One Offering
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Summarizing verses 1-4
How do we take away sins?
How are we going to be holy?
5 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, “Sacrifice and offering You have not desired, But a body You have prepared for Me;
6 In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have taken no pleasure.
7 “Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (In the scroll of the book it is written of Me) To do Your will, O God.’ ”
8 After saying above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have not desired, nor have You taken pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the Law),
9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second.
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Simple question. Hard answer:
Why did God institute the sacrificial system for Israel if he didn’t desire what they had to offer?
The sacrificial system was always a temporary teacher. It was meant to prepare not provide.
From these few verse what is it that God desired?
A body???
6 Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired; My ears You have opened; Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.
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1 “Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the Lord your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it, 2 so that you and your son and your grandson might fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged. 3 “O Israel, you should listen and be careful to do it, that it may be well with you and that you may multiply greatly, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. 4 “Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! 5 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 “These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.
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37 And He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
“To do your will!” (vs. 7)
“To do your will!” (vs. 9)
God wants His people to be holy, not to continue to use sacrifices while remaining unholy!
2 Functions of this passage.
I believe it questions how we are using the means God has given us?
Most importantly, It points to the one sacrifice which actually does the will of God.
Active and Passive obedience of Christ.
Christ is the body provided, the listening ear, the one who loved the Lord with all His heart and soul and might.
In Christ is provided
(1) the atoning sacrifice by which we are forgiven. Our sins are taken away
(2) The active obedience of Christ. His righteousness. He lived pleasing to God. He was not merely a sufficient sacrifice to remove sin. He was a pleasing servant fulfilling righteousness!
That’s what we need to be! Holy and righteous.
That’s what Christ is for us!
How might means keep us from seeing the need for forgiveness?
How might certain means or spiritual practices keep us from seeing the need for a greater righteousness?
10 By this will [The will of Christ] we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
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I thought sanctification was progressive? What’s the author trying to get at here?
We are holy! (Status)
We are being made holy! (Transformation into the character of Christ.)
The means we implement out to help with both, but if they don’t point us to the first they won’t help us with the second.
There is no sanctification (progressive) without first a sanctification (status) in Christ.
Our progress and joy in the faith is through Jesus Christ: The sacrifice he’s made for us and the righteousness he’s accomplished for us.
What are some means spiritual or godly practices that help us in our growth toward holiness?
I would argue we’re really good at: Hebrews 10:24
24 and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds,
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Hebrews 10:23 is harder
23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;
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You’ll notice the practical side of this is in a few verses says use means to see more of Jesus first!
Hold fast the confession of your hope… not forsaking your own assembling together.
Use the means to see the sanctification (status), the sanctification already accomplished in the faithful promise keeping Jesus.
It’s from that objective foundation “Holy” that we seek holiness.
“Spur one another on to love and good deeds.” Seek greater holiness.
whatever means we are using let’s make sure we’re asking both questions.
“How can I see more of Christ” “How can I be reminded and encouraged and hold fast to that confession of hope”
“How can I go on to greater love and good deeds?”
11 Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;
12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God,
13 waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet.
14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying,
16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them After those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws upon their heart, And on their mind I will write them,” He then says,
17 “And their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.
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The work is done!!!
Not only are we given a new will and a new heart like that of Christ:
to listen, to do the will of the Father, to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, to present our bodies as a living sacrifice holy and pleasing to God.
We’re assured that our sins will be remembered no more. Our status as “holy” is a status for all time!
Now some may say a permanent status of “holy” would actually undermine motivation towards greater holiness. What might we say in response?
Our new nature and our status are not separated realities.
Our perfection for all time is not separated from the law of God written upon our hearts.
