6.14.49 11.3.2024 Receiving the Promise Hebrews 10
Certain of our Great Salvation: Hebrews • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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Entice: The life that we share is the life we have in Christ.
He animates our hearts,
fills us with His Spirt,
guides us in the paths of discipleship.
The Old Testament prepares us to know and follow Him.
Today we will read a lot of scripture. Much of it prepares us to deal with a few, essential questions.
Engage: Many people spend a lot of time wondering
am I saved?
am I saved?
Could I be lost?
Could I be lost?
Can I have confidence?
Can I have confidence?
During this series the Hebrew author has largely given one answer to the variety of different ways this kind of anxiety can be stated.
Jesus.
Jesus.
Jesus is the substance of the OT shadows.
Jesus is the substance of the OT shadows.
1 For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?
3 But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.
4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5 Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me;
6 in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’ ”
8 When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law),
9 then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second.
10 And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
and
Jesus is the fulfillment of the OT promises.
Jesus is the fulfillment of the OT promises.
11 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,
13 waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.
14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
15 And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,
16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,”
17 then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
18 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
And Jesus
Jesus is the confidence the OT lacks.
Jesus is the confidence the OT lacks.
19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,
20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,
21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
Expand: All that the Hebrew author has said to this point is now distilled into very specific responses. four little ol’ verbs that encapsulate his encouragement.
Excite: Remember, The details are important in the book of Hebrews. However, It is easy to get so caught up in identifying the trees that we miss the forest. That is why it critical to keep in mind the author’s purpose.
Yes he wants to inform us.
That information is designed to encourage us.
Applying his encouraging words is what keeps us from abandoning the faith and facing hard questions about losing or keeping our salvation. The goal is not an abstract feeling of security. The goal is understanding the security we have in Jesus.
Explore:
Certainty comes from correct, durable responses to Christ, grounded in right understanding.
Certainty comes from correct, durable responses to Christ, grounded in right understanding.
Expand: So now, Consider these commands…
Body of Sermon:
1 Draw near with a true heart.
1 Draw near with a true heart.
Hebrew 10.21-22
21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
1.1 Assurance.
1.1 Assurance.
1.2 Cleansing.
1.2 Cleansing.
The next command.
2 Hold Fast Our Confession.
2 Hold Fast Our Confession.
23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
2.1 Hope.
2.1 Hope.
2.2 Unwavering.
2.2 Unwavering.
2.3 HE who made the promise is faithful!
2.3 HE who made the promise is faithful!
3 Encourage one another
3 Encourage one another
24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
3.1 Love
3.1 Love
3.2 Good Works
3.2 Good Works
4 Assemble together.
4 Assemble together.
25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
4.1 Absence can become habitual.
4.1 Absence can become habitual.
4.2 The time is short.
4.2 The time is short.
Shut Down
Why Assemble?
Why Encourage?
Why Hold fast?
Why Draw near to Christ and one another?
To keep the faith! To pursue a dogged discipleship. The alternative is described as
Sacrifice-less
26 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
the alternative meansJudgement.
27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
The alternative runs the risk of trampling underfoot the Son of God.
28 Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.
29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
The alternative means outraging the Spirit of Grace
Hebrews 10:29 (ESV)
29b, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
The alternative to faith is falling into the hands of the Living God
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
His final exhortation
35 Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
Don’t shrink back.
Don’t shrink back.
Don’t become discouraged.
Don’t become discouraged.
Don’t give up.
Don’t give up.
Don’t give in.
Don’t give in.
36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
