Hi friends, I'm your
co-host James along with Ty
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And we are in Books of the Book
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We'd like to invite you to join
us with a Bible, a listening ear
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as we get back in
the Book of Hebrews.
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James, the book of Hebrews
is an extraordinary revelation.
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It is coming to us
in the New Testament
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when Jesus has come
to this world, as God's
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supreme revelation.
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The book of Hebrews, over and
over again emphasizes this idea
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that in the person of Jesus
Christ, we encounter superior
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things, better things.
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Jesus constitutes
a better sacrifice.
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Jesus constitutes a better
priest in comparison to the
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Levitical priesthood.
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Jesus is a better mediator
who brings within our reach
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a better
covenant, a new covenant.
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As Paul has been developing that
theme, now we are in chapter 10
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and he is going to be
re-emphazing some of the points
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he has covered, but then he
is going to be adding some new
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dimensions of understanding.
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Yeah, this has been a
continuing theme through
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the book of Hebrews.
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Something better,
offering us better things.
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Also another theme has
been the relationalship aspect
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of our experiencing Christianity
our experience with God.
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God is seeking to draw us into
a close relationship with Him.
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Hebrews 10 has beautiful
insights concerning the plan
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of salvation and concerning
the gospel and the picture we
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have of Jesus Christ.
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Let's just start
there, in Hebrews, Chapter 10
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with verse 1.
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"For the law having a
shadow of good things to come,"
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"and not the very
image of the things,"
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"can never with those
sacrifices which they offered"
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"year by year continually make
the comers there unto perfect. "
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"For then would they not
have ceased to be offered?"
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"because that the worshippers
once purged should have had"
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"no more conscience of sins. "
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So here we have a
contrast between the image
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and the reality.
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The image is the symbolic
system of salvation that was
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instituted in the wilderness
with the Hebrew people.
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And the reality, that Paul is
bringing to our attention here,
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is embodied in the
person of Jesus Christ, we have
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type, symbol, and then we have
reality, we have fulfillment
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in the person of Jesus.
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Now we've already looked at
the new covenant and I think
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it's going to be
reiterated here in this chapter.
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In the new covenant we have
understood the law was to be
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placed in our hearts and minds.
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But here we have this
verse that seems to indicate
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the law was just a
shadow and that it was basically
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done away with.
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It was a shadow of good
things to come, and it was not
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something that we
need to continue to keep.
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So, is there a
contradiction taking place here?
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Absolutely not, we need
to understand in the broader
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context of Scripture, what's
taking place here is the word
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law is a broad word that
sometimes is referring to the
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symbolic system of salvation,
the ceremonial laws that were
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instituted in the Old Testament.
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Sometimes the law we are dealing
with in Scripture, and we need
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look at our context
always and find out what we
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are talking about.
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Sometimes the law is dealing
with the moral law in particular
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and in this particular context
we know that in the flow of
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Hebrews he is, primarily here,
dealing with the ceremonial
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system and it could not through
it's sacrifices, day by day,
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year by year, through
it's symbolic priesthood,
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it could not accomplish
atonement in salvation for
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the people, so entered
Jesus as the fulfillment
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of those things.
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So that the symbolic system
becomes obsolete, it becomes
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useless, it is
eclipsed by the better things
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that we have in Jesus.
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So this fits with what Paul
is seeking to do, he's seeking
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to transition to Hebrews from
the types, from the ceremonies,
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the ceremonial law sacrifices,
the ceremonial laws that
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governed the priesthood,
and the remission of sins to the
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reality of Christ.
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So he's talking about the law
of ceremonies, the ceremonial
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law is becoming obsolete
and it's making room for Jesus
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a better sacrifice.
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Now that is definitely one
aspect of what Paul is saying.
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But sometimes we fail to
understand that there is a
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sense in which, in that Old
Testament, old covenant system,
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that even the moral law
was being handled, dealt with,
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experienced in a way
that was insufficient.
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We looked at that
previously when we dealt with
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the new covenant,
Chapter 8 in Hebrews.
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We saw that when God
gave the Ten Commandment law,
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to the people, which of itself
is holy, just and good according
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to Romans, Chapter 7 verse 12.
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We also noticed that the
people made promises to God
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They said all that the
Lord has said we will do.
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We will obey all
His commandments.
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Hebrews Chapter 8,
informs us, rather emphatically
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that our promises to
God, their promises to God,
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Were promises that
could not be fulfilled,
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they were weak and insufficient
to bring to pass their obedience
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even to the moral law.
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So Jesus steps in, He institutes
a new covenant and it based on
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better promises, in which
God says I will write my law
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in your heart, I will give you
a new spirit, I'll give you a
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heart of flesh where
you had a heart of stone.
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I will bring to pass
in you, the fulfillment of
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even the moral law.
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That makes sense.
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Now here Paul goes on and
he says there is to be no more
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conscious of sins.
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Then he says with the sacrifices
of the animals there was
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a remembrance of
sin and again and again
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made every year.
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But because it was not possible
for the blood of bulls and goats
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verse 4, to take away sins.
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In other words, the sacrifice
of Jesus is actually going to
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going to remove our relationship
to, our connection with, our
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consciousness of
sin in our lives.
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This is amazing, this is,
if that's not what we have
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presented to us in the gospel,
and in the plan of salvation,
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the implication here is that
we would have an endless cycle,
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going on and on
and on and on and on.
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He makes this clear when he
informs us in the first three
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verses here, that the sacrifices
were offered over and over
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and over again.
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He is his logic,
here is his reasoning.
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He says, if those sacrifices
could have atoned for sin,
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if they could have saved
from sin, then they would have
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ceased to be offered.
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So the very fact that the
offerings continued over and
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over and over again, is
proof, it's an indication,
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that they were insufficient.
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Then Jesus comes, and
Jesus makes one sacrifice,
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which is fully
sufficient, that Paul speaks of
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a number of times in Hebrews,
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as accomplishing salvation
from sin, purging from sin,
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atonement from sin,
in a past tense sense.
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Jesus purged us
from our sins in Himself.
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Then we by faith are
called upon to enter into the
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reality of that
purging from sin.
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You know what I see here
Ty, I see a lot of repetition
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a lot of summary that is
taking place here, Chapter 10.
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In relation to truths that are
pointed out in previous chapters
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but then with
some added information.
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Some aspects that
we haven't covered yet.
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As we look at this, the taking
away of sins, the perfection of
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God's people, we see it in the
context of a truth that has been
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brought through the book of
Hebrews, time and time again
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the truth in transition from the
old types to the new realities
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in Jesus Christ.
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For example, you get
down here to verse 6,
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"In burnt offerings
and sacrifices for sin
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thou has no pleasure. "
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If God did not have pleasure
in the sacrifice of animals,
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we talked about that earlier.
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Yeah, Isaiah Chapter 1, we had
mentioned in a previous program.
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But there are many other verses
where God is communicating
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to the Israelites, in the
Old Testament, and he is saying
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to them basically,
you've misunderstood,
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you misunderstood my intent.
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The sacrificial system is not
an equivalent of the pagan rites
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of sacrifice in which the
pagan deities are appeased
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by the sacrifices.
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I'm not into the blood of
animals, I am not looking for a
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continual flow of blood.
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This was all symbolic so
you could understand the wages
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of sin, the affect of sin,
and what I am telling you is
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I never had pleasure in
any kind of sacrificial system.
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So what I want you to understand
now, Paul is telling us,
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God is telling us through Paul,
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what I want you to understand
now is I have sent forth Jesus
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My Son, to be the complete and
total fulfillment of what does
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bring me pleasure, what I am
really after, what I am into,
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and that is I am going
to make for you a personal
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self-sacrifice of
infinite love on your behalf.
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To demonstrate to you, to prove
beyond all shadow of a doubt
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that I love you
more than My own life.
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This is incredible, really
because the animal sacrifices
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weren't getting it.
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I know today, there are a
lot of people who would never
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want to see an animal sacrifice.
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There are people who are
vegetarians because they don't
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want to see an animal sacrificed
they don't like to see the
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suffering and the pain that is
afflicted upon animals in order
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for us to have
them to eat for food.
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If that causes us to change
our lifestyle to some degree,
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I think in this context
we need to say, well how much
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more the
sacrifice of God Himself.
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In other words, God is
demonstrating, in a very real
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sense, that sin requires the
sacrifice, sin leads to death,
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I don't like death.
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Death is an enemy and I
want to show you what death
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will ultimately do.
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Death will ultimately kill
Me and I'm going to make that
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sacrifice in order to reveal
to you that ultimate consequence
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because I love you.
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Not to appease Myself,
but because I love you.
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God is not a
blood-thirsty deity.
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In fact this is a good
point at which we should remind
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ourselves that we see a side
of God's character and heart
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through out Scripture,
in which He is sensitive.
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Not only to the human situation,
human suffering, but the Bible
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actually presents God as
a God who is sensitive about
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the sufferings of
creation in general.
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I think, for example,
where Jesus say not a sparrow
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falls to the ground without
your Father taking notice,
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How about Jonah?
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Yeah, the last verse of Jonah
God says to Jonah basically
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at the end of Chapter 4, Jonah
I don't want to destroy Nineveh
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because there are all
these people and much cattle.
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And think about it this way
Ty, you said just a minute ago,
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God is not a blood-thirsty
tyrant, but sin is,
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a blood-thirsty tyrant.
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Sin would continue to consume
animal lives, sin would continue
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to require death
after death after death.
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But praise God, sin is
going to be destroyed and death,
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the last enemy of God,
according to 1 Corinthians 15,
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death is an
enemy of God friends.
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Death is going to be
annihilated from this earth.
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No more death, no
more pain, no more sorrow.
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That's what we are told
in Revelation Chapter 22.
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So Paul says, actually it
is God here, in quote marks,
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speaking through Paul.
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He said, in verse 5, "sacrifice
and offering you did not desire,
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but a body You have prepared Me"
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Now we have this body.
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We have Jesus in
His incarnation, coming
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forth into the world.
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This is not what I wanted,
God said with animal sacrifices.
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Here's what I am providing.
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I Myself, in the person
of My Son, am taking a body
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upon Myself, burnt
offerings, verse 6.
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As you read, it is not
anything I have had pleasure in.
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I come forth, I come forth into
the world to do the will of God.
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The will of God, in this
context, is that the human race
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would be redeemed, that
sin would be atoned for,
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that in fact we would have
salvation by virtue of God's
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once for all act in
the person of Jesus Christ.
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Here's the clarification, verse
8, here is the clarification
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of what we've talked
about in verse 1, with the law.
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It says then, "when He
said sacrifice and offering, and
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burnt offerings, offerings
for sin, thou would not
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neither has pleasure therein
which are offered by the law. "
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By what law? What law are
we talking about when we are
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talking about offerings for
sin, when we are talking about
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sacrifices, we are talking
about the ceremonial law.
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So that law is the one that
is a shadow that is being done
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way with, then he said, verse
9, "low, I come to do Thy will
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oh God," He takes away the
first, that first ceremonial
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law, the sacrifice He is taking
away the first that He may
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establish the second.
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Now I like this because a
lot of people will say, the law
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was nailed to the cross.
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What I would say in
response to that Ty,
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in the context is, indeed
the law was nailed to the cross,
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in this sense, Jesus Christ
was the ultimate sacrifice
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He was the ultimate
reality of the ceremonial law.
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He was the Lamb of God.
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That Lamb was
nailed to the cross.
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The ceremonial law
was nailed to the cross.
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Not the moral law,
friends, the ceremonial law.
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We understand that when we look
at this in context of Hebrews 10
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In verse 10, we are saved, we
are redeemed by the offering of
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the body of Jesus once for all.
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This is a favorite terminology
for the Apostle Paul.
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Once for all, which
is a universal statement
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with the word all.
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Every human being is
included in what God is doing
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through Jesus Christ at
the cross, universal statement.
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But it is also a statement that
occurs as a one time historic
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act that is not
repeated over and over again.
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You know it is very important
to understand the context of
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this verse 11 is
going to give us a lot.
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And we are going to get to that
verse and look at that context
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not just in Paul's setting,
but in a present day setting.
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Right after this.
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