Welcome friends
to Books of the Book
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I'm Ty Gibson and with me
is my co-host James Rafferty.
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We are presently
engaged in a study of the
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book of Hebrews.
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So we would like to
encourage you to get a Bible,
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and pull up a chair, a
get comfortable, and open
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to Hebrews Chapter 9.
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Hebrews Chapter 9.
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We left off with Hebrews
8 we were talking about the
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new covenant experience.
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Hebrews 9 transitions smoothly
into relational experience
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into the reality of the
types of the earthly sanctuary.
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The first covenant is mentioned
in verse 1 of Chapter 9,
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and then Paul is going to
inform us that first covenant
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was all structured around
the first tabernacle, James.
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The first sanctuary,
the earthly temple system,
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was the center of the
old covenant experience.
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This is called the
worldly sanctuary in verse 1,
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of Hebrews Chapter 9.
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Now, friends, we have to
understand that this is one
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of the main
emphasis of Paul's writing
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the book of Hebrews.
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He is seeking to transition
the Hebrew thinkers, the
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Israelites from earthly
types to heavenly realities.
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From the worldly sanctuary
service, with the human
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priest to the heavenly
sanctuary with the priesthood,
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the Melchizedek
priesthood, the Royal priesthood
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of Jesus Christ.
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So, in verse 2, of
Chapter 9 of Hebrews, for a
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tabernacle was prepared.
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He is talking about the
tabernacle in the wilderness
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that was constructed
by Moses and the Jews,
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in that period of history.
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And then he just
explains the basic parts of that
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particular sanctuary service.
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He names the courtyard.
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He names the Holy Place.
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He names the Most Holy Place.
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He names the
pieces of furniture.
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He is basically just
reminding the reader that this
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whole temple service.
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This is what it
looked like, here's the
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topical view of it.
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This is what we were
dealing with at that time.
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Now he's saying,
let's make the transition.
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Let's move from the
earthly temple service, to the
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heavenly sanctuary
ministry of Jesus, our better,
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our superior High Priest.
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In fact, he says right
here in verse 8, of Chapter 9,
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He said, the Holy Ghost
signifying that the way into the
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holiest of all.
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That's for the King James says.
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This is actually talking
about the heavenly sanctuary
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the heavenly places.
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The Holy Place, Most Holy Place.
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This is something that Paul
is not dealing with directly.
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In other words, it is not
an issue for Paul whether Jesus
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is going in the Holy
Place or the Most Holy Place.
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We understand from the earthly
types, the ministry of the
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priest began in the Holy Place.
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Actually, it
began in the courtyard,
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and we recognize,
in the book of Hebrews,
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that the courtyard
represents the cross.
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That phase has already
taken place at Calvary.
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But Jesus, when He
went to heaven, began
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ministry in the Holy
Place, but Paul here is not
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dealing with those issues.
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What he is focusing on
primarily, is going from the
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earthly to the heavenly.
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Once we get to the heavenly,
we begin in the Holy Place,
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but the main point
is earthly to heavenly.
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While the earthly is
still standing, he is saying,
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the Holy Spirit is
signifying in verse 8, there is
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no reason for us
to go to the heavenly.
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The heavenly is being
eclipsed by the earthly or a
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counterfeit of the earthly,
we must understand that the
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earthly has done with its
types and its figures, with what
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it pointed to once we see
the reality of Jesus Christ
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in the heavenly.
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In a historic context
here, we need to recognize
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that this was a monumental
shift for these people,
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at this time.
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They had worship in this
particular system for hundreds
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of years,
generation after generation.
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And now all of a sudden
Jesus enters human history
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and the entire system,
that they had come to depend on,
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was passing away.
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It was being annulled,
something new was being
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put in its place.
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When we come down to
verses 9 and 10 James,
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it says there that system
was symbolic for the time,
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then present, and then
it says verse 10, that this
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was only until the time of
reformation or the time, when
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this transition, when this
revolution would take place.
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And Jesus was the
epicenter of that change.
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It's no wonder,
that He was crucified.
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They didn't discern that
that entire system, was as it
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says here in verse 9, symbolic.
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It pointed to realities, it
was not a reality in itself.
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It was very
difficult for the Israelites,
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for the Jews of Christ time.
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It was very difficult for
them to accept the idea that
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the temple, the place that
they put all their hopes in,
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the place that they looked
to as the Most Sacred Place
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in their history in
relation to their religion.
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In relation to
their connection with God,
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was going to be wiped away.
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It was going to be laid
aside, and all of that was going
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to be fulfilled in Christ.
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He was going to become
the focus and the transitional
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point of a new system that
was going to take us into the
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heavenly, into the
presence of God Himself.
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In fact Paul brings
this out in Chapter 8.
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He says that Jesus Christ
is the minister of the true
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sanctuary and of the
true tabernacle which the Lord
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pitched and not man.
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The verse that I really
want to focus in on here,
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for just a moment
James, is verse 11.
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"Christ came as a high
priest of good things to come. "
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What is being dealt with here?
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What is Paul, bringing
to our, what are the good
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things to come?
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When you look at it in the
context, verse 11 is talking
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about the good things to
come in relation to a greater
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and more perfect tabernacle,
that is the sanctuary.
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In that context, also, that's
not to say of this building.
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verse 12, "neither by the
blood of goats and calves but
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by his own blood, he entered
once into the Holy Place. "
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And that is the heavenly
sanctuary, "having obtained
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eternal redemption for us".
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Good things to come friends,
are this wonderful heavenly
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sanctuary service that
incorporates Christ as our one
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time sacrifice once and
for all as the One who is
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obtained eternal redemption
for us this is the context
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of the Reformation that
must take place in the minds and
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hearts of millions
of people even today.
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But I want to say
this carefully, because Ty.
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I was raised in a Christian
home, raised in a home that
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taught me to believe in
God, but it was a home that
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pointed me to earthly priests.
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To earthly intercession,
to confessing to human beings
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and not to the heavenly
priesthood of Jesus Christ in
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the heavenly
sanctuary where He has made a
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one time sacrifice.
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Not an ongoing
sacrifice, a one-time sacrifice
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for all humanity.
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Good things to come are
inclusive here of the fact in
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verse 12 that Jesus has
obtained eternal redemption.
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It's important that we
recognize here that this is past
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tense language.
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Jesus is not in the process
of accomplishing something.
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All one level.
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Jesus purged our sins in
the one act of His sacrifice at
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Calvary and thus obtained
eternal redemption for us.
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It is a done deal is
an accomplished victory,
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it is a fact of history
that we have embodied in
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the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And that is why Paul is
so urgent about moving us
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into the understanding
of this truth, because the
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only thing that remains
now is that we will see a
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one-time sacrifice and accept it
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appropriate as our own.
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In other words, there is
nothing else that is needed
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as far as sacrifice
for sins is concerned.
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There is nothing we can add
to the sacrificial atonement
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that has been made for us,
for everyone by Jesus Christ.
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There is no sin that can
be committed, or has been
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committed by anyone that
has not already been atoned
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for by Jesus Christ.
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But there is a need for
us to understand, to allow
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this truth to become
a reality in our lives.
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It is for us to let go of
the earthly, for us to let
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go of the worldly, for
us to make this transition.
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This reformation, if you
will Ty, this reformation
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from the old to the new.
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So the fact that eternal
redemption is a completed fact,
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in the person of Jesus
Christ, doesn't necessarily mean
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that it is a completed
fact in my personal experience.
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This is where the faith
factor comes in, which is all
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through the book of Hebrews.
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The apostle Paul, over and
over again, is calling upon us
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to enter into these accomplished
facts in Jesus Christ.
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To obtain eternal redemption,
in Himself is preparatory
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to each of us obtaining eternal
redemption experientially.
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Absolutely, and now verse
15 brings us to another idea
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another point that is
very important for the Gospel.
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Because when we talk
about "once and for all".
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We're not just talking
about New Testament believers.
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He says here in verse 15,
"and for this cause, he is the
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mediator of the New Testament
that by means of death",
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His death, for the redemption
of transgressions that were
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under the first testament
that which they which are called
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might received the promise
of eternal inheritance. "
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In other words, all of God's
people in the Old Testament
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come under this
new covenant promise.
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All those people were
going to be saved in the Old
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Testament, are saved by
the blood of Jesus Christ.
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They looked forward to
the Lamb, who would take away
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the sins of the world,
they look back to the "Lamb who
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takes away the
sin of the world".
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But both the Old Testament
faithful and the New Testament
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faithful look to the cross
and come together at the cross,
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according to Hebrews
Chapter 8, and verse 15.
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So there an objective
reality, in the person of
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Jesus Christ, and then
there is the subjective
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experience of God's people,
of each of us as individuals.
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There is what He has
done in His humanity.
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Having moved through
the entire human experience,
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conquering sin, dying on the
cross, raising from the dead,
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ascending to the right
hand of the throne of the
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Majesty in the heavens.
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Paul says, and then
there's you, there's me.
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There is each individual
who is called upon in the book
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of Hebrews, to become a
partaker of the new covenant.
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And there is nothing more
glorious James, then to have a
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spiritual experience with God.
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That is real, that is
vital, that is actual.
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That is not merely a theory
or a series of legal ideas
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that we have about
something that was done merely
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in a historic sense.
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Now, we don't want to
minimize the historical aspect,
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because what was
accomplished in Jesus, is as it
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says here, the obtaining
of eternal redemption for us.
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It was all done in Him.
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But praise God that it
was an experience in Him that
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invites us to be partakers
of that same experience.
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Amen and its partakers of
an experience that He has given
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to us as a gift.
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In other words, we do not
merit salvation by partaking
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of that gift.
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We simply acknowledge the
truth of the salvation that
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has been accomplished for
us it becomes a reality in our
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lives, we take hold of it.
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Faith does the not make
facts, faith takes hold of the
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facts and acknowledges
the facts for our salvation
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in Jesus Christ.
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Now notice what Paul
does here is the moves on in
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Hebrews 8 verses 16 and onward.
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For where a testament is,
there must also, of necessity,
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be the death of the Testator.
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Now let's pause there for
just a second because we know
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this Testament, this New
Testament is God's testament,
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the new covenant.
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The New Testament is authored
by God, and it says here
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that if this New Testament
is going to be put into effect,
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the Testator must die.
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We talked about this earlier
Ty, and this is difficult
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for us to grasp at times,
to wrap our minds around, but
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the truth of the matter
is that God is immortal.
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God cannot die.
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And so in order for God the
Testator of the New Testament,
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to die, He became a man.
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He came to us in the
person of Jesus Christ.
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He put on mortality over
His immortality so that He could
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experience death for all of us.
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What a beautiful
picture of God's love.
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It's incredible James,
that Jesus, God the Creator,
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became a human being,
according to the book of Hebrews
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as the prerequisite, the
set of conditions in which God
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could experience the
reality of our sin and die
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in our place at Calvary.
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It's amazing, on the one
hand, that He would even be
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willing to experience
that condescension, to do
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that, to suffer
in that way for us.
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But it is vital that we
recognize that it is God,
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that is doing this.
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It is God that is
experiencing this sacrifice
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and willingly doing so.
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Not because He is
compelled to do so, but purely,
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one-hundred percent out
of the abundance of His love
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for each one of us.
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As we continue in Hebrews
Chapter 9, we are going to
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explore additional
aspects of this sacrifice and
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emphasize what it is
that Paul is bringing to our
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attention here, so
please stay with us.
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Don't go away, we
will be right back!
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