Sunday Night Bible Study - Overview of The Day of Atonement

Now I want you to pay attention. It wasn't anything in Israel wasn't their military. Good evening and welcome to Sunday night Bible study of Pastor Joe Sinai Shipley of Witten Baptist Church. It is good to be with you.

The Feasts of Israel and the Day of Atonement

We've been going over the Feast of Israel the ones God instituted in Leviticus 23. There are well, there are seven yearly feasts. Plus the Sabbath plus the two additional ones that were instituted after Leviticus was written being Purim and Festival of Lights or Hanukkah if you will.

We'll talk about those later on for today. I want to finish up With the day of atonement Yom Kippur. I want to just real quickly read Just as a review what we did last week with The Passover and then we will move on to Yom Kippur.

So without further ado first Corinthians 5 starting in verse 6. I Believe we read this last week. Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump as you really are unleavened for Christ.

Our Passover lamb has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival not with old leaven the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. If Christ is our Passover lamb.

Then when we celebrate the festival, we're not going in sacrificing our own lamb. Christ has fulfilled that ceremonial law. But verse 8 says this. Let us celebrate the festival. Now, how do we do that?

Not with the old leaven the leaven of malice and evil, but we celebrate the festival with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth with sincerity and Truth that is how we celebrate the festival of Passover Jesus being our Passover lamb.

Christ Our Passover Lamb and the Fulfillment of the Festival

I Want to continue where we left off last week in Hebrews chapter 9 if we could all turn to Hebrews chapter 9. Let's read what the Word of God has to tell us. So we're gonna focus in on what we left off.

Yes last week on Yom Kippur the Day of Atonement. And I'm gonna quickly read through What we were reading. But I'll tell you what to do this passage justice. I'm gonna have to read the whole section. So y 'all got to bear with me.

I hope you don't mind a reading of the Word of God. I'm gonna read Hebrews 9 11 through 28. It's a kind of a long passage to get ready. Hebrews 9 11 through 28. Here we go. But when Christ appeared as high priest of good things that have come.

Then though the greater more perfect tent through the greater more perfect tent not made with hands that is none of this creation. He entered once for all into the holy place. Now by means of blood or goats of calves.

But by means of his own blood thus securing an eternal redemption. For the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer sanctified for purification. On the flesh how much more will the blood of Christ?

Who through the eternal spirit offered himself without blemish to God purify our conscience from dead works to serve the Living God? Mm-hmm. Therefore he's the mediator of a new covenant so that those who are called may receive the promise internal inheritance.

Since the death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed on the first covenant. But where will is involved the death of the one who made it must be established. For will takes effect only at death since it is not enforced as long as the one who made it still alive.

Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood. For when every commandment of the law has been declared by Moses to all the people He took the blood of calves and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop.

He sprinkled both the book itself and all the people saying this is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you verse 21. And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship.

Indeed under the law almost everything is purified by blood and without the shedding of blood. There is no forgiveness of sins. Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rights.

But the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ is injured in two Holy places made with not into holy places made with hands. Excuse me, which are copies of the true things but into heaven itself.

Now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. No, was it to offer himself repeatedly as the high priest enters the holy place every year with blood not of his own. For then you would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world but as it is he has appeared once for all at the end of ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself and Just as important once for man that I and after this comes judgment.

So Christ having been offered once to bear the sins of many will appear a second time not to deal with sin. But the same those who eagerly. Who are eagerly waiting for his coming? All right. We got a lot there, but let's just take a look at it for a minute as we said last week in The temple there'd be the holy place and then there'd be the inner holy of holies or most holy place behind the thick curtain only the high priest only the high priest was allowed in there and Only once a year on the Day of Atonement one of the fall festivals on Yom Kippur.

There we said he would bring in two animals two goats. He would sacrifice one. That's pure purifying everything with blood he would anoint the second goat's head with the blood of the first goat and Symbolically impute the sin of Israel on that goat and carry that goat away Into the wilderness never to be seen again.

Because it carried the guilt away. In fact Jewish tradition says sometimes they throw the goat off a cliff or break its legs so it can never come back. Point being it would take the sin away. So one goat was sacrificed the blood was spilled for the sins.

The other goat carried the sin away. Remember Jesus our Passover lamb. And he's also behold the Lamb of God. John the Baptist said who takes away The sin of the world as far as East is the West. He's removed their transgression.

Jesus is the Passover lamb and the scapegoat. He's also our high priest, but he doesn't enter year after year sacrificing himself for by one offering. Chapter 10 says he is perfected forever. Those who are sanctified He has secured an eternal redemption according to verse 12.

Now the first covenant think the law of the Old Testament. Even it was established by blood because without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins according to verse 22. Um Jesus is the mediator of the New Covenant.

But just like a will think about a will a will is not legally binding until the person dies. If that person is still alive that will is not legally binding at least not yet. It only takes effect after that person dies.

So the Old Covenant is a shadow of foreshadowing a type if you will of Christ. To come looking forward to what Jesus Christ would do. It was a will. But it didn't Come to fruition until that person died being Jesus now.

Just like the first covenant was established by blood the second covenant that the the New Covenant prophesied in Jeremiah and Ezekiel was established by Jesus blood. So when the first covenant was inaugurated by Moses, he used blood blood of bulls and goats.

And the second covenant was inaugurated was inaugurated by Jesus's blood. Remember the Passover meal before he died. He told the disciples holding the cup of Red wine, right? It's red representing blood.

This is the blood of my covenant of the New Covenant. Paul repeats this in 1st Corinthians. So on Yom Kippur, that's what would happen. The priest would take in the animals. He'd kill the one impute the sin on the other.

This is exactly what Isaiah 53 describes Jesus doing. Jesus is the high priest. He is our mediator our representative to God. He's also the Passover lamb. He is also the scapegoat who takes away the sin of the world.

He entered the most holy place not the temple, which was a copy of heaven. He entered heaven himself itself. It is appearing in the presence of God on our behalf. Romans chapter 8 Says he is interceding For us right now.

Now ladies and gentlemen, what is the difference between interceded and interceding? He did intercede for us and right now he is interceding for us on our behalf. He doesn't have to make a sacrifice year after year.

Because but for by one offering he has perfected forever. Those are sanctified and. And right now he is interceding for us. Right now and tomorrow when you sin he's interceding for that sin, too. As we purify our conscience from dead works to serve the Living God according to verse 14.

Verse 28 so Christ having been offered once to bear the sins of many will appear a second time not to deal with sin. But to save those who eagerly await for him. This is the already in the not yet. As Yom Kippur been finally fulfilled.

Well, it was Inaugurated the New Covenant was inaugurated through Yom Kippur when Jesus was sacrificed. So that's already happened but he hasn't finally destroyed sin forever. He will do that upon his return and.

After endearing the millennial reign, especially at the end of it at the resurrection of the dead. So it has been but it hasn't finally been done until that day there's still sin in the world right now.

We know that he will finally destroy it at the end of all things. So it has been fulfilled in the already and it hasn't been in the not yet. The already in the not yet. It happens in the New Testament all the time.

It's like we are saved now. But we are awaiting our final salvation the already in the not yet. So It's a little bit on Yom Kippur. Verse 10. I'm sorry chapter 10 verse 1 says. For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true Form of these realities it can never be by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year.

Make perfect those who draw near let me read that again. Since the law was only a shadow of good things to come instead of the true form of these realities. It can never by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year make perfect those who draw near.

Otherwise, they would not have ceased to be offered since the worshipers having once been cleansed would no longer have any conscience of sins. But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin. Consequently when Christ came to the world, he said Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired but a body you've prepared for me and burnt offerings and sent offerings.

You have taken no pleasure. Then I said behold. I have come to do your will O God as it is written of me in the scroll of the book verse 11 of chapter 10. Every priest stands daily at his service offering repeatedly the same sacrifices which can never take away sins.

But when Christ had offered sins for all time a single sacrifice for sins He sat down at the right hand of God waiting for that time when his enemies will be made his footstool for his feet. Whereby a single offering is perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

The Holy Spirit bears witness to us after this saying this is the covenant I'll make with him after those days declares the Lord. I'll put my law on their hearts and right on their minds. He adds I will remember their sins and belongs to use no more.

Whether it's forgiveness of these there's no longer any offering for sin. Why don't we still offer the blood of bulls and goats. Because those were a shadow of Jesus. Those were a shadow of Jesus and Jesus has fulfilled that it says right here and we honor that and we celebrate that Festival we celebrate that festival when we remember what Jesus has done when we remember what Jesus has done.

We honor and celebrate that festival. That's what we do. They can never offer they can never take away sins. Verse 2 of chapter 10 they would not have ceased to be offered. Which means they had in the day in the day that the writer of Hebrews was writing this they had ceased.

As they recognized Jesus was a fulfillment of the book of Jeremiah of Ezekiel of Genesis 3 15 so on and so forth. I'm. Pretty cool. Pretty cool. One little side note. I've done this so many times. Hebrews chapter 10 verse 5 says when Christ came into the world he said and.

Then he quotes from the book of Psalms believe Psalm 40. In other words, he quotes the psalm of David, but says Christ said it, you know, why. Because all scriptures written out by God. In verse 16, he quotes Jeremiah 31.

It says the Holy Spirit said it even though Jeremiah wrote it down because all scripture is inspired by God. This is why I don't love the words of Jesus being in red in the Bible because then the whole Bible should be in red.

If the writer of Hebrews says Jesus wrote Psalm 40, even though David did that means Jesus wrote the whole Bible. Leviticus should be in red. Hosea should be in red. I Don't like the words of Jesus being in red.

I don't hate it. I don't don't overstate it. It's just I don't want people to get the idea that those words are more important than Genesis something. All right. Very good. So I believe next week we'll do.

We might do either Hanukkah or first fruits next week, I'll let you guys know. All right. This was Yom Kippur, hope you enjoyed it. Love you guys very much. Have a great day and Have a great evening, and I will hear from you guys later on.