How Does Sinful Man Approach a Holy God?

I never feel.

Like I can do this song Justice. I first heard it sung. Almost like a funeral dirge.

Almost like a funeral dirge, really really slowly. and sometimes I miss the organ because it can put a lot of I don't know what the hell. You describe it Majesty into it. But it always. Strikes me to the heart.

That it is the love of Jesus. The great love of Jesus. That is made a way. For us to be with him and I'm so grateful for that.

Hey, Katie.

So, David is this, this is in your last week, right, next week.

For Katy, B. Are there any questions for that song?

Something I can do that to Katie.

it was Kathy up here, I would, but Nothing.

Yeah, so I'm but next week is your last week, right? Are you now? Okay.

Probably, you know what's going to happen after the service today. And no clue. Well, we're going to have a potluck and a going away party for you. and we're glad you came today because, you know, Yeah, well you never know what you want me to do with this week instead of next week because next week. We don't know. So but we just wanted to show you our appreciation. So after the service, If you haven't made plans, please plan to stay because Frank is cooked enough, enough food for 60 people. Probably we told him 30, but I'm he probably cooked in a 60. So you're all invited to stay. And Weren't, you know, have some fellowship and things like that, and we're going to grill David. And you can ask him any question you want even about the song and he will give you an honest answer. so, There's a handle and front or up a few Bible in front of you or underneath you, because we're going to read. The reading is going to be from the NIV, not from the ESV because the person who I'm going to have read.

Practiced on the nav. So we don't want to throw a loop for her. So, Do you have an IV up there or no?

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Yeah, this is this one's the new international or the nearly inspired version.

That's it, it should take three minutes according to that, for her to read it. So it's all stand together and we'll read it with her.

She's going to read verses 1 through 10.

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Now the first Covenant had a regulation for worship was set up in its first room where the lampstand the table and the consecrated bread. This was called The Holy place behind the second career and was a room called the most holy place which had the golden altar of incense and the goal covered Ark of Covenant with our Nana Aaron stuff, the head, butted and the stone tablets of the Covenant of the Ark of the glory cover these things in detail right now. Whenever you stand has been arranged like this, the presents are ready to carry on their Ministry but only the high priests enter the inner room and that only once a year. And now I she offered for himself and sins of the people had committed in ignorance. The holy spirit is sad that the way into the most holy place, has not yet been disclosed as long as the first having a toll was still functioning. This is an illustration for the present time. Indicating the gifts and the sacrifices being offered, were not able to clear the conscience of the worshipper. They are only a matter of food and drink and very ceremonial washing external regulations applying until the time of the new order. Thank, you. May be seated. Thanks. Katie. It's different.

so now we can Go to the. English Standard Version and we will preach from there but we won't preach. I will sew in verses 1 through 10. It actually is showing us the inferiority of the sanctuary under the old Covenant. and for those of you who are just jumping in, this is actually going to be some deep Doctrine and hopefully we'll all learn a lot from it but the writer gives five reasons why the old Covenant Sanctuary was inferior. To the new Sanctuary that's come first of all and verse when he was on Earth it was but a shadow of things to come and verses 2 through 5. It was inaccessible to people verses 6 through 7. It was temporary verse Aid. It was ineffective for changing hearts and verses 9 and 10. So the main point of this first section verses 1 through 10 is that access is denied, God is too holy for you. To come into His presence in, in Exodus chapter 19, verse 23. It says this now they should be on the right. Then Moses said to the Lord, the people cannot come up to Mount Sinai for yourself more desain, set limits around the mountain in consecrated so no one can come here to God. You realize that even if a goat or a lamb or something like that, went up to the mountain pass that barrier. It was to be killed. In other words, God is, was off. He was off-limits to the common people. And Joshua chapter 3 verses 3 and 4. The people are three commanded as soon as you see the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, your God being carried by the levitical priests, then you shall set out from the your place and follow it. They were just getting ready to cross. The Jordan River in the Levites were going to carry the Ark of the Covenant across and as soon as they stepped into the river, the waters separated so that the people could March through. Remember that, remember that part. Okay, so that's what's Happening Here. And Now I'm verse 4 and here is, here's the here's listen. This, this is the point yet, there shall be a distance between you people in it. That's the Ark of the Covenant about 2,000 cubits in length. A cubed is approximately 18 in is from your elbow to your tip of your finger. So it's about 18 in. So you can do the math, 2,000 cubits, and it says, do not come near it. In order that you may know, The way you shall go for you have not passed this way before. Again, don't go near the Ark of the Covenant. I don't know how many of you have seen Raiders of the Lost Ark. Have you seen that? I've not actually seen it, but I heard about it at the end doesn't, it doesn't doesn't do things. Go in there and their faces melt or something like that, because they see the Ark of the Covenant. It's sort of like gives you that picture in getting in that sort of. I think it's probably pretty close to it of what we're dealing with here. Now, first of all, we look at the arc as in it and it's in an Earthly place. We looking verses 1 through 5 and we see now even the first Covenant had regulations for worship in an Earthly place of Holiness for tent was prepared the first section in which the lamps and the table in the show, bread in the bread of presents, or the showbread. It is called the holy place behind the second. Curtain was a second section called the most holy Place. Having the golden altar of incense and the Ark of the Covenant covered on all sides with gold and which a golden urn holding mana and errands after that budded, staff that budded and the tab. The Covenant above it, with the care of them of Glory overshadowing, The Mercy Seat of these things. We cannot speak right now in detail right now. So, in the first section, the first behind curtain, number one, if you will, we had the lamp stand. Now the lampstand was golden, it had seven branches and Priests made. Sure it was always lit. Then there was also the bread of Previn presents. This was 212 low. And if I recall correctly, these loaves had had piercings in it. They, they, they pierce the bread so that it would, I don't know why they pierce it. And I think that's just the way they did it in, and no one can understand it. I know, I know a few have ever been to a satyr. The the, the bread matzo has is actually cooked in such a way that it has brown lines on it and it's and it has holes in it. we have not an ex Jew, but I I redeemed you here with us some looking at him for confirmation and and that's true. And that also brings in some some interesting similarities or if you will between Christ being the bread and having stripes and wounds, we're going to get into that. Just a lil bit more especially right now. How did these items the lampstand and the bread of present point to Christ now and John 8:12. Jesus said, I am the light of the world, he who follows me. Shall not walk in the darkness, but I shall have the light of life. And then in John 1st, John 1:7, the believer that's if someone who's put their trust in Jesus is instructed to walk in the light. As Christ himself is in the light, then we will have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus, his son cleanses us from all sin. And then also and Revelation, chapter 21, verse 23. Jesus is the lamp in the new New Jerusalem. For the city has no need for the Sun or the moon to shine upon it. For the glory of God is a limited and its lamp is the Lamb. All these are pointing to Christ. So in this in this first section He just see Jesus all throughout. Now my question for you and for me, are you walking in darkness, not knowing where you're going. Believers now are his lights for Jesus. Declared in Matthew chapter 5, verses 14 and 16, you are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden nor do men, hide a lamp and put it under a peck measure but put it on a lamp stand and it gives glory and I miss her and it gives life to all who are in the house. Let your light shine before men, in such a way that they may see your good works. And glorify your father who is in heaven. And the New Testament Jesus declares. He is the Fulfillment of the shadow of the Old Testament, to clearing and versus and John 6:48. He says, I am the bread of life. So we have, the first is the lampstand, Jesus is the light of the world. Now we have the bread of the presence in Jesus is saying, I am the bread of life and then inverse 50. He says, this is the bread that can't comes down from heaven so that when they eat of it and not die. So he says, I am the living bread. That came down out of heaven and if anyone eats this bread, he shall live forever, and the bread also, which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh. So we have in the first section we have the lampstand which is is to be lit continually and then we have the bread of presence which Jesus is the bread of life. So on the first seat we're just we're just seeing, this is the Tabernacle, this is what was in the Tabernacle. And this is a picture if you will, or a shadowing or a foretelling of Jesus and what he's going to be doing for us. So, My wave application. Are you are you eating to satisfy your spiritual hunger? And what I mean by that is that are you feasting on God's word? Are you, do you have a hunger and a thirst for righteousness? We saying, As the deer pants for the water, is your soul panting for from God? Is it, is it? If it is if you have any hunger for him, go to his word cuz that's where it is. It's in his word. So everything about the Tabernacle and its Furnishings was meant to be a teaching tool and I like many conservative commentators believe that. Ultimately every aspect of the Tabernacle pointed to in was fulfilled in Christ. Little bit of repetition here, but I just want to let, you know, I just want to go through this with you, the Tabernacle in the word became flesh and dwelt Among Us. So, here we have, the Tabernacle was an Earthly place that was put on Earth for the, for the Jews, to go and worship. And Jesus is saying, or John is saying that the word became flesh and dwelt among us. And then, we talked about the lampstand where Jesus said, he is the light of the world, John 8-12, Jesus spoke and said to them, I think I am the light of the world, whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. The show bread or the bread of presence in Isaiah 53:5. It says, but he was pierced for our transgressions.

And he was crushed for our iniquities upon him. Was a chastisement that brought us peace in with his wounds. We are healed. So the piercing is just a picture of what's going to happen to the Messiah to Christ the veil, which he consecrated for us through the veil, that is his flesh and Hebrews chapter 10 verse 19 and 20 it says this, therefore Brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the New and Living Way that he open for us through the curtain that is through his flesh. So, The veil is representation of the Flesh of Jesus flesh. Then inside the second, Is The Mercy Seat. What shows that Redemption is in Jesus Christ? And then the Manna is in, in the, in the Ark of the Covenant. And he says, I am the bread of life. We read those verses in John chapter 6, verses, 48 and 50. And then we had also in there Aaron's Rod, which is sort of a representation of the high priest being Jesus. Jesus is now our high priest we've been reading about that in in Hebrews, then the tablets of stone were perfectly fulfilled and it's interesting to me to that of all the things. That the Ten Commandments could have been written on. God, chose Stone. Did you do? Did you realize that God, wrote The Commandments on Stone? Now? What a stone remind you of reminds me of last week when we talked about, you know, our hearts being like Stone and when Christ comes in, he redeems the heart and he gives us a heart of Flesh. Is that sort of need that the old Covenant was based on tablets of stone? The New Covenant is he's going to put his word into our heart. I just think that's beautiful. So now we go to verses 3 through 5 and Hebrews chapter 9, verses 3 through 5. And we're going to go to the second curtain in in your bulletin. I think there's a picture of the whole Tabernacle aspect of it, but if you wouldn't mind putting on the picture that we showed last week, that's, that's the one that's the Tabernacle putting this one on another other one before it

you don't have it.

Okay, well, that one that one will do the second one. It'll it'll do we have On the outside of the Tabernacle, this is a tabernacle on man, we have the Braves Brazen Altar and the bronze. Laver know, the Brazen altar is where the sacrifices were made, that's where they, they sacrifice the animals. Then, after the priest would sacrifice the animal, he would wash himself with a brat and a bronze labor with water, and then he could enter into the holy place. In a holy place, has the lampstand, the table of showbread or the, or is the table of present is called In this passage. And then the altar of incense So the altar of incense represents the prayers of God's people Before the Throne, if we look at Revelation chapter 5 verse 8, it says, and when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures, and the 24 Elders, fell down before the lamb. Each holding a heart and a golden bowls full of incense which are the prayers of the Saints. So, this, this altar of incense, is, is a used, if you will. As a replicate as a representation of the prayers that are being offered from the Saints by Jesus from the Saints. So if you notice on this picture again, What are things that really sort of true me a little bit cuz I'm reading through this and I'm looking at these pictures and if you noticed, where is the altar of incense?

Is it on the right side of according to the scriptures in Hebrews? Well, according to the Old Testament scriptures, the altar of incense is supposed to be in the most, hold the holy of holies the most holy place. And yet here it's the author of Hebrews. Puts it in the first section. Show me for a loop and I was just thinking about that. I was singing. What's going on here? Is there something wrong? And in the end, I came across this in a in a commentary. So I wanted to sort of read it to you without getting too technical with all the Greek words and things like that. So here he says the altar of incense, or in parentheses, you put sensor strictly speaking in secular, usage described a utensil, or container for burning incense. However, the Jewish historian, Josephus uses that word to describe the altar of incense in the Jewish temple, which would be a metonymy. I'm at own Ami, refers to a figure of speech, where one uses the name. One thing, the attempt utensil for burning incense for the name of another thing, the altar of incense of, which it is a tribute, an attribute, or with, which it is associated. So, Without I'm going to try and some this up for you. And what he's saying is that the altar of incense now? Okay is was was an altar but what the priest would do as he would go with a with a pan of fire pan and he would go in there and he would take that incense if you will the fire and he would take it into the holy of holies once a year. Are you following me? So that's why it is talked about being in the holy of holies. So there's a veil there. That separates the holy of holies from the holy place. Are are we are you following me? Because this is this is something that's sort of new for most of us because even though the Tabernacle in the temple and things like that, it is mentioned over and over again, it's not preached on very much. So we're sort of a little bit ignorant of this and when we get to the end where he says of these things we cannot speak in detail, didn't really need to speak in detail to these guys that he's writing to because they're familiar with it. But for us, we need to go into a little bit of detail because we're not as familiar as they are. So he would take the the incense and you would take it in the high priest would once a year. So we have in the inverses. 3 through 5, I'm going to read them again behind the second curtain. You know reminds me of and in this is just a

How how many of you ever watch? Let's Make a Deal. I'll come on. Am I the only one? My mom used to watch that all the time and here we have behind curtain. Number one is this what? It's just what reminded me of. I'm sorry. I digressed. Okay so we're now I'm more awake now okay so behind the second curtain was the second section called the most holy Place. Having the altar of incense in Ark of the Covenant covered on all sides with gold and which was a golden urn holding the Manna and Aaron's staff that budded and the tablets of the Covenant. So do we have that picture again?

Yeah, we did that other picture will get you in a minute. So the Ark of the Covenant is over there on the left and inside that Ark of the Covenant, there were three things. Correct. And what was in there? Do you remember? Nana.

The staff that budded. In a lot written on Stone. So we have we have the staff that budded, you know the the story behind that. The back in Israel, back in numbers, where they, you know, the people that the priests were coming up to Moses and Aaron and saying, you know, who do you think you are? We're just as holy as you are. And so, Moses told Aaron to put his staff down and all the other stops were put down. And the next day Moses staff and butted parents. I'm sorry, Erin staff head-butted and that showed that Moses was the chosen one to be the pie priest. Okay. And then we have the Ten Commandments of course written on Stone. We all we're all familiar with those and then we also have the manner that was put in there. Now it's really interesting. How long was this man in there? It's in there for quite a while and you know what it was in. an urn you are in not earn or whatever it is, it was in an urn and you know, it's usually put in an urn Yeah yeah. Something that's dead but the Mana I think is probably still just as fresh today as it was back. Then that's just my opinion, you know, I don't know but you know if God can do it. He can do, he can do it so I digressed a little bit. So we have all these things in there and then we have above the The wholly upon the Ark of the Covenant, in the holy of holies and I think I had another Sly, but I don't know if it showed up or not where it has the Caribbean it facing each other.

Number 10.

Yeah, they're in there somewhere. So anyway, this shows you this about the size of the, the Tabernacle, the American football field over on the right. I know if you can see what that says. And then underneath it is is the the court of the Tabernacle? So we have I wanted to point out. One more thing that I thought was interesting that I'd never really thought about is these. These articles that are in there in the outer court, if you will, if you have the brat bright Brazen Altar and then you have the Brazen labor, the made of brass brass, and in the Bible, is a typical of judgment. Gold on the other hand, it's what's inside of the golden lampstand. You have the golden. Table where the show breads on, you have all all all the things in there as gold, which is a symbol of God's glory. So you have the priests would enter. Now, if you notice, if you notice on on the side over here, You have a, a fence around the whole area around the Holt the whole Tabernacle common area. There's only one door in there. Is that sort of interesting that there's only one door? You know who the door is Jesus. Jesus said, I am the door, no one can enter in except through me. So you have that, you have that part. You have the the fence around, it is wife which the showing Purity within and then you have all these things that are going on. The depriest are in there and they're doing this their duties all the time on the outside and then they, they go in to the to the holy place, not the most holy place, but the holy place, they go in there and they perform their duties and they do that every day. They make sure the lamp is lit. They make sure that the the incense is still burning all that. Almost think they're doing that every every day but then only once a year. And the high priest is the only one that can go in. He goes into the most holy place and he only does it once. And I thought it was interesting because when you think about it you think about this high priest going in. How do you think he went in to the most holy place? Do you think he went in and said, oh, it's so great to be in here? Lord God, I'm just so happy. I can be here to to worship you and your presents and things like that. No, I don't think so, you know, I think there was there was a holy fear of this high priest to go in there. There was the whole section. This whole first section, they were talking about the title that I put on, there is access denied. Every point, you get to, there's a, there's a door. There is a curtain. There's another curtain that you can't go in. If you go in there, you're in trouble.

there, there was a, there is a A theory, I guess, this way, put it that the high priest because he had bells on his on his robe. That when he went in there, that he would make noise, and it would sort of, listen to make sure that the noise was still there. And that if the noise stopped that he would, that he was dead, and then they had a car cord that was tied around his leg when they could drag him out, that's folklore. But it just shows even that to me shows that there was some type of all Fear of going in there into the Lord's presence. You know, in here we were on the other side. With the hall, man. We can just come in and sing, praise and worship in things like we're going to get, but I just wanted to show you that it was different back then. Now, the next section and verse 6 has been following verse 6 and 7, listen to what it says here. It says these preparations having been dismayed and other words, all the things that are going on and they are canned in the Tabernacle. All these preparations have been made the priest go regularly into the first section. Now, this word regularly is very interesting, actually, two Greek words, but the one Greek word is

Antos, which means repeatedly. So these, these Kris did this repeatedly. It says an R version regularly but it means they did repeatedly over and over and over again. And what does that prove to you? Or what might approve, two rhetorical question, I'll answer it. That was never done, right? It was never finished. It was never complete. Not that it wasn't done, right? It was done according to the law, but it didn't, it didn't complete.

It wasn't completed. So these sewing versus six and seven, it goes on. And now I'm in verse 87, but into the second only, the high priest goes and he but once a year and now without taking blood, which he offers for himself, in for the unintentional sins of the people, did you catch that? Unintentional sins of the people. What was the sacrifice for intentional sins in the Old Testament? Anybody you're right. There was no. There was no sacrifice for intentional sins. I find it fascinating. How many of us? In this room.

we have a right relationship with God, if Only our unintentional sins were covered and paid for.

Sowing verse. Aid. We go on and it says, by this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened hippie. If you have your whatever device Bible underline, not yet opened it since you can't get in there. Why how long how long is long as the first section is still standing? And then in verse 9 there's a parentheses which is symbolic for the present age, the word symbolic there is actually the word that we get terrible for. It's a pro bowl is when his with the Greek word is. So it's a parable. Do you know what a parable is? A parable, is it is a story that has a? It can either have a real or a fictitious. Thing but it it's used to draw your attention to something else. That's greater. We have lots of Parables Jesus used in in in the New Testament but this Parable here is at the Tabernacle while it's still standing is you can't get in, you can't have access Going on. And according to this, Arrangement gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshipper, but deal with only with food and drink and various Washings regulations for the body and pose until the time of reformation so, This is all a symbolic. John MacArthur's gives a definition of the word parole parable. From the English where we get a parabola has arrived. The levitical system was a parable, an object lesson about what was to come in Christ. Now, these sacrifices worth sins that were committed before Christ was unpunished. You do realize that these sacrifices that they were performing in the Tabernacle.

Didn't. Make your conscience, clear? They didn't bring.

Perfection if you will in Romans chapter 3 verses 23 through 25. We're all friendly with verse 23 for all of sin and fall short of the glory of God. Verse 24 and are justified by his grace. As a gift through the Redemption that is in Jesus, that is in Christ. Jesus whom God put forward as a propitiation or a satisfaction by his blood to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness because in his Divine forbearance he had passed over. Former sins. Did you catch that? He passed over former sins, it is the same thing that says Xanax 1730. Times of ignorance God overlooked. But now he commands all people everywhere to repent. So the sins that were committed before Christ. They went unpunished, they were covered. If you will buy the atonement so that you could have. You can go in and worship but they were still unpunished, they weren't punished yet. The unintentional sins be intentional. Since none of them were covered were punished yet.

so now that leads us into the next section,

But my question is, am I in are you still trying to gain access to God under the old Covenant? You know you think? Okay, I I receive Christ as my savior, I've saved by grace through faith excetera excetera, I know that. But I feel like if I don't keep the law, if I don't, if I don't toe the line, that man, he's just going to come down and pounce on me that I might I might not be able to make it into heaven. There's some people think that there's some people that cheat that even teach that that if you sin willful sin, disqualifies you from salvation. Did you realize that there's denominations that teach that I can tell you afterwards? I don't want to do it on this but afterwards, I can tell you one of them that does it and you'll see why are you kidding me? But that's what's in their in their teachings. So we need to realize that now and verses 11 through 15, now that we're going to go into that that we have access, and that's why I put this on your bulletins. That now, we access is available. We don't have to keep trying to gain access to God under the old Covenant under the law.

10 9 through 11 9. I mean, I'm sorry 9, 11 through 15, it says, but when Christ appeared as high priest of the good things that have come then through the greater and more perfect tent at Tabernacle not made with hands, that is not of this creation Christ entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves, but by means of his own blood, the securing an eternal Redemption for if a blow up blood of goats and bowls and sprinkling of the defiled person with ashes of a, heifer sanctify for the purification of The Flash, how much more will the blood of Christ? Who through the eternal spirit offered himself without blemish to God purify, our conscience from dead Works to serve the Living. God therefore, he is the mediator of a New Covenant, so they Those who are called Mary sieve the promised, Eternal inheritance. Since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first Covenant. A lot to unpack here. So keep your seat belts on. In Matthew, 27 vs 50 and 51. Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. He already cried out. One of the things he cried out is it is finished. And behold. The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom and the Earth Shook and The Rock's split. Did you see in the old Tabernacle? There was a tent. And this tent the Tabernacle that the curtain in the tent was I think 15 ft high that no one knows exactly how thick it was some estimate 4 in thick. The tent in the Tabernacle, wasn't the the the I'm sorry. The curtain in the Tabernacle wasn't the curtain that was renting to it was the curtain that was in the temple. I'm going to talk just briefly about that well, do it now. Do you know it's really interesting to me, you know when you read when you're reading through Hebrews you'll hear him. Talking about the Tabernacle, the Tabernacle has mentioned a few times, like a three different places. Why did he is you say, Tabernacle at Temple? Because these writing to these people in the temples right there. Why is he using the Tabernacle instead of the Temple?

I believe that the Tabernacle is referring to Christ Earthly Ministry member, it was in, it was on the earth and it was temporal. It was something that they moved around with and it was taken up and put down and different things like that. Moved around the temple was something that was more permanent even though it was destroyed, it was more permanent. So I think the temple is referring figuratively, if you will too The millennial Kingdom when Christ is going to sit on his throne. The Tabernacle is talking about the temporal Here, and Now so, we have The way is now open in, in Hebrews 4:16. The writer says, let us therefore let us then with confidence, draw near to the throne of grace that we may receive and find great receive mercy and find Grace to help in time of need. So now the way is open, we can come near, it's interesting to me to that Eternal is In this passage the way it is. Sometimes when you read through the book of Hebrews, some people will focus on different passages and think. Wow, you know what we can lose ourselves Asian or we can lose this or we can and if they don't even ever, even look at the word Eternal in this, but the Eternal In this passage 11 through 15 is is mentioned three times. Where to talk about those three times. So the first one is eternal Redemption. So let's read verses 11 and 12, and it says bowling Christ. Appeared as high priest of the good things to come that have come, then for the greater and more perfect tent, not made with that, not made with hands. That is not of this creation. See when Christ comes his his Tabernacles not going to be made with hands, it's not going to be Earthly, it's going to be Heavenly. So he enters once for all into the holy places, that that Holy place isn't the picture that we're looking at. At the Tabernacle, hear the holy places is in heaven, that's her price entered. That's where he showed His his Redemptive blood and things like that. Jay Vernon McGee said that he that he took actually took blood up into heaven and sprinkled The Mercy Seat up there. We don't know about that. Jay Vernon McGee is a great Bible teacher but I just thought I'd throw that in there for your confusion, but Eternal Redemption. It says he, I can't remember where I got this cool fun, but it's in Red. So it's a quote, Eternal means Perpetual Eternal Everlasting without beginning or end as of God, that, which is always Eternal Eternal now is a keyword in Hebrews. And it talks about the blood of Eternal Covenant in Hebrews 13:20, he offered himself through his eternal spirit, Hebrews 9 14, he has become the author or source of Eternal salvation. Hebrews 59, he is obtained, Eternal Redemption, Hebrews, 9:12 and he enables man to receive the Eternal inheritance and Hebrews 9:15 in also and vs 20 or chapter 13. So we see that the entered once for all remember the high priests and the priests they had to do it, repeatedly had to do it over and over again because it didn't satisfy God. It was a picture or a parable or a type of what was the come in Christ.

Remember these Hebrew? Christians. Are contemplating going back under this old Covenant. Because of persecution because they're being made fun of for their suffering. And he's riding them and telling them, you know what, verse 13 will go on there and verse 13. He says, for if the Bulls of goats and Bulls in the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer sanctify for the purification of the flesh. See that would that would cover the flesh? It didn't cover. The heart. The conscience and we're going to get into that in a second. It says, how much more will the blood of Christ? Who through the eternal spirit? That's the Holy Spirit. He offered himself without blemish to God. It if you have eyes to see, you can see the Trinity right there. You see it? The eternal spirit offered himself, that's Christ without blemish to God. The God, the father, and then it goes on. He says, purify our conscience from dead Works to serve the Living, God, more, perfect and Hebrews. I hate to. It says, it says a minister in the holy places and a true tent that the Lord set up. Not man, this is something that God has done. It's more perfect because God said it up. Not man, the means of that. It's that it's ethical, that's it. It's effective. Is that it's through Jesus own blood, not the blood of bulls are goats and then we have the eternal spirit, which is a holy spirit in. And we already read Romans 3:23 through 25 and it tells us that the sins committed before Christ or unpunished, a goat can't stand in for you. Only a human life, must be given not a gold and then in the human life has to be perfect. It has to be spotless and we're going to get more into that and just a little bit. But in in verse 9 it talks about a pure conscience and verse 14, it talks about a perfect conscience, I think. Can't find it now.

Purify, our conscience from dead works with pure conscience. So,

In verse 9 and talks about. Perfect, perfect a conscience. And here it talks about purifying the conscience and see the old Covenant, couldn't do that, but the blood of Jesus Christ, doesn't do that for us. And then it says about sanctification sanctify under under the old, Covenant was the flesh. Send was a tone for. But under the New Covenant, the conscience is cleansed Jesus sacrifice did so much more, we can all have a clear clean conscience. Only because of what Jesus blood is done for us.

Going on. He says serve now this should be a great motivation for us for us to want to serve the Lord.

It goes on and it says save purify. Our conscience from dead Works to serve the Living God, it is it just

sometimes I wish we could just you could just sit behind my back in and read and listen to all the things that I've listened to this past week. I'm not doing it justice but I want to just to understand that Christ did so much more than any of these other sacrifices could even begin to do. Kathy mentioned, this is found in John 19:30. When Jesus received the sour wine, he said it is finished in about about his head and gave up his spirit. It's finished, the penalty phase is over. The punishment is been taken away from us, Christ fulfilled that for us. There's a lot of people who are afraid that they that they blow on it. No, I've been a Christian for so long and then I went and I I did something I've blown it out, I don't know. I know a guy feels about me anymore. God loves you. You know, you know what, you know what you're afraid of your afraid of punishment. Look at me. Look with me. If you will in 1st John 4:18. Says, there is no fear in love, but perfect love. Casts out, fear, for fear has to do with what punishment and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. So, when we are afraid of God, punishing us When I perfected in his love. And we just need to realize.

It's been done. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was a foreign equities, it was all laid on him.

And then I've heard it so often. But you know, I just did this and I just did that hidden in a question always has to come up when did Christ die for your sins? When was the penalty paid for? It was paid 2000 years ago how many of the sins that you've committed? When he died on the cross for future. Well, all of them, every single one of them. so, when you Accept Christ, forgiveness, when you accept his satisfaction for that payment of your sin. It's all paid for. It's paid on a head. And the Old Testament, the old times. They were looked over. They were overlooked now he's calling us to repent. And when we change our mind and our heart about how we receive salvation, then we can be saved. And we can have perfect Love that. Casts out, our fear of punishment.

Put in my notes, her dear brother sister, are you still burdened way down under the burden of sin? Remember Jesus took your punishment for you? I want you to notice also something else in verse 15. It says therefore he that's price is the mediator of a New Covenant so that those who are called and they receive, you know, this is a perfect harmony if you will between arminianism and Calvinism, you see that the word called their means that God has called you. That's the elect. But you know what? Our job is to receive. Did you see it? It's your called that so we can receive. And what are we? What do we receive? We received the promised Eternal inheritance. And, and how can we do it? Because a death has occurred that redeems the rear door of the word redeem. Their means to buy back to pay for to redeem them from the transgressions committed. When

under the first Covenant. Do you see that before unintentional sins? They weren't covered but now they are. How is an Old Testament person saved?

Roman. I mean Ephesians 2 89 right there saved the same way we are by grace through faith. It's a gift of God. So they were looking forward to the Messiah coming and paying for their since. They might not have understood everything. We we do because we are under the New Covenant. We have the mystery is open to us now because we're in the New Testament, we can see more clearly. The holy spirit is helping us to understand back then they didn't have full understanding. We don't have full understanding but we're becoming more and more understanding what's going on. so, Those who are under the old Covenant, they were overlooked the sins. But now under the New Covenant, They're paid for. All the all the sins that they committed in the old old times Old Testament. BC before Christ, they're all paid for if they had the face to look forward to the Messiah.