Hebrews 10_1_10 outline

Introduction: As we approach Christmas, I want us to understand what we are celebrating. Jesus coming into the world. We often time think of the precious baby laying in the manger but we don’t brood over His purpose for coming to this planet.

It is a biblical truth that we can’t stand before God in our sin. He is holy and righteous and we are filthy and rebellious. Yet God loved us and wanted us to be able to come into His presence and have a relationship with Him.

To the Jews God gave ordinances (The Law) that taught them how they could come into His presence, how they could be found in the right standing with God as He dwelt in their midst. In the tabernacle. But, these ordinances could never be fully carried out by man so Jesus came to fulfill them. Not only for the Jews but for mankind.

The Law taught that sin could only be forgiven by faith in a blood offering.

CPS: God prepared a Body for Jesus to be sacrificed and only the Sacrifice of Jesus could appease God.

The Realization of the insufficiency of the Law Vs. 1-4

To understand this scripture, we must first understand the Levitical Law, especially the Law found in Lev. 16, The Day of atonement.

Each year on the 15th day of the 7th month the High Priest entered into the holy of holies, where God lived and sprinkled the blood of the sacrifice on the mercy seat which sat on top of the ark of the covenant.

The blood made atonement ( כָּפַר kâphar, kaw-far´; a prim. root; to cover) cover the mercy seat - Idea of canceling sin – appease God.

Mercy Seat – literally means atonement

Bull for High priest

Goat for the people

Merely a Shadow Vs. 1-2

What is this shadow?

The requirement God laid on Moses was to make the tabernacle (The place where God would dwell among His people) exactly as He had shown Moses on Mount Sanai.

It was to be furnished exactly as God showed Moses.

This tabernacle and it’s furnishing is a replica of what Moses saw….. it is a 3-dimensional picture. Made of Gold, wood, clothe.

See that you make them after the pattern for them, which was shown to you on the mountain. Ex 25:40.

But it is not the very form it is a picture of what is to come.

What our author is referring to is sacrifices made according to the Law……. specifically, that made on the day of atonement.

(NB) That Alter is only a picture of what is to come… (the true alter….. a splintery Roman tool of torture, Calvary’s cross)

The sacrifice made on that alter can never make perfect those who come to God

Perfect (τελειόω tĕlĕiŏō, tel-i-ŏ´-o) be made complete

If that sacrifice was sufficient for appeasing God then it would not have had to been offered yearly.

That covering, that atonement….. fades away over time and our old and new sin comes before God.

Illustration: You have a white t-shirt on as you are eating some of your Grandmamma’s spaghetti and a little sauce falls from your fork and it stains that white T-Shirt. You come home and your wife throws it in the wash, she bleaches it. Then you eat spaghetti again… Sauce attaches itself to the freshly bleached T-Shirt. Bleach is good for washing but not good for keeping clean.

That sacrifice was good for cleaning but not keeping one clean.

Merely a reminder Vs. 3-4

In those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year

In the yearly sacrifice they would be reminded of the vileness of their sin.

The evil thoughts and actions that they had committed returned to their consciousness

It should have reminded them that they had missed the mark and fallen short of the glory God.

This sacrifice was not only a reminder to the people but it was also a reminder to God

Reemergence of sin not remission of sin

That sacrifice covers sin only for it to be brought into God’s sight again.

Because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin.

Impossible (ἀδύνατος adunatŏs, ad-oo´-nat-os) – Can not – helpless – powerless to remove sin.

That blood only covers sin for a short while

NB) Bulls and Goats are only a shadow not the form of what was to come.

That blood does not appease God…… But One would come into this world Whose blood would appease God.

Illustration: Dealt with the external not the eternal

It’s a Band Aid over an open wound – it can’t heal it, it can only cover it.

Temporary fix,

Transition: Through this sacrifice we realize the insufficiency of sacrifices according to the Law.

The Proclamation of the sufficiency of Jesus. Vs. 5-10

( focus on the Cross! This true alter! And Jesus the true offering)

What Sacrifices according to the Law could not do, Jesus did. He is the only One who could appease God. The Cross is the only Alter that would satisfy God, His blood is the only blood that would satisfy God.

Preparation of God Vs. 5-7

When He comes into the world, He says

The author sites Psalms 40:6

The Psalm is Messianic

NB) When Messiah comes into this world He tells us, I instituted sacrifice and offerings but they are not My ultimate intention. NOT HIS DESIRE

Desire (θέλω thĕlō) = wish / or to delight in

God has never delighted in Animal Sacrifices, we see this teaching in the Old Testament

Has the LORD as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams. 1 Sa 15:22.

OBEDIENCE pleases God more than animal Sacrifice

For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; You are not pleased with burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise. Ps 51:16-17.

A broken spirit please God more than Animal sacrifice

For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice, And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. Ho 6:6.

Loyalty pleases God more than Animal Sacrifice

With what shall I come to the LORD And bow myself before the God on high? Shall I come to Him with burnt offerings, With yearling calves? Does the LORD take delight in thousands of rams, In ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my rebellious acts, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? Mic 6:6-7

There is Not enough animal blood on earth to please God. To sacrifice your firstborn would not please God.

Sacrifices according to the Law will not and cannot please God.

But, One pleased God……. A BODY THOU HAST PREPARED FOR ME.

Before the Law was given a BODY was prepared for the true eternal sacrifice!

Before the foundations of the word, a BODY was prepared for the true eternal sacrifice!

The BODY was born in Bethlehem, 2000 years ago to a virgin mother and an earthy father from the linage of King David.

The being of that BODY was never born, He has always been. He is the Only Begotten Son of God, the One who spoke all of the universe into existence. God in the flesh, Emmanuel – God is with us.

Jesus – the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

This BODY pleases God

The only One who satisfies God. The only true Obedient One. The only true Loyal One . The very Image of the invisible God. His First Born of earth!

Jesus has come to do the will of the Father Vs. 8-9a

Jesus did on earth what we can’t do….. The will of God.

He lived the perfectly righteous life….. Sinless, Loyal, Obedient every step of the way.

Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt. Mark 14:36

In spite of knowing what awaited Him, He marched to the cross to complete the task He was sent for.

He came and fulfilled His purpose going to the true Alter, the very FORM of the alter

There He sacrificed Himself for the remittance of our sin.

He became the propitiation =Mercy Seat

Sacrifice of Jesus Vs. 10

THE CROSS….

By Christ’s surrender to the will of God, we have been set apart for Him (sanctified) once and for all

As He hung on that cruel cross He spoke out, IT IS FINISHED!

There is no other offering to be made, the appeasement of God has been finished.

Illustration: By one offering He settled the sin question completely and eternally. What millions of lambs and goats could never do, Jesus Christ did in His hours of agony on the cross. (Wiersbe)

Unlike the bulls and goats – this sacrifice did not stay dead, He came back to life.

This sacrifice made atonement and conquered death – It is finished and it never has to be done again.

Transition: Jesus came to earth for a purpose and He fulfilled His purpose at Calvary’s cross, where that precious blood of Jesus was poured out.

Application: That sacrifice is offered to us, a ransom paid for our souls.

A price that no human could afford.

It can’t be earned.

It can’t be bought.

It can only be received.

A Salvation that we had no part in accomplishing.

A salvation that no earthly priest could offer on our behalf.

A salvation that can come to us exclusively through faith in the One who offered Himself for us. Jesus, God in the flesh.

Jesus fulfilled all that was required for atonement.

He is the only unblemished One, the only High Priest who could offer this sacrifice.

He is the only unblemished One that qualifies as the perfect sacrifice.

The High Priest and the Offering

This is the sacrifice that pleases God, because it was perfect.

You can be made pleasing unto God today, through the blood of Jesus if you only come to Him in faith.

Conclusion: Jesus came to earth for a purpose and the outcome of that purpose is worth celebrating.

But let us not forget His ultimate purpose during this season.

He came to earth for the sole purpose of offering Himself as the only sacrifice that appeases God.

The Body prepared by God

We should be joyous because He came yet brood over what awaited Him.

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