1 00:00:00,900 --> 00:00:04,100 Well, good morning everyone. It is a wonderful day together 2 00:00:04,100 --> 00:00:07,600 to be here to worship God, and to sing his Praises with you. 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,600 And I've enjoyed it very much, thus far enjoyed our prayers 4 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:12,900 together and our worship to our God. 5 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:16,600 If you will turn with me to Hebrews chapter 10, we're going 6 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:19,200 to continue our Study Life. We've been doing for the last 7 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:21,600 close to a year. Now, about, once a month, we've 8 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,800 taken a chapter out of Hebrews. And today, we're covering 9 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,500 chapter 10. It's good to be back with you 10 00:00:27,500 --> 00:00:28,700 guys. We've been gone for a couple 11 00:00:28,700 --> 00:00:30,500 weeks now. We are in Texas. 12 00:00:30,500 --> 00:00:33,400 Then we want to see my new niece up and Oakdale Taylor and his 13 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:35,800 new nice. And so we're glad to be back 14 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,200 this week and I'm privileged to have the chance to lead the 15 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,400 study today. And as we do this, there's some 16 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:44,700 things in here that are that are challenging. 17 00:00:44,700 --> 00:00:47,600 There's some things that are comforting and I think God's 18 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:49,200 word is good about doing that for us. 19 00:00:49,500 --> 00:00:51,700 And I hope you get the same thing out of it that I have 20 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,000 today we have 37 versus to cover. 21 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,700 It's a long chapter but just for your peace of mind, we're going 22 00:00:58,700 --> 00:01:01,800 to have a pretty Section 2. Beginning, we're going to really 23 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,900 slow down and chew through some meet in the middle and then 24 00:01:04,900 --> 00:01:07,800 toward the end will kind of move quickly through the end of the 25 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:09,500 chapter. So, if you feel like I'm getting 26 00:01:09,500 --> 00:01:12,000 toward the middle and you're wondering when this, when 27 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,400 Pharaoh is going to let us go, there's probably it's probably 28 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,000 going to come faster towards the end. 29 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:21,900 Okay, so Hebrews chapter 10, our key verses key ideas that I've 30 00:01:21,900 --> 00:01:25,700 listed on the screen or what he gets into, as the as the 31 00:01:25,700 --> 00:01:30,300 application of all of this, he says, let us draw near Let us 32 00:01:30,300 --> 00:01:33,100 hold fast and consider one another. 33 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:42,500 So before we get into that a couple lead-up versus clicker 34 00:01:42,500 --> 00:01:46,000 plugged in a couple lead up versus so, Hebrews chapter 9 35 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,900 ended on the note saying this. Not the, he speaking of Jesus 36 00:01:49,900 --> 00:01:53,700 should offer himself often as the high priest enters the most 37 00:01:53,700 --> 00:01:56,600 holy place every year without blood of another. 38 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,800 He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of 39 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:02,700 the world. But now once at the end or the 40 00:02:02,700 --> 00:02:07,200 consummation of the ages, he has appeared to put away sin by the 41 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,200 sacrifice of himself and it is appointed for men to die. 42 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:15,800 Looks but after this the Judgment so Christ was offered 43 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:20,600 once to Bear the sins of many to those who eagerly wait for him, 44 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:25,200 he will appear a second time apart from sin for salvation. 45 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,700 So we have a running start now into chapter 10. 46 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,000 Beginning in verse 1, it says for the law, okay? 47 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,500 The Lost speaking of the Old Testament, we've been talking 48 00:02:34,500 --> 00:02:37,600 about the Hebrew Christians, their old watch transition has 49 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:39,400 been a little bit challenging for them. 50 00:02:39,500 --> 00:02:43,200 He says, for this law having just a shadow of the good things 51 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,100 to come and not the very image of the things. 52 00:02:46,100 --> 00:02:48,400 Okay. So in case you're not familiar 53 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,800 with this idea of Shadow and substance. 54 00:02:51,100 --> 00:02:56,100 Basically if you think about it like God is shining a light 55 00:02:56,100 --> 00:03:00,400 through time and that light comes Comes through from time 56 00:03:00,700 --> 00:03:05,100 catches the present object and it cast a shadow on the ground. 57 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:10,200 And so God in the futurecast, this light of Jesus and behind 58 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:14,300 Jesus, there is this Shadow, it's not really him, it's his 59 00:03:14,300 --> 00:03:17,800 shadow, it's the shadow of the New Covenant embodied in the Old 60 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:19,900 Testament. And so Jesus. 61 00:03:19,900 --> 00:03:22,600 And the New Covenant is this new substance? 62 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:26,300 It's this the very substance of things to come. 63 00:03:26,300 --> 00:03:28,300 That's Jesus. That's the New Covenant. 64 00:03:28,900 --> 00:03:31,400 And the shadow is everything in the Old Law. 65 00:03:31,500 --> 00:03:34,700 There was just kind of a as you see, a picture of this flower 66 00:03:34,700 --> 00:03:36,600 here. It's just a rough outline. 67 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,500 No color just just a dark image with no depth. 68 00:03:40,500 --> 00:03:44,700 No Beauty necessarily in the shadow except for just the 69 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:48,200 format holds the Old Testament had its place and it had its 70 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:51,000 beauty. But the real Beauty, the real 71 00:03:51,100 --> 00:03:54,500 thing that God wants us to be focusing on is this New Covenant 72 00:03:54,500 --> 00:03:58,300 and just like this flower has so much depth and color and nuance, 73 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:02,100 so that's how much different Jesus is compared to the Old 74 00:04:02,100 --> 00:04:05,000 Law. So this law just had a shadow of 75 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,600 good things to come and not the real image of it. 76 00:04:08,100 --> 00:04:12,000 These things can never with the same sacrifices, which they 77 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,500 offer continually year-by-year make those who approach. 78 00:04:15,500 --> 00:04:17,500 Perfect. This is a continuation of the 79 00:04:17,500 --> 00:04:19,500 same argument. We've been covering for a while 80 00:04:19,500 --> 00:04:21,600 now so I don't want to labor it too much. 81 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,000 The point is Jesus is the Supreme sacrifice that got rid 82 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,400 of all of the sacrifices they used to do. 83 00:04:28,300 --> 00:04:32,200 And he says these same sacrifices that happen over and 84 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:37,200 over and over year after year, they never made people a pro who 85 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:41,100 approached perfect that man who came up and laid his head on the 86 00:04:41,100 --> 00:04:45,800 bowl or who laid his head on the lamb and the killed it and never 87 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:46,900 made him. Perfect. 88 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:49,300 And never what made him complete. 89 00:04:49,300 --> 00:04:53,600 And forgiving like the new law was designed to verse 24. 90 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,100 Then would they not have ceased to be offered? 91 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,000 If it would have made him perfect, they would have stopped 92 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,800 those offerings year after year, right? 93 00:05:01,300 --> 00:05:05,400 For the worshipers once purified would have had no more 94 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:08,300 consciousness of sins. So here he uses this word 95 00:05:08,300 --> 00:05:13,100 purified, as we've talked about their their, their systems that 96 00:05:13,100 --> 00:05:14,900 they would do in the Old Testament, it was more of a 97 00:05:14,907 --> 00:05:18,400 purification process. It was a cleansing but it was 98 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:23,200 not an uprooting of the issue. It was not a once and for all 99 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,400 solution, it was a purification, you know, it was cleaned for a 100 00:05:26,407 --> 00:05:30,000 little bit. If you clean your counter tops, 101 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,500 they need to be cleaned again there, it's a purification 102 00:05:32,500 --> 00:05:35,100 process that has to continually happen. 103 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,200 They would have had no more consciousness of sins, if that 104 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,800 would have been it. Because they were not eternally 105 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:48,700 forgiven, yet verse 3. But in those sacrifices there is 106 00:05:48,700 --> 00:05:54,400 a reminder of sins every year. when they came to sacrifice the 107 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:57,700 animal, you know that when they had to Slit that throat again, 108 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:02,000 That must have pain them every single time they had to do it. 109 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:05,000 It was a reminder of their failures. 110 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,700 It was a reminder of the wrongs that they had done, maybe 111 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,600 knowingly and maybe unknowingly. They had so many things that 112 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:17,600 they were reminded of verse 44. It is not possible that the 113 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,400 blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. 114 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:23,500 They can be purified but they couldn't be taken away. 115 00:06:24,300 --> 00:06:27,000 Verse 5. Therefore when he came into the 116 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,300 world, speaking of Jesus he said sacrifice and offering you did 117 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:36,500 not desire So this is a quote from Psalm chapter 40 and David 118 00:06:36,500 --> 00:06:40,200 is speaking. Kind of we're connecting some 119 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,900 ideas of Jesus and date is making this prophecy. 120 00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:48,000 But God did not desire sacrifice and offering it says here but a 121 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,600 body you have prepared for me. Jesus had a body prepared for 122 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:56,700 him by God in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. 123 00:06:56,700 --> 00:07:00,700 You had no pleasure. Then I said, behold I have come 124 00:07:00,700 --> 00:07:04,100 in the volume of the book. It is written of of me to do 125 00:07:04,100 --> 00:07:07,700 your Will O God. So when Jesus came, he was given 126 00:07:07,700 --> 00:07:15,400 a body and it's interesting because We think of we think of 127 00:07:15,407 --> 00:07:19,500 these sacrifices as this was how God's will is set up and it's 128 00:07:19,500 --> 00:07:20,700 true. He's going to say in the next 129 00:07:20,700 --> 00:07:24,800 verse coming up that it was according to God's will that 130 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,200 they were offering these sacrifices, but they didn't 131 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:31,300 bring him pleasure. Killing these animals here and 132 00:07:31,300 --> 00:07:35,500 after year, what didn't make God happy to see that? 133 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,400 That death continually every year. 134 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,900 That wasn't his plan. God gave them the tree of life 135 00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:46,400 and they rebelled. He wants life for this world. as 136 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:51,100 I think about this idea when it says here, that Jesus, Came to 137 00:07:51,100 --> 00:07:56,500 God and he had this perspective of I have come to do your Will O 138 00:07:56,500 --> 00:07:59,500 God and in a body you have prepared for me it's a 139 00:07:59,508 --> 00:08:03,400 fascinating thought to think about the perspective of 140 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,400 formation of our Lord and this is kind of a side note. 141 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:10,100 It's not necessarily what the author is getting out here, but 142 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:16,300 it's fascinating me to think about Jesus was formed in the 143 00:08:16,300 --> 00:08:21,800 womb just like we are, Jesus was Born just like we were he cried 144 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:25,600 as a baby just like we did. And as I think about God, the 145 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:29,700 father's role in that it's fascinating to me to consider 146 00:08:30,500 --> 00:08:34,500 this idea of Jesus being formed and it takes me back to Psalm 147 00:08:34,500 --> 00:08:38,900 139, where the psalmist says O. Lord, you have searched me and 148 00:08:38,900 --> 00:08:41,900 known me. You know, my sitting down in my 149 00:08:41,900 --> 00:08:45,500 rising up. You understand my thought afar 150 00:08:45,500 --> 00:08:50,200 off, you comprehend my path and my lying down and are acquainted 151 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,800 with all my ways. God you know all about me for 152 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:57,700 there is not a word on my tongue but behold O Lord you know it 153 00:08:57,700 --> 00:09:00,700 all together. You have hedged me behind and 154 00:09:00,700 --> 00:09:03,000 before and laid your hand upon me. 155 00:09:04,100 --> 00:09:06,400 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. 156 00:09:07,100 --> 00:09:09,700 It is high. I cannot attain it. 157 00:09:10,900 --> 00:09:15,200 Considering God's perspective on us is to me, one of the most 158 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:21,300 satisfying, and Kind of mind-blowing things to think 159 00:09:21,300 --> 00:09:24,900 about God seeing us in all these deep ways leaves me with the 160 00:09:24,900 --> 00:09:28,500 same conclusion that this psalmist reaches in chapter six. 161 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:30,900 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. 162 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:33,400 It is high and I cannot attain it. 163 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:37,300 He goes on to say later in the chapter for you for into my 164 00:09:37,300 --> 00:09:40,100 inward Parts, you covered me in my mother's womb. 165 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:43,700 I will praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully. 166 00:09:43,700 --> 00:09:48,100 Made marvelous are your works and that my soul knows very 167 00:09:48,100 --> 00:09:50,600 well. Well, my frame was not hidden 168 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,900 from you when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in 169 00:09:53,900 --> 00:09:57,900 the lowest parts of the earth, your eyes saw, my substance 170 00:09:57,900 --> 00:10:02,200 being yet unformed, and in your book, they were all written the 171 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,200 days fashion for me. When his yet there were none of 172 00:10:05,208 --> 00:10:08,800 them. And Hebrews chapter 10, that's 173 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,700 part of what he says here. A body you have prepared for me. 174 00:10:12,300 --> 00:10:15,900 And as we think about the fact that God foreknew and planned 175 00:10:15,900 --> 00:10:20,200 for Jesus, to be a sacrifice, one must have that have been for 176 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:25,200 God's from God's perspective, to know that he was forming and 177 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:31,800 closely designing a body for his son to be brutally crucified one 178 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:35,900 day. A body, you have prepared for me 179 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:41,800 and Jesus says I have come to do your Will O God going on in 180 00:10:41,808 --> 00:10:45,900 verse 8, previously saying sacrifice and offering burnt 181 00:10:45,900 --> 00:10:49,900 offerings and offerings for sin. You did not desire nor had 182 00:10:49,900 --> 00:10:53,300 pleasure in them which are offered according to the law. 183 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:57,500 So he's saying he's repeating. What you just said, God did not 184 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,700 get pleasure out of these old lost sacrifices and burnt 185 00:11:00,700 --> 00:11:05,300 offerings but he makes this point They are offered according 186 00:11:05,300 --> 00:11:07,900 to the law. So it wasn't like it was wrong 187 00:11:07,900 --> 00:11:10,400 but it just wasn't the full picture yet, it was just a 188 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,900 shadow verse 9. Then he said, behold I have come 189 00:11:13,900 --> 00:11:18,000 to do your Will O God he takes away the first that he may 190 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:23,400 establish the second by that will we have been Sanctified 191 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:28,000 through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 192 00:11:30,300 --> 00:11:34,200 The problem wasn't the keeping of the law, but the reality is, 193 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,400 the consummation of God's will, was that there would be a 194 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:44,100 perfect final sacrifice and just like, Jesus, embodies here a 195 00:11:44,100 --> 00:11:47,300 willingly obedient heart. Within that sacrifice the 196 00:11:47,300 --> 00:11:50,500 sentence holds a lot. You know, that God wanted 197 00:11:50,500 --> 00:11:53,500 something better, and Jesus responds that I have come to do 198 00:11:53,500 --> 00:11:55,200 your will. That's kind of the the New 199 00:11:55,200 --> 00:12:00,800 Testament in a nutshell. It is false complete sacrifice 200 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:05,300 that paid for our sins and it is willing submission to a loving 201 00:12:05,300 --> 00:12:09,000 God, who did them. That is the consummation of 202 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:14,000 God's will verse 11 and every priest stands, ministering daily 203 00:12:14,100 --> 00:12:17,800 offering repeatedly, the same sacrifices, which can never take 204 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,900 away sins. If you notice, when we went 205 00:12:20,900 --> 00:12:24,400 through the Tabernacle there was nowhere to sit, their work was 206 00:12:24,500 --> 00:12:28,000 symbolically to never end. That was kind of a point, there 207 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,500 was no chairs. There was a table that held the 208 00:12:30,500 --> 00:12:32,300 place where they work, there's a lamp stand. 209 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:36,400 There was an altar of incense but there was nowhere to sit and 210 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,800 that was supposed to mean that this is never going to end. 211 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,800 Until Jesus comes back. You're never going to be able to 212 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:47,600 sit down from this endless work of constantly cleaning until 213 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:53,400 Jesus comes and then yeah. Verse 12, Jesus is going to sit 214 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,200 down in his completed, work verse 12. 215 00:12:56,200 --> 00:13:00,600 But this man Jesus after he had offered one sacrifice for sins 216 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,300 forever. He sat down at the right hand of 217 00:13:03,300 --> 00:13:07,200 God from that time waiting, till his enemies are made his 218 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:11,800 footstool These priests could finally take their seat because 219 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:13,500 it was no longer their job to purify. 220 00:13:13,500 --> 00:13:16,800 The people Jesus had done it, and he took his seat at the 221 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:21,400 right hand of God, for by one offering, he has perfected 222 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:25,000 forever. Those who are being Sanctified, 223 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,000 it's hard for me to wrap my mind around, how much death went 224 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:32,000 through the nation of Israel. If you had millions of people, 225 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:36,100 they say it probably amassed to millions of people offering 226 00:13:36,100 --> 00:13:40,100 sacrifices. I mean I tried to you know copy 227 00:13:40,100 --> 00:13:43,700 and paste over and over until my fingers, got tired to to think 228 00:13:43,700 --> 00:13:46,600 about how many times that would have happened over and over in 229 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:51,200 the death and the blood and the sacrifice in The Killing Jesus, 230 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:53,100 took away all that with one sacrifice. 231 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:56,700 Verse 15. But the Holy Spirit also 232 00:13:56,700 --> 00:14:02,300 witnesses to us for after. He had said before, this is the 233 00:14:02,300 --> 00:14:03,900 Covenant that I will make with them. 234 00:14:03,900 --> 00:14:07,500 After those days, says the Lord, this is that Covenant. 235 00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:10,800 He didn't want the continual sacrifice has to continue those 236 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,000 in. Bring him pleasure, but this, 237 00:14:13,700 --> 00:14:16,500 this is the Covenant that I will make with them. 238 00:14:16,700 --> 00:14:20,000 After those days, says the Lord, I will put my laws into their 239 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,700 hearts and in their minds, I will write them. 240 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,400 It's not just going to be Thing that's on Scrolls. 241 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:27,900 Where you follow these lists and directions, it's going to be a 242 00:14:27,908 --> 00:14:32,400 law of the heart. Verse 7 then he adds their sins 243 00:14:32,500 --> 00:14:35,600 and their Lawless Deeds, I will remember no more. 244 00:14:36,700 --> 00:14:40,000 There was a constant reminder, but he cut off that constant 245 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,300 reminder and says I'm not going to remember any more, how 246 00:14:43,300 --> 00:14:48,300 awesome must have been for God. I wonder what his emotions do. 247 00:14:48,300 --> 00:14:51,300 As this course of history runs out, we know God got angry, we 248 00:14:51,300 --> 00:14:54,000 know God, there's things that please God, there's things that 249 00:14:54,008 --> 00:14:56,700 don't please God how much of a relief? 250 00:14:56,700 --> 00:14:59,900 Was it for God to finally have the moment where he could say 251 00:14:59,900 --> 00:15:03,400 it's forgiving? I've LED I let it go. 252 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:08,200 It's remember no more. God wants us to have that moment 253 00:15:08,900 --> 00:15:12,600 because he paid a lot for that moment Verse 18. 254 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,000 Now where there is a remission of these things. 255 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:19,400 Now what now, where there is a remission of these, these sins, 256 00:15:19,900 --> 00:15:22,600 there is no longer an offering for sin. 257 00:15:23,900 --> 00:15:28,200 So as kind of a side note, we have to remember that there's no 258 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:32,400 longer an offering both practically speaking in the form 259 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,000 of sacrifices. But we have to remember in our 260 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,900 spiritual walk, to not treat ourselves, like we are the 261 00:15:38,900 --> 00:15:42,800 punishment for our own sins. Because we can have this 262 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:46,300 mentality that wants to respond to our own guilt with a 263 00:15:46,300 --> 00:15:49,900 self-punishing attitude with an attitude that says, you know, 264 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,500 some sometimes, it even goes to the extreme people harm 265 00:15:53,500 --> 00:15:57,200 themselves, physically people harm themselves emotionally, 266 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,800 they beat themselves down, they self be a little. 267 00:15:59,900 --> 00:16:03,600 We beat ourselves up. And that's kind of a form of a 268 00:16:03,608 --> 00:16:07,400 sacrifice because then the Old Testament sacrifices, there had 269 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:14,800 to be life given and in a sense, pain suffered for sin. and we 270 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:18,300 can sometimes feel that urge to, you know, to beat ourselves down 271 00:16:18,300 --> 00:16:20,800 and you know beat myself up like I messed up and I continue to 272 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:24,400 mess up and That's not our place. 273 00:16:25,300 --> 00:16:27,300 God has told us that we are forgiven. 274 00:16:27,900 --> 00:16:31,200 God has told us that there is no more sacrifice for sins, 275 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:35,100 including our own emotional sacrifice for putting yourself 276 00:16:35,100 --> 00:16:38,400 in your place over and over. We do need to repent. 277 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:40,100 Obviously, that's not in the conclusion. 278 00:16:40,100 --> 00:16:43,300 I'm talking about but beating ourselves up. 279 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,900 We don't need to be a Living Sacrifice in that way. 280 00:16:46,900 --> 00:16:50,800 We're to be, living sacrifices serving God, with our lives, not 281 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:53,300 making ourselves in offering for sin either. 282 00:16:54,300 --> 00:16:59,100 Verse 19, therefore, Brethren having boldness to enter the 283 00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:04,300 holiest by the blood of Jesus. He says he didn't say you should 284 00:17:04,300 --> 00:17:07,099 have boldness, he says, we're having bolt. 285 00:17:07,099 --> 00:17:09,900 We have boldness. That's the way he's expressing 286 00:17:09,900 --> 00:17:12,200 that verb. It's we have boldness. 287 00:17:12,700 --> 00:17:14,400 It's not that you need to have it. 288 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:17,500 Maybe we should focus on our boldness, but he's saying you've 289 00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:20,400 got it. Jesus broke down that Veil. 290 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:23,400 He he made the way you have that boldness. 291 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:28,300 You can talk to God having that boldness to enter the holiest by 292 00:17:28,300 --> 00:17:31,300 the blood of Jesus. Not by our own goodness, not by 293 00:17:31,300 --> 00:17:35,800 our own Merit by the blood of Jesus, may we be careful to talk 294 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:40,400 to God without respect that we acknowledge, it's not on our 295 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:46,300 own, but by the blood of Jesus, by a New and Living Way, which 296 00:17:46,300 --> 00:17:50,200 he consecrated for us, which just means he set up, he 297 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:53,800 initiated this New and Living Way for us through the Veil. 298 00:17:54,900 --> 00:17:58,900 That is his flesh. And since we have a high priest 299 00:17:58,900 --> 00:18:02,700 over the house of God now, he's going to list those three things 300 00:18:02,700 --> 00:18:05,800 I talked about at the beginning. But before we get into those he 301 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:08,200 tells us that we have a New and Living Way, okay? 302 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:11,900 If it's 2,000 years old, a lot of things in our days, rust and 303 00:18:11,900 --> 00:18:15,000 corrupt. After a couple decades he said 304 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,100 that this way is new and it is living and it is true today. 305 00:18:18,100 --> 00:18:22,200 It just as it is true, 2,000 years ago and is fresh. 306 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:28,200 And that sacrifice is Living for us, which he consecrated her set 307 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:32,800 up through us through the veil. When when God, when God's 308 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:37,200 finished worked was completed and Jesus was sacrificed the 309 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:42,500 veil of the temple that last Veil before the holiest, The 310 00:18:42,500 --> 00:18:44,900 holy play, the most holy place this Veil. 311 00:18:44,900 --> 00:18:47,400 You see here. It was ripped from top to 312 00:18:47,408 --> 00:18:49,700 bottom. It says, and that being to 313 00:18:49,700 --> 00:18:51,800 signify that God is the one who did it. 314 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,000 It wasn't ripped from the bottom to the top, like someone else 315 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:59,400 came in and pull it up, but God himself torn down the veil, from 316 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:03,300 the top of it all the way to the bottom, to signify that this old 317 00:19:03,300 --> 00:19:07,000 law, the way to God's presence had been paved and had been made 318 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,300 by the blood of Jesus, and by his sacrifice, Through that 319 00:19:11,300 --> 00:19:14,900 Veil. That is his flesh. 320 00:19:15,900 --> 00:19:19,800 And since we have high priest over the house of God, so he's 321 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:21,900 finally drawing kind of a conclusion. 322 00:19:21,900 --> 00:19:24,900 He's got a lot of chapters of buildup and lead up and 323 00:19:25,100 --> 00:19:28,700 establishing that Jesus is going to be this this supreme 324 00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:32,700 sacrifice once for all time it would be at the consummation of 325 00:19:32,700 --> 00:19:34,400 the ages. He's been building this a lot 326 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:40,700 now he says, since we have this high priest He's going to tell 327 00:19:40,700 --> 00:19:44,900 us to draw near hold fast to the confession of Our Hope and 328 00:19:44,900 --> 00:19:46,800 consider one another. So this is the part where we're 329 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,500 going to slow down for a little bit and go through these things. 330 00:19:50,900 --> 00:19:55,100 Verse 22. Let us draw near with a True 331 00:19:55,100 --> 00:19:59,900 Heart in full Assurance of Faith, having our hearts 332 00:19:59,900 --> 00:20:03,200 sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies 333 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:05,900 washed with pure water. So you're probably seeing 334 00:20:05,900 --> 00:20:09,600 there's a lot of Old Testament imagery here, he the but the 335 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:15,500 main idea he wants us to draw near As you think about what God 336 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:20,300 wants out of us? He wants us to draw near. 337 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:25,800 It only makes sense because if you picture yourself as a father 338 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:29,700 or as a mother who had paid so much to rescue your child. 339 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:34,400 The only response of a loving parent would say, please draw 340 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:35,900 near. I saved you. 341 00:20:35,900 --> 00:20:37,600 I rescued, you now come be with me. 342 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:41,400 That is God's plea to us. Let us draw near with a true 343 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:43,800 heart and True Heart. I think that's pretty 344 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,800 self-explanatory. A heart that is faithful and 345 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:50,500 true. And is transparent and real. 346 00:20:51,300 --> 00:20:56,100 A true heart, not a fake heart in full Assurance of Faith, 347 00:20:56,900 --> 00:21:00,200 having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. 348 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:03,400 So that is, we've been talking about the sprinkling of blood 349 00:21:03,500 --> 00:21:05,300 that would purify in the Old Testament. 350 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:10,300 Our hearts are sprinkled from an evil conscience, or cleansed and 351 00:21:10,300 --> 00:21:12,300 our bodies washed with pure water. 352 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,900 Now washing is, is a relation to the Old Testament, Washings, but 353 00:21:15,900 --> 00:21:19,000 also an illusion. The baptism where we are washed 354 00:21:19,100 --> 00:21:23,000 and cleansed by the blood of When we make contact with the 355 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,200 blood and baptism, we are washed with pure water. 356 00:21:27,900 --> 00:21:31,600 So what are a couple ways we can draw near to God? 357 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,100 I was trying to think of a couple practical things Beyond. 358 00:21:35,100 --> 00:21:39,700 Maybe just the you need to read God's word and live it and pray 359 00:21:40,300 --> 00:21:43,700 a couple thing practical things. I hope you guys can think of 360 00:21:43,700 --> 00:21:45,700 some things on your own. I'm curious to hear from you, 361 00:21:45,700 --> 00:21:47,900 what you think, maybe after Services. 362 00:21:48,700 --> 00:21:53,800 What are some ways we can draw near to God and Beyond just kind 363 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,500 of the basics? The first thing I thought of was 364 00:21:57,100 --> 00:22:01,800 to pray Ray in a ways that breed closeness and not distance. 365 00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:03,700 Okay? Now, I've kind of put a little 366 00:22:03,700 --> 00:22:07,200 caveat here to Beware of the Never Enough trap. 367 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,500 We have a balance to strike in our prayer lives. 368 00:22:10,500 --> 00:22:14,300 We have balance to strike within God's word that we want to 369 00:22:14,300 --> 00:22:18,800 acknowledge our own. Our own frailties in front of 370 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:20,400 him. We have to confess our sins, 371 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:24,500 especially we have to be aware of how great he is, and how 372 00:22:24,500 --> 00:22:28,100 small we are compared to him. That is all a good place in our 373 00:22:28,100 --> 00:22:32,900 prayer lives, but we have to be aware that that can become a 374 00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:36,700 cycle of only talking to God about how I'm so sorry for my 375 00:22:36,700 --> 00:22:38,900 sins. And I'm, I'm solo and I'm never 376 00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:42,800 good enough. God wants us to draw near to him 377 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:46,600 because he paid to stop that endless cycle of sacrifice where 378 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,200 we were never Her ceremonially good enough. 379 00:22:50,700 --> 00:22:55,300 We are for deemed and forgiving and so we can talk to God in a 380 00:22:55,308 --> 00:22:59,200 way that breathes closeness and where we draw near to him and 381 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,800 thank him for the Forgiveness. What we don't just say, God, I'm 382 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:06,900 sorry, I messed up, I'm so bad, but we say God, thank you, thank 383 00:23:06,900 --> 00:23:09,400 you so much that you have pulled me near that. 384 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,700 You have saved me that you have welcomed me in your presence. 385 00:23:12,900 --> 00:23:15,800 And I have an open invitation to your throne. 386 00:23:16,900 --> 00:23:19,500 Because as we've said a father that just went through a huge 387 00:23:19,500 --> 00:23:23,400 Rescue Mission rescue mission that took thousands of years to 388 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,400 lay out. He doesn't want us to sit there 389 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:33,000 and just wallow in our own, our own self-pity, our own wrongs, 390 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:37,300 he wants us to move forward, and he wants us to thank him and 391 00:23:37,300 --> 00:23:41,500 enjoy a relationship where we draw near to him because of that 392 00:23:41,500 --> 00:23:46,500 a prayer life where we always say the negatives will create 393 00:23:46,900 --> 00:23:51,200 Students in our own minds from God, may we not get stuck in 394 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,300 that trap. So, let's pray in ways that 395 00:23:53,300 --> 00:23:57,400 breed closeness not distance. And so part of that is realizing 396 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,800 God's perspective, meditate on passages. 397 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,700 Like when Jesus said in Matthew 23, verse 37, Jerusalem 398 00:24:03,700 --> 00:24:06,800 Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and Stones, those who 399 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:11,100 are sent to her, how often I wanted to gather your children 400 00:24:11,100 --> 00:24:15,400 together and the way a hen gathers, her chicks under her 401 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:19,500 wings, and you were Willing but this the context of this is kind 402 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:22,200 of sad but the blue part I highlighted is special. 403 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:27,900 It helps us see what God wants us to be aware of is that he's 404 00:24:27,900 --> 00:24:32,100 not just a warning. God, he is a God who I can't 405 00:24:32,100 --> 00:24:36,000 think of a more tender picture than a mother, hen Gathering her 406 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,200 chicks to protect them and shelter them. 407 00:24:38,500 --> 00:24:43,900 And to draw them near. And this ties into the next 408 00:24:43,900 --> 00:24:47,400 thing we're going to talk about in praying, God's word, back to 409 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,900 him. So this this is a huge part of 410 00:24:49,900 --> 00:24:53,400 developing, this closeness is develop a relationship where 411 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,400 we're reciprocating, the communication that God has 412 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,500 started with us through his work, okay? 413 00:24:59,300 --> 00:25:02,200 This has been one of the biggest things for me and helping 414 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:06,400 develop a prayer life that is. Number one, not vain repetition 415 00:25:06,700 --> 00:25:10,400 and because we can run out of things to say sometimes but also 416 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,700 in a way that I feel like my prayer life Life adapts and 417 00:25:13,700 --> 00:25:16,600 adjust to my understanding of God's will. 418 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:20,900 So as I grow in knowledge of God's were, I want to pray that 419 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:24,200 back to God, for example, it's taken it, let's take something 420 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,600 just that we read. Recently, I picked this 421 00:25:26,608 --> 00:25:29,100 scripture at random. If we're reading the scripture 422 00:25:29,100 --> 00:25:33,200 Hebrews 925 where it said not that he should offer himself 423 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:37,800 often as the high priest enters the most holy place every year 424 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,700 with the blood of another. He then would have had to suffer 425 00:25:40,700 --> 00:25:43,200 often since the foundation End of the world. 426 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,900 But now once at the end of the ages, he has appeared to put 427 00:25:45,900 --> 00:25:48,300 away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 428 00:25:48,500 --> 00:25:50,800 So I just picked a random passage. 429 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,900 So here's how we might pray. This passage back to God. 430 00:25:54,500 --> 00:25:58,100 God, thank you so much that I don't have to live under the Old 431 00:25:58,100 --> 00:26:02,100 Law where sacrifices were continually made and never 432 00:26:02,100 --> 00:26:06,600 forgiven truly, but thank you so much that I'm now live in this 433 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:11,900 end of the ages where Jesus has put away sin for me. 434 00:26:12,900 --> 00:26:16,500 That is a prayer to God, where we are reading what God Said. 435 00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:19,900 And we respond with a prayer of thankfulness a prayer that says 436 00:26:19,900 --> 00:26:23,500 God, you know, I'm taking in what you read, what you told me 437 00:26:23,900 --> 00:26:26,600 and I want to turn it into praise and into Thanksgiving. 438 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,100 So, that was just a random example. 439 00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:31,400 You could pray any passage back to God. 440 00:26:31,700 --> 00:26:35,800 Truly, here's another one. If we were to look at Jeremiah 441 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:39,500 chapter 32 because this is just referenced in the context, I 442 00:26:39,508 --> 00:26:42,900 picked this one. I'll just read the blue section. 443 00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:47,900 It says God prophesying that they shall be my people. 444 00:26:47,900 --> 00:26:52,200 Speaking of this new law and I will be their God then I will 445 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:56,000 give them one heart and one way that they may fear me forever 446 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,400 for the good of them and their children. 447 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,800 After them, I just pulled this out of a recent context and 448 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:06,300 Hebrews and we can pray that and we can say, God, thank you so 449 00:27:06,300 --> 00:27:10,000 much that you have welcomed me to be one of your people. 450 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,100 Thank you. You can renew my heart and that 451 00:27:13,100 --> 00:27:16,200 you can teach me your ways and I pray that you will teach me. 452 00:27:16,500 --> 00:27:21,800 Teach my heart changed my heart, and renew my ways, so that I can 453 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:27,500 have a family that follows your will, so that I can pass on your 454 00:27:27,500 --> 00:27:30,800 goodness to others. As this passage says for the 455 00:27:30,900 --> 00:27:35,600 good of their children after them, we can turn every passage 456 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:39,500 that we read truly into a prayer to God somehow and if you're 457 00:27:39,500 --> 00:27:42,200 struggling with your prayer, Life that has been a big help 458 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,100 for me, and this is something that we are supposed to use in 459 00:27:45,100 --> 00:27:48,400 our classrooms all the time. We just refer to it and 460 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,100 teaching, as a sentence frame, when we're trying to teach 461 00:27:52,100 --> 00:27:55,300 students how to learn how to communicate, we give them a 462 00:27:55,300 --> 00:28:00,100 sentence, like, I like how the author uses blank to show blank 463 00:28:00,900 --> 00:28:03,300 when we're learning to communicate, we need things to 464 00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:05,500 get us started. Things to get us going. 465 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,900 So, this is nothing new. This is not unique to to God's 466 00:28:09,900 --> 00:28:15,500 word and And it's a way we learn to communicate by by taking what 467 00:28:15,500 --> 00:28:19,700 we can start with and working off of that, I think will help 468 00:28:19,700 --> 00:28:25,300 us our prayer lives. So the next thing he says he 469 00:28:25,300 --> 00:28:30,800 says, or the next way to draw near, he tells us to cleanse our 470 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:36,000 hearts. So we've talked about Having 471 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,000 good prayer lives. We've talked about praying God's 472 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:43,800 will back to him, but it also tells us in this passage that we 473 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,600 are to have hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. 474 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,700 So way to draw near to God is to cleanse our hearts. 475 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,600 And that's something God can do, but it takes, that's not easy. 476 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,100 It's not easy on us because that means habits have to change. 477 00:28:58,300 --> 00:29:03,000 If we have sinful habits, if we have sinful addictions, if we 478 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,600 have sinful things that we are a part of regularly, those things 479 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:11,000 are going to pollute our hearts and it's going to keep us from 480 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:15,200 from fully experiencing The Nearness to God that we need to 481 00:29:16,500 --> 00:29:19,700 living out and thinking on pure things will help call me mind 482 00:29:19,700 --> 00:29:24,100 riddled with the consequences and fears brought on by sin. 483 00:29:24,500 --> 00:29:28,500 So that is a huge step in drawing near to God as cleansing 484 00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:33,100 our hearts. okay, so the second thing he tells us, he says let 485 00:29:33,100 --> 00:29:39,200 us draw near And then he says, let us hold fast. 486 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,600 This is the second one. Let us hold fast. 487 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,300 The confession of Our Hope, without wavering. 488 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,300 For he, who promised is faithful. 489 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:52,100 They're having challenging times now, and he is telling them 490 00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:55,700 basically, to hold on because you said it in the good times 491 00:29:56,300 --> 00:29:59,000 and now it's time to hold on through the challenging times. 492 00:29:59,300 --> 00:30:03,300 The confession of the Hope, how do we hold on to the confession 493 00:30:03,300 --> 00:30:06,500 of our hope? Well, it's with Session. 494 00:30:06,500 --> 00:30:10,700 It's very very simple. We got to say it we've got to 495 00:30:10,700 --> 00:30:14,400 talk about our hope and I think the simplest way to start is to 496 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,500 talk about our hope to God himself. 497 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:20,500 This ties in with praying God's will talking to God about our 498 00:30:20,508 --> 00:30:24,400 hope. Talking to God, in the sense 499 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,600 that God, I cannot wait for you to return. 500 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,400 I'm so excited for you to be here. 501 00:30:28,500 --> 00:30:31,700 Maybe, I'm disappointed that you didn't come today but I cannot 502 00:30:31,700 --> 00:30:34,400 wait, maybe tomorrow. You will be here, I don't know, 503 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,200 something, whatever you think of, but having the perspective 504 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:41,200 that we are talking to God about our hopes that confession of Our 505 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:47,200 Hope, Number two, we want to talk talk about it and say it 506 00:30:47,300 --> 00:30:50,300 confess it to people who will reciprocate it. 507 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:52,400 So that might start with your families. 508 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,400 Maybe your families are faithful, and they would 509 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,800 reciprocate that hope they would encourage you in that hope. 510 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,800 But they, maybe it's not your family, and maybe it's the 511 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,600 people in here and hopefully it is, the people in here. 512 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:11,100 Maybe may we reciprocate and talk about together the hope. 513 00:31:11,100 --> 00:31:14,500 And the confession of our hope that we are, Are looking forward 514 00:31:14,500 --> 00:31:16,800 to an excited for the return of our savior. 515 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:21,200 The hope that is ahead of us must be shared within us to keep 516 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:25,900 our faith holding fast and thirdly to those who don't yet 517 00:31:25,900 --> 00:31:29,100 reciprocate it. I've got yet they're highlighted 518 00:31:29,100 --> 00:31:33,300 because we never know who might one day change their heart, and 519 00:31:33,300 --> 00:31:37,200 we can slowly start to work in confessions of Our Hope into our 520 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,400 daily life. There's a lot of ways people can 521 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,800 do that, and you can do that in your own way, but when people 522 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,200 bring challenges to you, is often a good time to share what 523 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:52,200 gets you through. So you can confess your hope to 524 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:57,200 God to people who reciprocate it and also to those who do not yet 525 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,600 reciprocate it and that will help to hold on to the 526 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,000 confession of our hope that we have in Jesus. 527 00:32:04,700 --> 00:32:09,000 Okay, the next thing he says, we've got let us draw near 528 00:32:09,100 --> 00:32:12,500 we've, got let us hold fast, the confession of Our Hope. 529 00:32:12,500 --> 00:32:19,200 And the third lettuce is let us consider one another in order to 530 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:23,900 stir up, love and good works. So, I like the language to stir 531 00:32:23,900 --> 00:32:28,100 up, usually means some trouble, but he says to stir up and to, 532 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,300 to awaken and turn up, good works. 533 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,500 And love, you know, when you have a if you have a cup of hot 534 00:32:35,500 --> 00:32:37,900 chocolate or I don't know, cider or something. 535 00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:41,400 You've poured into a drink where that powder is at the bottom. 536 00:32:42,100 --> 00:32:44,100 It is not good. When all, that's just sitting on 537 00:32:44,100 --> 00:32:46,200 the bottom. You want to, you know, when you 538 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,100 get that drink, you want to Stir It Up so that it goes throughout 539 00:32:49,100 --> 00:32:51,500 the whole body and goes throughout the whole body of 540 00:32:51,500 --> 00:32:53,700 liquid. So you have a good drink, he 541 00:32:53,700 --> 00:32:57,800 wants us to stir up. Love and good works one upon one 542 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:02,600 or two for one another so that we as a body can all be Growing 543 00:33:02,700 --> 00:33:05,000 and full of those good works and that love. 544 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,600 To consider one another verse 25. 545 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:13,400 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner 546 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,400 of some. But exhorting, one another and 547 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,200 so much the more as you see the day approaching. 548 00:33:19,700 --> 00:33:22,800 So I don't really have to come up with how to consider one 549 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:26,600 another in this passage, because he tells us an example, he tells 550 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:32,000 us to not not stay away from when your brothers and sisters 551 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,500 get together. When we are assembling together 552 00:33:34,500 --> 00:33:39,100 as a body. Consider one another, and let's 553 00:33:39,100 --> 00:33:42,900 be here for that. When we consider one another, 554 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:48,200 that's going to help us hold on in times of challenge but are 555 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,400 also maybe if we're not having the challenging time, it's going 556 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,400 to help other people. Hold on, and their time of 557 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,200 challenge we all come in here, different places. 558 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,700 Maybe this morning, you are high as a kite but maybe if you're in 559 00:33:58,700 --> 00:33:59,800 here today, maybe you're real low. 560 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:04,400 Today we are constantly at a different point, so sometimes we 561 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,700 need it and sometimes we want to be here. 562 00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:09,199 And sometimes someone else is like, man, I'm pretty good. 563 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:11,500 I could go do something else today and I'm be fine. 564 00:34:12,500 --> 00:34:15,000 That's not the point. The point is, if we're all at 565 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,300 different places, we all come together throughout that, that's 566 00:34:18,300 --> 00:34:20,300 how we share. That's how we share our 567 00:34:20,300 --> 00:34:24,699 struggles and our good times and our bad times because maybe you 568 00:34:24,699 --> 00:34:27,000 don't need it today, but maybe someone else needs you today. 569 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:34,500 Consider one another to store up these love and good works. he 570 00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:38,600 says, as the manner of some, you know, I believe we need to 571 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:44,900 definitely make our best effort to to be in God's worship. 572 00:34:46,100 --> 00:34:50,400 And but if you're worried about, let's say, someone says, man, I 573 00:34:50,500 --> 00:34:51,800 some people are really worried about. 574 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:54,900 I missed a Wednesday night or something like that. 575 00:34:55,100 --> 00:34:59,700 This is kind of a side point, but, you know, if especially 576 00:34:59,700 --> 00:35:03,200 like if you're sick he's talking about a manner, it's a habit. 577 00:35:03,300 --> 00:35:06,800 Some people make a habit out of just not being there, but if 578 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,800 it's a habit of being there, that's kind of the point he's 579 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:14,600 making. So the head Mitchell coming to 580 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,500 the assembly. Is the point of this passage. 581 00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:21,400 As is the manner of some, but exhorting, one another and so 582 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,900 much more. As you see the day approaching 583 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,800 that day, I believe is reference to the coming of Jesus. 584 00:35:26,900 --> 00:35:28,800 He's already talked about in chapter 9. 585 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,000 I don't believe this is talking about the destruction of 586 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,900 Jerusalem because it wouldn't really fit the context. 587 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,800 But he has talked about Jesus coming again. 588 00:35:36,900 --> 00:35:43,900 And so as we see that day of Jesus coming, let's do this, all 589 00:35:43,900 --> 00:35:47,600 the more As we see the day approaching, let's assemble, 590 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,900 let's exhort one another. Let's be together and I know 591 00:35:50,900 --> 00:35:53,300 it's been hard after covid. We've kind of separated a little 592 00:35:53,308 --> 00:35:55,800 bit because we just haven't been together as much. 593 00:35:55,800 --> 00:36:01,100 But let's work on that verse 26. For if we sin willfully, after 594 00:36:01,100 --> 00:36:04,700 we have received the knowledge of the truth there, no longer 595 00:36:04,700 --> 00:36:07,500 remains a sacrifice for sins, okay? 596 00:36:07,500 --> 00:36:10,700 So in the Old Testament, they didn't have sacrifices for 597 00:36:10,700 --> 00:36:12,900 willful sins where you just did it anyway. 598 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:18,000 They had sacrifices for For sins where they're committed 599 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:19,900 ignorance and other things like that. 600 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,400 But there's no sacrifice for a scene where you just wanted to 601 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,200 do it anyway. And you just went ahead and 602 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:33,400 rebelled and that's just it. He's saying here that there's 603 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,600 not a sacrifice that covers that type of set. 604 00:36:36,100 --> 00:36:39,000 It doesn't mean that you can't repent, and it's doesn't mean 605 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,400 that if you did it in a moment, knowing what you're doing, you 606 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:46,600 can't repent. But if that sends stays as a I 607 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:51,800 did it and I'm unrepentant, if it stays in that category, then 608 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:53,400 there's no sacrifice for that Sam. 609 00:36:53,500 --> 00:36:55,000 That's it. You can't cover that. 610 00:36:55,100 --> 00:36:58,300 He has a plan to cover people who are willing to repent and 611 00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:03,400 change their lives. And so, if you have sinned, you 612 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,900 feel like Manna the other day. I knew what I was doing and I 613 00:37:05,908 --> 00:37:10,200 messed up and I did anyway, he's not saying that you can't be 614 00:37:10,207 --> 00:37:14,600 forgiven, he's saying that it can't stay as unrepented Sin to 615 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,500 be forgiven of. Okay, so verse 27, but a certain 616 00:37:18,500 --> 00:37:23,000 fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation, which 617 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,600 will devour the adversaries. When we sin, willfully, we stay 618 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,800 in it. Always got to look forward to is 619 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:31,900 fear. Here, there's a certain fearful 620 00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:34,700 expectation. He says, and that will devour 621 00:37:34,700 --> 00:37:36,800 God's adversaries. We're going to start moving 622 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,100 faster, through the end of the chapter. 623 00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:43,300 Now, verse 28, and he who has rejected Moses law, the Old 624 00:37:43,300 --> 00:37:49,500 Testament dies without Mercy. On the testimony of two or three 625 00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:51,300 Witnesses. So in the old lock, there were 626 00:37:51,300 --> 00:37:54,300 certain things that if you did and just took two or three 627 00:37:54,300 --> 00:37:57,500 people to say. Yeah, he did that and you could 628 00:37:57,500 --> 00:37:59,800 die. So, if it just took two or three 629 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:04,700 people in Moses's law, verse 29 of how much worse punishment do 630 00:38:04,700 --> 00:38:08,700 you suppose, will, he be thought worthy, who has trampled, the 631 00:38:08,700 --> 00:38:12,200 Son of God underfoot counted, the blood of the Covenant by 632 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:16,700 which he is Sanctified a common thing and insulted the spirit of 633 00:38:16,700 --> 00:38:20,200 Grace A long sentence. But basically, he said, if, in 634 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,900 the Old Law, when I was just bulls and goats who are dying, 635 00:38:24,700 --> 00:38:29,800 if, if people in that time who sinned wilfully could be killed 636 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:35,300 for that, how much more serious, how much worse do you think it 637 00:38:35,300 --> 00:38:38,100 is? If people see the Son of God, 638 00:38:38,900 --> 00:38:42,300 see everything. He did and trample him 639 00:38:42,300 --> 00:38:45,000 underfoot. Basically, they see that 640 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,400 sacrifice and they just they run right over it. 641 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:54,000 Those who count the blood of the Covenant Jesus Blood by which he 642 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,200 was Sanctified a common thing. So they treat Jesus blood. 643 00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,700 Like yes, any other blood. I don't need to do anything. 644 00:39:01,500 --> 00:39:04,700 It was just a normal guy with with a common blood. 645 00:39:07,300 --> 00:39:11,500 That is insulting, the spirit of Grace that has come to save us. 646 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:16,600 And it's saying how much more punishment will he be worthy of 647 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:22,000 who tramples God's son underfoot like this and insults God's 648 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,900 spirit? For we know him. 649 00:39:24,900 --> 00:39:29,100 Who said vengeance is mine? I will repay says the Lord. 650 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,500 And again, the Lord will judge his people. 651 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,500 He's not even talking here about judging the world. 652 00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:36,500 He's saying the Lord will judge his people. 653 00:39:36,500 --> 00:39:38,300 He's writing the Hebrew Christians. 654 00:39:39,300 --> 00:39:42,900 The Lord will judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall 655 00:39:42,900 --> 00:39:47,100 into the hands of the Living God, that's true. 656 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:48,400 Remember, there's always two sides. 657 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,800 There's always two truths to most of these situations. 658 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,800 So it is a fearful thing to fall into His hands, but he's 659 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:58,600 speaking in the context of Disobedience and willful 660 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:05,400 responding with willful sin. The other side of this is that 661 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:09,000 we already talked about is true. Our Lord Is Still Loving and 662 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,900 good God and he, and he's a refuge for us as we read. 663 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,400 He said, how often I wanted to gather your children together, 664 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,700 the way it chin, but the way hen gathers her chicks under her 665 00:40:19,700 --> 00:40:23,000 wings, it is a fearful thing. If we are not right with God, 666 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:27,600 but can also be Very comforting thing to be in God's hands 667 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:32,600 depends on where we're at verse 32 but recall, the former days. 668 00:40:32,700 --> 00:40:35,600 So he's going to think back on, sometimes that was good and he's 669 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,200 going to encourage them to, in this chapter we're going to call 670 00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:41,700 the former days in, which after you were illuminated, when 671 00:40:41,700 --> 00:40:43,600 you're enlightened by God's truth. 672 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:48,300 You endured a great struggle with sufferings partly, while 673 00:40:48,300 --> 00:40:52,300 you are made a spectacle, both by reproaches and tribulations. 674 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,300 So you had sufferings of your own own and partly while you 675 00:40:55,300 --> 00:40:58,300 became Companions of those who were so treated. 676 00:40:58,300 --> 00:40:59,900 So they suffered in two different ways. 677 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:04,300 They were mistreated themselves and they were supporting people 678 00:41:04,300 --> 00:41:07,200 who are being mistreated verse 34. 679 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:12,300 For you had compassion on me and my chains and joyfully accepted 680 00:41:12,300 --> 00:41:15,700 the plundering of your goods, the plundering of your goods, a 681 00:41:15,700 --> 00:41:18,500 lot of people sacrifice to take care of those who are in need in 682 00:41:18,500 --> 00:41:22,700 the early church and they willfully gave what they had to 683 00:41:22,700 --> 00:41:25,900 serve. Knowing that you have a better, 684 00:41:26,100 --> 00:41:28,900 and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven. 685 00:41:29,100 --> 00:41:33,700 Remember any good you do is just temporary things here. 686 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,800 If you give someone something and it fills their need just 687 00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,900 temporary. We have treasure and possessions 688 00:41:39,900 --> 00:41:42,900 in heaven. Therefore, do not cast away your 689 00:41:42,900 --> 00:41:47,000 confidence which has great reward for you have need of 690 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,900 endurance. So that after you have done the 691 00:41:48,900 --> 00:41:52,000 will of God, you may receive the promise. 692 00:41:52,900 --> 00:41:57,500 For yet a little while. And he who is coming, will come 693 00:41:59,100 --> 00:42:02,600 And will not tarry. Now, the just shall live by 694 00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:08,200 faith in a little while. He says, he who it is coming, he 695 00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:13,100 who is to come in the future. That's going to be in the past 696 00:42:13,900 --> 00:42:16,200 pretty soon. He's going to come. 697 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:22,000 He who is coming will come and it's all going to be completed. 698 00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:25,700 One day, it's all going to be over. 699 00:42:26,700 --> 00:42:30,900 Now, the just shall live by faith, but if anyone draws back, 700 00:42:31,100 --> 00:42:35,600 my soul has no pleasure in him. But we are not of those who draw 701 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:39,500 back to Perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the 702 00:42:39,500 --> 00:42:43,400 Soul, this is the end of this chapter and he is already making 703 00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:47,500 the transition Hebrews 11, where he talks about those who walked 704 00:42:47,500 --> 00:42:50,500 by faith. He's saying, we are not those 705 00:42:50,500 --> 00:42:53,000 who draw back to Perdition or destruction. 706 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,800 Our It will not those kind of people but where those kind of 707 00:42:56,808 --> 00:42:59,800 people who believe to the saving of the soul. 708 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,600 And next time, I speak, we're going to talk about the kind of 709 00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:06,000 people who do that from the Old Law, and Hebrews chapter 11, 710 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:07,400 where we hear of the Hall of Faith. 711 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,200 That's the lesson for today from Hebrews chapter 10. 712 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,100 I hope you can take these things for your own prayer. 713 00:43:13,100 --> 00:43:16,600 Life, your own spiritual perspective and I hope you're 714 00:43:16,700 --> 00:43:18,500 both comforted and challenge today. 715 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:22,800 As I was myself, if you haven't started this walk and you 716 00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:27,100 haven't been Kind of initiated into this New Covenant, broaden 717 00:43:27,100 --> 00:43:30,600 and contacted the with the blood of Christ, you can do that 718 00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:32,300 today. 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