Hi friends welcome
back to books of the book.
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And Hebrews chapter 10.
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We left off here and Hebrews
chapter 10, Ty and verse 11.
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"And every priest stands
ministering daily and offering
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repeatedly the same
sacrifices, which can never
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take away sins:"
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This man after he had offered
one sacrifice for sins forever
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sat down at the
right hand of God.
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This is awesome.
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I think about this because
I came out of the system that
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taught that you go to church
and another sacrifices given
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for your sins and that
is how you are forgiven.
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You go to another church and
another sacrifice is made for
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your sins and that
is how you're forgiven.
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But this is teaching
clear Biblical truths.
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New testament truth
is teaching us that it is
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one sacrifice that was made by
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Jesus Christ once
for all and for ever.
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In other words, we do not need
to go to a system that has a
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priest continually
making sacrifices for us.
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It says in verse 11, we need
to come to Christ and the one-
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time sacrifice that
is made for us for ever.
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This is something that Paul
repeats over and over again,
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James, we have as we
noted already up and verse 10
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the offering of the body
of Jesus once for all again.
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He just goes to it
again he offered in verse 12.
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One sacrifice for sins, we
need to highlight continually we
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need to remember
continually that this sacrifice
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was made with as
a self-sacrifice.
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This is Jesus, Paul is hammering
into us over and over again,
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this is Jesus we are dealing
with here, who is according to
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previous ground that has been
covered, and Hebrews was none
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other than God the
Creator of the universe.
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Condescending, stepping
down into human nature and given
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Himself for our salvation.
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This is glorious to think that
we do not serve a God who is
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demanding sacrifice, so much
as God is making the sacrifice
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for our sins.
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We can trust a God like that
we can be absolute confidence
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that this God that we are
dealing with in Scripture is
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unlike any other
religious idea that we encounter
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anywhere in the
world, this is a God of love.
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It's vital for us to see this
Ty in fact it again emphasized
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in verse 14.
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For one offering He has
perfected for ever them that
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are sanctified.
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Then he pulls us right into
the new covenant experience.
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In other words for us to
enter into this new covenant
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experience this
everlasting covenant.
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The promises that have been
made to Abraham, the immutable
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promises made standing
on God's Word that oath,
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that sacred oath he is taken.
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We need to
understand this truth.
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He has re-iterated two
and three times here before,
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he gets to verses 15,
16 and 17 where he says,
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Wherefore the Holy Ghost also is
a witness to us: for that after
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he said before, this
is the covenant that I
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will make with them after
those after days says the Lord.
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I will put my law into
their hearts, I'll write them
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in their minds,
their sins and iniquities
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I will remember no more.
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Powerful!
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I love this James, again,
he's already dealt with the new
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covenant in chapter 8, and here
he is bringing it to us again.
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Highlighting the two main
features of the new covenant.
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I will put my law in your heart
and I will forgive your sins
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and iniquities, these
are the twin realities of the
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Gospel, forgiveness, which
brings power into our lives.
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realizing God's
infinite love for us,
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and being motivated and
empowered by God's love for us.
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Which then in turn
changes us on an internal level.
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This is not an imposed law
externally, this is the law
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actually taking
root in our own hearts.
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And our own motivational
level of our human nature.
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It's a form of love.
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We begin to live for
God because we want to,
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not because we have to.
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We had better or because we
are living in constant fear, but
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we now have fallen in
love with this God who has
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demonstrated His love for us.
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Absolutely a when you
look at this in its context,
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what you see here is Paul
is basically inaugurating,
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He's basically
establishing these principles
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of truth concerning the Gospel.
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In verse 12, he is the
inaugurating, is establishing
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the priesthood of Jesus Christ.
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In verse 20, the
sanctuary is being established.
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In verse 9 we have
the sacrificial system.
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The sacrifice of
Jesus being established.
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And then here in these verses
16 and 17, we have the covenant.
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Let's just look at verses
19 and 20 "having therefore
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brethren and boldness",
how do we have this boldness?
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We have this boldness
through what we have just read.
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We have this boldness because
of what Christ has done for us.
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Having this boldness that we
have in Jesus Christ to enter
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into the holiest by the blood
of Jesus, that is the sanctuary
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in heaven began the NRSV says,
this is the HUGEON, TAHOGHA,
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the place in heaven, again
Paul is not distinguishing here
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between the first apartment
or the second apartment.
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He's taking us from the earthly
to the heavenly having this
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boldness to enter into the
heavenly, by the blood of Jesus,
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by a new living way, which
He has consecrated, inaugurated,
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established for
us through the veil.
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That is to say, His flesh.
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Here is a symbol, the veil
of the reality of the flesh of
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Jesus Christ.
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This is a great, great symbol
here James, because it says
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there, a new and living way.
The word way here, it's a word
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that could be
translated as path or road.
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This is a journey that we
are called upon to enter into.
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We all travel a lots and
we get oriented sometimes.
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As human beings on a spiritual
level, where disoriented.
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My wife's Sue, she is a
global positioning device.
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And I am literally becoming
more and more directionally
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retarded as time
goes on, as we are married
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and we are in the car.
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I just going to
neutral and I depend on her.
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She tells me, turn right,
turn left, go here and go there.
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Ty, this is a problem that
we both have because my wife
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is the same way.
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And so when we get together
without them we are lost.
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That's exactly right.
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We are disoriented, often
times, all the ways and paths
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and roads of this world.
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But here we recognize
that as human beings there is a
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spiritual and moral
disorientation, and Jesus has
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mapped out before us.
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He has consecrated
before us a new and living way,
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a path, road and highway by
which we make a journey into the
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very presence of
God, back into fellowship
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to the house of God.
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The house of God, it says in
verse 21, "let's go to the house
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house of God, let's drawn
near verse 22, with a true heart
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in full assurance of faith,
having our hearts sprinkled from
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an evil conscience and our
bodies washed with pure water. "
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"Let us hold fast the
profession of our faith. "
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Why? Because He
is faithful, verse 23
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"He is faithful
who has promised. "
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Here's another one of Paul's
themes, he's very repetitive,
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but he's
repetitive to a purpose.
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To an end.
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He brings the same truths
to us over and over again, he's
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bringing them home, and here
again he is arousing in us a
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sense of
confidence, a sense of boldness.
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He says come on now, move
on, Jesus has accomplished
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all this for us.
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There is an incredible
revelation of God's goodness
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and love for us.
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There is abundant grace
available to us through Jesus
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Christ, he's saying get bold
in your spiritual experience.
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Don't you sense from Paul that
he is trying to relate to us
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friends, that God has
given us everything He has.
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Everything has
been poured out here.
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There is nothing that God has
withheld from us that God has
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expended all
heaven for our sakes.
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In fact in the context you see
that because he says we need to
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take this truth.
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And we need to consider one
another, provoke one another to
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good works, not forsaking
the assembling of ourselves
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together, as a matter of some
is, but exhorting one another so
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much the more is received that
day approaching; for if we sin
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willfully after we
received this knowledge of the
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truth there remains no
more sacrifice, in other words,
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God has given it every
thing, what else can He give?
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I don't want our viewing
audience to misunderstand this.
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No more sacrifice for sin,
if we sin willfully, that means
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that if I make a mistake, if
I messed up, if I go and do some
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thing I shouldn't have
done, that's it for me?
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Absolutely not! Absolutely not!
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This is one of the most
fearful warnings of Scripture.
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I mean, the
language here is intense.
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He is telling us in emphatic
terms, with very strong language
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that if we sin willfully,
that is in the context of the
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system of salvation, the
reality of salvation that has
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now come to us in the
person of Jesus Christ.
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If we turn a way from
the sacrifice of Christ,
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as the means of
salvation, to the old system
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of earthly sacrifices,
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if we turn to that again, we
are turning to a lesser, to a
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symbolic, to a
shadow, in place of reality.
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There is no salvation
in that, Paul is saying.
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There is no
sacrifice for sin in that.
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Exactly, that doesn't work.
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The earthly type doesn't work.
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The only sacrifice for sin is
the reality of Jesus Christ is
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the reality of God's love
of His self-sacrifice and if we
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willingly turn away from
that, what else is there?
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There is nothing else that
can take care of the sin problem
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So this is not talking about
making a mistake, turning away
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sinning willfully, in the sense
of going back into the world.
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The Bible is replete with
people who have messed up.
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David messed up.
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Solomon messed up.
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Sampson messed up,
and yet have found grace,
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have found mercy
have, found forgiveness.
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All of us are in that boat.
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It's talking about
turning away from the sacrifice.
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Kind of what Cain did when he
refused to acknowledge as Abel
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did, that the only way we
could receive sacrifice, that we
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could receive reconciliation
with God, was not the works of
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our hands, the labor of our
hands, but the Lamb that pointed
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to Jesus
Christ, the Lamb of God.
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It will be, it will
be an incredible thing,
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Paul is telling us
here, if we turn away from the
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sacrifice of Christ and try to
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find redemption
through any other means.
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God has now sent forth His Son.
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The old has passed away, the
new has come, there is salvation
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in no other accept Jesus Christ.
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Yeah, in other words it even
goes on and says, you know if
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There was punishment for
people who broke Moses' law,
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There was punishment for people
who failed to keep the law.
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how much more for those who turn
away from the blood of Jesus,
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who turn away from
this wonderful sacrifice,
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this unbelievable sacrifice
that has been made for us.
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He continues on here and
I like this in the first 30.
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Even though it's tough I like
it because he says, "for we know
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Him that hath said,
Vengeance belong unto me. "
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"I will
re-compense saith the Lord. "
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And again, the Lord
shall judge his people.
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I like this, and
I'll tell you why.
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Because while it upholds justice
this principle that God has
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as a part of His love,
the foundation of His throne.
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It also tells us that God
is the One that recompenses.
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God is the One that judges.
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And sometimes when we
look at people we say ah,
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no more hope for them.
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Ah there's no way can they be
saved, and yet when we look at
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the way God deals with people,
He deals with them on a totally
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different level.
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Aww! it's so gratifying, there's
so much peace in realizing
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that we don't
have to judge others.
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And then we can stand
before God, knowing that
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He will judge us.
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We don't need to feel
judged or condemned by others.
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They are not our judge,
and we are not their judge.
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When we put our confidence in
Christ and in God through Christ
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we realize that we can expect
compassion, we can expect mercy
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to be poured upon us
by the God of heaven.
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His judgment is just
and righteous merciful,
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and we can depend on him
to do the right thing in every
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single situation,
in every person's case.
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We're running out of time, so
I'm going to skip down to verse
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35 because this is one
of those powerful promises
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in the Bible, friends.
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It says, "cast
not away therefore"
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"your confidence, which
has great recompense of reward.
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For, you have need of patience,
that, after you have done the
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will of God, ye
might receive the promise.
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For a little while, He
that shall come will come,
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He that shall come will
come, and will not tarry. "
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So the just are
to live by faith.
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Praise the Lord, this is
the message that is reiterated
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through out Scripture with a
lot of emphasis in Hebrews and
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also in the book of Romans.
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The just show live by faith
is the message of justification
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by faith, salvation by
grace through faith alone in
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the person of Jesus Christ.
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So don't drawback,
he said, don't drawback.
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God does not have
pleasure in those who drawback.
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We were persuaded, we are
persuaded that you are not among
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those who are going to drawback,
but you are those who believed
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to the saving of your soul.
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Friends, God is calling us Paul
is calling us, He has poured
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out all heaven for us.
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He has done
everything He can do.
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Given all that He can
give, to draw us back to Him.
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To make
reconciliation for our sins.
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To remove the burden of guilt.
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He longs for us to experience,
to taste to take hold of that
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salvation in Jesus Christ.
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Don't drawback, we're
persuaded you won't draw back.
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As you see the love of
God embrace it, except it,
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it is yours once and for all.
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