1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 This message will probably speak the most 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:09,180 to people who are religious. 3 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:15,760 People who tend to think that works are the way to go. 4 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,520 And the truth of the matter is even those of us who are, 5 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:29,600 I would say Baptist, who believe 6 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,920 the Orthodox who believe that we're not saved by good works, 7 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:37,000 but we're saved by the grace and the goodness of God, 8 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,280 the blood of Jesus Christ, 9 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:40,880 sometimes we may tend to believe 10 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,080 that our good works make us accepted by God. 11 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,160 And the truth is God's already accepted us. 12 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:47,400 Aren't you glad you're accepted by God? 13 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:48,840 I'm so glad for that too. 14 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,000 I'm so excited to have Miles back. 15 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,680 And I'm excited to have Anna here with us. 16 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:59,280 And they were married just a couple of weeks ago, 17 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:02,240 Miles is our youth pastors, if some of you don't know. 18 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:04,720 And I'm excited about all that that means. 19 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:07,800 It made me think a lot this week with them coming back about 20 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,160 when I first got married and my wife and us getting married 21 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:14,920 and all the way back in 2006, 22 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:17,280 there were different times back then. 23 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:18,520 I don't know, maybe not. 24 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:22,160 But we gave each other wedding gifts. 25 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:23,240 Did you guys give wedding gifts? 26 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,120 Did you exchange gifts with your bride and back in the day? 27 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:27,400 I did. 28 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:28,400 Somebody told me to do that. 29 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,360 I think it might have been like Walmart or something. 30 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:32,680 I don't know, somebody told me, 31 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:35,160 I didn't buy it at Walmart. 32 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:36,400 We got it at the jewelry store, right? 33 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:38,320 Did I get you jewelry? 34 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:39,680 Why are you, shake yes or no? 35 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,000 What are, okay, I should remember this. 36 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,440 But I gave her some jewelry. 37 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:49,440 She gave me a hardcover set of the Chronicles of Narnia. 38 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,120 Jaime has known that the Chronicles of Narnia is, okay. 39 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:52,960 She gave me that. 40 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:55,240 She also gave, there's a focus on the family 41 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,680 radio dramatization of that, which is really, really good. 42 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:00,080 Focus on the family did it. 43 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,360 And it's really interesting through the years, 44 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:07,400 I really enjoyed those stories because of the power of metaphor, 45 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:11,240 the power of a picture to relate to something that's true. 46 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:12,960 You know, just because it's fiction, 47 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:15,840 doesn't mean that there isn't some truth in there to learn. 48 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,120 And there have been times now 49 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,960 that I've read some of those books to my kids. 50 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:26,240 And while I did, something that was said in the story 51 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,440 that points to something true about God or true about Jesus. 52 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:35,680 And I find myself with something in my throat 53 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:37,720 or a tear in my eye. 54 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:40,360 And there's been a couple of times where I've been reading 55 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,720 and for the kids, it's just a story. 56 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:44,200 It's going over their head. 57 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:45,720 And they're thinking about a lion 58 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:48,120 and I'm thinking about Jesus. 59 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:52,600 Do you guys know what I'm talking about? 60 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:57,120 There have been times where the story points to something true 61 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,560 about God, about creation, about Christ, 62 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:01,880 about redemption, courage, and the like. 63 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,520 And there begins to have that moment. 64 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:08,320 There's a moment in one of the books called 65 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:09,720 The Voyage of the Don Treader, 66 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:11,920 where the children must leave and go back to their world 67 00:03:11,920 --> 00:03:15,840 from this imaginary world called Narnia. 68 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:19,560 And when they do, they tell Aslan, who's a picture of Jesus, 69 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,360 in the books, that they don't want to leave this magical place 70 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:26,080 because when they go to this magical place, 71 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:27,400 Aslan won't be there. 72 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:31,760 And he said, this is what, this is the exchange in the book. 73 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:32,760 Isn't it Narnia? 74 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:35,160 It isn't Narnia you know, Saab Lucy. 75 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:36,800 This is them leaving. 76 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:38,640 Lucy's one of the children. 77 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:40,440 It isn't Narnia you know, it's you. 78 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:43,200 We want, we shan't meet you there. 79 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,200 And how can we live never meeting you? 80 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,880 And he says, but you shan't meet me, dear one, said Aslan. 81 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,800 Are you there too, sir, said Edmund? 82 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,120 I am said Aslan, but there I have another name. 83 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,600 You must learn to know me by that name. 84 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,320 This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, 85 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:04,000 that by knowing me here for a little, 86 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:05,880 you may know me better there. 87 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:09,200 Now when C.S. Lewis wrote those words, 88 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:12,880 he wasn't saying that there's an actual place called Narnia. 89 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,560 And an actual line that is the same as Jesus. 90 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:18,960 So don't get wrapped up or get messed up in all of that. 91 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:20,720 He's saying something about the purpose 92 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:22,240 of the fiction that he wrote. 93 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:25,400 He's telling the reader that he's been trying 94 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,320 to teach the reader something about the real, 95 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:32,320 something about the true, something about Jesus. 96 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:34,320 One pastor said this about the subject 97 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:37,480 of the text that we're gonna come today. 98 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:41,320 He said, in this book talking about, 99 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:43,080 he's comparing these two books, right? 100 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:44,760 He's comparing Narnia. 101 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:46,680 And C.S. Lewis's well-known Chronicles of Narnia, 102 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:50,400 he describes how several quite ordinary English children 103 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:51,760 while playing hide and seek enter 104 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,800 into an ordinary English wardrobe, 105 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,600 pressing deeper into the familiar garments, 106 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:00,480 they suddenly find themselves in a strange and mysterious 107 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:01,480 land. 108 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:06,120 Some such phenomenon occurs to those who think deeply 109 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:09,400 about what the scripture says about the humble structure 110 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,440 of skins and panels called the tabernacle. 111 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:18,360 At first, all this factual, measurable, and straightforward. 112 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:21,920 In Exodus, Moviticus, God gives direction 113 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,880 to the children of Israel, to Moses about building 114 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:27,320 this thing called the tabernacle 115 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:28,880 that we're gonna look at today. 116 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:34,240 But as we press deeper, the walls silently move back, 117 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,520 the temple surrounded by myriads of worshiping angels 118 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:39,640 and watching the ritual of redemption through holy, 119 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:41,800 transformed eyes. 120 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:43,280 Now, what am I trying to say? 121 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:46,560 Certainly there is no Narnia, don't get hung up on that. 122 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:50,280 But God is an incredible storyteller and he cannot lie. 123 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,640 He tells incredible stories and we've been learning 124 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:55,960 the story of redemption in the book of Hebrews. 125 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,800 The first part of Hebrews tells us that Jesus is greater 126 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:01,920 in his person. 127 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:04,480 How many of you guys agree Jesus is greater? 128 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:06,800 He is greater, he's better than anything 129 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,600 or anyone, he is greater. 130 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:12,480 We are in the middle part of the book of Hebrews. 131 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,440 It tells us that Jesus is not just greater in his person, 132 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:16,800 but being greater in his person, 133 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:19,360 Jesus is greater in his ministry. 134 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,440 Do you know that Jesus has a ministry now? 135 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,200 That ministry is what we've been talking about. 136 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:27,080 What is his ministry now? 137 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:30,040 Well, we learned the sum of it a few weeks ago 138 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:31,720 when we studied, two weeks ago, 139 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:33,920 when we studied the whole chapter of Hebrews chapter eight. 140 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,320 And that Hebrews chapter eight started out this way, 141 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,360 verse one, now of the things which we have spoken, 142 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:40,200 this is the sum. 143 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,720 Hebrews eight, chapter one, verse one. 144 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:45,000 Of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum. 145 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,280 We have such an high priest. 146 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:49,680 What kind of high priest do we have? 147 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:51,800 Who is set on the right hand of the throne 148 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,480 of the majesty in the heavens. 149 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:58,560 A minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle. 150 00:06:58,560 --> 00:06:59,600 This is amazing. 151 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:03,160 Which the Lord pitched and not man. 152 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,800 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts 153 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,840 and sacrifices wherefore it is of necessity 154 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:13,680 that this man has something also to offer. 155 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,640 When I told you my comments on those verses, 156 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:18,600 what I told you last week in my comments on those verses 157 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:22,120 is that God has been writing a story in that old testament, 158 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:26,280 that old economy, who here has ever heard of the tabernacle? 159 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:29,280 Okay, if you haven't, I'm gonna teach you about it today. 160 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:33,640 The old tabernacle and that old tabernacle 161 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:36,760 was where the old sacrificial system was done. 162 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:41,040 And like sometimes a story can point to something real, 163 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:44,080 God revealed through the tabernacle to, 164 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:45,200 and it was a real thing. 165 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:46,320 It really happened in history. 166 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:48,040 There really was a guy named Moses. 167 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:49,480 There really was a children of Israel. 168 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:53,520 God really came to them and gave them the dimensions 169 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:59,940 for this tabernacle, but that wasn't the first one. 170 00:07:59,940 --> 00:08:01,680 That wasn't the first one. 171 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:03,400 There's a real one. 172 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:07,680 And it's one that men didn't make, it's one that God made. 173 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:10,520 And this particular tabernacle is pointing 174 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:13,520 to the real tabernacle. 175 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:14,840 Are you getting the picture? 176 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:16,720 Are you getting the connection? 177 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:20,720 It's pointing to something he says in verse two, 178 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:25,720 the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man. 179 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:29,720 A true tabernacle and a true sanctuary that the Lord pitched. 180 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,480 It's not that the one from Exodus was false, 181 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:34,000 but that it was not the first. 182 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,120 We'll see from future verses here in today's text 183 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:41,640 that the one in Exodus is the copy and not the original. 184 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:44,840 God revealed to us through this Old Testament, 185 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:47,840 this sacrificial system, this old covenant, 186 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:51,200 something that would help us understand the real. 187 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,480 And this is exactly what the writer of Hebrews 188 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:56,600 wants us to examine today. 189 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:00,560 He's writing to Jewish people. 190 00:09:00,560 --> 00:09:02,680 It's always important when you come to a verse, 191 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:04,000 when you come to a set of verses, 192 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,920 here's some questions you need to have 193 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:08,240 at least understood when you come to it. 194 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:11,120 Who is the audience? 195 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:15,320 Who is writing? 196 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,240 When did they write it? 197 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,920 And what's the context of what he's writing to? 198 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:22,920 The person who's, we don't know exactly who wrote 199 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:25,440 the book of Hebrews in terms of an individual. 200 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:26,640 We know when he wrote it. 201 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:28,640 He wrote it after Jesus came. 202 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:30,040 It was dead, buried and rose again. 203 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,600 He wrote it before the temple was destroyed in 8070. 204 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:38,600 So this is very early in Christianity coming to the four, 205 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:42,280 coming to the church being established, right? 206 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:47,280 And he's writing to people, he's writing to Jewish people 207 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:50,280 who are at least considering and probably have believed 208 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:52,800 in many of them, believed in Jesus, some considering Jesus. 209 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,840 And they're getting to this place where for their whole 210 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:59,240 entire lives, they've been going to the temple. 211 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:01,280 They've been going to this place, a temple, 212 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:05,680 which was kind of the more permanent part of that 213 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:08,560 tabernacle that was set up in the wilderness. 214 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:10,200 The temple is this permanent place. 215 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:11,400 And you know what they did in the temple? 216 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:13,280 They did sacrifices. 217 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:15,160 That's where the priests were, they did that. 218 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:19,920 And so he's writing to these people who are believing 219 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:22,040 in Jesus or at least considering Jesus, 220 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,040 but now they're starting to feel guilty 221 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:28,000 because what the author is considering is that, 222 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:32,120 well, back to verse chapter eight, look at verse 13. 223 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:33,400 He says this. 224 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:36,720 In that he saith a new covenant. 225 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:39,960 Now let me tell you about who's talking. 226 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:43,280 The writer of Hebrews has quoted Jeremiah. 227 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:44,680 By the way, if you're not in Sunday school, 228 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:45,680 you should be in Sunday school. 229 00:10:45,680 --> 00:10:48,240 Today we started a study in the book of Jeremiah. 230 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,320 So if you don't have a Sunday school class, get one. 231 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:51,920 You'll learn a lot. 232 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:54,120 The writer of Hebrews quotes Jeremiah 233 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,480 who says something about the fact that there's gonna come 234 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:57,920 a new covenant. 235 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:00,880 And what the writer of Hebrews says in chapter eight, 236 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:03,920 verse 13, which we studied two weeks ago, is this. 237 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:07,560 In that he, Jeremiah, saith a new covenant. 238 00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:11,640 A new covenant, he hath made the first old. 239 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:16,640 Now that which decays and waxeth old, 240 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:19,360 the old covenant, the old sacrificial system, 241 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:23,440 all of that, he maketh, he says, 242 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:25,200 now that which decays and waxeth old 243 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:28,000 and is ready to vanish away. 244 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,920 Now, you wanna get people nervous. 245 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:33,800 Start messing with their traditions. 246 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:38,680 I'm a pastor. 247 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,160 Sometimes we make decisions that may mess up 248 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:45,040 somebody's traditions. 249 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,400 Not everybody likes every decision the pastor makes. 250 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,400 Has you guys ever heard of that happening? 251 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:51,720 It's just recently came to me. 252 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:52,680 No, just joking. 253 00:11:52,680 --> 00:11:54,040 Like, this is what happens. 254 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:58,160 And so, if he's gonna make the claim that this old system 255 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:00,200 is waxing old and decays away, 256 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,200 he better go to the word of God. 257 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,040 And he did, he went to Jeremiah and Jeremiah says, 258 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:07,520 hey, there's a new covenant that's coming. 259 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:09,560 And of course, what the writer of Hebrews 260 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:11,680 is trying to say is, if there's a new one, 261 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:15,120 that means the old one is now being fulfilled. 262 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:16,400 It is now obsolete. 263 00:12:18,680 --> 00:12:20,920 There is a new covenant because the old covenant 264 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,760 couldn't do all that was needed to be done 265 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:26,200 to fully and finally redeem mankind. 266 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:28,000 Here's the good news. 267 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:33,000 The old covenant was based on the law. 268 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:35,360 Anybody here have trouble keeping the rules? 269 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:40,200 Some of you are lying right now. 270 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:44,840 Which tells me you have trouble keeping the rules. 271 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:45,800 Right? 272 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:47,960 I mean, we all do. 273 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:51,160 The old covenant was based on, as we will see, 274 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:54,760 some mediation that had to happen in sacrifices 275 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:59,760 were the sacrifices of, as it says in our texts, 276 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:03,680 bulls and goats, sheep, animals. 277 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:07,880 The old system, what we're gonna find out today 278 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:10,640 can be done away because Jesus Christ finished work 279 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:12,360 and continuing ministry. 280 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:13,880 And that's what the writer is saying. 281 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:16,720 So the tabernacle that we're gonna study today, 282 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,520 don't get sleepy on me, okay? 283 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:20,720 This is exciting stuff. 284 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:22,240 I'll try to keep you excited. 285 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:23,080 Here we go. 286 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:26,960 The tabernacle shows us how much Jesus Christ is greater. 287 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:30,520 And we can see this in three observations described for us 288 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:32,520 in Hebrews chapter nine, verses one through 14. 289 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:36,000 Now, Brother Randy did not read for us verses one through 10, 290 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:37,520 but that's what we gotta examine first 291 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:39,280 to understand what we did read. 292 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:41,120 So look at chapter nine, verse one. 293 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:41,960 Here's what it says. 294 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:42,920 Read this with me. 295 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:46,360 The first thing we're gonna see is the sanctuary examined. 296 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:50,080 The sanctuary examined, verse one. 297 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:54,000 Then barely the first covenant, 298 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:56,720 that's the old covenant, the Old Testament, 299 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,440 the old sacrificial system, okay? 300 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,280 Had also ordinances of divine service. 301 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:05,760 So there were ordinances, these things that God ordained 302 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:10,160 for them to do, and a worldly sanctuary. 303 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:13,280 Now, when you use the word worldly, 304 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:16,360 sometimes old religious people say, 305 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:18,840 don't wear that dress, that's worldly. 306 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:22,200 Don't play with, don't listen to that music. 307 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:23,920 That music is worldly. 308 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:25,760 Here, worldly doesn't mean like bad, 309 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:29,200 it just means that it was earthly, it was of this world. 310 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:30,440 Are you guys with me? 311 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:31,760 So he says in the Old Testament, 312 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:35,200 you had these rituals that God ordained to do, 313 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,120 and those rituals were done in a worldly, 314 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:41,080 what does it say, worldly sanctuary, right? 315 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:44,520 So you had ordinances and you had a physical sanctuary 316 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:46,320 called here a worldly sanctuary. 317 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:48,720 Here it is. 318 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:53,720 This is a kind of a rough sketch of what the, 319 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:55,880 this would be like a overhead view 320 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:59,440 of what the old tabernacle and the wilderness look like. 321 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:02,880 There was an outer, what you see as lines 322 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:05,040 all the way around the sides, really all the lines 323 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:08,620 that were making structures here are basically tents. 324 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,960 There are poles and animal skins, 325 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:16,920 and there was an outer court that only Jewish men 326 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:20,480 could go into, the Jewish women could not go in there. 327 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:21,880 That's where the brazen altar were, 328 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:23,680 that's where the sacrifices were made there, 329 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:26,160 the brazen altar, the laborer is a place 330 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:27,280 where they would wash. 331 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,920 Then you had the first veil that was at the doorway, 332 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:31,240 you see where it says doorway here, 333 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:36,240 and you had a second veil, which was the inner part. 334 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:39,800 So in that, let's keep reading, okay? 335 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,160 Verse two, you have the outer room, 336 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:46,760 you have the outer room that's described in verse two. 337 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:50,560 For there was a tabernacle made, 338 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:52,080 who made the tabernacle? 339 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:54,040 God or man? 340 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,960 This one was made by man, okay? 341 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:00,520 It was given to Moses to make, 342 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:03,040 God said there were specific men that would make it, 343 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:04,040 and they created it. 344 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:07,440 Verse two, there was a tabernacle made, 345 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:10,440 the first wherein was the candlestick 346 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:12,060 and the table and the showbread, 347 00:16:12,060 --> 00:16:15,240 which is called the sanctuary, back to our diagram. 348 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:19,480 In that first place, in that actual physical tabernacle, 349 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:23,080 the holy place, there was a golden candlestick, 350 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,860 the showbread, there was an altar of incense, 351 00:16:25,860 --> 00:16:30,200 that's what's described right here in verse two. 352 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:34,000 That holy place could only be, they could only go in there, 353 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,160 the only people that could go in there 354 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:37,560 were the priests, we'll read about that later. 355 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:40,400 This place was called the sanctuary, 356 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:42,240 this is the place that only a priest could go into, 357 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:44,480 and many priests did go into this place, 358 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:47,160 and they went in there on a daily basis. 359 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:50,520 They performed ordinances, as we'll talk about. 360 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,760 Then there's an inner room, there's an outer room, 361 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:55,680 there's an inner room, there's the holy place, 362 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:59,360 and then there was the holy of holies, 363 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:01,120 you guys got it right. 364 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:02,760 Verses three to five talking about this, 365 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:06,160 and after the second veil, the tabernacle, 366 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:07,960 which is called the holiest of all, 367 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:12,040 which had the golden censor and the Ark of the Covenant 368 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:15,160 overlaid around with gold, wherein was the golden pot 369 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:18,480 that had the manna and errands rod that butted, 370 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:20,680 and the tables of the Covenant, 371 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:22,840 and of over it the cherubimms of glory, 372 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:24,240 shadowing the mercy seat, 373 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:28,880 of which we cannot now speak particularly. 374 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:33,960 In that second place, there were a couple things, 375 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:38,160 one thing that was in here, it says the golden censor, 376 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:41,120 and then it says that there was the Ark of the Covenant, 377 00:17:41,120 --> 00:17:43,400 who guys remember the Ark of the Covenant? 378 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:46,560 The Indiana Jones looked after and pursued, 379 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:49,400 no, that's totally different, okay, that wasn't real. 380 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:51,880 Okay, there was the Ark of the Covenant, 381 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:54,080 it was overlaid with gold, 382 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:57,560 and it says that it had inside wherein was the golden pot 383 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:01,000 that had the manna and errands rod that butted, 384 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,400 you guys remember that God performed that miracle, 385 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:06,640 that errands rod actually started to grow, 386 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:08,360 and then there was also, it says, 387 00:18:08,360 --> 00:18:09,600 the tables of the Covenant, 388 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:11,680 what were the tables of the Covenant? 389 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:12,840 That was the Ten Commandments, 390 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:14,840 remember when Moses was up on Mount Sinai, 391 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:16,960 he brought down the Ten Commandments, 392 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:18,280 and then he broke them, 393 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:20,040 and then they had to go back and get new ones, 394 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:20,880 and they brought them down, 395 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:23,120 and they put them in the Ark of the Covenant. 396 00:18:23,120 --> 00:18:24,280 And then it says in verse five, 397 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:26,360 and over it the cherubimms of glory, 398 00:18:26,360 --> 00:18:27,600 shadowing the mercy seat, 399 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:29,960 of which we cannot now speak particularly. 400 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:31,240 This is an artist's rendition 401 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:33,680 of what the Ark could have looked like. 402 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:37,880 In that Ark, on the Ark there were two angels, 403 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:41,800 and they're described to look something like this, 404 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:43,040 nobody knows exactly, 405 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:46,280 and that's exactly what he says in verse five, 406 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:48,920 of which now we cannot speak particularly 407 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:51,800 because they did not have the Ark at that time. 408 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,400 It really was a lost Ark. 409 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:57,320 And so he's saying this is what's in there. 410 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:00,280 Now, God is a revealer. 411 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:02,640 He used time and history to reveal 412 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:04,280 all that he wanted to reveal. 413 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:06,680 He knows what he's doing and revealing some to some, 414 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:08,120 but not all to all. 415 00:19:08,120 --> 00:19:10,640 And we could and can and should trust him, 416 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:12,680 even when we don't understand everything. 417 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:14,840 We do not know everything he does. 418 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:18,000 These people, this is what I was trying to relate 419 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,440 in my introduction. 420 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:23,840 The people that were performing these rituals, 421 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:27,160 these ordinances, this old covenant, 422 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:29,200 the people that were submitting to it, 423 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:31,280 they don't have what we have. 424 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:36,160 I want you to realize how privileged we are. 425 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:41,440 We have the ability to look back at all of this history, 426 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,720 and the old covenant, that old sacrificial system, 427 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:47,480 the Ark of the Covenant, the Tabernacle, 428 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:51,040 all of it was pointing to something real. 429 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:54,080 All of it was pointing to a person, 430 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:58,120 the person of Jesus Christ, the whole thing. 431 00:19:58,120 --> 00:20:00,560 And so this is amazing. 432 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:02,720 It takes a minute to understand, but let's talk about it. 433 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:04,440 Now, let's talk about the service. 434 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:05,880 We'll go into what he says here. 435 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:08,680 Number two, not only do you have the sanctuary examined, 436 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,800 and let me tell you that all of the things 437 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:15,000 that I just taught you about what was in the Tabernacle 438 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,680 and all that went on in there, 439 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:21,680 that could be a month's long study looking at each piece 440 00:20:22,360 --> 00:20:24,040 and what it represents. 441 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:25,200 Maybe one day I'll do that, 442 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:28,040 but that gives you some indication of what that looked like. 443 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:29,560 The Jewish reader reading that 444 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:31,760 would have already understood, yeah, yeah, 445 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:33,480 there was a Tabernacle in the Outer Court, 446 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:36,960 and the outer sanctuary, the holy place where the priests 447 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:39,440 would go, and then there was the holy of holies, 448 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:42,520 the place that only the high priest would go once a year, 449 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,960 and that leads us to number two, the service. 450 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:49,920 Explain, you had ordinances and you had the sanctuary. 451 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:51,040 We just talked about the sanctuary. 452 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:51,880 What were the ordinances? 453 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,680 What were they doing all the time in that Tabernacle? 454 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:57,800 Well, let's look at what the priests wrought in verse six. 455 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:00,040 What the priests wrought, verse six. 456 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:04,640 Now, when these things were thus ordained, here it is. 457 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:06,960 The priests, what kind of priests? 458 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:08,880 Were they human? 459 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:10,720 Were they Levitical? 460 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:12,360 Were they Aaronic? 461 00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:16,000 Right, those old Aaronic that old Aaronic priests did. 462 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,760 They went all the way into the first Tabernacle, 463 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:21,400 accomplishing the service of God. 464 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,600 Here it says the word ordained. 465 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:26,480 And it speaks to the fact that this was chosen 466 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:27,680 and instituted by God. 467 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:31,320 He refers to the priest speaking of the old Aaronic order, 468 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:33,360 which is dying and has come to an end. 469 00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:35,040 And it says here that they went always, 470 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:36,840 meaning this was a daily ministry. 471 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:38,520 This is not something they just did once. 472 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:41,240 They had to do this ministry all the time. 473 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,400 They were always mediating to God 474 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:45,640 on behalf of the people for sins, 475 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:47,520 since they were so continuous. 476 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:49,880 The sin never stopped. 477 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:51,520 The sin never stopped. 478 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:53,560 The sin never stopped. 479 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:56,680 So the sacrifices never stopped. 480 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:57,960 Are you with me? 481 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:00,840 Every day there's new sacrifices that have to be made 482 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:02,360 because sin kept happening. 483 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,080 Day after day, year after year, 484 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,320 the blood of the animals never stopped. 485 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:12,400 The sacrifices never stopped 486 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,440 because sin never stopped. 487 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:19,440 And the sacrifices were never, ever, ever enough. 488 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,880 So you have the priest daily ministering 489 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,960 in that first place, the holy place. 490 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:27,040 And then it says in verse seven, 491 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,720 but into the second, meaning into the holy of holies 492 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,360 and that second, past that second veil, 493 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,680 went the high priest alone how often? 494 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,520 Once every year. 495 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,080 When he went in, it wasn't every day. 496 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:45,680 It was once a year. 497 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:48,720 It was on the day of atonement. 498 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,240 And then it makes this really interesting point. 499 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:56,240 Not without blood. 500 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,480 When he went in, what did he take? 501 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:04,000 He took blood, which he offered for himself 502 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,840 and for the errors of the people. 503 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,000 This priest was not an innocent priest. 504 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:13,960 He had to go to God. 505 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,040 In fact, in the Old Testament, 506 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,800 we know that the shekinah glory of God in that cloud 507 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:20,320 and the pillar of fire by night 508 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:24,520 emanated some of the time from the holy of holies. 509 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:28,280 And to go into where the presence of God was, 510 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:29,480 he could only do that once. 511 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:32,400 No man has seen God and lived, the Bible says. 512 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:37,400 It is a fearful thing to enter into the presence of God. 513 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,800 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. 514 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,000 And so if we're gonna go into the presence of God, 515 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:51,000 we need some ability, some reason to be able to go in. 516 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,080 And what was pictured here is that that priest would go in 517 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,240 and every time he went in, he went in with blood. 518 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:59,000 The top of that ark was called the mercy seat. 519 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,560 And that priest would take the blood 520 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,480 and he would sprinkle the blood. 521 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,640 When he went into that holy place, 522 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:08,320 the holy of holies into the presence of God, 523 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,560 he would sprinkle the blood on the mercy seat. 524 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:15,400 That's what would happen. 525 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,320 The different placement and different action. 526 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:20,440 The second speaks of that inner veil. 527 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,520 And in that place, in verses three to five, 528 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:25,320 with the sense of the Ark of the Covenant, 529 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,160 he did not go in without blood. 530 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,000 The Bible says that without the shedding of blood, 531 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,840 there is no remissions of sins. 532 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:35,400 Whose sins? It says here, for first for himself, 533 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,880 he needed redemption for himself. 534 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:39,920 He needed atonement for himself. 535 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,480 The priests were not themselves sinless. 536 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,560 They needed cleansing and forgiveness 537 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,560 before they could represent the people to God. 538 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,240 Now let me just pause and say in our day, 539 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:54,280 who here would like to stop sinning? 540 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,920 Who here understands that there's a penalty for sin? 541 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:03,840 And that sin needs to be atoned for. 542 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:05,840 Sin needs to be covered. 543 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:09,240 Here we find sin didn't stop. 544 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:10,920 We need to stay in tune with God 545 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:12,720 and fill with the Holy Spirit so I can confess 546 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,920 and be close to God based on the sacrifice that Jesus made. 547 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,920 Another word for this is the word abide. 548 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:20,720 I need to abide with Jesus. 549 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,320 Sin doesn't stop, but blood was the cost. 550 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,360 The blood of Jesus Christ washes away from all sin, 551 00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:30,040 the Bible says. 552 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,440 So we have what the priests wrought. 553 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,600 Now let's talk about what the spirit taught. 554 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,680 Here in Hebrews, we find out what the spirit taught. 555 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:42,400 Verse eight, the Holy Ghost, this signifying. 556 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:48,360 Now let me tell you what an amazing thing you just read was. 557 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,720 Why is he saying the Holy Ghost, this signifying? 558 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,440 He's saying that whole setup, 559 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:57,960 Steve can you go back to the diagrams? 560 00:25:57,960 --> 00:25:59,080 I know I'm messing you up. 561 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:02,000 Are you with me? 562 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,920 This earthly tabernacle and the priesthood 563 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,720 that served in this earthly tabernacle. 564 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:14,280 And all of the ordinances and all of the sacrifices 565 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:18,920 and all of the picture in that ritualistic ceremonial law 566 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,840 was pointing to something that the Holy Ghost 567 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:23,520 was trying to say. 568 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:25,440 Now here's what's amazing. 569 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:26,720 This is incredible. 570 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,840 Up until this point, 571 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,080 up until this point in the church age, 572 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,960 up until people like Paul and the writer of Hebrews 573 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,520 helped us understand this, 574 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,560 they didn't quite understand all of what it meant. 575 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:40,520 You know there's gonna be a time in heaven 576 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,920 where we're gonna find out things that God is doing right now 577 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:45,960 that we didn't realize what he was trying to do. 578 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,560 And we're gonna have him go, oh that's what it was for. 579 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,240 Here's another way of saying that, we don't know everything. 580 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:55,960 We don't know everything. 581 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,400 Without faith it's impossible to. 582 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:00,240 Please God. 583 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,160 Here's what the writer, the Holy Ghost now 584 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,560 is trying to tell us through this passage 585 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,320 that God had a purpose for all of this the whole time. 586 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,120 The Holy Ghost thus signifying 587 00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:15,440 that the way into the holiest of all 588 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,920 was not yet made manifest 589 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,600 while as the first tabernacle was yet standing. 590 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,320 You know what he was trying to say is? 591 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:27,200 This was never God's plan for ultimate final redemption. 592 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,400 Are you with me? 593 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,960 This was a plan but it's the old plan 594 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,000 and that old plan was never God's final word 595 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,760 on what needed to happen for sin. 596 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,400 You did not bring a sheep with you today. 597 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,320 You think kids are hard to bring to church? 598 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:50,400 Try a sheep. 599 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,760 Sheep are dumb, right? 600 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:55,840 Aren't you glad? 601 00:27:55,840 --> 00:28:01,440 You didn't bring a bull or a goat. 602 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,520 The tabernacle was never God's final plan. 603 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:08,840 Verse nine, which was a figure for the time then present 604 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,480 in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices 605 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:16,480 that could not make him that did the service perfect 606 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:18,680 as pertaining to the conscience. 607 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:20,680 You know what that means? 608 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,000 You did what God told you to do. 609 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,000 And you offered the sacrifices. 610 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,240 The Bible tells us very clearly what happened 611 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,440 to those people Ben, what was the point of all of it? 612 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,440 Did they get redemption by doing that? 613 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:34,840 They did by faith. 614 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:37,840 But they did ultimately because Jesus is the one 615 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,840 who did the sacrifice that then pointed back 616 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,000 to what was happening back then. 617 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:45,840 Here's my point is this. 618 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,840 Everybody that gets to heaven, even the people 619 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:51,040 that did this ritual, they don't get to heaven 620 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,080 based on the blood of bulls and goats and sheep. 621 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,080 They get to heaven the same way we get to heaven 622 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,280 by the blood of Jesus Christ. 623 00:28:58,280 --> 00:28:59,280 Do you get it? 624 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:04,280 He's saying here that they kept having to do sacrifices. 625 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,440 The sacrifices atoned for the sins that were passed, 626 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:11,680 but just as soon, can you imagine, have you ever been here? 627 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:13,880 I've been here even in my relationship with God. 628 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,240 I confessed to God, my sin and try to get right with him. 629 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,080 And 10 minutes later I messed up. 630 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:21,200 Anybody ever have that happen? 631 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:25,120 Imagine that being that it's not just I confessed to God 632 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,120 and it cleanses me from sin, but that I also have to bring 633 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,120 a sheep in and do it. 634 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:32,120 Here I just sacrifice a sheep and here I go sinning again. 635 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:36,120 He said it didn't make those that did the service perfect. 636 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,280 It didn't mature him and it didn't, and that's 637 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,120 pertain to the conscience. 638 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,120 He says in verse 10, which stood only in meats and drinks 639 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,080 and diverse washings, carnal ordinances, 640 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,120 imposed on them until the time of Reformation. 641 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:53,120 This system, these laws that kept people out of the holy 642 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,120 of holies, the most obvious place that God used to display 643 00:29:56,120 --> 00:30:01,120 his presence, it kept people at a distance from God. 644 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:07,120 They had to have priests who through the ceremonial law 645 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:10,120 were able to go in on their behalf into the holy of holies 646 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:11,120 where they could not go. 647 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:16,120 They could not go into that veil. 648 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:21,120 The sacrifices of these animals could not fully and finally 649 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:25,120 perfect them or assuage their consciences in the right way. 650 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:28,120 It was truly and predominantly ceremonial. 651 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,120 They were just pictures of the real. 652 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:34,120 They were just shadows of the authentic. 653 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,120 They were temporary. 654 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:39,120 Now in a way we deal with this and in a way we do not. 655 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:44,120 We have a real priest, Jesus Christ, who fully and finally 656 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,120 sacrificed himself for us. 657 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:50,120 He is both the priest and the sacrifice. 658 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:51,120 That's what's amazing. 659 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:54,120 And it's by him that our sins are forgiven and we're saved. 660 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:58,120 Yet we live by faith because our salvation is not fully realized 661 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,120 being in this earth in the flesh. 662 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,120 We're not yet in heaven. 663 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,120 Who's looking forward to heaven? 664 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,120 That full salvation? 665 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:10,120 We're closer and have more access than they did. 666 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,120 It's just that we wait on the redemption of our bodies. 667 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,120 The Holy Spirit is the down payment. 668 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,120 And that's what Ephesians tells me. 669 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,120 There's inheritance coming that I have not yet received. 670 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:23,120 And the Holy Spirit that's given to me is the down payment. 671 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,120 Paul says in Ephesians on that inheritance. 672 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,120 So praise the Lord that he has made us that way. 673 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:35,120 So we've seen the sanctuary examined. 674 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:38,120 We've seen the service explained. 675 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:41,120 Now let's look at the Savior exalted. 676 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:42,120 The Savior exalted. 677 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,120 Look at verse 11. 678 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:48,120 We see in verse 11 and 12 a superior payment. 679 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,120 Here's what it says, verse 11, 680 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:56,120 but Christ being come and high priest of good things to come. 681 00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:01,120 Who's excited for good things to come? 682 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,120 Heaven's gonna be awesome. 683 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,120 Freedom from pain, from guilt, seeing our loved ones, 684 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,120 but most importantly seeing Him, seeing Jesus. 685 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,120 He has become a high priest of good things to come 686 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,120 by a greater and a more perfect tabernacle, 687 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:23,120 not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building. 688 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:28,120 The sanctuary he's in is not like that one up there. 689 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,120 And I felt like the one on the board. 690 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,120 The sanctuary he's in is in heaven. 691 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,120 He's in a tabernacle, not made with hands. 692 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,120 He's where God is and where God has made. 693 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:41,120 Verse 12, neither by the blood of goats and calves. 694 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:44,120 He didn't get in there because of that. 695 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:49,120 But by his own blood. 696 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,120 He entered in once into the holy place. 697 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,120 How many times? 698 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,120 How many times did Jesus need to be sacrificed? 699 00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,120 How many times did Jesus need to be sacrificed? 700 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,120 Yeah. 701 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,120 Not every week. 702 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,120 Once. 703 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:10,120 He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained. 704 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,120 Having obtained, it's already done. 705 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:18,120 It's in past tense, having obtained, it's done. 706 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:24,120 Having obtained eternal redemption for us. 707 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,120 Through Christ we have good things to come. 708 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,120 This speaks of the eternal heavenly realities 709 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,120 at this first tabernacle. 710 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,120 And all the ordinances we're pointing to as shadows and pictures. 711 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:38,120 Jesus serves in a perfect tabernacle that was built by God. 712 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:39,120 It's heavenly. 713 00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:40,120 It's eternal. 714 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,120 It's where God's presence is manifest. 715 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:45,120 He mediates this covenant. 716 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:49,120 Having made a better payment through a better sacrifice. 717 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,120 He doesn't sacrifice animals every day. 718 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,120 That's no longer needed. 719 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,120 No, he sacrificed himself once for all. 720 00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:00,120 And it's on this basis that he's obtained a never ending, 721 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:05,120 everlasting eternal redemption for us. 722 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,120 He gives one kind of life. 723 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:08,120 That's eternal life. 724 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,120 And eternal life starts now and lasts forever. 725 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,120 You can't lose it. 726 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:14,120 Because you didn't pay for it. 727 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:15,120 You didn't earn it. 728 00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,120 He did. 729 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,120 The payment has been made. 730 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,120 It covers our full sin debt. 731 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:26,120 And is the way that we are freed from the penalty of our sin. 732 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:30,120 It's the payment that frees us from being slaves to sin. 733 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:35,120 This eternal payment for sin causes me to conclude a couple 734 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:36,120 of applications personally. 735 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:37,120 Maybe this will help you. 736 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:41,120 Number one, I should trust in this Christ as my only shot at 737 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:45,120 redemption. 738 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,120 He didn't have to pay for his own sins. 739 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,120 He's perfect. 740 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,120 He became sin who knew no sin that we may be made the righteousness 741 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:53,120 of God and him. 742 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:54,120 He's my only shot. 743 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:57,120 It's my only way to enter the holiest heavenly place in the 744 00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,120 presence of God. 745 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:02,120 Number two, it's my reasonable service and a worship to live 746 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,120 for him. 747 00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:10,120 Look at what Jesus did for us. 748 00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:14,120 He sacrificed himself. 749 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,120 He spilled his own blood. 750 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:21,120 He's the only one for you and for me. 751 00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:23,120 It's reasonable. 752 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:26,120 It's logical for me to worship and to live for him, 753 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:29,120 especially because he calls me to glorify him. 754 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:32,120 And the best way I do that is to share this good news with 755 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:35,120 everybody I can. 756 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:40,120 So to repeat, brother Massey, everything else is secondary. 757 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,120 Primary is this. 758 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:47,120 I don't need to know that Jesus died for them. 759 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:50,120 They need to know it. 760 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,120 His sacrifice led to my redemption. 761 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:55,120 My redemption should lead me to offering my body as a living 762 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,120 sacrifice back to him. 763 00:35:57,120 --> 00:36:00,120 And what he calls me to do in being a living sacrifice is to 764 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,120 tell the world about what he has done for them. 765 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,120 And by the way, I can look at anybody and say to them, Jesus 766 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,120 died for you. 767 00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:11,120 Because Jesus died for everybody. 768 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,120 He died for everybody. 769 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:16,120 The atonement is not limited to just the ones who would believe. 770 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,120 He became a propitiation for our sins and not for our sins only, 771 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,120 but for the sin of the whole world. 772 00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:27,120 It's sufficient for everybody and sufficient for those who believe. 773 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:30,120 It's a superior payment. 774 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:34,120 And it gives us, let it be, a superior purging. 775 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,120 Look at verse 13. 776 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:39,120 For if the blood, this is so good. 777 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,120 For if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of a 778 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:45,120 heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctified to the purifying of 779 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,120 the flesh. 780 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,120 You know what I'm saying? 781 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:52,120 If God did do a work in that moment of allowing the blood of 782 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:57,120 those animals to atone for sin, but that atonement wasn't 783 00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:00,120 permanent, there's a whole bunch to that. 784 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,120 Verse 14. 785 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,120 How much more shall the... 786 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:10,120 Let me say that again. 787 00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:13,120 How much more? 788 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:17,120 Bulls, goats, heifers, lambs. 789 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:22,120 How much better shall the blood of Christ, who through the 790 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:27,120 eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your 791 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:33,120 consciences from dead works to serve the living God? 792 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:36,120 What an incredible verse. 793 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,120 In the old economy, the old covenant that God set up through 794 00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:43,120 Moses, he recognized the blood of bulls and goats as a substitute 795 00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,120 sacrifice. 796 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,120 The bloodbought remission of sin because of the faith displayed 797 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,120 through that obedience and sacrifice. 798 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,120 Even in that old covenant, God accepted the substitute of these 799 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:57,120 bulls and goats because those sacrifices pointed to the sacrifice 800 00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,120 that Jesus would make later. 801 00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:03,120 Even everyone only gets to the Father through Jesus because of 802 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,120 the payment he made. 803 00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,120 The word here for unclean is the word common. 804 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:11,120 The blood of bulls and goats animated and activated people to 805 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,120 live a life separated unto God. 806 00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:18,120 Those Jewish people were dedicated to that system. 807 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,120 You guys get that, right? 808 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,120 They were doing... 809 00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,120 They were responding to the light that they had. 810 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,120 They were obeying the law that God had given, and they should 811 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,120 have been doing that. 812 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,120 But here comes the writer of Hebrews to say, hey, that system 813 00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,120 is over. 814 00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:38,120 And you don't have to try to use that system to purge your 815 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,120 consciences and to make you feel... 816 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:46,120 Anybody here deal with guilt and shame? 817 00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:50,120 You ever feel bad for your sin? 818 00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:51,120 He said, you don't have to... 819 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,120 You don't have to do the old system to deal with your sin and 820 00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:59,120 your shame and the guilt that you deal with, both emotionally 821 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,120 and in reality. 822 00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,120 You don't have to do that anymore. 823 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:06,120 What's way better than bulls and goats getting sacrificed for 824 00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:09,120 you is the Son of God who sacrificed himself for you. 825 00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:12,120 That's what he's saying. 826 00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:16,120 It was a sacrifice that they made that old way to impact their 827 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:17,120 consciences. 828 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:19,120 They dealt with their own guilt through the temporary earthly 829 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,120 sacrifice, sanctified them. 830 00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:27,120 But notice the question of verse 14, how much more? 831 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,120 Think about how much better the blood of Christ is than the 832 00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,120 blood of those animals. 833 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:36,120 How more precious is it to God, the blood of his own son than 834 00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,120 the blood of those animals? 835 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,120 Christ's blood is far more precious than the blood that was 836 00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,120 spilled all those years. 837 00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:47,120 Those animals are dead, but he lives. 838 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,120 Those animals are dead, but he lives. 839 00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:53,120 He lives. 840 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:56,120 Christ's blood is far more precious. 841 00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:59,120 He lives forever, and he purges our consciences in a way that 842 00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,120 those sacrifices never could. 843 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,120 His work is done once for all. 844 00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:07,120 We are not sanctified by those old things. 845 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,120 We're saved by him. 846 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,120 And so what the writer of Hebrews is trying to help those 847 00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:14,120 Hebrews understand is that they don't have to feel bad about 848 00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:17,120 leaving that old ceremony and sacrificial system. 849 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:21,120 The blood of Jesus Christ is so much greater than what the old 850 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:23,120 picture was trying to convey. 851 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:29,120 The eternal actual sanctuary not made with hands is so much 852 00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:39,120 better than the earthly tabernacle down here on earth. 853 00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:46,120 And the only way I can get to that place is because of Jesus. 854 00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:52,120 The sacrifice that Jesus made not only deals with my sin at the 855 00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:56,120 legal level, Jesus' sacrifice deals with my sin at the emotional 856 00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,120 level. 857 00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:02,120 His blood sacrifice for me takes away my guilt and shame. 858 00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,120 It's not that I'm proud of my sin. 859 00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:10,120 Pride is not a virtue. 860 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:13,120 Just leave that out there. 861 00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:17,120 Pride is not a virtue. 862 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,120 Pride is deadly. 863 00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:22,120 I'm not proud of my sin. 864 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,120 You should not be proud of your sin either. 865 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:28,120 It's not that we don't regret our sins. 866 00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:32,120 It's that my sin no longer defined who I am. 867 00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:35,120 I'm in Christ. 868 00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,120 I'm in Christ. 869 00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,120 You're in Christ. 870 00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,120 If you put your faith and trust in Jesus because he died on the 871 00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:44,120 cross for your sin, you're in Christ. 872 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:46,120 That's your identity now. 873 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:49,120 I'm a sinner that's been saved by grace. 874 00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,120 I'm not a slave to sin. 875 00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,120 I'm a son. 876 00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,120 I'm adopted by the Father. 877 00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:59,120 I'm an heir and a joint heir with Jesus Christ. 878 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:04,120 Are you kidding me? 879 00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:08,120 I get to be a joint heir with Jesus Christ and the down payment 880 00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:13,120 of that inheritance is the person of the Holy Spirit living inside 881 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:16,120 of me and now I don't go to a tabernacle. 882 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,120 Now I am the tabernacle. 883 00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:21,120 Now he lives inside of me. 884 00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:25,120 Why do you not know that your body is a temple of God? 885 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,120 The temple of the Holy Ghost. 886 00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,120 That's amazing. 887 00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:35,120 He gives me a new identity and a new hope. 888 00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:38,120 Do you know what that means for you and me? 889 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:41,120 It means I don't have to be saved by ritual. 890 00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:43,120 I don't get saved by ceremony. 891 00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,120 I don't get saved by any work. 892 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,120 I don't have to have perfect attendance. 893 00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,120 I'd like for you to have perfect attendance. 894 00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,120 You keep coming to church. 895 00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:56,120 But don't come to church thinking that's what's going to get you there. 896 00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:58,120 I don't come because I have to come. 897 00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:01,120 I come because I get to come. 898 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:04,120 Get to see all of you in fellowship and dig into God's 899 00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,120 word and honor God. 900 00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,120 You know what we are saying about today? 901 00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,120 My worth is not in what I own. 902 00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,120 It's not in what I do. 903 00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:17,120 My worth is in the blood of Christ that flowed from Calvary. 904 00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,120 Talk about value. 905 00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:21,120 I'm not saved by ritual. 906 00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,120 I'm not saved by tradition. 907 00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:26,120 I'm not saved by dead works and dead religion. 908 00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:30,120 I'm saved because of the blood of Jesus that was shed for me. 909 00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,120 I'm saved because he said, 910 00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:36,120 if I would confess with my mouth the Lord Jesus 911 00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:39,120 and believe in my heart that God raised him from the dead, 912 00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:40,120 I'd be saved. 913 00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,120 Jesus did all that work. 914 00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,120 I don't have to work. 915 00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,120 Not for my salvation. 916 00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:49,120 In fact, I cannot work myself to get to heaven. 917 00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:50,120 I'm there. 918 00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:51,120 I can get there. 919 00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:55,120 And you can get there only because of the blood of Jesus Christ. 920 00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:57,120 What can one do? 921 00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:02,120 One can take away the blood of Jesus Christ. 922 00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:08,120 What can wash away my sin? 923 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:14,120 Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 924 00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:19,120 What can make me whole again? 925 00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:25,120 Nothing but the blood of Jesus.