Participants: Ty Gibson, James Rafferty
Series Code: BOTB
Program Code: BOTB00010B
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00:01 Hi friends welcome back to books of the book.
00:03 And Hebrews chapter 10. 00:05 We left off here and Hebrews chapter 10, Ty and verse 11. 00:09 "And every priest stands ministering daily and offering 00:14 repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never 00:17 take away sins:" 00:19 This man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever 00:25 sat down at the right hand of God. 00:28 This is awesome. 00:30 I think about this because I came out of the system that 00:32 taught that you go to church and another sacrifices given 00:37 for your sins and that is how you are forgiven. 00:39 You go to another church and another sacrifice is made for 00:41 your sins and that is how you're forgiven. 00:43 But this is teaching clear Biblical truths. 00:46 New testament truth is teaching us that it is 00:49 one sacrifice that was made by 00:51 Jesus Christ once for all and for ever. 00:54 In other words, we do not need to go to a system that has a 00:58 priest continually making sacrifices for us. 01:01 It says in verse 11, we need to come to Christ and the one- 01:05 time sacrifice that is made for us for ever. 01:08 This is something that Paul repeats over and over again, 01:11 James, we have as we noted already up and verse 10 01:15 the offering of the body of Jesus once for all again. 01:19 He just goes to it again he offered in verse 12. 01:22 One sacrifice for sins, we need to highlight continually we 01:27 need to remember continually that this sacrifice 01:31 was made with as a self-sacrifice. 01:34 This is Jesus, Paul is hammering into us over and over again, 01:39 this is Jesus we are dealing with here, who is according to 01:43 previous ground that has been covered, and Hebrews was none 01:46 other than God the Creator of the universe. 01:48 Condescending, stepping down into human nature and given 01:52 Himself for our salvation. 01:55 This is glorious to think that we do not serve a God who is 02:00 demanding sacrifice, so much as God is making the sacrifice 02:07 for our sins. 02:08 We can trust a God like that we can be absolute confidence 02:10 that this God that we are dealing with in Scripture is 02:14 unlike any other religious idea that we encounter 02:18 anywhere in the world, this is a God of love. 02:21 It's vital for us to see this Ty in fact it again emphasized 02:25 in verse 14. 02:26 For one offering He has perfected for ever them that 02:29 are sanctified. 02:30 Then he pulls us right into the new covenant experience. 02:33 In other words for us to enter into this new covenant 02:37 experience this everlasting covenant. 02:39 The promises that have been made to Abraham, the immutable 02:42 promises made standing on God's Word that oath, 02:45 that sacred oath he is taken. 02:46 We need to understand this truth. 02:48 He has re-iterated two and three times here before, 02:52 he gets to verses 15, 16 and 17 where he says, 02:55 Wherefore the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for that after 02:59 he said before, this is the covenant that I 03:01 will make with them after those after days says the Lord. 03:03 I will put my law into their hearts, I'll write them 03:06 in their minds, their sins and iniquities 03:08 I will remember no more. 03:10 Powerful! 03:11 I love this James, again, he's already dealt with the new 03:14 covenant in chapter 8, and here he is bringing it to us again. 03:18 Highlighting the two main features of the new covenant. 03:22 I will put my law in your heart and I will forgive your sins 03:27 and iniquities, these are the twin realities of the 03:33 Gospel, forgiveness, which brings power into our lives. 03:36 realizing God's infinite love for us, 03:39 and being motivated and empowered by God's love for us. 03:42 Which then in turn changes us on an internal level. 03:46 This is not an imposed law externally, this is the law 03:50 actually taking root in our own hearts. 03:53 And our own motivational level of our human nature. 03:57 It's a form of love. 03:59 We begin to live for God because we want to, 04:01 not because we have to. 04:03 We had better or because we are living in constant fear, but 04:08 we now have fallen in love with this God who has 04:12 demonstrated His love for us. 04:13 Absolutely a when you look at this in its context, 04:15 what you see here is Paul is basically inaugurating, 04:19 He's basically establishing these principles 04:22 of truth concerning the Gospel. 04:23 In verse 12, he is the inaugurating, is establishing 04:26 the priesthood of Jesus Christ. 04:27 In verse 20, the sanctuary is being established. 04:30 In verse 9 we have the sacrificial system. 04:33 The sacrifice of Jesus being established. 04:36 And then here in these verses 16 and 17, we have the covenant. 04:39 Let's just look at verses 19 and 20 "having therefore 04:43 brethren and boldness", how do we have this boldness? 04:46 We have this boldness through what we have just read. 04:48 We have this boldness because of what Christ has done for us. 04:51 Having this boldness that we have in Jesus Christ to enter 04:56 into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, that is the sanctuary 04:59 in heaven began the NRSV says, this is the HUGEON, TAHOGHA, 05:04 the place in heaven, again Paul is not distinguishing here 05:07 between the first apartment or the second apartment. 05:09 He's taking us from the earthly to the heavenly having this 05:12 boldness to enter into the heavenly, by the blood of Jesus, 05:15 by a new living way, which He has consecrated, inaugurated, 05:19 established for us through the veil. 05:21 That is to say, His flesh. 05:23 Here is a symbol, the veil of the reality of the flesh of 05:26 Jesus Christ. 05:27 This is a great, great symbol here James, because it says 05:31 there, a new and living way. The word way here, it's a word 05:35 that could be translated as path or road. 05:37 This is a journey that we are called upon to enter into. 05:43 We all travel a lots and we get oriented sometimes. 05:46 As human beings on a spiritual level, where disoriented. 05:50 My wife's Sue, she is a global positioning device. 05:53 And I am literally becoming more and more directionally 05:56 retarded as time goes on, as we are married 05:59 and we are in the car. 06:00 I just going to neutral and I depend on her. 06:02 She tells me, turn right, turn left, go here and go there. 06:05 Ty, this is a problem that we both have because my wife 06:07 is the same way. 06:08 And so when we get together without them we are lost. 06:10 That's exactly right. 06:12 We are disoriented, often times, all the ways and paths 06:15 and roads of this world. 06:17 But here we recognize that as human beings there is a 06:21 spiritual and moral disorientation, and Jesus has 06:26 mapped out before us. 06:27 He has consecrated before us a new and living way, 06:31 a path, road and highway by which we make a journey into the 06:37 very presence of God, back into fellowship 06:40 to the house of God. 06:41 The house of God, it says in verse 21, "let's go to the house 06:43 house of God, let's drawn near verse 22, with a true heart 06:46 in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from 06:51 an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. " 06:54 "Let us hold fast the profession of our faith. " 06:56 Why? Because He is faithful, verse 23 06:59 "He is faithful who has promised. " 07:01 Here's another one of Paul's themes, he's very repetitive, 07:04 but he's repetitive to a purpose. 07:07 To an end. 07:08 He brings the same truths to us over and over again, he's 07:12 bringing them home, and here again he is arousing in us a 07:15 sense of confidence, a sense of boldness. 07:20 He says come on now, move on, Jesus has accomplished 07:21 all this for us. 07:23 There is an incredible revelation of God's goodness 07:26 and love for us. 07:27 There is abundant grace available to us through Jesus 07:30 Christ, he's saying get bold in your spiritual experience. 07:34 Don't you sense from Paul that he is trying to relate to us 07:37 friends, that God has given us everything He has. 07:40 Everything has been poured out here. 07:43 There is nothing that God has withheld from us that God has 07:46 expended all heaven for our sakes. 07:49 In fact in the context you see that because he says we need to 07:53 take this truth. 07:54 And we need to consider one another, provoke one another to 07:58 good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves 08:01 together, as a matter of some is, but exhorting one another so 08:04 much the more is received that day approaching; for if we sin 08:06 willfully after we received this knowledge of the 08:09 truth there remains no more sacrifice, in other words, 08:11 God has given it every thing, what else can He give? 08:14 I don't want our viewing audience to misunderstand this. 08:16 No more sacrifice for sin, if we sin willfully, that means 08:19 that if I make a mistake, if I messed up, if I go and do some 08:22 thing I shouldn't have done, that's it for me? 08:24 Absolutely not! Absolutely not! 08:27 This is one of the most fearful warnings of Scripture. 08:30 I mean, the language here is intense. 08:31 He is telling us in emphatic terms, with very strong language 08:36 that if we sin willfully, that is in the context of the 08:43 system of salvation, the reality of salvation that has 08:46 now come to us in the person of Jesus Christ. 08:48 If we turn a way from the sacrifice of Christ, 08:52 as the means of salvation, to the old system 08:55 of earthly sacrifices, 08:59 if we turn to that again, we are turning to a lesser, to a 09:04 symbolic, to a shadow, in place of reality. 09:06 There is no salvation in that, Paul is saying. 09:08 There is no sacrifice for sin in that. 09:09 Exactly, that doesn't work. 09:10 The earthly type doesn't work. 09:13 The only sacrifice for sin is the reality of Jesus Christ is 09:16 the reality of God's love of His self-sacrifice and if we 09:19 willingly turn away from that, what else is there? 09:21 There is nothing else that can take care of the sin problem 09:24 So this is not talking about making a mistake, turning away 09:27 sinning willfully, in the sense of going back into the world. 09:30 The Bible is replete with people who have messed up. 09:34 David messed up. 09:35 Solomon messed up. 09:36 Sampson messed up, and yet have found grace, 09:39 have found mercy have, found forgiveness. 09:41 All of us are in that boat. 09:42 It's talking about turning away from the sacrifice. 09:45 Kind of what Cain did when he refused to acknowledge as Abel 09:48 did, that the only way we could receive sacrifice, that we 09:53 could receive reconciliation with God, was not the works of 09:56 our hands, the labor of our hands, but the Lamb that pointed 09:58 to Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. 09:59 It will be, it will be an incredible thing, 10:03 Paul is telling us here, if we turn away from the 10:06 sacrifice of Christ and try to 10:08 find redemption through any other means. 10:11 God has now sent forth His Son. 10:14 The old has passed away, the new has come, there is salvation 10:19 in no other accept Jesus Christ. 10:21 Yeah, in other words it even goes on and says, you know if 10:23 There was punishment for people who broke Moses' law, 10:24 There was punishment for people who failed to keep the law. 10:28 how much more for those who turn away from the blood of Jesus, 10:32 who turn away from this wonderful sacrifice, 10:35 this unbelievable sacrifice that has been made for us. 10:37 He continues on here and I like this in the first 30. 10:42 Even though it's tough I like it because he says, "for we know 10:45 Him that hath said, Vengeance belong unto me. " 10:47 "I will re-compense saith the Lord. " 10:49 And again, the Lord shall judge his people. 10:50 I like this, and I'll tell you why. 10:52 Because while it upholds justice this principle that God has 10:58 as a part of His love, the foundation of His throne. 11:01 It also tells us that God is the One that recompenses. 11:04 God is the One that judges. 11:06 And sometimes when we look at people we say ah, 11:07 no more hope for them. 11:09 Ah there's no way can they be saved, and yet when we look at 11:12 the way God deals with people, He deals with them on a totally 11:16 different level. 11:17 Aww! it's so gratifying, there's so much peace in realizing 11:20 that we don't have to judge others. 11:23 And then we can stand before God, knowing that 11:27 He will judge us. 11:29 We don't need to feel judged or condemned by others. 11:32 They are not our judge, and we are not their judge. 11:34 When we put our confidence in Christ and in God through Christ 11:40 we realize that we can expect compassion, we can expect mercy 11:43 to be poured upon us by the God of heaven. 11:46 His judgment is just and righteous merciful, 11:50 and we can depend on him to do the right thing in every 11:53 single situation, in every person's case. 11:56 We're running out of time, so I'm going to skip down to verse 11:58 35 because this is one of those powerful promises 12:00 in the Bible, friends. 12:01 It says, "cast not away therefore" 12:05 "your confidence, which has great recompense of reward. 12:08 For, you have need of patience, that, after you have done the 12:12 will of God, ye might receive the promise. 12:13 For a little while, He that shall come will come, 12:17 He that shall come will come, and will not tarry. " 12:20 So the just are to live by faith. 12:22 Praise the Lord, this is the message that is reiterated 12:26 through out Scripture with a lot of emphasis in Hebrews and 12:30 also in the book of Romans. 12:32 The just show live by faith is the message of justification 12:35 by faith, salvation by grace through faith alone in 12:39 the person of Jesus Christ. 12:41 So don't drawback, he said, don't drawback. 12:43 God does not have pleasure in those who drawback. 12:45 We were persuaded, we are persuaded that you are not among 12:50 those who are going to drawback, but you are those who believed 12:53 to the saving of your soul. 12:54 Friends, God is calling us Paul is calling us, He has poured 12:57 out all heaven for us. 12:58 He has done everything He can do. 13:01 Given all that He can give, to draw us back to Him. 13:04 To make reconciliation for our sins. 13:06 To remove the burden of guilt. 13:08 He longs for us to experience, to taste to take hold of that 13:12 salvation in Jesus Christ. 13:14 Don't drawback, we're persuaded you won't draw back. 13:17 As you see the love of God embrace it, except it, 13:19 it is yours once and for all. |
Revised 2014-12-17