Book of Hebrews - Ch. 10, Vs. 1-26 (01/20/2002)

Today we're going to study the 10th chapter of Hebrews since we didn't take it last week

We'll start it today Hebrews chapter 10 verse 1 for the law

Having a shadow of things to come And not the very image of the things can never with those sacrifices

Which they offer year by year continually Make the comers there unto perfect They were but a shadow of the image

The perfect was there but not seen all earthly pleasures

Our shadows and dreams Our earthly life can never make our carnal body perfect so much for Mormonism But it can be a shadow of the body that is yet to come

Unless we pass through this earthly body. We have no hopes of Passing into the heavenly body

By the way, the Mormons believe that if you are good enough and You do it repeatedly life after life since they believe in reincarnation

That you will eventually be put in charge of some planet some place and Become God to that planet

Now, let me ask you Can a physical human act?

Be like the divine demands Joy can a physical human act be like the divine demands

It It's not even probable No, if someone wants to return to the legal system and put themselves under the law

They'd better build a little tabernacle and start raising sheep and goats Because they'll need them

The law fix it in your mind the law had to do with the tabernacle not with us today

We have a more perfect law and it's put into our hearts That was not in their hearts to Or then would they not have ceased

To be offered Because that the worshipers once purged should have had no more conscience of sin

If the law would suffice then one time would have been enough But it wasn't it was repeated over and over and over If the sacrifices could have taken away their guilt

One sacrifice would have been enough three

But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year

Showing that sins of those who offered sacrifices have not yet received a true atonement

So they had to do it over and over and over and over All the sacrifice could do was remind them of their sin

Could not remove it for For it is not possible

That the blood of bulls and of goats Should take away sins Take away utterly

The blood of beasts could not take away the sin of man a man must do that God did not institute the animal sacrifices under the mosaic economy for the purpose of taking away sin

God didn't intend for it to They were types and shadows which represented the way in which

God would take away sin That's good

Only man only Christ could Yes That made the whole thing

They were types and shadows which represented the way in which God would in the fullness of time

Provide a lamb a satisfactory and effective sacrifice, which he did before the foundation of the world there was was laid the father and son agreed that Sinners could not be redeemed

With things that were corrupt now things that were corrupt

Aaron sanctified the things he Offered sacrifice for himself before he did for the nation

Was that not holy? Was Aaron not holy?

When he offered the sacrifice Berg Greg all right

Redemption must come through the precious blood of the lamb without spot or blemish

Now he has to talk to us in our language The lamb we know what a lamb is

Jesus was the lamb the blood of the sacrifice only covered

Over their sins Until Jesus came it rolled them forward until finally it rolled them up on Jesus Christ Well, are you talking as a normal citizen or as a priest?

What do you think bill They knew that next year they'd have to do the same thing.

So therein they did not Or if they knew they did not

Expect this to do I Can't really answer that Bill's answers as good as any

Their sins were covered Wherefore yes, well, they pointed out their sin.

All right, that's right

Wherefore When he cometh into the world, he say a sacrifice and offerings thou wouldest not

But a body thou has prepared for me who's speaking David right

Jesus had a body prepared for him at the pre -creation council of the

Godhead Therefore it was determined that Jesus the Son would take a body become incarnate in human nature and In that body would magnify satisfy and fulfill the holy law

The law of God In a human body

Jesus both honored the law and made the law honorable He did in that body what the law could not do

Because the weakness of flesh There was no law that could ever be passed that would do what

Jesus did He satisfied the holiness of God Now, why did

Jesus need a body verge? All right, you'd say you had to have a body so he could die

Is that right? All right Bill why did he need to die?

All right, because God demanded it We were in bondage to Satan and God demanded that there be a sacrifice

Offered and Jesus did it now. Why did God demand it?

David why did he have to demand it?

All right, but all right

Because the world of man had sinned, right? Greg why did the world of man sin?

Why did we sin? All right

Why did Adam sin? That's right

It was ordained of God that he sinned Adam did it because he wanted to But it was ordained of God If you can get that In your mind, it'll answer a whole lot of questions

He Tried his best to shift it Six in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou had no pleasure

God had no pleasure in sacrifices David why then do it if God had no pleasure in it?

Why do it? That's right

Seven then said I lo I come in the volume of the book. It is written of me to do thy will

O God This is the Jesus speaking. I come to do thy will

O God Christ Jesus the Lord is in the first verse of the

Old Testament in the beginning In John 1 3 we learned that all things were created by Christ Jesus Therefore God made the heavens and the earth by Christ himself.

He is the agent that did it Eight Above when he said sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin

Thou would is not neither has pleasure therein Which are offered by the law

Now it's true that what Jesus did he Was Because of his great love for us don't don't lose sight of that He loved us.

He laid his life down for us but the uppermost joy of his life and the object of all that he did was to completely execute the father's will and And in complete subjection to him his first love was directed toward the father always

His first love is to father all of his obedience is to the father Nine Then said he lo

I come to do thy will O God He take it the way the first that he may establish the second

Greg what's he talking about the first and the second? All right

By the which we are sanctified Through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ Once for all it is by him that I am sanctified

No other way the law can't you can resurrect it. You can do whatever you want to do it

You can kill lamb after lamb after lamb, and it will never sacrifice Satisfy God It has to be

Jesus the ultimate sacrifice we find the law given We see that it was given to the

Israelites only The same with the gospel of salvation is given to his people only once for all means one time only

And also once for all his people Not for the world

Christ did not die for the world. He died for his people 11 and Every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices

Which can never take away sin. It must have been a very very boring life

To offer the same sacrifice over and over and over for years the fact that our high priest is now seated on the throne of grace

Suggests rest. He must have done it one time only The completion of a work the atoning work of his shed blood in his one sacrifice

What a contrast to the ceaseless unending Sacrifices that they have been doing

Yes, that's right

It can't help but do that and be performed by man Same thing gotta go do the same thing today as I did yesterday

That's right That's right

Well year after year they had to do it their work was never finished Since Christ is now seated at the right hand of the father on the throne of grace and mercy there can be no more offering

No more sacrifice for sin And his position of authority will never change it is forever

Can you imagine? An act that was performed years ago, and it will be one time only forever

I heard a Sunday school class years ago Discussing Ephesians 1 -4

This is a way they Rationalized that they were told that the predestinated ones are those that believe

That God simply knew who would believe so he predestinated them to be in heaven

They missed the whole point The predestination includes the belief

This puts God in the role of subservient, and it's not true the predestination

Includes the belief Yes, that's right

That's good it produces the belief You could never believe without it

But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever sat down on the right hand of God Can you visualize that?

He sat down now. He was invited to sit down. He didn't sit down on his own

Because he was finished he sat down Because he was tired

He sat down because he didn't want to do anything else He sat down because he was invited to because he had finished all

He was given to do on the earth is finished from henceforth

Expecting till his enemies be made his footstool Now we all know what a footstool is

His enemies being placed under his feet He will not return until all his people have been put into the church

I Don't know when that is if there's anybody else He is not waiting until everybody has accepted him

Someday our Lord will call the last one of his people to this church age

Then comes the judgment For by one offering he has perfected and forever

Them that are sanctified. He has perfected forever Them that are sanctified.

He has perfected you and I Now I'm not perfect yet.

You're not perfect yet But we will be I am now spiritually

I Will be then the sanctification Is our present verse in our present verse does not mean instant

Complete personal holiness It denotes the setting apart of the believer by the

Holy Spirit the standing of such a person before God is righteous Through the finished work of Jesus.

It is only by Jesus and His work that I can stand in the presence of God The true believer is being perfected forever

Is being perfected forever? When we cross over from this life to the next

I think that perfection will go on Won't have any of the sinful

Attributes it'll all be holy, but it'll be perfecting on and on and on Whereas the

Holy Ghost also is a witness to us for after that he had said before Does God the

Father see our sins David That's that's it.

He sees us through the filter of the blood Jesus Christ Sees my sin.

I'm sorry to say but I sin You do too This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days saith the

Lord I will put my laws into their hearts and In their minds will

I write them and their sins and iniquity will I remember no more?

The Child of God does not need to beg to plead with God for forgiveness

We confess our sins daily Hourly, however, they occur knowing that we daily come short of the glory of God and When we confess our weaknesses we put our total dependence upon his grace and power

Now if I was to ask do you right now I have your total dependence upon God you'd answer yes

But tomorrow about five o 'clock What about it two o 'clock what about it am

I always depending on God what about my work Which anymore isn't much

But I depend upon God, but I have to remind myself all of the time to do it

It never becomes automatic Now where remission of these is there is no more offering for sin

So he's worked it all the way around now And he has come to the fact that our sins have been remitted

If that's true Then there would be no need there is no need for another offering

Because it's all been done in that one time in the offering

Which the Old Testament was a shadow and a picture of what was coming

Once your sins have been forgiven they are forgotten If they've been forgiven they've been forgotten by our

Lord well

And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more Now where remission of these is there is no more offering for sin

That's right Once your sins have been forgiven they're forgotten

All things are simple if you understand Yeah, we can take a key and unlock the door.

It's just a simple matter of putting it in and turning it but the key fits

The filing I can imagine the first key that was made It had to be trial and error almost

Now we take the key and just turn simple No, no

The most complex thing in the world is simple Yes I'm so glad it's that way

Because I have it I don't understand it, but I have it Having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus Only by his blood

Not arrogance now We get into the Father's present by the blood of Jesus the

Christ He has perfected it forever Them that are sanctified all that we will ever be all that we will ever have in spiritual life in the

City prepared for the children of God will be ours Because of his finished work and not because of any merit on my part

Think about that 20 by a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us

Through the veil that is to say his flesh The word new means freshly killed

There is no back door to heaven No side door.

There's no detour. There's no way you can get in except through this blood

Always except through Jesus or sidetracks of the devil detours of hell

They do not lead to the pearly white city some might ask

How can we say that Christ was freshly sacrificed? Since the

Hebrew epistle was written some 30 years after Calvary and long time ago

It can be said because after almost 20 centuries this sacrifice is just as fresh new living powerful as the day

Jesus entered into the veil His grace is fresh every moment of every day he ever lives and therefore he is the freshly sacrificed way and Having a high priest over the house of God let us draw near With a true heart in full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water and High priest over the house of God Let us the saved draw near with a true heart in all honesty in Full assurance and it's a nautical term meaning under full sail full assurance

Faith is not a leap in the dark faith is knowing and doing with a positive attitude doubt is sin

Having our hearts sprinkled to make our hearts pure to make it possible to receive forgiveness of sin from an evil conscience

And our bodies washed with pure water refers to the labor of water

Just outside the tabernacle Just before the priest would enter the tabernacle.

He had to cleanse himself with water You know

I've been saved so long that if I'm not careful, I take it for granted

But how could that? That Erase this awful body

Some of the awful things I've done This pure water indicates we are washed clean once for all

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithful that promised

Believe what you have professed to believe just believe it and Be what you are without wavering without doubting

Allow nothing to shake your confidence in God It is a sin to doubt for doubt dishonors

God Unbelief is an insult to God and to his holy word

It is true that we are in a tabernacle of flesh and we live in the midst of enemies the world but Jesus conquered these and if we are trusting in him and He's now seated at the right hand of God Then we have the assurance

He is faithful And let us consider one another

To provoke unto love and to good works The word provoke suggests awakening as from inactivity or apathy to rouse

The stronger term often implies incitement to vigorous or animated activity or excitement of strong emotion 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is but Exhorting one another and so much the more as you see the day approaching

Well, you may say it's no one's business how I live what I do Where I go

But the word says different We are to meet together

For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth There remaineth no more sacrifice for sin to go on offering animal sacrifices

When we are willingly sinning willfully persists in sin

If we choose to sin Sin deliberately we do evil on purpose

This type of person is not safe He can't be I think

I'll quit right there We'll start with 27 Does anyone have anything they want to add that's right

That's Right, and it was it was his faith in Jesus completing this

It all comes back to right here

Everything comes back to here. I Cannot sin with my hands without sinning with my head and it is in my head first You're right just as right as you can be

Anything else? That's right.

That's That's so right That's right That's so right