Thanks for staying with
us for our continuing study
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of the book of Hebrews.
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We are in Chapter
9, James, and we left
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off in verse 16.
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We were focusing on the death.
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We are focusing on the
sacrifice God has made in
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the person of the
Son, Jesus Christ.
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And in that context,
we read first 17, and it
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says, "For a
testament is of force after men
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are dead: otherwise it
is of no strength at all
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while the Testator lives. "
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This is an analogy
that Paul is using.
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He is talking about the
fact that after someone dies.
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Of course, the
will, the testament,
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his living
testament goes into effect.
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But in a symbolic sense,
we are looking at in context
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of the cross of the Gospel.
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And we recognize that
it was by the blood of
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Jesus is by the death of
Jesus that force, that power,
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that motive was
given to the new covenant.
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Paul says it this
way in 2 Corinthians, 5.
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He says, the love of
Christ constrains us, the
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love of Christ,
friends, is the force,
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is the power that motives us
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to embrace the realities
of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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This is an incredible
thing, is an astounding thing to
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realize, that the Bible
and Hebrews in particular here,
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is telling us that God
has made the sacrifice,
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on our behalf.
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We are going to cover all
the verses here in between
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but the same point is emphasized
down in verse 26 James.
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That we find up in verse 16,
again, he says, that He, that's
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Jesus, God incarnate, has
appeared to put away sin by
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the sacrifice of Himself.
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We have already mentioned
that biblically speaking, this
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is the definition of love.
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When the Bible says God
is love, the Bible means God
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is utterly and completely
self-giving and other-centered.
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He literally values our
lives more than His own.
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So God seen our situation
as fallen sinners in need
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of a Savior.
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It was His immediate, eager
impulse to condescend to do
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what ever it would take
to save us, and so He did.
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The incarnation was the first
step in that condescension,
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and then Jesus went all
the way to the cross and the
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language Paul uses here,
is the plan of salvation,
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purging of human sin,
solving the same problem was
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accomplished by the
sacrifice of Himself.
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Self-sacrifice, not the
sacrifice a somewhat external
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to God, not God in posing
sacrifice on some third party
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victim, but rather, God,
knowing that we could not
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accomplish our own salvation,
that we could not pass
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through the full ramifications
of the sin problem, and survive,
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God said, no, I will
provide the sacrifice and that
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sacrifice will
be a self-sacrifice.
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You know, it is amazing
that when you look at the type
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and the anti-type Ty,
you realize what God is
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saying to us here.
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Basically He is saying
that sin requires a sacrifice
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because the nature
of sin leads to death.
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That is the
natural consequence of sin.
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There is no way
sin can be remitted.
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It says here in verse
22, without the sacrifice,
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without the shedding of
blood, because sin in and
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of itself leads to death.
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God has stepped in and taken
responsibility for our sin,
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thereby God has
remitted our sins by tasting
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death that we deserve.
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What a powerful
beautiful truth, we have in the
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Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Paul is so emphatic about this.
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I mean, He recognizes
the weakness, not only of the
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Hebrew mind, not only of
the mind of the Israelites
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the Jews to trust in temporal
things and earthly things
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and worldly things, in priests
and buildings they can see
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and feel and touch, but
our weakness to do the same.
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So in Hebrews 9 Ty,
it like he goes over this
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again and again and again.
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I want you to understand
that the worldly sanctuary was
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a type of the heavenly.
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That the worldly
priesthood was a type of
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of the heavenly priesthood.
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That that was just
something that was temporary
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until the reality came in.
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You need to go
through a reformation.
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You need to
look to the heavenly.
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You need to look to Christ,
the earthly is imperfect,
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it goes on and on and
on, but Christ has made
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a one-time sacrifice.
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So look to Jesus as the
One who can forgive you for all
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eternity, for good.
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This is not merely a
Jewish problem, a problem
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of the Hebrew people.
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This is a human problem
that he is dealing with.
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He's not signaling
out any group of people
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within and indictment of
criticism, he simply saying we
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as human beings tend to be
self dependent number one and
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in that self dependence,
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we tend to build up systems
of religion around ourselves,
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that we can depend on and
so human beings down through
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history have done just that.
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And we do that today.
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We turn our attention and
our focus to human beings and
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we imagine in our hearts
that somehow the sin problem
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can be solved through a
religious experience, through
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ceremonies, through a
process of confession to
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other human beings.
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But Paul wants us to understand
that we need to lift our
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gaze, lift our attention on
to the heavenly realities that
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center in the Lord
Jesus Christ as our Savior
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and find strength there.
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This is absolutely vital, in
fact, the very center verse of
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the Bible, this is the verse,
the chapter of the Bible I
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should say that you come down
to when you put an even number
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of Bible chapters on the left
and on the right is Psalms 118.
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And when you get to Psalms 118,
this is what you read in the
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context of this truth that
we are talking about in Hebrews
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this is what you read.
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Psalms 118, verse 8.
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"It is better to
trust in the Lord than to
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put confidence in princes. "
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This is, I said, the
middle Chapter, it's the middle
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verse of the Bible with
an even number of verses to
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the left and to the right.
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"It is better to
trust in the LORD than put
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confidence in princes,
confidence in man, it is better
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to trust in the LORD than
to put confidence in princes. "
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Psalm 118 verses 8 and 9.
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Now think about this, Ty,
because this is one of the
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themes that Paul is
developing here in Hebrews.
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Hebrews is talking about
the new covenant, knowing the
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Lord personally,
trusting the Lord personally,
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looking to His
priestly ministry,
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look into His heavenly
sanctuary, and having this
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relationship with God,
that trust in Him and not to
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putting your trust in man,
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whether it is
another human being or
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whether it is yourself.
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Not putting our
trust in human flesh.
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There, is no help,
there is no strength, there's
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no way to resolve the problem
the sin problem within ourselves
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or through any
kind of human systems.
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That's why it is so vital
that we, by faith, make the
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transition of a central
focus on Jesus and His heavenly
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ministry in our behalf.
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Absolutely, verse 27 and
verse 28 week we could spend a
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lot of time in these last
couple of verses, friends.
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But let's just read
them before we do that.
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"And as it is appointed
unto men once to die, but after
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this the judgment: so
Christ was once offered to bear
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the sins of many;" or the
many, "and unto them that look
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for him shall he
appear the second time
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without sin unto salvation. "
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What a beautiful beautiful
powerful summary of everything
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that Paul has
talked about so far.
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We are all pointed to die
once, and then there is going
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to be a judgment.
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So we need to look to Christ,
because Christ is the only
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One as He appears the second
time, who can bear our sins
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and bring us salvation.
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Christ was offered, verse 28.
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He was offered once to
bear the sins of the many,
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to bear the sins of
all according to John 3:16.
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The most quoted verse in the
Bible," God so loved the world".
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Every member of the human
family and this sacrifice was
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made for all by
the God of heaven.
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You know, I want
our viewers to say that.
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I want you to say
that right now to yourself.
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I want you to
say, "once for all"
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Just say that, ONCE FOR ALL!
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Say it again, a second time.
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ONCE FOR ALL!
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Said a third time, ONCE FOR ALL!
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You need to understand
that this sacrifice was made
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one time, for all.
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Understanding that truth,
excepting this truth as it is
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brought out in these
verses is going to give you an
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entirely different
religious experience.
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Or if you don't have a
religious experience, it is
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going to lift from
you a weight of guilt.
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The burden and the oppression
of guilt that has kept
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you in bondage and
fear for all of your lives.
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It's going to free you
from all that and bring you
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into a position
before God of acceptance.
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A position before God,
where you are bathed in His
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love and His compassion.
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Where your heart and your
mind can be free, and He can
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fill you with His
Spirit and you can go forth to
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rejoicing in Him
once and for all.
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You have been saved by
the blood of Jesus Christ.
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It's in that setting, is
in that context, that the
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second coming of Jesus
Christ is brought to view here.
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He says, those who have
this new covenant experience,
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those who put
their trust in Jesus.
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It says James that they
eagerly wait for Him to appear.
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They eagerly look
forward to the second
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coming of Jesus Christ.
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They are looking for Him.
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It's not with
fear and trepidation.
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It's not with
hesitancy, but there is a peace.
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There is a settled
state of dependence on Jesus,
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and a confidence that
His salvation is complete,
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that He has saved to the
uttermost and that we can
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absolutely depend on Him.
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So we are eager.
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I mean, when Jesus comes,
we are going to turn our faces
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heavenward "lo this is our
God, we have waited for Him.
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He will save us. "
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And this is because we
recognizing in this context,
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the judgment.
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And we know in the context
of the judgment that none of
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us can stand before a
Holy and righteous God.
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That our sins, overwhelm us.
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Our guilt is a
burden we cannot carry.
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There is no way that we are
going to make it through this
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judgment when everything
is assessed by a Holy God.
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When we stand, and as it
were, naked before Him, with all
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of our deeds, and all of
our motives open before Him.
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There is no way that we can
stand in His presence unless,
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unless we have Jesus
Christ as our righteousness.
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So, yes, we look to Jesus,
we look for Him, we are eager
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for Him, when we accept
Christ, we want Him to return.
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And we are longing for Him
to come to this earth and to
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take us to be with
Him for all eternity.
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Paul said it says here
that when Jesus comes the second
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time, that He is
going to appear without sin.
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What is that all about?
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Why and what sense
does He appear without sin?
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He is no longer
bearing the sins of the men.
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He is no longer bearing
our sins, in other words,
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there comes a time in
the history of the world.
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When everything
comes to a close.
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There comes a time
when one everyone has chosen
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for or against God.
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When He is no longer
needed to mediate, when He is no
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longer needed to deal with sin.
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He is as it were taken
those sins and completely
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annihilating and
blotting them out.
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There is no more
remembrance of them.
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He comes Holy, pure and
undefiled, and we are changed in
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a moment in the twinkling
of an eye and sin is no more.
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That is a glorious
thought that the sin problem is
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completely
resolved at this point.
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That it will not raise its
ugly head ever again, in the
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history of eternity future.
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Jesus has fully,
completely and finally dealt
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with the sin problem.
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He returns the second time,
we enter into that final phase
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of our relationship with Him.
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And so shall we
ever be with the Lord.
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So let's summarize this Ty.
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We look at Hebrews
Chapter 9, and we see that Paul
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has been transitioning us
into this greater understanding
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of the heavenly sanctuary.
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The earthly was a type,
let's get our eyes off the type.
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You know the whole world
now, many of us are focused on
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the Middle East, we're focused
on the Jews, we're focused
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on a literal temple
there, that's not where our
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focus needs to be friends.
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Our focus needs to
be on the heavenly,
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on the true type, that temple is
not significant, even if it was
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rebuilt not significant.
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It is the heavenly temple,
is the heavenly priesthood
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that's where our
focus needs to be, Why?
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Because that earthly type
could never cleanse us from sin,
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the earthly sacrifices of
animals could never cleanse the
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conscious from sin.
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But Jesus has made a one-time
sacrifice for all, once for
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all and that sacrifice is
efficient for each one of us.
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Let's get our
minds to the heavenly.
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That is where God wants us
to be as we transition there.
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We are going to find ourselves
entering into an experience
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that we've never had before,
free from guilt, free from
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the burden of condemnation
and filled with joy and the love
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of Christ, and with our hearts
filled with a sense of the
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fact that He
sacrificed Himself for us.
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That will according to the
Gospel, the teaching of the
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Gospel in the New Testament,
well, arose within us, a
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responsive love for God.
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If our focus is on
Jesus and His sacrifice on our
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behalf, we will experience
an internal empowering, an
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internal motivation to do
those things that please God.
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His law will be established
in our hearts, not by
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compulsion, but because
we willingly, eagerly want to
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serve and please God.
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It's a great experience and
the book of Hebrews continues
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to unfold it.
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So we are looking
forward to studying with you
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again in the future.
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