Hebrews Ten Verse Eleven

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Mike Abendroth at the helm. Engage. What do we do here at the show?

Well, we like to talk about the Lord Jesus, who never compromised, never sinned, blameless, sinless, holy, upright, undefiled.

We like to talk about the cross, the Lord Jesus' cross. No attributes compromise there, and in light of those two things, we don't want to compromise either.

I mean, I know I do. I know you do. But we don't want to. So when we do compromise, we look to the one who never compromises.

Talking a little bit about Christ -centered preaching, last time, which was just a half hour ago when

I did the show, I was thinking about Hebrews, Hebrews 10. It's exemplary in this regard,

Christ -centered preaching. And if you look at Hebrews chapter 10, verses 11 through 18, you will see that it's all about Jesus, and there are verbs.

If I wanted to give a little outline, I'd probably tell you there are three verbs describing, summarizing the work of the high priest,

Jesus Christ. Why? Well, those words would be there for you to have assurance, for you to walk by faith, for you to remember what

Jesus did for you, for you to be thankful, have gratitude, focuses on Jesus.

I mean, we're glad recipients of his work, but the sermon is about Jesus, Christ as central.

And when you look at the book of Hebrews and you notice Jesus is better than everybody and everything, that helps you realize why he's so much better, why he's superior.

Some have called the first 10 chapters, the theological basis for the supremacy of Jesus, the theological basis.

We are going to switch to practical application very soon, 10, 19. But up to this point,

Jesus' revelation of himself is better than the prophets,

Jesus better than the angels. I don't care if you look at the Old Testament, I don't care if you look at it through his humanity,

I don't care if you look at it through his suffering, Jesus is better than Moses as a son versus the servant,

Jesus, although Aaron was a high priest,

Jesus is the compassionate high priest. And while Jesus is not from the priesthood of Aaron, he's from the priesthood of Melchizedek.

Don't forget there's another kind of priest. There's an old covenant, it was not adequate.

There's a new covenant, he's adequate Jesus. There is the imperfection of the old covenant, there's the perfection of the new, and it's all because of the bloodshed of the

Lord Jesus Christ as the high priest offers up himself the sacrifice. Jesus is both the sacrifice and the high priest.

And this chapter, chapter 10, talks about Jesus as a sacrifice that lasts, that has some permanence, that is not obsolete.

And what does he do? The first 10 verses of the chapter talk about how

Jesus's sacrifice is going to be adequate with the backdrop there in those first 10 verses of the inadequacy or the temporary nature of those sacrifices in particular the day of atonement.

That is to say, animal sacrifices were not sufficient. They weren't adequate because they had to be repeated.

What about the sacrifice of Jesus? And dear friends, Hebrews 10 says it's enough, it is ample, it is appropriate, it is satisfactory, it is plenty, it is abundant.

It is a thesaurus. The law has been a shadow of the 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.

Basically every year you've got a sacrifice of sins and therefore you have a reminder of those sins every year. 10.

3. It's impossible for the blood of bulls and ghosts to take away sins. Therefore you've got to have a body for the sacrifice and it's got to be a human body to both obey and to sacrifice.

Therefore consequently Christ came into the world. He said, essentially what he said, is that you have the

Lord Jesus saying he's going to obey. You don't need a sacrifice if there's obedience.

So Jesus obeys and is a sacrifice and you ask yourself the question, why is that? Because he has to obey to please the

Father as our representative, he's come to do our will, and then he has to die because we have broken those commands.

We have not done God's will, so he takes care of both aspects of the law. Both the positive demands of the law, he lives, and then the penalties of the law, broken, he pays for.

Does that make sense? The active and passive obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what we're after.

And it's very fascinating to me to look at verse 9 of Hebrews 10. Behold, I have come to do your will.

He does away with the first in order to establish the second. Behold, Spurgeon said behold is a word of wonder.

It's intended to excite admiration. I have come to do your will.

Jesus is going to perfectly obey positive precepts of the law, penalty aspects of the law.

And how is he going to do that and what will that affect? And that's basically going to be the abolishing of the old covenant.

He takes it away. That's the language there in your English text, most likely. He removes it.

He abolishes. When you look at lexicons, it says to get rid of by way of execution, to do away with, to destroy.

One lexicon said in the second definition, mostly of killing by violence in battle by execution, murder, or assassination, kill.

And as I've said before, Jesus essentially, when he establishes the new covenant, slits the throat of not an animal, but the

Mosaic covenant, the old covenant. Don't fall for anybody trying to put these two covenants together.

You see it all the time, do you not? And it's called Messianic Judaism. Oh, but I know some nice people who are

Messianic Jews and they're very devout and they're very faithful. Remember, friends, we're not talking about that.

I'm not talking about people who are nice or people who are kind or people who seem sincere. What does the text say?

That's the question, is it not? What does the text say? You can't meld these two things together.

You can't combine them. You can't put new wine in what? Old wine skins, oil and water.

Jesus fulfills. We're not having some type of addition here. He sets aside in order to establish the second.

Everything in that old covenant was a shadow and a type and waiting for, anticipating.

And now you've got the real thing. Why go back to the shadow? Why go back to the outline? He takes it away.

Abolition. We don't have Jewishness and Christianity and they compliment one another.

Well, they compliment one another to the effect that Judaism points to the Lord Jesus and the

Messiah and the new covenant. But this is over. It's done. And what's the result of that will of God?

Verse 10. And by this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all, sanctified, holy, set apart.

Did you notice that this is something that's done to us? This is a passive.

This is a God is initiating. We are passive, been sanctified. Salvation comes from who?

Cooperation comes from ourself. We take the first step. Who does the sanctifying?

We have been sanctified and we are sanctified by that will through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ. How often?

Unlike the Old Testament, Day of Atonement, annual sacrifices, this is once for all.

Jesus comes to do the Father's will, life and death and resurrection and exaltation and ascension.

And when he pays for your law breaking and he earns merit as a law keeper for you, you are sanctified.

When God looks at you, you're holy, you're sanctified. Sometimes people call this positional sanctification, right?

We grow in sanctification and we will be sanctified.

That is glorification. And this is that initial set apart, holy. This is how

God sees us positionally, set apart from the world and sin and Satan and everything else.

Pretty amazing. Pretty amazing where you think this sacrifice did that.

You did the will of the Son, the will of the Father done by the Son did all that.

Jesus, the Sanctifier, the Father of the Sanctifier, who makes you holy? The Lord Jesus Christ through the offering of the body of Jesus once for all.

By the way, here it says Jesus Christ, does it not? Let's make sure we have that.

The body of Jesus Christ once for all. Human body, Jesus. We say

Christ, we're thinking Messiah, but now we've got Jesus in front of it. The humanity of Jesus needs to be stressed for us to be holy because he had to be our substitute.

Right? The bodily sacrifice of Jesus, but a body you have prepared for me, ten, five, once and for all.

Christian, you're holy, positionally, you're set apart. That's fascinating.

That's wonderful, isn't it? You are sanctified. The biggest problem you ever have had, alienation from God, being unholy, unsanctified has been taken care of.

Jesus has done that. And now the writer moves into 10, chapter 10, verses 11 through 18.

And let me just give you three words that kind of tell you a little bit about what

Jesus has done. I want to yawn out loud really badly.

I always say I don't feel old anymore. I don't feel 59 until I'm ready to yawn on the air.

Where's my coffee? Maybe I'll just take a nap and I don't have to go for this follow -up urology appointment today, post -brachytherapy.

I'd ask you to pray for me, but by the time you listen to this, this will be weeks in the past. Sacrificed, sat, and then there's a third word, sanctified.

Those are the words we're going to look at for a little outline, because people like outlines. We love us some outlines, even though sometimes there are narratives and poetry in the

Bible that don't have outlines like we would like, and they have this kind of running theme that comes back around and over and over, and 1

John even might be like that. And James has some Jewish flavor as well.

Focus on Jesus, sacrificed. We just were talking about this, were we not? And every priest stands at his service daily, 10 -11, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

But when Jesus had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the

Father, or the right hand of God, of course, God, the Father. Okay, give me a conclusion.

Preacher of Hebrews, over and over and over and over and over, once and done.

Year after year after year after year, once and done. Do you notice all the contrasts here?

Standing, sitting, standing, standing, standing, standing, sit, sit, sit, sit, sat, sat, sat, sat, sat, sat.

This is the posture one man called appropriate to priestly service. Why? The work is never done.

He's performing his liturgy, his religious service, and it is never done. Everything that that old covenant, mosaic,

Aaronic priest did told you publicly, that's what liturgy means originally, public service, a

PSA announcement. There's no removal of sin liturgy. It's not going to work.

Priests stand, Jesus sits. Priests offer all the time,

Jesus wants. Priests to sacrifices don't cover sins,

Jesus did. I mean, here is the life of the Old Testament mosaic priest.

Stand, offer, repeat. Stand, offer, repeat.

Stand, offer, repeat, and no sins are taken away, no sins are taken away, no sins are taken away.

They don't have any power to take away sins. This is just like so many things today.

People think they can get their sins taken away, but there's no power in anything else.

This is the drudge. Moffat says, this is the Levitical drudge, not the drudge report, but the drudge.

Reminds me of the Chicago sanitation worker. I go to work to dig the ditch, to make the money, to buy the food, to gain the strength, to go back to work, to dig the ditch.

Repeat. These people stand, perfect tense, standing, standing, standing, standing, no chair.

There might have been tables, there were no chairs. By the way, why was

Hebrews written before 70 AD when the temple was destroyed by Titus in the Hordes of Romans?

What are you talking about? They're just standing. It's like they're standing right over there now. I know you're going to persecute it, but they're standing.

I think he would have said, you know what, that whole system was done. There's no way this thing was written after 70

AD. He writes like the temple still exists. No chairs in the tabernacle, no chairs in the temple, work unfinished.

That's the idea. And by the way, we not only went through the sacrifices, we would go through priests, right?

Priest after priest after priest after priest, get sick, get die. Everything about the priesthood change, ch -ch -ch -changes, right?

But he's going to compare something. And he here makes a point.

Year after year, decade after decade, century after century, doesn't take away sin, can never ten one by the same sacrifice as year after year take away sin.

Pointing, yes, with some futility, but pointing, you need a better sacrifice.

Those priests stood and did their work. No time to sit down.

I wonder if they ever got tired. But when Christ had offered for all time, a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, the

Father, or the right hand of God. Those priests, this priest, they stand, he sits down.

They offer, present tense, he offered again and again and again and again, one and done.

Same old, same old, same old sacrifice, one sacrifice. Remembrance of sins, take away sins.

Dear Christian, Jesus paid for your sins once and for all. All your sins are forgiven.

When you were dead in your transgressions, in the uncircumcision of your flesh, Colossians 2, he made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses freely.

He granted with a favor, forgave you. That is fascinating.

That is convicting too. On a side note, when you experience this, how could you not forgive anybody anything?

I can't forgive. How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

If you, Lord, should mark iniquities, oh, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with you that you may be feared.

Who's a God like you, Micah said, who pardons iniquity? Who's like that?

This God has canceled our sin debt once and forever, done, the Lord Jesus.

Having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, and which was hostile to us, and he has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

That is Colossians 1, chapter 2, verses 13 and 14. The planned work of the atonement, done.

Isaiah 43, I, even I am the one who wipes out your transgressions for my own sake. I will not remember your sins.

You want to talk about encouragement? Jesus sacrificed. Number two, he sat.

We just read it earlier, sat down at the right hand of God. What do you do? Painted the house this summer for four days, and all day

I'd stand on a ladder. We did four days in a row, and then I would not go to the gym that night.

I would not ride my bicycle. I would just sit. This is language of accomplishment, finality, done.

Work is done. Do what you want, do what you need to do, so you can do what you want to do.

Work first, play later. Those are slogans I've taught my kids. You've taught your kids. Hebrews 1 .3,

he is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.

After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high. Done, exalted, wonderful, crown before cross.

No cross, but then crown, suffering, then glory.

Sets down at the right hand of the majesty on high. That's amazing.

That's Hebrews 8 .1 as well. Who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in heaven.

The greatness of heaven. The greatness in heaven, yes. The greatness, the majesty, capital

M. The awesome greatness of God.

Is this how you think of Jesus? Is this how you think of Jesus? Kind of knocking at the door of people.

Gentleman Jesus. I'm writing this down now, gentlemen. This is the exalted

Jesus. This is the Jesus that the writer's preaching, who has a seat, the right hand, honor, special favor, privilege, rule, power, rest, intercession, authority, protection, triumph.

This is the seat of favor, but let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man who you've made strong for yourself.

Psalm 80. When Jesus prayed in John 17, and now glorify thou me together with thyself, father, with the glory which

I had with thee before the world was. And where is that? Where is that exaltation?

Where is that position of power and honor and authority universally at the right hand of the father?

Crown him with many crowns. Now the world might not see it, but we see it with eyes of faith through the scriptures, the exaltation of Jesus.

Lots of people say, well, what about resurrection in the book of Hebrews? Well, you might not see the word resurrection very often.

You will see it, not even the word resurrection, Hebrews 13, 20, the peace who brought again and that made a

God of peace who brought again from the dead, our Lord Jesus. I don't know if you see the word literally resurrection, but everywhere you see the seated at the right hand of the father, that's what you notice.

That's what you'd see. That's what's happening. Jesus has done his work.

It guarantees sacrifice was accepted. You are forgiven. John Bunyan. Sinner, thou thinkest that because of thy sins,

I cannot save thy soul, but behold, my son is to me and I look upon him and not on thee and we'll deal with thee according as I am pleased with him.

Now that's good news, Calvin. If therefore our faith looks for Christ sitting on the right hand of God and rest quietly in that truth, we shall at the end, enjoy the fruits of this victory along with him who is our head.

And when our foes are vanquished along with Satan and sin and death and the whole world, and when we have put off corruption of our flesh, we shall triumph for all time.

This is good news. The right hand. Angels don't get to sit at the right hand, right?

They stand in the presence. Angel answered, I'm Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God.

You bet he does. The priests, hmm,

I'm kind of scared I got to do this sacrifice. Jesus, done, seated at the right hand of the

Father. To which of the angels has he ever said, sit at my right hand, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith.

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