Hebrews 9:11-10:18 - Jesus is a Better Sacrifice

The original audience knew about Jesus’ sacrifice, but they lost sight of it’s importance, and they were in danger of abandoning Jesus and the New Covenant and running back to the Old Covenant.

We all tend to lose sight of just how important Jesus’ sacrifice is from time to time.

And when we lose sight of it’s importance we don’t live in light of it.

Because we tend to lose sight of it’s importance, God has reminded us here in Hebrews 9:11-10:18.

He presents it as the climax of his argument that Jesus’ New Covenant message and ministry is better than the Old Covenant message and ministry.

Jesus’ sacrifice is the pinnacle of the whole argument, the main point, the mic-drop moment.

It’s what the entire Old Covenant was looking forward to.

It accomplished what the Old Covenant revealed as our greatest need.

It did what nothing else could ever do.

It gave us what nothing else could ever give.

Our passage briefly presents some details about Jesus’ sacrifice, specifically its place, purpose, and pattern.

Then it digs deep into the significance of his sacrifice, the promises that are a reality for us because of his sacrifice.

So, let’s look first at how Jesus’ sacrifice is presented in verses 11-14 of chapter 9.

Hebrews 9:11–12 ESV

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he 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, thus securing an eternal redemption.

Hebrews 9:13–14 ESV

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, 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.

So, here, we see…

The Presentation of Jesus’ Sacrifice (9:11-14)

Back in chapter 8 the author presented this argument in basic terms.

The New Covenant through Jesus’ priesthood is better than the Old Covenant through the Levitical priesthood.

Basically, Jesus’ ministry of the New Covenant is in a better place, for a better purpose, as the fulfillment of the pattern, and offering better promises than the Old Covenant.

A better place, purpose, pattern, and promises.

And last week we looked at the beginning of chapter 9 which gave some details about the Old Covenant place, purpose, and pattern; how they only provided limited access to God, limited atonement, and for a limited amount of time.

Now, the details of Jesus’ sacrifice are presented here in chapter 9 verses 11-14 as better.

A better place, a better purpose, and a better pattern corresponding to the limitations of the Old Covenant we looked at last week.

The first aspect is…

The Place: Heaven (11-12a)

Jesus’ died on the cross as our sacrifice for our sins, then he rose from the dead and ascended into heaven.

In the Old Covenant, the high priest would kill the atonement sacrifice on the altar in the courtyard, then bring it’s blood into the most holy place to make atonement for the people.

Likewise, Jesus came to earth and was killed here, then after he rose from the dead he brought the blood of his sacrifice into the heavenly most holy place.

The author says that Jesus appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come.

This is like the appearance of the high priest in the most holy place.

And he summarizes Jesus’ priesthood after the order of Melchizedek as “a high priest of the good things that have come.”

He’s already explained this priesthood, so he summarizes it very briefly with this statement.

But the focus is on the details of where Jesus appeared as our great high priest.

He appeared in heaven, the greater and more perfect tent.

Not the earthly Tabernacle made with human hands, but the one in heaven, not of this creation.

Jesus entered into the very presence of God in heaven, the true holy place, once for all.

And he went there to accomplish…

The Purpose: Eternal Redemption (12b)

Jesus came into that heavenly holy place with his own blood rather than the blood of animals.

What his blood affords us is what the rest of this passage is about.

But we get a summary of it here.

Eternal redemption.

Eternal redemption has a lot of different facets as we’re going to see.

But essentially we are forgiven and cleansed of our sin, adopted into God’s family, and set apart for God’s purposes.

And all of that is eternal, forever!

And all of this was done according to…

The Pattern: Fulfillment (13-14)

The blood of different sacrifices in the Old Covenant was used to symbolize cleansing and dedication to God’s purposes.

The blood of goats and bulls refers to the atonement sacrifice.

In Leviticus chapter 16 God gave instructions for the high priest to kill a bull for his own sins and the sins of his family, the Levitical priests, and to kill a goat for the sins of the people.

And he was supposed to bring the blood of the bull and goat into the most holy place and sprinkle it on the the mercy seat, then on the tent, then on the altar.

And he was to do this to make atonement for those things, for the physical mercy seat, the physical tent, and the physical altar to depict their cleansing of the stain of being in the midst of sinful people.

The ashes of a heifer refers to a particular sacrifice described in detail in Numbers chapter 19.

Basically, a red heifer would be sacrificed outside the camp, and it’s blood would be sprinkled toward the tent of meeting.

But it was also to be burned completely along with cedarwood, hyssop, and scarlet woolen yarn, and it’s ashes were to be kept in water to be used to purify people who came in contact with dead bodies.

Those rituals symbolically purified physical things because they were offered through physical means: the physical sprinkling of the blood and the ashes.

But Jesus’ sacrifice is offered spiritually, through the eternal Spirit.

So, Jesus’ sacrifice spiritually purifies.

If the physical offering of these animals symbolically purified the flesh, then how much more will the spiritual offering of Jesus’ own blood actually purify the conscience.

We’re not talking about physical dirtiness, we’re talking about spiritual dirtiness, sin.

All of those rituals were symbolic of spiritual realities.

Touching a dead person makes you physically dirty with possible disease or infection or harmful bacteria.

But that was indicating that all of us are spiritually dead in our sins and spiritually defiled because of it.

We all need need spiritual purification.

We need our consciences purified from the works we do while we are dead in our sins.

We need to be purified, brought to life, to be able to actually serve the living God.

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So, this was a presentation of Jesus’ sacrifice and how even in it’s presentation it’s better than the Old Covenant sacrifices.

The place, purpose, and pattern.

But there’s one aspect we still need to cover, the promises.

The promises are how Jesus’ sacrifice directly affects us.

The other aspects directly affect how God views us in this New Covenant relationship.

But this aspect directly affects how we view God and how we interact with him.

It’s the promises that do that.

The Promises of Jesus’ Sacrifice (9:15-10:18)

So, we’re going to look at these promises.

But there’s a lot involved with each of them, so we’re going to tackle them one at a time.

And first up, we’re going to see the promise of our eternal inheritance in verses 15-17 of chapter 9.

Hebrews 9:15–17 ESV

Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive.

This is…

The Promise of an Eternal Inheritance (9:15-17)

Jesus’ sacrifice secures our eternal inheritance from God.

Under the Old Covenant God gave the Israelites the promise of an eternal inheritance.

God promised to give his people the land of Canaan as an inheritance forever.

But he also established as part of the Old Covenant, that if his people broke the covenant, if they were unfaithful to him, if they transgressed the rules of the covenant…

Then they would lose their inheritance.

Joshua warned the people about this just before his death in Joshua 23:15–16 “But just as all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land that the Lord your God has given you, if you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land that he has given to you.””

The penalty for transgressing the covenant was death, thus losing the inheritance.

But Jesus’ death took the place of that death so that the promised inheritance would be received.

A death has occurred, Jesus’ death, that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the Old Covenant, so that they can receive that promised eternal inheritance rather than dying and losing it.

Now, verses 16 and 17 in the ESV switch from speaking of a covenant to speaking of a will, like a last will and testament.

It’s true that the Greek word dee-a-THAY-kay can mean covenant, testament, or will.

And an inheritance is usually documented in a will.

But it doesn’t make sense to switch so abruptly from talking about a covenant to talking about a will here.

The Greek in these two verses is kind of obscure, and the ESV did a very good job rendering the English.

But I think it makes better sense to understand these verses as describing how a covenant works regarding death, rather than a last will and testament illustration.

This is describing the stipulation of death that’s always a part of a covenant.

Verse 16 could be translated, “For where there is a covenant, it is necessary for the one who made it to establish his death.”

A covenant is a binding relationship until death.

That’s why the marriage covenant is “till death do us part.”

And the consequences for breaking a covenant was always death.

Verse 17 could be translated, “For a covenant is valid concerning death because it is never valid when the one who made it lives.

That’s a pretty awkward sentence, but basically, without establishing the consequence of death the covenant isn’t valid.

If the consequences for breaking the covenant are that the covenant breaker gets to keep living and a death penalty isn’t stipulated, then it isn’t a valid covenant.

This is basically arguing that all of us rightfully deserve death for our transgression, for our sin against God based on his covenant.

But a death has already occurred, so that we don’t have to die.

Jesus has died in our place so that we can live and receive our eternal inheritance.

Now, just so we’re clear, our inheritance is not the land of Canaan.

That was an eternal inheritance for Israel, but not all of Israel.

You see, the tribes of Israel each got a portion of the promised land as an inheritance, but one of them didn’t.

The tribe of Levi was set apart from the other tribes.

They didn’t get land as an inheritance; they got something better.

Deuteronomy 18:1–2 ““The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the Lord’s food offerings as their inheritance. They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised them.”

God himself was the Levitical priests’ promised eternal inheritance.

And that’s the same eternal inheritance we have promised to us as well.

Peter calls us a royal priesthood in 1 Peter 2:9.

And John heard a song in heaven in his vision in Revelation 5:9–10 “And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom and (what?) priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.””

We’re a kingdom of priests, a royal priesthood, and our promised eternal inheritance, just like the Levitical priests, is God himself.

So, we have the promise of an eternal inheritance, God himself is our inheritance.

Next up, in verses 18-28 of chapter 9 we have the promise of purification, or cleansing from sin.

Hebrews 9:18–20 ESV

Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood. For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.”

Hebrews 9:21–22 ESV

And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

Hebrews 9:23–25 ESV

Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own,

Hebrews 9:26–28 ESV

for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, 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.

Here we have…

The Promise of Cleansing from Sin (9:18-28)

Jesus’ sacrifice actually cleanses us from our sin like many of the rituals of the Old Covenant depicted.

This is the New Covenant articulated in Ezekiel 36:25–27 “I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.”

True spiritual cleansing from idolatry and sin.

The picture in verses 18-20 in our passage in Hebrews is covenant inauguration, establishing the covenant with blood.

This is a very brief reference to Exodus chapter 24 where the covenant God made with his people at Sinai was established.

In that chapter, everything and everyone was sprinkled with blood signifying the death penalty for breaking the covenant.

The picture in verses 21-22 is upholding the covenant through purification rituals to afford forgiveness for breaking the covenant.

This is where the atonement sacrifice fits and the heifer ashes that we talked about earlier.

The physical depiction of purification with blood, and a substitute shedding its blood in death to afford your forgiveness for breaking the covenant.

Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

If God were to offer forgiveness without the shedding of blood he would be unjust.

Someone’s got to pay for your sin.

Either you, or an appropriate substitute.

And if it’s you, then there’s no forgiveness, only justice.

But if it’s an appropriate substitute, then your death penalty has been paid, and God offers forgiveness while still remaining just.

With these two pictures of blood being used to both establish and uphold the covenant, the author turns to how Jesus’ blood promises something better than a mere picture of cleansing.

Remember how the high priest would sprinkle the blood of the bull and goat on the mercy seat, the tent, and the altar because they were defiled simply by being in the midst of sinful people?

Jesus does the same thing with his blood, but he does it in the heavenly sanctuary.

He purifies the heavenly things with his blood so that we can be there with him.

Jesus has gone into heaven itself and made it ready for us to be there too!

And he’s gone ahead of us to appear before God on our behalf, to intercede for us, to apply his death to our account so that we can be forgiven.

So that we can have unlimited access to God.

Also remember that the high priest would perform these symbolic rituals every year on the day of atonement, bringing animal blood into the earthly most holy place.

But Jesus’ offering of his own life, his own blood, only needed to be done once, not repeatedly because his blood, his life was sufficient to atone for sin for eternity.

No only that, but a one-time sufficient sacrifice is the only way to retroactively atone for sins going all the way back to the foundation of the world, to the very first sin in the garden.

And Jesus has done that, by appearing in heaven only once with the blood of his own life sacrificed to cleanse the stain of sin for all time.

From the beginning of time, all the way to the end.

Not repeatedly, but once for all time.

No body, not even Jesus, is appointed to die over and over.

For us, one death, then judgment.

For Jesus, one death, then a return to judge.

But for those of us who have put our faith in Jesus, his return won’t be to judge us, but to save us.

The picture of verse 28 is the anticipation the people had of the high priest appearing outside the Tabernacle after the atonement ritual was complete.

They waited with anticipation, and when he finally came out, they all breathed a sigh of relief that the atonement sacrifice was accepted by God.

Likewise, we all wait with eager anticipation for Jesus to appear on earth again, but we already know that his sacrifice was accepted.

We’re waiting for him to come back to save us from the presence of sin.

His sacrifice has already cleansed us of the power and penalty of sin, but when he comes back he will rescue us from the very presence of sin.

Well, not only do we have the promises of an eternal inheritance and cleansing from sin.

But we also have the promise that we have been perfected, or completed through the blood of Christ.

We see that in verses 1-18 of Hebrews chapter 10.

Hebrews 10:1–2 ESV

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. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?

Hebrews 10:3–7 ESV

But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. 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.’ ”

Hebrews 10:8–10 ESV

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), then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Hebrews 10:11–14 ESV

And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

Hebrews 10:15–18 ESV

And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying, “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,” then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.” Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

All of this is…

The Promise of Perfection in Holiness (10:1-18)

Jesus’ sacrifice perfects us in holiness; the cleansing his sacrifice provides completes us as devoted to God for his good purposes.

Verses 1-4 show very clearly how the sacrifices of the Old Covenant could not perfect God’s people in holiness.

The law, the Old Covenant, is only a shadow of the reality of the New Covenant.

A shadow vaguely resembles the reality of what is casting it.

It only shows the outline, the basic shape of the reality, and it can’t do what the reality casting it can do.

I can do a lot of things, but my shadow only depicts what I am doing.

My shadow isn’t actually doing the things I’m doing.

The Old covenant, specifically the sacrifices and the laws about those sacrifices have never actually done what they depict.

They depict spiritual cleansing, but they don’t actually cleanse our conscience, they don’t perfect those who draw near.

Remember, the high priest needed to offer his own sacrifice to cleanse himself before he was allowed to offer the atonement sacrifice for the people.

He couldn’t draw near to the mercy seat without the symbolic cleansing of his own sacrifice.

And the inability of those sacrifices to actually cleanse the conscience is seen in their repetition.

If they actually cleansed, then the high priest and the people would have no more consciousness of sin, thus no more need for sacrifices.

The very presence of sin in the heart of the people would be purged to sin no more.

But that’s not the case.

And that’s not what the Old Covenant sacrifices were for.

They were intended to remind the worshipper every year of his sin and his need for cleansing.

And they were intended to look forward to the coming sacrifice that would perfect the heart of the worshipper, that would actually cleanse it.

And it was only intended to do this and not to take away sins because it’s impossible for animal blood to remove human sin.

An animal is not an appropriate substitute to afford forgiveness or cleanse the heart of a human worshipper.

It’s only appropriate as a shadow, a picture of Jesus’ sacrifice which is an appropriate substitute and actually affords forgiveness and cleansing of our heart.

It’s impossible for animal sacrifices to take away sins, but it’s not impossible for Jesus’ sacrifice.

That’s what verses 5-18 are all about, the sufficiency of Jesus’ sacrifice to perfect us in holiness.

When Jesus came into the world he took on a human body and a human nature so that he would be an appropriate substitute for humanity.

The author of Hebrews quotes Psalm 40 verses 6-8.

And he zeroes in on two statements.

The statement that God has not desired nor taken pleasure in burnt offerings and sin offerings, and the statement that the Messiah has come to do God’s will, to do what God really desires.

God hasn’t really desired animal sacrifices, he really desired the one-time sufficient sacrifice of his own Son.

Those animal sacrifices were just foreshadowing what God really wanted.

And once what God really wanted came to pass, those foreshadows were unnecessary, and done away with.

And by Jesus’ one-time sufficient sacrifice, what God really wanted, we have been sanctified, set apart for God’s purposes.

The priests in the Old Covenant would stand every day, repeatedly offering sacrifices for the sins of the people.

But Jesus sat down after his sacrifice.

As Psalm 110:1 says, “The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.””

He sat down because we’ve been completely, perfectly sanctified, set apart for God’s purposes.

And the only way we could be set apart for God’s morally upright purposes is if our sins were forgiven.

Like the New Covenant articulated in Jeremiah 31:33–34 “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.””

And we’ve been forgiven, fully forgiven, so that there no longer remains a need for sacrifices.

Because Jesus’ sacrifice is sufficient to perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.

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I’d like to explain two words for you, to understand this massive mic-drop statement from verse 14.

I’ve hinted at them a bit, but I just want to make it really clear.

The verb “to perfect” is the Greek word tel-ee-AW-oh, and it means to complete or finalize like a puzzle where all of the pieces have been put in their proper place.

It's complete, it's finished, nothing more needs to be done, it's perfect.

This is the word Jesus used to declare on the cross, “It is finished!”

For us to be perfected is to be completed by Jesus’ sacrifice, so that nothing else needs to be done for our sanctification.

That’s the other word I want to explain, sanctification or holiness from the greek verb, hag-ee-AD-zow.

All throughout the Bible holiness or sanctification is associated with moral uprightness, but not necessarily defined by that moral uprightness.

To be sanctified is to be set apart for God’s purposes, and because God and his purposes are morally upright, those set apart for his purposes must also be morally upright.

But at it’s core, sanctification is simply being set apart or dedicated to God for his purposes and not our own purposes.

So, our perfection in holiness through the blood of Christ means that nothing more needs to be done for us to be completely set apart for God's purposes.

We’re still being sanctified in our lives here on the earth, still chipping away at the things that draw our attention away from serving God with everything we are.

But our actions, our growth in Christ-likeness, our pursuit of moral uprightness, they have no bearing on our ultimate devotion to God because we don't sanctify ourselves.

That’s already been completely done through Jesus' sacrifice.

Now, because he’s completely sanctified us, we work on making our lives on earth match how we’ve been perfectly set us apart for God's purposes for eternity.

Conclusion

So, we’ve seen the presentation of Jesus’ once-for-all-time sufficient sacrifice in heaven, to atone for our sin, and as the fulfillment of the entire sacrificial system under the Old Mosaic Covenant.

And we’ve looked at the details of three of the most significant promises that his sacrifice affords us.

The promise of an eternal inheritance as a part of God’s family, God himself being our inheritance.

The promise of cleansing from sin, like Ezekiel 36 talks about.

And the promise that we are not only cleansed from our sin but forgiven as well like Jeremiah 31 talks about.

And because of our forgiveness, Jesus’ sacrifice has perfectly and completely set us apart for God’s good and glorious purposes.

This might be new information for some of you, but I suspect that for a lot of us this is stuff we already know.

So what’s the point of listening to a sermon about stuff you already know?

It’s a reminder.

Part of worshipping God is remembering who he is and what he’s done.

Because if we don’t intentionally remember Jesus’ sacrifice, we will forget it, or at least forget how important it is.

It’s the most important, period.

Jesus’ sacrifice is the one thing that has changed your eternal destination.

Instead of spending eternity in hell suffering your rightly deserved condemnation for your rebellious sin against almighty infinite God.

Because Jesus took that condemnation for you through his sacrifice, now you are going to spend eternity in heaven, in God’s loving and infinitely satisfying presence.

You’ve been given him as an eternal inheritance, you’ve been cleansed of your sin, and forgiven of your sin, and completely set apart for his good and glorious purposes.

The application for the entire book of Hebrews is what the rest of the book is about.

But for now, just remember Jesus’ sacrifice and how important it is in your life.

Now, Jesus’ sacrifice is sufficient to save everyone, even the worst sinner.

But his sacrifice is only applied to your account if you put your faith in him and submit to him in repentance.

Paul said in Romans 10:9, “if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”

Confessing with your mouth that Jesus is Lord is submitting to his rule over your life, including living the way he wants you to live.

And believing in your heart that God raised him from the dead is putting your faith in him, in who he is and what he’s done, his perfect sacrifice on your behalf.

So, if you haven’t put your faith in Jesus in submissive repentance, then I beg you to do that right now to be saved from eternal condemnation, adopted into God’s family, cleansed and forgiven of your sin, and set apart for God’s good and glorious purposes.

Pray

Father, thank you for this amazing gift.

Thank you for sending your Son, Jesus with the message and ministry that actually saves us.

Thank you for your sacrifice, for giving your Son on the cross so that we could be reconciled to you.

Thank you for adopting us into your family, so that we get to inherit you forever.

Thank you for cleansing us from the stain of sin, and freeing us from the power and penalty of our sin.

Thank you for forgiving us and completely sanctifying us, setting us apart for your good and glorious purposes.

I pray that you would help us to live more and more like Jesus, more and more like our full and complete sanctification Jesus’ sacrifice has afforded us.

Father, you have blessed us so much, you have given us so much.

I pray that you would help us to not lose sight of how important Jesus’ sacrifice really is.

Keep reminding us, especially when the world is painful or overwhelming or tempting.

We want to be fully satisfied in you, and your Son, Jesus who loved us and gave himself for us.

It’s in his powerful name we pray. Amen.

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