The Sufficient Sacrifice
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Introduction
Introduction
If you have your Bibles, you can open them to Hebrews chapter 10. Tonight, we gather to observe a day that we have taken to calling “Good Friday”, because it was on this Friday approximately 2000 years ago, that Jesus Christ stood trial before Pilate and was rejected by his own people and was crucified on the cross. Although, the events that took place that day were by no means “good”, but full of malice, wickedness, and sin, it was indeed a day that had been foretold since Adam and Eve in the garden, when the seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent. It was a day that was promised, that would bring salvation, forgiveness, peace, and redemption for those who believed. It was a day that was pictured through all of the sacrifices that took place before the coming of Christ that pointed to Him who would be the perfect sacrifice to satisfy the wrath of God, and make atonement for those who called on his name. That is why brothers and sisters, we call this day “Good Friday”, because as we know, what man intended for evil, God used for good. So, tonight, I want us to focus specifically on this sacrifice that took place on that day, and observe together what the book of Hebrews teaches us about the Jesus, the Sufficient Sacrifice. If you will, stand and read with me Hebrews 10:1-18.
Body
Body
(1) The Law
a. Shadow
I. Never Intended to be the Solution
II. Always Inteded to Point to the Solution
b. Reminder
I. The Day of Atonement
II. The Sacrificial Goat
III. The Scapegoat
c. Insufficient
Application:
Labor cannot Save
The Warning: Christian Descent into Legalism
The Challenge: To read, pray, attend, give is not to give more favor, it can’t, but to make you more like the God who has saved you.
(2) Christ
a. Bodily Sacrifice
i. For Atonement
Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
II. For Forgiveness
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
III. For Redemption
so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
b. Obedient Sacrifice
I. The Picture of an Unblemished Sacrifice
II. The Promise of a Sacrifice
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.” And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called the name of that place, “The Lord will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”
c. Sufficient Sacrifice
I. Sufficient to Save
II. Sufficient to Sanctify
- How do we know? Verse 12
(3) Man
a. Perfected
b. Sealed
I. The New Covenant (Jer. 31:33)
c. Justified
Conclusion
Conclusion
Christian: Witness to others, and disciple others in this Gospel
Non-Christian: Repent, Confess, and Believe
The Lord’s Supper:
The Lord’s Supper:
We take the Lord’s Supper…
(1) As a commitment to Christ: 1 Cor. 11:23-26
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
a. in obedience to Christ.
“what I received from the Lord”
“Do this”
b. in remembrance of Christ’s death.
“Do this in remembrance of me”
c. as a testimony of Christ’s death.
“proclaiming the Lord’s death”
d. in expectation of Christ’s return.
“until He comes”
e. with reverence to Christ.
“Whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup in an unworthy manner…”
(2) As a commitment to one another: 1 Cor. 10:16-17
The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
a. We participate together
b. We share accountability
c. We covenant together as a church under the gospel.
LEADING THE LORD’S SUPPER
Call Chris forward Remind the congregation of the sobriety of the setting
Uncover and fold cloth with Chris.
—“Jesus instituted this supper on the night before His death to foretell the institution of the New Covenant and to give His followers a memorial and ordinance of that covenant. This sacred ordinance reminds us of the price our Lord paid so that we could be forgiven, restored to a right relationship with God, and begin to fulfill our kingdom purpose.”
“As we celebrate this ordinance, we remember first the broken body of our Lord. Jesus called Himself the ‘bread of life’, so it is no surprise that He compares His body to bread broken for us. His metaphor illustrates that He, like the broken bread of the Passover, was broken and bruised so that we could be made whole.” CALL ON A DEACON (Chris) TO PRAY OVER THE BREAD AND THE CUP.
After the prayer, without speaking give the trays to the deacons one by one. Call the church to form a line down the middle isle to come and receive the elements and return to their seat on the outside isles. Wait at the front either praying or singing softly with the music.
When the congregation returns (assuming we’re using the cup with both bread and juice), serve Chris and let Chris serve you. (Nod for Chris to return to go be with Deborah.
Return the final tray and take your place. Ask everyone to open only the side with the bread and take the wafer. Say, “Jesus said, ‘This is My body, broken for you. Not as your fathers ate manna in the wilderness and died, but he who eats of this bread shall live forever’.” Then take and eat your bread. Pause a few seconds.
Take the cup, peel it, and say, “Jesus said, ‘This cup is the New Covenant in My blood’. As the Scripture says, ‘Apart from the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness’.” Drink the cup.
Say, “Jesus led His disciples to sing a hymn after they finished the first Lord’s Supper, so stand and we will continue this morning’s service with a song.” Lead in a prepared song, and after one verse, begin to walk out.
