One Triumphant Sacrifice - [Hebrews 10:11-18]

So I'd like you to take your Bible today and turn to Hebrews chapter 10 because we are going to talk about Jesus today

I have a job and here's my job I get to announce to you that Jesus Christ is the King of kings and Lord of lords

If you want morality if you want good manners if you want TED talks, there are other places to go

But it is a bad day and evangelicalism where you go to churches and they will not extol the risen

Savior The Lord Jesus Christ and the writer of Hebrews his theme is over and over Jesus Christ and he just keeps hammering that nail from every different angle from high priest to prophet to Lord and Savior He talks about the

Lord Jesus I'm concerned about evangelicalism that most pastors many evangelicals and those sitting in the pews

Do not want to come and hear about the Lord Jesus Christ. He doesn't fill sanctuaries.

He doesn't fill pews He doesn't earn a lot of tithe money But dear friends the subject of every sermon must extol the

Lord Jesus Christ not just to make it outstanding but to be faithful Some time ago

David Wells described this frightening scenario for a moment think about this problem of Christ not being the focal point in the church in relation to the abduction or kidnapping of a child

This problem of Christ missing as the focal point in the church today is not like the abduction of a child

Who is happily playing at home one minute and then is no longer to be found the next No one has abducted

Christ in this sense The disappearance is closer to what happens in homes where children are ignored and to all intents and purposes

Abandoned they remain in the home, but they have no place in the family So it is with Christ in the church.

He remains on the edges of evangelical life, but has been dislodged From its center

We have one life to live. I've got one life to live I'm 59 years old and I think to myself while I do a lot of dumb things and sinful things

What I don't want to do is stand up for weddings and funerals and preaching and then not talk about the

Lord Jesus T Hoekstra said a sermon without Christ is no sermon Robert Rayburn said

Christ is the only king of your studies Graham Goldsworthy, can

I preach a Christian sermon without mentioning Jesus? Eric Alexander superficial views of the work of Christ produce superficial

Christian lives And I don't know if you've thought through this, but did you know

Jesus Christ himself was a Christ centered preacher? That's a fascinating thing

Jesus Christ himself had a subject and that subject was himself He in fact was a

Christ centered preacher Everything that Jesus talked about was about himself as prophet or priest or King Listen to these words

Jesus said them all they're all from John I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not hunger and he who believes in me will never thirst.

I Am the light of the world he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life

Truly truly I say to you I am the door of the sheep. I Am the door if anyone enters through me.

He will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. I Am the

Good Shepherd the Good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. I Am the resurrection in the life he who believes in me will live even if he dies and everyone who lives and believes in me

Will never die. Do you believe this? I Am the way and the truth in the life.

No one comes to the father, but through me. I Am the vine and my father is the vine dresser

Dear friends the Lord Jesus Christ was a Christ centered preacher and there in John John chapter 6

John chapter 8 John chapter 10 John chapter 11 John chapter 14 and John chapter 15.

He was Preaching Christ Jesus and Paul followed that example 2nd

Corinthians We do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as the Lord and what

I love about the book of Hebrews is He the writer whoever it is could be Paul or someone else.

He followed his masters preaching That is talking about Jesus He followed

Paul's preaching pattern and that was talking about Jesus when he got up to speak

And I say this to you all the time, but just to remind you again today Dear friend when you serve in the

Sunday school you serve at junior church you teach your Bible studies on Friday You have your your home

Fellowship time and your family worship time. I want you to talk about the Lord Jesus Christ I think by the way, that's why you're all here because you want to hear about Jesus every week

Sinclair Ferguson said and I want you to think about the book of Hebrews as I write this.

I mean as I read this Is it obvious to me and of engrossing concern that the chief focus the

Dominant note in the sermons I preach or here is Christ and him crucified

Or is the dominant emphasis and perhaps the greatest energies of the preacher Focus somewhere else perhaps on how to overcome sin how to live the

Christian life are the benefits to be received from the gospel Listen all are legitimate emphasis in their place, but that place is never center stage

Is the dominant theme the lasting impression the most natural word?

Association in relation to the preaching I hear Jesus Christ and him crucified or is it something else?

Without wanting to denigrate the value many experience from listening to sermons on the World Wide Web Caution is surely in order here

Am I fully aware of the emphasis to which I'm allowing myself to be exposed and is it a

Christ full? emphasis And so one of the reasons why I love to preach at this church is you want sermons about the

Lord Jesus? When you listen online, what kind of sermons are you listening to?

John Newton who wrote amazing grace was a few years older than I am when he said this to another pastor

The older I grow the more I'm drawn to preach much concerning the person the atonement the glory of the

Savior and Influences of the Holy Spirit there are other truths Important in their places, but unless beheld through the medium of the cross they have faint effect.

I Love the book of Hebrews because he gives you that constant barrage of the

Lord Jesus Christ Now we're up in chapter 10 and last week we looked at chapter 10 verses 1 through 10 essentially

And we're gonna look at verses 11 through 18 This morning now.

I don't know if you believe me or not, but I'll just tell you anyway. This is just a hope of mine It's not a law of the

Medes and Persians I have worked out the rest of the book of Hebrews, and I think we can finish by me

If you're listening you you don't see what I'm doing But you know what here's the thing once we get done with Hebrews We're gonna go to another book

And I'm gonna tell you about Jesus Christ from that book And it's gonna be the hope for all of us like Zinzendorf once said preach

Christ Die and be forgotten Is that worth our lives whether you're a mom talking to your children about the

Lord Jesus or a dad or friend? Hebrews chapter 10 today verses 11 through 18

I'm going to give you three words Three words describing the work of the high priest Jesus Christ They all start with s and they're designed for you to walk by faith to remember the object of the faith here the

Lord Jesus Christ It's a sermon about Jesus. It's a sermon about what he did we heard the glad recipients of these great benefits, but it's about him

He is the one who is the absolute supreme one this whole book chapters 1 1 through 10 1118 is essentially a theological barrage an onslaught of why

Jesus is superior using Old Testament and more and In this section here.

Here's what here's what the writers doing almost said Paul. It could be Paul There's the old system that was not adequate.

There was the old system that had repetition for preaching for slaying the animals There's the old system that's that's that's old and Jesus has come and he compares the two

Animal sacrifices don't work. I wonder if Jesus has sacrificed did Let me just pick it up in chapter 10 verse 1 good review as we approach the text

Hebrews 10 1 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 that are continually offered every year make perfect or Mature are holy 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, there's a reminder of sins every year for it's impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins

Consequently when Christ the Messiah came into the world he said Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired but a body have you prepared for me in burnt offerings and sin offerings?

You've taken no pleasure Then I said behold I've come to do your will O God as it is written of me in the scroll of the book psalm 40

When he said above you have neither desired nor taken pleasure and sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings and every other kind of offering

They're offered according to the law Then he added and we looked at this a little bit last week

But I want to expand it some before we get into our passage behold I've come to do your will he Jesus does away with the first the

Mosaic Covenant with all that bloodshed and sacrifice in order to establish the second this new covenant and By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Christ Jesus once for all

And by the way, I like it in verse 9 there behold. He's trying to get your attention He's trying to get you to zoom in and to be reminded that there's something important happening here

And what's happening here is the old covenant system Jesus Christ abolishes.

He takes it away He murders it he assassinates it those are all ways to translate that that language there

He gets rid of it and I tried to make a quick mention last week any type of let's take

Moses and new covenant and put them together with all kinds of Celebration of Passover now and Feast of Booths and Messianic Judaism and keeping the nomenclature and the sacrifices and the

Feasts of the old covenant can't be brought together because the new covenant has made this one

Obsolete it's made it. It's abolished it you can't put new wine in old wineskins

Jesus is the fulfillment of that he's not the addition to you don't add that on to Judaism Judaism is done

And it's done by the will of God verse 10 and through the offering of the body once for all

And of course everywhere you look in the book of Hebrews, you'll see something Implicit if not explicit chapter 10 verse 10.

We have been sanctified you will regularly see Jesus is the initiator

God the Father does the work the Spirit of God is is the the activator? He's the applier everything about Christianity is

God does the work. We're the recipients. We don't say God I'll let you save me by doing this

God is the Savior, and he has us respond to what he does But the cause of salvation is

God the effect of salvation is we respond Remember this idea of Jesus is the gentleman

He's knocking on your door, and he won't come into your house and let you let him in remember We're dead in trespasses and sins.

That's a bad illustration Jesus has to knock the door down and make you alive again and give you faith and give you

Regeneration and give you everything can you imagine that the death of Christ?

Makes us what's a text a sanctified? We're positionally holy now only the

Lord could do that and by the way Can you think of any other religion in all the world where a single solitary act the death of Jesus in our case for Christianity?

Determines the rest of that religion that gives salvation to all those who would follow Jesus is the one who makes holy and one last comment before we get to our main passage today

Do you notice what Jesus is called in verse 10 of chapter 10? Through the offering of the body of it doesn't say

Christ. There's no Emphasis that way but of the body of Jesus the human body

Jesus had to be offered because he had to have a body to be our true Representative, so let's get to the first word today in our outline looking at verses 11 through 18

Three words describing and summarizing Jesus the high priest number one the word is sacrificed verses 11 and 12

Sacrifice this is another sermon about Jesus because this sermon the book of Hebrews is about Jesus, and so is this chapter?

Chapter 10 verse 11 sacrificed all the other sacrifices past tense

Sacrificed and every priest stands daily. I mean he keeps saying the same thing Offering repeatedly the same sacrifices which can never take away sins

That's a conclusion of what he just told us But when Christ had offered for a

Single time or for all time a single sacrifice for sins. He sat down at the right hand of God And you could just probably list how many contrasts you see in verses 1 through 10 and verses 11 through 18 thousands of priests one priest

Standing sitting over and over and over one time

Here it says in verse 11 every priest stands Daily, and what does he do as he stands daily?

This is fascinating to me Daily at his service that word service there is liturgy liturgy

The way we use it now is what's the BBC liturgy BBC liturgy is they they have a right hand of fellowship

They have a call to worship New Testament reading they sing to songs they do scripture reading

They have some up and get have someone get up and lead music if they're they're on schedule for that day to do that Is that how that works?

We have a liturgy he had a liturgy too, and his literally liturgy was basically

Slaying the animals that's what he did You have to worry about if you change the liturgy and add

New Testament reading the congregation might wonder. What's going on. That's new His liturgy was the same kill animals

And how do you kill animals by kind of lounging on the little? Sofa there in in the tabernacle remember in the tabernacle and in the temple no seats why answer?

Because the work was never done you sin bring in another animal next day you sin you bring in another animal next week

You sin another animal your family sins next year another Passover animal you sin as a nation next year

David Tomin sin sin sin Sacrifice sacrifice sacrifice Standing standing standing they stand all the time.

That's just what they do Stand offer repeat no sins taken away stand offer repeat no sins taken away

Reminds me of the Chicago sanitation worker remember this popular slogan

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 and dig the ditch

What are you doing today at church pastor? killing animals again

That's what they would be thinking back in those days By the way, this is this is a kind of a language where you can see it's kind of happening every priest stands daily

It sounds like it's happening because friends It is right down the street. The temple has not been destroyed.

This book was written pre 70 AD 70 AD the Romans come in and sack

Jerusalem They smash down the temple But right now it hasn't happened and these

Christians are huddling as it were in a basement in a cave They're getting persecuted and this writer is saying remember how great

Jesus is he? Sits down he doesn't stand and people are standing at the temple while he's probably writing this while he's preaching this

Why go back to that and when you go back those people stand until they're not able to stand anymore

Then those priests get sick Then the next priest comes along that priesthood was defined by change perpetual change change change change

It was built in to have obsolescence It wasn't wrong to have the change god ordained it, but it wasn't final.

It was inadequate. It was pointing to something year after year versus Once and done same sacrifices versus the one sacrifice standing standing standing verse 12 though Here's one of those butts

Martin, lloyd -jones says, you know, thank god for the butts of the bible. We have ephesians chapter 2 But god we read earlier here, but when christ the messiah had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins

You can see how definitive this is. You can see the contrast to the priest He sat down at the right hand of the father.

He makes the sacrifice for sins We have that little slogan what a difference a day makes what a difference the real high priest makes

What does this mean for you dear christian jesus sacrificed For you for all your sins the wages of sin is death someone has to die

It's either you or jesus christian. Jesus died for you. He's forgiven every one of your sins

I read about this man this week and he committed so many heinous things in vietnam before he was a christian

He's a christian now and he's dying of cancer and he's still having the replay of his mind

Could god forgive me for all those things that I did in vietnam? And what's the answer for the christian?

Yes Yes, colossians 2 says and when you were dead in your transgressions in the uncircumcision of your flesh

He made you alive together with him having forgiven all your transgressions

You mean that one that I did that no one saw yes forgiven. You mean those self -righteous ones? Yes forgiven

You mean those unrighteous ones? Yes forgiven. This is divinely accomplished divinely applied

True or false how blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven? I hope you said true

Remember my style whenever I quote something like that. It's usually a bible verse you have to say true Micah 7 who's a god like thee who pardons iniquity and passes over the rebellious act of the remnant remnant of his possession

Who's a god who does this and kills his son and makes him the sacrifice once for all versus us?

I mean if you were god and someone offended you and killed your son, how would you treat them? This is amazing to me forgiven christ

Sacrificed and paid for all your sins. You don't have to pay for one Not one sin.

Will you ever have to pay for? Now there might be discipline for sin, but you won't have to have eternal punishment for sin.

That's the point the second word Sacrifice is the first word he pays for all your sins christian number two.

It's sat Sacrificed and sat and we see that right there in verse 12 After he did this great sacrifice for sins

After he said it is finished on the cross After he bore the wrath of god and made propitiation for our sins at calvary one time

He sat down at the right hand of god The priests stand all the time Works never done this priest sits down Now this summer

I painted our house with a friend a professional painter took us four days to paint the house It's a trailer.

I thought you know um I think after that last day after standing on the ladder for four days straight

I think i'm gonna go for a nice bike ride because I haven't been able to ride the bike I never made it

The house got painted and guess what I did after standing on that ladder standing on that ladder This is hard work standing on a ladder.

I may look young. I know I sat down the work was done

It's almost like I could just sit down and kind of just admire our work When jesus does a sacrifice, there's an efficacy to it.

There's a finality to it You don't have to do it By the way for the dear people that you love who think that the sin bearing of jesus isn't enough and they have to go through purgatory

This would be a good place to take them When jesus does his work dear friend he sits down you don't have to do anything else

You don't have to say it's jesus a sacrifice Plus me saying, you know, uh, i'm not going to have anything.

Uh, no, no fish Uh, even for lent no chocolate for lent no this for lead friends.

He sat down it's done It's finished accomplished mission accomplished Hebrews 1 after making purification for sins.

He sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high It's final how do you know it's final because jesus isn't on the cross

And he isn't even on the earth he's exalted where did he go to heaven to the majesty on high to the

Surpassing glory on high. That's the idea. He's enthroned The greatness on high by the way

This is how every person should be thinking about jesus right now the enthroned god the one who's exalted the one who's up there not some kind of You know these days

I just I just think to myself I have a new definition for evangelicalism For the new christianity and here's how what

I call it. I probably didn't come up with it on my own, but I think I did sissianity

Some kind of emaciated weak jesus that needs our help He can't do anything unless we allow him to We invite you into the presence and we do this that and the other and I allow you to do this jesus and please

No, no, this is the jesus who is enthroned in heaven This is the jesus where women would love to follow and men would follow

Here's the enthroned the majesty on high with preeminence with power With greatness and you say, you know, that's the son of god who loved me and died for me.

I will follow him Give me the sissy jesus maybe with feathered hair and other things.

I don't want to follow I want to tell him to man up but this jesus I say i'm on my face bowing in submission and whatever you say

I'm glad to do it for you. Thank you He's at the right hand of the father

If you're at the right hand of someone it means it means power it means rule

It means they're seated at the right hand resting from their work Having authority to do whatever they want when they want how they want

It means favor that's one of the things about the right hand in the old testament in psalm 80 and jeremiah 22

The right hand was the the hand of favor. Listen to psalm 80, but let your hand be on the man of your right hand

Don't we say that even today? He's my right hand man. Do we not? As I live declares the lord jeremiah 22

The kanai of the son of jehoiakim king of judah were the signet ring on my right hand yet I would tear it off you and give you into the hand of those who seek your life that right hand

Jesus does his work that the father sent him to do When christ came into the world, he said sacrifices and burnt offerings

You haven't desired but a body you prepared for me behold i've come to do your will he does the will He does the work he makes the sacrifice he sits down and then now he's there for praise for worship for exaltation for honor

I'm thinking about that song. Are you not crown him with many crowns? And isn't it interesting that the people back in those days after they killed jesus?

Did they really recognize what was happening? I don't think they did They knew jesus died, but they didn't know about the exaltation, but we get to Some people say, you know, there's not a lot of resurrection talk in the book of hebrews

Now it does say in hebrews 13 now May the god of peace who brought again from the dead our lord.

Jesus the great shepherd of the sheep But friends there's resurrection talk everywhere you go

It just doesn't say resurrection, but it's seated at the right hand seated at the right hand seated at the right hand

The majesty in heaven I don't know if i'm forgiven or not

He did the work he's he's seated he's enthroned john bunyan in his biography sinner thou thinkest that because of thy sins

I cannot save thy soul But behold my son is by me the father says and upon him

I look and not on thee I will deal with thee according as I am pleased with him in other words

When we sin, how does god see us? How does god see us as children? Well, we're thinking that sin is almost too great that sin's too much

How could I sin like that and bunyan wakes us? focus on the fact that We're in christ jesus and god sees us

Union with christ and where is christ he's exalted john 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 all the fruits of his victory along with him who is our head

Here's the wild thing. I don't know if you know this. I forgot this was reminded Angels all hovering around god and holy holy holy is the lord god almighty.

But what are they not doing around god? answer sitting the angel

Answered him luke one. I am gabriel. I stand in the presence of god He's got to go to work, but the lord jesus's work has been

Done and hebrews won't let you forget that hebrews 1 3 sat down at the right hand hebrews 1 13

Sit at my right hand hebrews 8 1 who has taken a seat at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in heaven

Hebrews chapter 12. He sat down at the right hand of the throne of god authority prestige and honor

Verse 13 you think the world's chaotic what's going on? Oh, there's going to be an end from this

Uh, uh End by this in throne jesus verse 13. Do you notice it waiting?

What's he doing? Jesus is up there. Maybe he's sleeping. Maybe he's not paying attention. Maybe he's not interceding

Oh, he's doing plenty right? We've learned that with intercession, but right now he's waiting from that time until his enemies

Psalm 110 be made a footstool for his feet His work is done.

He's interceding for christians and he's waiting to come back What does this do?

This makes me say I'm anticipating jesus coming back to make the wrongs right

Jesus is going to come back one day dear friends, and there's going to be victory over his enemies

You like that song victory in jesus. It happened at the cross certainly and it's going to happen again.

He's coming back And what does he do he makes his enemies his footstool

What great language he's exalted at the right hand of the father and his enemies are at his feet

He's won the victory we'll see the complete enemy Decimation soon

Ps christian Who sits on a throne? A queen right or a king who's sitting on this throne

The king priest because jesus is the high priest and he sits on the throne He sacrificed he he sat and now number three

Sanctified sacrificed sat and sanctified. I feel baptistic today with alliteration

Always alliterate. Okay inside joke. I probably get a note for that dear pastor

Please don't have so much humor This is a P -a -s -t -e -r appreciation card pastor.

He sacrificed he sat and now he sanctified verse 14 What i'm trying to do is what we call expository preaching and the opposite of expository is is

Is to impose expose or impose i'm trying to expose you to what the text says so you can see it for yourself

Versus to impose and jam my own meaning into the text. The text is the text This is not what does it mean to me?

This is what does it mean? What would this verse mean before I existed? What will this verse mean when i'm gone?

Here's what it means verse 14 a simple reading for by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified so so by one offering

Jesus has us positionally Sanctified or made holy or perfected

In god's eyes, that's how he sees us legally judicially Positionally and then in time he's also making us more and more like the people we are positionally

It's just called progressive sanctification who are being present tense. You see at the end of verse 14 sanctified

He's perfected the work he did at once Legally and now he's helping us to grow

Into our position Christ on the cross perfected every believer that is you're standing before god is perfect Everything's been fulfilled

Since you're standing before god now as part of the family part of the process of regenerate The effects of regeneration is you become more and more like christ

Sometimes that word sanctified is is interesting to me. What does sanctification mean?

Kind of reminds me of the story of a teenage boy that I read about whose mother was away on a visit

He had a lot of time to kill his mom was a christian and and he knew there'd be

A sermon in this book that he was supposed to read and so he he began to read the story

The sermon in the book while reading the book the account says he came across the faith the phrase the finished work of christ

What's this the finished work of christ? Why does the author use this expression why not say the atoning are the propitiatory work of christ

Then the words it is finished flashed into his mind and he realized afresh that the work of salvation was accomplished

And here's what that young boy said if the whole work was finished and the whole debt paid. What is there left for me to do?

He did not know the answer. So he fell to his knees to receive the lord. Jesus christ and for forgiveness of sins and his name was

The man who founded china inland mission jay hudson taylor. It's finished done

And there's a Reiteration of this found in verses 15 through 18. Do you see it?

The holy spirit also bears witness to us And he's going to reiterate what the bible says about the new covenant in jeremiah 31 that we've already learned in hebrews chapter 8

Holy spirit also bears witness to us for after saying this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days declares the lord

I will put my laws on their hearts and write them on their minds Do you notice what a high view of scripture?

This writer has that ought to be your view of scripture by the way, even the old testament And and he says

I will put my law on their hearts and write them on their minds

And of course we are the recipients of this new covenant we have our sins forgiven

We celebrate the new covenant with lord supper. We'll do that next week. We have jesus now the mediator for the new covenant

We have him It's for us. This is the new covenant in my blood. This is what jesus said during the lord's supper verse 17

We've already looked at this in chapter 8. I've talked about it often, but it's good to be reminded I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds

No more You want to have an exclamation point on the new covenant and what jesus did here's an exclamation point

I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more I'm not going to remember them

No possible way. There's an emphatic in the language Cicero said of caesar

Caesar forgets nothing but the wrongs which daily are done to him by his people Interesting I could say how much more

How did jesus's sacrifice work did it work? Well, your sins are forgiven What's the text say?

This is this would this would be frightening verse 17 I will remember Most of their sins and their lawless deeds no more

I only remember a few of their lawless deeds I'll just a couple No, but the text says not a little but but all i'll remember none of their sins

I could translate it and their lawless deeds no more This is all god's work.

This is all god's plan. This is god is the actor That's why when people say, you know salvation is kind of like a guy.

He's drowning remember years ago, I saw these two guys drowning over here in the mossy pond and clinton and and I was walking and i'm thinking do

I go out there to save him or don't I And what do I do with my cell phone and all this kind of you know? Just weird things are going through my mind

And before you know it a guy came over in a boat and jumped out So I just watched it. I called 9 -1 -1 The hero that I am

It all happened pretty fast and uh You think you know sometimes salvation is the person is drowning

They need to get saved and they reach their hand out and and then god reaches his hand down That's a bad illustration because we're at the bottom of the of the lake

We're at the bottom of mossy pond getting pretty mossy the fish have eaten us The bones are just kind of there and god makes a life.

He does all the work This is not you know Here's the antidote for your poison.

All you have to do is reach out and and drink that antidote and your poison's taken care of Just just stop sinning so you can come to christ

Break yourself free from all your addictions and come to christ This is the god who who saves and then the response to that is yes

Those addictions and those other things will all take their place But you don't do anything in order to be saved.

Remember it is sola fide If anybody tries to say you need to clean up your life in order to come to christ

I've got a question for them how much you have to clean up Who measures how much cleanup? No, you come to christ by faith alone and he'll begin to clean up.

Don't worry Verse 18 where there is forgiveness of these When you actually have forgiveness, what do you have to do go back to the temple where that guy's standing?

Go back to the tabernacle where there's no seat Where there's forgiveness of these they're christian when there's forgiveness.

There's no longer any offering for sin You don't have to do that at all

If god has taken your sins as far as the east is from the west he's cast them behind his back He's cast them in the deepest sea no more sacrifices

Including lint It's crazy.

I'm just gonna deny food and then i'll be better off Do not handle do not taste do not touch

These indeed have an appearance of wisdom in promoting self -made religion and asceticism and severity to the body

But they're of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh I see people getting crucified on on good friday or carrying crosses all across the country and all these other things

And I just want to tell them friends. It's done Rest in christ jesus no longer any offering.

It's put away Debt is forgiven. You're released Bondage is over you're redeemed

And so as johnson said now where there is remission of these there's no longer an offering for sin No more remembrance of sin

No more offering for sin no more conscience of sins because there's no more offering This is the truth.

Mr. Spurgeon said that might well make david dance before the ark of the lord Now i'm not saying we should get up and dance in the church we'll save that for the christmas party

Note to self you don't introduce the christmas party Big band dance idea until you've been at the church 20 years and just been diagnosed with cancer.

Then you do it Then you're fine You've got double tenure. They just allow it actually truth be told

The vestiges of licentiousness in our lives The vestiges of fundamentalism and legalism in our lives are both solved by going back to this single offering

Right. Oh god will accept me if I don't smoke don't drink don't chew

Don't this don't dance don't this if you don't want to do any of those things fine. Don't it'll probably save money

Everything costs money But your standing on god isn't based on what you do or don't do by the way, how many people out there?

Think of christians in this way the what's a christian well to them as a christian

They're trusting in the finished work of jesus alone for their forgiveness of sins instead of them being sacrificed

Jesus was Sacrificed he's risen and they're trusting in the messiah I'll tell you that's not what they think here's what they think

You can't do things You're not allowed to touch these things taste these things eat these things drink these things do these things for them

Christianity is a bunch of no and in one sense. They're right in this sense There's no more sacrifice for sin

Therefore I can do what I like. Well, what do you like to do? I'd like to honor god I'd like to have my myself a sacrifice unto the lord a living sacrifice

And i'd like to live a holy life in Thanks in praise in gratitude, but that doesn't keep me there

That's why dear christian when you're out there talking to the world, I hope you're talking to them about jesus

Not what you can do and can't do I mean as far as i'm concerned the other day

I was thinking about christianity and I thought I not only have forgiveness of sins, but god has given me the universe for my pleasure

Everything to enjoy I wonder if you personally know that you have this standing before god

As perfect and sanctified And forgiven, do you know that? I hope you know that Because if you don't know that I offer to you

The announcement that you can know that by trusting in the lord jesus by believing in him

By saying no to trusting in all your goodness and your change in life and how you obey the rules and you're a moral person

And all these other things it doesn't matter those things are irrelevant What's relevant is this?

On the day that you stand before god That day that judgment day That you either stand perfect And holy and sanctified and forgiven

Are you stand ready to receive judgment? And so I offer you today. I have an announcement for you

For all those that call on the name of the lord. Jesus christ. You're forgiven for all your sins call on him

Why wouldn't you call on him? Well, i'm going to have to do this I'm going to have to do that. The biggest problem you have in your life is none of those things

It's you're standing before god, so I offer this is my job How are sermons outstanding?

Here's how they're outstanding because i'm trying to point to another that says come unto me all who are weary and heavy laden

And i'll give you rest final sacrifice standing before god The risen savior

I think the book of hebrews gives us a template in a sense So that you dear christian when you stand up at the rest home

When you evangelize When you teach junior church our sunday school our dad's leading home worship our single mom's leading home worship

Or somebody gets in this pulpit I I want you to talk about jesus

What else would you say? I want you to talk about the jesus who sacrificed for sins who sat down at the right hand of the father and who sanctifies sinners

That's a good message That's a good news Let's pray thank you father for our time in your word.

Thank you that jesus christ is a greater savior than we are sinners Thank you so much. We praise you you remember our sins no more

Thank you that we can anticipate all the wrongs that are done that cnn and fox

Flood our minds with with all the inequities. Jesus is waiting Jesus's timetables, right?

He's not worried. He's not perplexed He's going to come and subdue every enemy

And father we praise you because we were those enemies But we've been subdued by the blood of the lamb now.

And so now we wait Help us to be evangelistic to tell other people Because christ won't wait forever.

He's coming back as judge Please give us direction and insight convict us when we have opportunities to proclaim the truth

That god demonstrates his love toward us that while we are yet sinners christ died for us in jesus name.