Christ is the Once for All-time Sacrifice for Sin – Hebrews 10:1-18 (Pastor Josiah Shipley)

Now, I want you to pay attention. It wasn't anything in Israel. It wasn't their military size.

It wasn't the type of people. The guy who praised God. Please open your

Bibles to Hebrews chapter 10. Hebrews chapter 10. Now, today,

I want to ask you. Are you worshipping a shadow of the real thing?

Or are you worshipping the real thing? Are you worshipping an image of the real thing?

Or are you, in fact, worshipping the true form? And that's what we're going to talk about today in Hebrews chapter 10.

Now, past couple sermons I've done have been very topical. This one will be an exposition of Hebrews chapter 10, verse 1 through 18.

So, here's the good news. You will not have to turn your Bibles. You can stay in Hebrews chapter 10 the whole time.

That's easy, right Maria? That's easy, right? So, I'm going to read from Hebrews chapter 10, verse 1 through 18.

It's a long section, so get your eyes on the Bible. Hebrews chapter 10, verse 1 through 18.

Hear the word of Yahweh. 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, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, make perfect those who draw near.

Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshippers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins.

But in these sacrifices 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 into the world, He said, Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for Me.

In burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. Then I said, Behold, I have come to do your will,

O God, as it is written about Me in the book of the scroll. When He said above,

You have neither desired or taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings.

These are offered according to the law. Then He added, Behold, I have come to do your will.

He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.

And every priest stands daily at His service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sin, He sat down at the right hand of God, waiting for the time until His enemies are made a footstool for His feet.

For by one single offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us, saying, This is the covenant I'll make with them after those days, declares the

Lord. I'll put my laws on their hearts and I'll write them on their minds. And then He adds,

I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more. For where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

Let's pray. Yahweh, we open Your Word to hear Your voice and nobody else's.

Let every person within the sound of my voice have ears to hear today. It's in Your name we pray,

Amen. This is probably my favorite book of the

Bible. And this is my favorite chapter in that favorite book. We could do a lot.

Now today, again, we're just going to walk through verse 1 through 18. That's our job today.

And our job is not to figure out what this means to you. Who cares?

Our job today is to figure out what this means. What did the writer intend to communicate to his readers?

That's all we care about. I don't care about how it makes me feel. That comes on the back end.

What I care about is what did the writer of this book intend to communicate to his readers? Shouldn't that be what every one of us care about when we open this?

Someone in here, it was so beautiful, called me yesterday and said, Josiah, for the first time in my life,

I understand that when I open this book, when I open this book, it is

God speaking to me. So often we use the phrase God's word and have no recognition of what that means.

This is God's word because these are God's words. Does everyone hear that? These are His words.

And nobody else's words should matter more to you than God's. And in verse one, you will note the word for.

Now, that is a transitionary word. So let me just catch you up real quickly. Remember, this is the only book of the

New Testament. We're actually not sure who wrote it. It doesn't really matter for our purposes today. We will be able very clearly to figure out when it was written in just a moment.

Chapter nine, as I wrote in a little summary on the top of your paper, chapter nine focuses on Jesus' atoning work.

Now, I could have George, because he would know best, because he is one of our MIT students, stand up and tell us what atonement means.

But I will do the job for him today. Atonement is a blood payment for sin. It's a blood payment for sin.

Chapter nine is about Jesus' atoning work. Chapter ten has one focus. And that focus is this, that he only had to do it one time.

That's the focus of chapter ten, that Jesus only had to do it one time. And that's it.

For since the law was but a shadow of the good things to come, instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices offered continually every year, make perfect those who draw near.

What's a shadow? Well, a shadow is a silhouette, an image of the real thing, but it's not the real thing.

Let's imagine for a moment that John Snipes got a new truck, and he wanted to show all the guys his new truck.

And we all go out there, and instead of looking at the truck, we just look at the shadow on the parking lot. He would note that we were not celebrating the real thing.

Y 'all follow me on this? Well, you see, the law is a shadow of the real thing.

Now, what is the law? Well, that phrase in the New Testament most commonly refers to the Mosaic law.

Now, bear with me for a moment. The first five books of the Bible were written by who? By Moses.

Cam, Devante, y 'all knew that one, right? Yeah? Okay, good. I'm glad to hear it. It was written by Moses.

And in those first five books is contained the law of God. Remember, God picked eight people out of all the peoples on the planet and said, all right, since we have to start over with this whole mankind thing, here's what

I'm going to do. I'm going to give you guys my law, and I'm going to tell you how to live, and I'm going to be your personal

God, different than I am every other people group on the face of the planet. That's my gift to you.

The law was not a burden but a gift. But he tells them, these don't take away sins.

These don't take away sins. They are a symbol of something coming in the future. Now, on the back of your paper you will note that I found a chart online that was pretty helpful, and I put it on the back of your paper.

Oh, by the way, homework questions on the back of your paper. The pastors, this is the 14th one since the beginning of 2024, have made little homework sections on the back of some of these handouts.

Five or six of you emailed me this week, and I just sent you all of them. It's an excellent opportunity. There's some there.

But that chart is meant to help you. All the sacrifices of the Old Testament can be categorized in one of five types of sacrifices, and these are all found in the book of Leviticus.

Okay? So let me just very quickly give you a very quick description of the book of Leviticus, and then we can move on.

The book of Exodus ends with the Israelites building the tabernacle, basically a house for God to live in.

Now, we understand that God is not contained in four walls, but a house for God to communicate them in.

The book of Leviticus tells them how to use that house. The purpose of the book of Leviticus is for the people of Israel to learn how to worship

God using what they just built. That's the whole purpose of it. And it's written from that vantage point.

So every sacrifice can be categorized in one of five, a burnt offering, a grain offering, a fellowship offering, a sin offering, or a guilt offering.

Now, if you want to make a note on the back of your paper on this little chart, the first three were all voluntary.

They were not commanded that they had to be done. The burnt offering, grain offering, and peace offering were all whenever you wanted to.

The bottom two were mandatory, the sin offering and the guilt offering. Every time you see the word sacrifice in the

New Testament, in the person of Jesus, I need you to understand what he's talking about. The amount of sacrifices of animals that were slaughtered in that system, when you read the account of Jesus, we okay?

A ton of moving around. We all right? Okay. When we read the account of Jesus in the New Testament, every time we talk about the sacrifice of Jesus, it's how he replaced all of this.

If you've ever wondered why we no longer sacrifice bulls and goats, this is what

Hebrews 10 is about. And it says in verse 1, these were a shadow of the good things to come, instead of the true form of these realities.

You see, the writer was writing to people who even 30 years after Jesus had come, some of them were still using the old sacrificial system, the shadow.

And the writer's saying, no, no, the real thing is here. It came 30 years ago and you're still doing the shadow, what it was always pointing to.

What are you doing? And you are either intentionally or unintentionally disrespecting the real substance that came.

Ladies and gentlemen, if you are here today to fulfill a religious service, if you are here today because it's something you do on Sundays, and this attitude you have right now does not leave this room, you are worshipping a shadow.

You are worshipping a shadow and not the real thing. And God does not have idols. God does not have idols.

What does God do with idols? Destroys them. Guys, if you are worshipping anything other than the true form, it's not real worship.

And he says, these realities can never perfect those who draw near.

Ladies and gentlemen, all the religious ceremonies in the world, all the prayers you pray, all the times you kneel at this altar, all the times you come to church, all the times you give your offering, they can never perfect you.

Never. It will never be enough. Never. You could attend church every week, three times a week for 50 years.

You could give all your money. You could do whatever you want. It will never perfect you.

Never. Because all of those are shadows of the real reality of who

Jesus is. We'll get more to that word perfect in a moment. Verse 2. Otherwise, if they had perfected them, look at the last line of verse 2, there would no longer have been any consciousness for sin.

The Old Testament sacrificial system was put in place to remind people of their sin.

What we do at the Lord's Supper is to remember not the sin but the sacrifice. Let me say that again.

The Old Testament sacrifices remind you of the sin. The Lord's Supper reminds you of the one who was sacrificed.

That's the difference. Do you hear it? The reminder every time you made a sacrifice, every time you killed a goat, every time you burned the drink offering, every time was to remind you of your sin and your separation from a holy

God. What we do every time we partake of a Lord's Supper is remember not the sin but the one who was sacrificed, the

Lamb of God who took away the sin of the world. Verse 3. But in these sacrifices is the reminder of sin every year.

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin. Now you may think now, does that mean everyone in the

Old Testament was damned, cursed, condemned? No, my friends. See, the blood of those bulls and goats never took away their sin, but their faith and obedience to God is what saved them.

As our pastor Jeff often says, a prayer cannot save you, but the faith of one's heart in the

God who answers prayer can. Did you hear that? It is not the blood of some goat that can take away the sin against the eternal

God, but the faith and obedience to the God who commanded them. It is their faith that saved them.

Faith has always been the instrument of salvation. Always. For by grace you have been saved through faith.

It has not changed from beginning to end. Faith in whatever God has revealed to them at that time.

Verse 5. The incarnation is the fulfillment of the law.

Now before we move on, we went over this word a couple weeks ago. What is the incarnation? It is

Jesus becoming man, becoming flesh. Anyone follow that? Verse 5. When Christ came into the world,

He said, Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for me.

David said that in Psalm 40. And as I mentioned before, you should learn to use the tools of your

Bible, footnotes or whatever it may be, to notice that this is a quote from Psalm 40. And David, a thousand years before Jesus ever came, is prophesying about Christ.

And Jesus, through David, a thousand years before he ever came to the earth, says this. Sacrifices and offerings really is not what you want, but a body you've prepared for me.

Those burnt offerings and sacrifices and sin offerings, you take no pleasure, but I have come to do your will.

Verse 7. Jesus said a thousand years before He came what He said in that garden.

Not my will, but your will be done. Can you say that today?

God, not my will, but your will be done. Is what you want, feel, or think more important than what

God says? Do you treat it that way? The mark of humility is this.

That what you want, feel, desire doesn't comply with God's commands, but becomes that which

He wants, feels, and desires. The mark of sanctification is that your desires become that which are

Jesus' desires. That's the mark. That's submission. That's humility.

When it's not any longer, and it's a lifelong process, when it's less of you, fine,

I'll do it. And more of you saying, that's what I want to do. And that's the attitude

Jesus had in the Incarnation. He says in verse 7, I've come to do your will.

Verse 8. When He said above, you have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sent offerings.

Again, on the back of your paper, you can read descriptions of all those. Those were offered according to the law.

Then He adds, behold, I've come to do your will. He does away with the first in order to establish a second.

And here, right here, is the answer to why we no longer do those sacrifices. Those were a shadow, and not the true form.

And they were always meant to lead us to Christ. And notice that word in verse 9.

He does away with the first in order to establish the second.

Christ fulfills the law. Now let me just take a moment to explain that word. Just like this water bottle.

And sometimes we really mislead that. Like, does it not matter anymore? Does it not apply to Him anymore?

Of course it does. Fulfillment means to fill up. If I were to fill up this water bottle with water,

I could add nothing else to it. It doesn't make it not important. It doesn't mean I don't pay attention or read it anymore.

It means it's completed. On to the next one. This no longer, I should seek no future fulfillment in this one.

Just like when you read the Old Testament prophecies about the birth of Jesus. That's already happened, correct?

Can we agree that Jesus is already come and born? Does that mean those prophecies are no longer important? No, it means you should look for no present fulfillment.

It has already been fulfilled. The law has been fulfilled in Jesus. And just like those birth prophecies, the purpose has come.

And the purpose was the point is to Jesus. Verse 10. And by that will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.

I've shared this before, but maybe some of you have ever thought this before. If you've ever been in this scenario. Because you missed

Pastor Jeff's sermons on a prayer not saving you, this is what you thought happened. You thought that when you prayed a prayer or started going back to church or whatever, and when you asked for forgiveness, that God forgave you of all your sins you committed up to that point.

And maybe you thought this, but if I sin after I pray that,

I have to quickly say another prayer again for if I die in my sin,

I'll go straight to hell. Anyone else ever thought that? So then you'll do something like this.

And this is not actually a joke. It's torment. You'll do something like this.

You'll say, Oh, God, I'm really sorry I did that. Amen. Did I really mean it?

Because now I've got to ask for forgiveness for the using His name in vain and praying for it, not really just to get past it.

And I've still got to ask for forgiveness for what I actually did. And you will spiral and spiral and spiral and spiral because you are trying to trust in a shadow and not the true form.

You're looking to a shadow of the thing to come and not the real thing. Look at verse 10 again. And by that will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus once and for all.

Once and for all. Now, that phrase sanctified. First off, let's talk about this for a minute.

If you notice the theme of the music this morning, it was that God is holy. And we all understand that. Somebody tell me what that means, that God is holy.

He's set apart. He is His own being. He's on another level. There is no one and nothing that can compare to Him.

He is otherness. He is different. That is holy.

Now, that is who He is. When He sanctifies a people,

He makes them holy. Makes them set apart. And so we can think of sanctification in three ways.

We can think of it, as it says in verse 10, in the past tense. We have been sanctified.

You see that in verse 10? Have been. Did everyone hear past tenth grade? Devante has not yet.

Okay. Tenth grade English. This is past tense. You have been sanctified. Everyone follow that? Now, you can also think about it in the present tense, which is what verse 18 is about.

We'll get to that in a moment. Excuse me, verse 14. You can also think about it in the future tense. Let me explain.

God is holy. He doesn't need someone to make Him holy. He is holy. We don't sing songs like God help us make you holy.

God is holy. We just say He is holy, surrounded by holy, because that's who He is.

We are made holy. And when someone is positionally sanctified, they are put in that group of people of God.

And they are forever the people of God. And then you have your individual life of your walk with Christ.

And that you are being sanctified. That's progressive. See, positional, progressive.

That is progressive sanctification. And let me just make sure everyone hears me say this.

That will not look the same for everybody. Jesus said, when it comes to producing fruit of obedience, some 30 times over, some 60 times over, some 100 times over, so on and so forth.

But everybody's producing fruit. If you're not, you have not been sanctified.

Let me say that again, and I will say it slower. If there is no evidence, if there is no evidence of any progression in the conforming of Jesus in your life, none at all, there is no aspect of your life where you're becoming more holy, no aspect of your life where you're becoming more obedient, no aspect of your life where you desire things of God more, you are not a

Christian. It is not me saying that. It is Jesus in the

Gospel of John. Take it up with him, go buy some whiteout, change your Bible if you've got to. That's what the Bible says. He says, if you love me, you will keep my commandments.

And we are here talking about, in verse 10, the positional sanctification. We have been sanctified through the offering of what?

The body of Jesus Christ. Now, we went over that word a few weeks ago. Christ, that's the chosen one, the anointed one, right?

That is just the Greek translation of the Hebrew word Messiah. Messiah, Christ, exact same word, like Juan and John.

I know they don't sound the same in English, but they are. Juan and John, Christ, Messiah. Same exact thing.

The promised one. You see, all those countless sacrifices for millennia were pointing to the real sacrifice of Jesus.

So when Jesus starts his public ministry and John the Baptist looks over and says, Behold, the Lamb of God, to take away the sin of the world.

Do not miss that phrase. For it was the Lamb of Abel that Abel sacrificed.

It was the Ram of Abraham that Abraham sacrificed. It was the goat of Noah that Noah sacrificed.

The Lamb of God is the one that God sacrificed. No debate needed on who killed Jesus, the

Jews, the Romans, the white people, it does not matter. God, the Father, killed

Jesus. Isaiah 53 .10 And the Lord was pleased to crush him.

Isaiah 53 .10 Church, I'm begging you.

Do not diminish the wrath of God to think that it increases his love.

God doesn't need saving from his word. You do not have to make God sound nicer than he is.

For it's in that wrath that you see his love flow.

We read two weeks ago that God, and in case anyone's new, if you've ever heard someone say

God's not angry, yes, he is. I listened to a song on the radio a couple weeks ago that said

God's not mad at you. Yes, he is. And I'm about to show you why that makes his love so great.

Psalm 5 says he abhors the wicked. Not just wickedness, the sin.

Remember the whole hate the sin, love the sinner? That is not God's perspective. It says he abhors the wicked.

Psalm 7 verse 11 says he is angry every day. He feels indignation every day.

And yet it's because of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed. His compassions fail not, and great is his faithfulness.

That shows you how great his love is. That's how you know.

Because he became flesh and he was sacrificed for the sins of the world.

Not because he wasn't angry with sin, because he was. But his love was greater than that.

Verse 11. This is the climax of the book of Hebrews.

Let's read 11 through 14. Every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices which can never take away sins.

But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting for that time for his enemies to be made a footstool for his feet.

For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

Look at verse 11 one more time. Every priest stands daily at his service.

Now, stands, that word has some impact here. Every priest stands daily.

That's the present tense, isn't it? Now, this is a little note for later. If this is over your head, don't worry about it.

What year... Oh, if we as a church get this right, Pastor Jeff will jump up and dance. What year did

General Titus of the Roman army come and destroy Jerusalem? Come on, let's see it.

Yeah, there it is. Look at President Trump dance. That was pretty close. 70

A .D. And for the benefit of his massacre, he was later made the emperor. Isn't it amazing?

We call mass murderers like the great, like Alexander the Great. Isn't that crazy that we do that?

And we don't even think of them that way. It says every priest stands. Now, when General Titus came in, what did he do to the tabernacle?

He destroyed it. He didn't more than destroy it, but that's another history lesson. That's in the present tense.

Every priest stands. So this is not that difficult. Cheryl, you can do this. That means this book had to be written before General Titus destroyed the tabernacle.

Everyone follow that? Did everyone see that or no? It says every priest stands, day after day.

Stands. Just like in verse 2, it says, these would have ceased. They would have ceased. This was written before them.

And here's why that's important. That doubles down on what I'm saying. In that city, 35 years before that, the

Son of God was sacrificed. And as Hebrews 10 says, they are trampling on His body under their feet when they go and take those lambs to be sacrificed at that same tabernacle again.

The blatant disrespect of that one wasn't good enough. We're going to keep doing it the way we've always done it. That is what the book of Hebrews is talking about.

Why are you still doing that? And he says, those, verse 11, will never take away sin.

And here we repeat what I said earlier. I've said this before, but I can say this with general confidence.

I believe there will be far more people in hell that think they love God than there will be atheists.

Far more. Far more. Because they're trusting in a shadow and not the real form.

You know, in Genesis chapter 15, verse 6, the Bible says, Abraham believed God and was credited to Him as righteousness.

And as Mercedes rightly pointed out in Wednesday night Bible study, not simply he believed in God. That's not what the text says.

When Paul quotes it in Romans chapter 4, it says, Abraham believed God. He took

Him at His word. He took Him at His word. Do you believe God?

I didn't ask do you believe in God. Only the unintelligent do not believe in God. Do you take

Him at His word? Do you trust Him? Here's how you know. Here's how you know.

Do you live your life according to His word and trust that it will work out for your good? That's what the

Scripture says. That's the mark of faith. We could give a million examples, but the point is, if you say you trust somebody to do some work at your house and you're looking over their shoulder the whole time, you don't trust them to do the work.

Contractors, y 'all hear me on that? You can say you do all you want. Your actions show different. Yeah, yeah.

I've got a headlamp. I don't need you to do that, right? Verse 12.

And my point in saying that was this. Look at the end of verse 11. That can never take away sins.

If you trust your emotional feeling after Hunter's done playing his guitar, that will never take away your sins.

If you trust your church attendance, that will never take away your sins. Ever. You can memorize

God's word. You can lead a Bible study. You can teach Sunday school. You can do whatever you want.

But if you are trusting in those shadows to take away your sins, verse 11 says, they will never be enough.

Never. Verse 12. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, there you go, for any of you who have ever wondered, has

God wiped off the world and redone this a bunch of times and sent Jesus? Look again. How many times did

Jesus came and sacrifice? One time. He sat down at the right hand of God.

And as Pastor Jeff has noted before, you know why He's sitting down? He already said on the cross, it's finished.

My job is done. And it says He's waiting for His enemies to be made a footstool for His feet.

Some of us don't have the right idea of Jesus. Oh, Jesus has enemies, but He's not at battle with them.

He's sitting down. He is not threatened. This is the Jesus that when those enemies came into His presence, before He uttered a word, they fell to the ground and begged for mercy.

This is that Jesus. That Jesus is not in need of help in His war.

He's already won. He's waiting for the culmination. And you may ask, why

Vaudele? Because there are still some of His yet to be redeemed.

There are still some of His children who have not yet come and made the call to salvation. When the last one of those, then

He'll come and do His business. Verse 14. For by one single offering,

He has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

Now, for you grammar nerds in here, Greek has a middle voice, but it's basically the passive voice.

That is a passive indicative participle.

Meaning, I -N -G. Your Bible should translate that being sanctified.

Let me read that again, please. For by a single offering,

He has perfected for all time those who are in the process of being sanctified.

You hear that? That's good news. The one in the process of being sanctified, in the process of being made holy, hasn't achieved it yet, has already been forever perfected.

This is, and I've said this before, the worst business deal in the history of the universe.

The Son of God comes to this planet, and creatures that He got on His knees and formed out of dirt, rejected

Him and killed Him. Before the judgment throne,

He gets credit for their sin. They get credit for His obedience, and then

He makes them worthy of that on the back end. And in all of that, still does not get the credit

He deserves. Oh, not from the world. That's a given. From us in this room.

From us in this room. For by one offering, He has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

Oh, Christian, please rest in that. Please rest in that. That by the one offering of Jesus, that the one who is trusting in Jesus, not just, and look, if you need light for your salvation, don't ask yourself, did

I trust in Jesus 30 years ago when I first came to Him? Are you trusting Him for your salvation right now?

Are you still trusting in Jesus for your salvation? Are you still trusting in Jesus for your sanctification?

Are you still trusting in Jesus to carry you home? He said in Isaiah 46, even to the gray hairs

I will carry you. I'm going to read a quote from one of the greatest

Christians to ever live, Charles Spurgeon. And this is him speaking on this verse.

And just note, God's Word hasn't changed. Christians from centuries before us are encouraged by the exact same

Scriptures we're reading today. This is what he said, And now, Christian, try and lay hold of the meaning of this text.

Christ has made your conscience at ease forever. If it disturbs you, recollect it has no cause to do so.

If you are a believer in Christ, has He not given you that which will put away all consciousness of sin?

Rejoice! It has purged you so entirely that you may sit down and rest.

If you go back to verse 1, it said those sacrifices can never perfect those who draw near.

Oh, but the sacrifice of Jesus in verse 14 has already perfected forever those who are still in the process of being sanctified.

It says in verse 2, Consciousness of sin would have ceased.

But ladies and gentlemen, I am fully aware of my sin. But every time

I'm aware of my sin, it just makes me more aware of the sacrifice that was paid. There can be no accusation against me.

The accuser has no hold on me. For no matter what lobs he throws at me, the

Scripture says by one offering, he's already perfected forever those who are being sanctified. It's already done.

I can rest in that. Sin has no hold on me. Not because of a shadow, but because if I do nothing else,

I am trusting in the real thing and that is the work of Jesus Christ. And as we finish our text, verse 15.

Hunter, you can go ahead and come up here. Verse 15. And the Holy Spirit bears witness to us for after saying, this is the covenant

I will make with them on those days. I want to go on a little tangent for a minute. And this is the beauty of doing expository sermons.

You get to talk about a lot of topics. I'm afraid many of us just missed the significance of verse 15.

I can see it in your eyes. Some of you don't understand what just happened. Let me read that again slowly. And the

Holy Spirit bears witness to us saying, verse 16 and 17 is a quote from Jeremiah 31.

Alright, now Justin Coleman, I'm going to trust you right now. You ready? Yeah. And the 200 people in this room are counting on you.

You ready? Alright, here we go. Are we watching the UFC fights this Saturday? Excellent, alright.

So then you got this one. You ready? Who wrote the book of Jeremiah? Clap it up.

Jeremiah. But did you look at verse 15?

I think the writer of Hebrews misquoted who wrote it. Could you look at verse 15 for me one more time?

Your eyes are on me, not on the Bible. Get them on the Bible. Verse 15. It says the Holy Spirit said that.

Now I thought J. Cole just said that Jeremiah wrote that. Is your view of the

Word of God the same as Jesus's? Do you have the same view of the Word of God that God's apostles did?

That though Jeremiah's pen was on that paper, it was the Holy Spirit who authored that book. Guys, this really isn't a book.

We probably should quit calling it that. This is a collection of 66 books written by 40 different people on three continents in four languages over 1 ,500 years.

And it has one author, Burkett. One. One author. And that is God, the

Holy Spirit. This is His book. He is the author. So the writer of the Hebrews feels that he can quote the book of Jeremiah and say the

Holy Spirit wrote it. Ladies and gentlemen, if you believe what this book has to say, if you believed the

Christian faith, you're not believing a new thing. You're believing what Christians have believed for millennia.

That's the same view Jeremiah had. That's the same view Isaiah had. That's the same view

Moses had. That's the same view David had. That's the same view Peter had. That this book, though written by the pens of men, is authored by the

Holy God. And he says in verse 15, the Holy Spirit bears witness to us saying this is the covenant.

Oh, this passage. There's a quote about the new covenant. See, God just doesn't do things on the fly.

He drops little hints. He drops little hints along the way, Hansel and Gretel style. These are called different periods of dispensation.

And he drops these little shadows. He drops these little images, these little pictures.

And in the book of Jeremiah he says this is the covenant I'm going to make with you on those days. I will put my laws on their hearts.

Now, where were the old laws written? Well, on scrolls they were copied, but originally they were carved on, what did you say

Bill? Stone tablets. But he said, I'm going to write my laws on their hearts.

I'll write them on their minds. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.

Every time you made another sacrifice, it was to remind you of the sin. Every time we think of the sacrifice of Jesus, it's to remind us of the

God who died for us. I will remember their sins no more. Oh, not because He has forgotten them, because He does not count them against you any longer.

Verse 18, and where there's forgiveness of these, there's no longer an offering for sin.

Ladies and gentlemen, you have no offering for your sin. None. You have no offering you can bring to the altar of God.

Remember, they would cut the lamb and take its blood to the altar to be a picture of the sacrifice.

You have nothing in your life you can bring to that altar. Nothing at all.

There is nothing in your life, not your job, not your money, not your car, not your thoughts, not your best intentions, not your best five minutes as a

Christian. There is nothing you can bring to that altar that will satisfy the wrath of a holy

God. If that is what you are trusting, you will be the person in Romans 3 .19.

You will be the one in Romans 3 .19 where it says, standing before the throne of God, your mouth will be shut, for you will have nothing to say.

Every mouth will be shut and the whole world held accountable to God. But if Jesus has paid the price for your sins, if you have said you have bowed the knee of your heart, your way, not my way, you are

God, I am not. Whatever you say goes. I trust in what you did and I will follow you because you are

God and I am not. That sacrifice is applied to your account forever.

And where there is forgiveness, there is no longer a sacrifice for sins.

You will still come to church, but it won't be to forgive you of your sins. It will be to fellowship with God's people.

You will still repent, but it won't be for forgiveness of sins. It will be back in right step with your

God. You will still pray, but it won't be for forgiveness of sins. It will be communion with Father.

You will still read your Bible, but it will not be for forgiveness of sins. It will be the know the one who called you.

And you will no longer be worshipping a shadow that doesn't really exist, but the true reality of those things who is

Jesus Christ. I beg you today, if you have been worshipping a shadow, let today be the last day.

Let that die today. And let you realize the overwhelming peace that comes from trusting in the once for all sacrifice for Jesus.

That by one offering, He's perfected for all time those who are still being sanctified.