 --> 00:31:15,180 Our benefactor is Jesus Christ 656 00:31:15,180 --> 00:31:17,900 through a substitutionary and atoning death. 657 00:31:17,900 --> 00:31:22,900 So we can have confidence about our eternal spiritual 658 00:31:23,180 --> 00:31:25,100 and heavenly inheritance because of two features. 659 00:31:25,100 --> 00:31:27,620 Number one, how the will is mediated. 660 00:31:27,620 --> 00:31:30,140 Number two, second one, last one. 661 00:31:30,140 --> 00:31:32,140 How the will is validated. 662 00:31:33,060 --> 00:31:34,540 How the will is validated. 663 00:31:37,180 --> 00:31:39,740 We've already been told in this text that this will be a force 664 00:31:39,740 --> 00:31:42,780 or it's implemented because of the death of Jesus Christ. 665 00:31:42,780 --> 00:31:44,380 The new testament was made possible 666 00:31:44,380 --> 00:31:46,020 by the blood of Jesus Christ, 667 00:31:46,020 --> 00:31:49,420 which is so much better than the blood of bulls and goats. 668 00:31:49,420 --> 00:31:52,460 But the preacher here continues to talk about 669 00:31:52,460 --> 00:31:55,780 how the will is validated by the blood of Jesus 670 00:31:55,780 --> 00:32:00,420 by making the point that this New Testament reality 671 00:32:01,300 --> 00:32:03,660 was pictured in the Old Testament. 672 00:32:03,660 --> 00:32:06,140 So the first thing we're gonna see is it's pictured. 673 00:32:06,140 --> 00:32:07,380 How was it pictured? 674 00:32:07,380 --> 00:32:12,380 Well, it was dedicated or validated with blood. 675 00:32:15,380 --> 00:32:17,500 How do we know that God is serious 676 00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:20,460 about giving us an inheritance? 677 00:32:20,460 --> 00:32:22,620 Let's look at the price he paid. 678 00:32:23,820 --> 00:32:24,660 Do you get it? 679 00:32:27,820 --> 00:32:31,340 Verse 19, verse 18. 680 00:32:31,340 --> 00:32:33,700 Whereupon neither the first testament 681 00:32:33,700 --> 00:32:35,860 was dedicated without blood. 682 00:32:35,860 --> 00:32:37,260 What is he saying? 683 00:32:37,260 --> 00:32:39,180 Even the picture of the thing 684 00:32:39,180 --> 00:32:42,380 that he was gonna do in the future, even that, 685 00:32:42,380 --> 00:32:44,860 was pictured with blood. 686 00:32:44,860 --> 00:32:48,620 Everything in the Old Covenant, the Old Promise, 687 00:32:48,620 --> 00:32:50,460 was dedicated with blood. 688 00:32:50,460 --> 00:32:51,660 Look at verse 19. 689 00:32:51,660 --> 00:32:55,340 For when Moses had spoken every precept 690 00:32:55,340 --> 00:32:57,500 to all the people according to the law, 691 00:32:57,500 --> 00:32:59,820 he took the blood of calves and goats with water 692 00:32:59,820 --> 00:33:01,060 and scarlet wool and hissef 693 00:33:01,060 --> 00:33:03,980 and sprinkled both the book and all the people saying, 694 00:33:03,980 --> 00:33:05,740 this is the blood of the testament 695 00:33:05,740 --> 00:33:07,700 which God hath enjoined unto you. 696 00:33:07,700 --> 00:33:11,020 Moreover, he sprinkled with blood, both the tabernacle 697 00:33:11,020 --> 00:33:13,500 and all of the vessels of the ministry. 698 00:33:13,500 --> 00:33:14,500 What is he saying? 699 00:33:15,740 --> 00:33:19,900 Well, the first covenant was a promise 700 00:33:19,900 --> 00:33:21,220 and so is the second. 701 00:33:24,140 --> 00:33:27,180 The preacher here is telling us that the will 702 00:33:27,180 --> 00:33:30,060 or the testament that describes the inheritance 703 00:33:30,060 --> 00:33:32,340 is not enforced until there's a death. 704 00:33:32,340 --> 00:33:35,500 And this was the picture in the Old Testament 705 00:33:35,500 --> 00:33:38,580 when everything was dedicated with blood. 706 00:33:38,580 --> 00:33:41,660 Death is of necessity. 707 00:33:41,660 --> 00:33:43,700 He goes back to when Moses received the law 708 00:33:43,700 --> 00:33:45,460 and gave it to the people, we already read that. 709 00:33:45,460 --> 00:33:48,660 God made a promise, the people made a promise, 710 00:33:48,660 --> 00:33:50,260 they promised to obey the law 711 00:33:50,260 --> 00:33:52,060 and yet they did not obey the law. 712 00:33:52,060 --> 00:33:52,900 Who agrees? 713 00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:55,700 They didn't keep their side of the covenant. 714 00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:56,660 We all messed up. 715 00:33:56,660 --> 00:33:59,060 They messed up, we messed up, right? 716 00:33:59,060 --> 00:34:02,900 God said, hey, you need to do this law. 717 00:34:02,900 --> 00:34:06,100 They said they would do it, but they messed up. 718 00:34:07,180 --> 00:34:10,080 But in the law, God provided something. 719 00:34:10,980 --> 00:34:13,340 God made a provision for them 720 00:34:13,340 --> 00:34:16,100 knowing that they could not keep the law. 721 00:34:17,620 --> 00:34:20,020 That provision was pictured in blood. 722 00:34:21,620 --> 00:34:23,260 The totality of the things involved 723 00:34:23,260 --> 00:34:26,340 in the first covenant was sprinkled with blood. 724 00:34:26,340 --> 00:34:28,540 Here he talks about it, the book, the people, 725 00:34:28,540 --> 00:34:31,980 the tabernacle, the vessels of ministry, 726 00:34:31,980 --> 00:34:36,980 even the priests at one time were sprinkled with blood. 727 00:34:37,700 --> 00:34:38,860 Leviticus 8.30 says, 728 00:34:38,860 --> 00:34:41,180 And Moses took the anointing oil and of the blood 729 00:34:41,180 --> 00:34:43,740 which was upon the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron 730 00:34:43,740 --> 00:34:46,140 and upon his garments and upon his sons, 731 00:34:46,140 --> 00:34:48,620 upon his garments with him and sanctified Aaron 732 00:34:48,620 --> 00:34:50,140 and his garments and his sons 733 00:34:50,140 --> 00:34:51,860 and his sons' garments with him. 734 00:34:51,860 --> 00:34:53,620 In Exodus 29, 21 it says, 735 00:34:53,620 --> 00:34:56,220 And thou shalt take the blood that is upon the altar 736 00:34:56,220 --> 00:34:58,620 and of the anointing oil and sprinkle it upon Aaron 737 00:34:58,620 --> 00:35:02,700 and all of his garments and upon his sons and so forth. 738 00:35:02,700 --> 00:35:04,300 But this is the difference. 739 00:35:04,300 --> 00:35:07,900 Those priests, I don't wanna mess up, 740 00:35:07,900 --> 00:35:11,540 this is a great opportunity for me to really preach. 741 00:35:11,540 --> 00:35:12,380 Are you ready? 742 00:35:14,860 --> 00:35:18,260 Those priests needed to be sprinkled with blood. 743 00:35:20,100 --> 00:35:21,580 Our priest does not. 744 00:35:23,740 --> 00:35:26,620 Those priests needed to be sanctified. 745 00:35:26,620 --> 00:35:28,640 Our priest was perfect. 746 00:35:29,860 --> 00:35:33,660 They needed the blood of another to cleanse them from sins. 747 00:35:33,660 --> 00:35:38,660 Our priest's blood is what cleanses us from sins. 748 00:35:39,100 --> 00:35:40,460 Do you get the picture? 749 00:35:42,140 --> 00:35:44,500 What a beautiful picture of the price 750 00:35:44,500 --> 00:35:46,300 that was paid for our sin. 751 00:35:46,300 --> 00:35:48,460 It shows the cost of my sin. 752 00:35:48,460 --> 00:35:51,180 It should make me want to abandon my sin 753 00:35:51,180 --> 00:35:56,180 and run to Christ who provided so much 754 00:35:56,180 --> 00:35:59,660 so that I can be in the will. 755 00:36:01,500 --> 00:36:05,540 We see it provided by the new covenant, the new testament. 756 00:36:05,540 --> 00:36:08,780 Not just was it pictured, it's been, here's the point, 757 00:36:08,780 --> 00:36:10,580 it's been provided. 758 00:36:10,580 --> 00:36:11,980 Look at verse 22. 759 00:36:13,780 --> 00:36:17,380 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood. 760 00:36:17,380 --> 00:36:19,380 Purge means cleansed. 761 00:36:19,380 --> 00:36:22,980 And without, here it is, and without the shedding of blood, 762 00:36:22,980 --> 00:36:27,020 there is no remission, and you could put in there, 763 00:36:27,020 --> 00:36:28,020 remission for sins. 764 00:36:28,020 --> 00:36:29,940 There's no forgiveness. 765 00:36:29,940 --> 00:36:31,620 That's the cost. 766 00:36:31,620 --> 00:36:33,500 It was therefore, it says in verse 23, 767 00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:36,820 necessary that the patterns of those things in the heavens 768 00:36:38,180 --> 00:36:40,100 should be purified with these, 769 00:36:40,100 --> 00:36:42,260 but the heavenly things themselves 770 00:36:42,260 --> 00:36:44,140 with better sacrifices than these. 771 00:36:44,140 --> 00:36:45,660 What does that mean? 772 00:36:45,660 --> 00:36:50,020 If the cost of entering into the picture of the place 773 00:36:50,020 --> 00:36:51,780 was the blood of animals, let me pause there, 774 00:36:51,780 --> 00:36:53,300 let me get this to you. 775 00:36:53,300 --> 00:36:56,860 You remember last week when we showed you the Tabernacle? 776 00:36:56,860 --> 00:36:59,380 And in the Tabernacle there was the main place, 777 00:36:59,380 --> 00:37:02,540 then there was the holy place and the holy of holies. 778 00:37:02,540 --> 00:37:05,380 The main place could only be entered into by Jews, 779 00:37:06,500 --> 00:37:07,500 Jewish men. 780 00:37:08,460 --> 00:37:11,140 The holy of holies was only allowed to be, 781 00:37:11,140 --> 00:37:12,940 or to the holy place is only the priests, 782 00:37:12,940 --> 00:37:16,900 and the holy of holies was only the high priest once a year. 783 00:37:16,900 --> 00:37:19,140 And every time the priest once a year 784 00:37:19,140 --> 00:37:20,580 went into the holy of holies, 785 00:37:20,580 --> 00:37:25,580 he went with blood, the blood of a spotless lamb. 786 00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:29,260 And he went in there and he took the hissef 787 00:37:29,260 --> 00:37:31,980 and dipped it in the blood and sprayed it, 788 00:37:31,980 --> 00:37:35,860 sprinkled it on the mercy seat, the Ark of the Covenant. 789 00:37:35,860 --> 00:37:39,100 That place was the, that was a manifest presence of God 790 00:37:39,100 --> 00:37:40,300 in that holy place. 791 00:37:40,300 --> 00:37:41,980 And only once a year he could go in there. 792 00:37:41,980 --> 00:37:43,900 And every time he went in, he went in with blood. 793 00:37:43,900 --> 00:37:45,380 If he didn't go in with blood, 794 00:37:45,380 --> 00:37:48,900 in fact they would tie a rope around his ankle 795 00:37:48,900 --> 00:37:50,900 so that if a man went in there unworthily, 796 00:37:50,900 --> 00:37:53,940 not cleansed by the blood, and died, 797 00:37:53,940 --> 00:37:54,780 they could pull him out 798 00:37:54,780 --> 00:37:57,460 because they couldn't go in to get him. 799 00:37:57,460 --> 00:37:59,500 That's how serious it was. 800 00:37:59,500 --> 00:38:02,780 And he says here, verse one theory, 801 00:38:02,780 --> 00:38:04,700 if it was therefore necessary 802 00:38:04,700 --> 00:38:06,300 that the pattern of the things, 803 00:38:06,300 --> 00:38:09,140 that tabernacle was just a picture of the real thing. 804 00:38:09,140 --> 00:38:11,500 Remember me telling you that? 805 00:38:11,500 --> 00:38:13,420 The tabernacle was a picture 806 00:38:13,420 --> 00:38:16,640 of the heavenly sanctuary where God is. 807 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,880 God's presence was manifest at times 808 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:20,640 down in that earthly sanctuary. 809 00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:24,240 God's present everywhere, but his manifest presence isn't, 810 00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:26,440 who agrees, God's got a heavenly throne. 811 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:27,280 That's where he's at. 812 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:30,000 And he's saying, if every time we, 813 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,920 when we're just going into the metaphor 814 00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,400 or the picture of God's presence in that tabernacle 815 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:35,920 and you had to take blood, 816 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,360 the heavenly, verse 23, 817 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:43,600 things themselves had to be done with better sacrifices 818 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:45,120 than these. 819 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,440 And that's exactly the case. 820 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:51,240 The cost for your will, are you in the will? 821 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:58,120 The cost for your inheritance was the blood of Jesus Christ. 822 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,240 He didn't need sprinkling. 823 00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:04,520 His blood is what makes full and final remission of sins. 824 00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:09,520 He is now there in that real heavenly tabernacle, 825 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,240 mediating our will and testament, 826 00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:17,160 our inheritance, which is a force 827 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:22,160 because of the sacrificial death of our benefactor, 828 00:39:22,240 --> 00:39:25,160 our Lord Jesus Christ. 829 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,040 And so it says in verse 24, which isn't part of my text, 830 00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:32,960 but we'll preview you for next week. 831 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:34,280 Check out what it says. 832 00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:38,280 For Christ is not entered into the holy place 833 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:43,120 made with hands, which are the figures of the Lord. 834 00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:48,120 The figures of the true, but into heaven itself. 835 00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,360 Now to appear in the presence of God. 836 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:55,880 For who? 837 00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:57,720 For us. 838 00:39:57,720 --> 00:39:58,680 For us. 839 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:04,600 Jesus said, I go to prepare a place for you. 840 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:07,880 And if I go and prepare a place for you, 841 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:11,360 I will come again to receive you unto myself 842 00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,920 that where I am, you may be also. 843 00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,080 You can be in the will. 844 00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,680 You can get part of your inheritance up front 845 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:28,520 and the full and final part of your inheritance one day 846 00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:29,360 in glorification. 847 00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:30,960 Anybody have somebody up there? 848 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:33,400 Right? 849 00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,120 It's a point in an amendment once to die 850 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:37,800 and after this, the judgment. 851 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:41,840 You can be in the will and the price 852 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:45,160 for your inheritance was paid by Jesus Christ 853 00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:49,480 when he shed his blood on the cross for us. 854 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,200 How can you have it paid? 855 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,800 Jesus said, I am the way, the truth and the life. 856 00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:08,800 No man cometh to the Father, but by me. 857 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:10,800 Here's one thing it's hard about preaching. 858 00:41:14,240 --> 00:41:16,840 There's a lot of things, but here's one thing. 859 00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:20,360 Sometimes you think I'm saying what I'm saying 860 00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:21,560 because I'm the preacher. 861 00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:24,360 That's not why I'm saying it. 862 00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,560 It's not true because I'm saying it. 863 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,320 I'm saying it because it's true. 864 00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:35,320 Some of you think that this is all theoretical. 865 00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:36,760 Then when I say there's a heaven 866 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,960 and that the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sins, 867 00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:42,960 some of you think that's a really pretty metaphor. 868 00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:45,760 I'm telling you it's not. 869 00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:49,760 When I say Jesus, I'm talking about a real historical person 870 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:53,760 that really lived and that who really came 871 00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:55,160 and who really died. 872 00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:57,760 And when I say he rose from the dead, 873 00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:00,760 I'm not saying metaphorically, 874 00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:07,960 the dead man got up and walked after shedding his blood 875 00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:09,760 for your sins. 876 00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,760 And when I say you can receive it, 877 00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:15,760 Jesus and get an inheritance, you might say, 878 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:17,760 well, that sounds like a really cool metaphor. 879 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:19,760 I'm not talking about a metaphor. 880 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:21,760 He's coming back. 881 00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:25,760 And those who get to go to be with him 882 00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:29,760 are those who have put their faith and trust in him 883 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,760 because he's the only way. 884 00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,760 You're not gonna get there because you were a good church member. 885 00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,760 You're not gonna get there because you did 886 00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:40,760 a certain number of things. 887 00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,760 You did a certain number of rules and laws and ordinances 888 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:44,760 and all that. 889 00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:47,760 Here's the proof of that. 890 00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:48,760 It's in the text. 891 00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,760 The Old Testament people didn't even get there that way. 892 00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,760 They got there the same way we did by faith, 893 00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:58,760 not knowing exactly what Jesus would be like, 894 00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,760 but believing what God had told them up until that point. 895 00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:04,760 And what God said in motion was a picture 896 00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:06,760 of what he was going to do. 897 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:08,760 And the transgressions that they had forgiven were forgiven 898 00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:12,760 because an actual person, fully God, fully man, 899 00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:15,760 was actually born of a woman who was a virgin 900 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:19,760 and actually lived a perfect life and never did anything wrong, 901 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,760 never had to be purged from sin because he never did any sin. 902 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:25,760 He kept the law that you could not keep 903 00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,760 and died the death that you and I deserve to die. 904 00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:30,760 And the Bible says that if we put our faith and trust 905 00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,760 in what he did because of his shed blood 906 00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:35,760 and because of his person and what he is 907 00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,760 and who he is and what he did for us, 908 00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,760 we can go to an actual place. 909 00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:45,760 We can get out of this life alive. 910 00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,760 To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord 911 00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:51,760 for those who know Jesus. 912 00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:57,760 But to die outside of Christ is to be separated from God forever. 913 00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:02,760 And so the theme of the message of every New Testament, 914 00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,760 New Covenant, church, and certainly the theme 915 00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:08,760 of our church over these years has been 916 00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:12,760 that this is God's word and that God's word has revealed 917 00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:17,760 to us that God loves us, that he's not willing 918 00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:20,760 that any should perish, that he has set forth 919 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:22,760 the course of human history to teach us, 920 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:27,760 if nothing else, one thing, we couldn't keep God's law. 921 00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:30,760 So God had to keep the law for us. 922 00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,760 And to pay the price for our sin in the person 923 00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:35,760 and work of Jesus Christ. 924 00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,760 And that work is done. 925 00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,760 That work is done. 926 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:44,760 We'll see next week. 927 00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:46,760 In the earthly sanctuary, there were no seats. 928 00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:48,760 They couldn't sit down because they had to keep sacrificing 929 00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:50,760 because sin kept happening. 930 00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,760 We're gonna see next week that Jesus Christ sits down 931 00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:55,760 because the work is over. 932 00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:57,760 When he goes to that heavenly sanctuary, 933 00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:01,760 up there, there's a throne and he's sitting on it. 934 00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,760 And he's waiting on his enemies to become his footstool, 935 00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:06,760 is what it says. 936 00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:08,760 I just ruined next week for myself. 937 00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:10,760 That's some good preaching. 938 00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:12,760 Are you with me? 939 00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:14,760 He's coming back and it's appointed 940 00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,760 and the man wants to die after this, the judgment. 941 00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:19,760 Today is the day of salvation. 942 00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:21,760 I'm not promised next week. 943 00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:23,760 Neither are you. 944 00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:26,760 Put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ. 945 00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,760 Would you bow your heads and close your eyes with me?