Sept 22, 2019 10:15

This text reveals three primary truths:

· The Christ life is ultimately about fellowship with God, about enjoying him, and such a relationship becomes a reality through Christ offering.

· Sin has been decisively and finally dealt with through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

· Believers have nothing to fear from death. They don’t face the coming judgment with dread and anxiety but with hope because of Jesus. Jesus keeps his disciples.

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Hebrews 10:1–8 NASB95

For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins? But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, “Sacrifice and offering You have not desired, But a body You have prepared for Me; In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have taken no pleasure. “Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (In the scroll of the book it is written of Me) To do Your will, O God.’ ” 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),

4. Jesus’ Sacrifice: Better than Old Testament Sacrifices (9:23-10:18)

· The Christ life is ultimately about fellowship with God, about enjoying him, and such a relationship becomes a reality through Christ offering.

a. Jesus’ Heavenly and Once-for-All Sacrifice (9:23-28)

b. Repetition of Old Testament Sacrifices Show Their Inadequacy (10:1-4)

· Sin has been decisively and finally dealt with through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

c. Jesus’ Once for All Sacrifice Canceled Old Testament System (10:5-10)

· Believers have nothing to fear from death. They don’t face the coming judgment with dread and anxiety but with hope because of Jesus. Jesus keeps his disciples.

d. Jesus Completed Sacrifice (10:11-14)

e. Final Forgiveness Promised in New Covenants Realized (10:15-18)

V. Concluding Exhortations and Warnings (10:19-12:29)

Repetition of Old Testament Sacrifices Show Their Inadequacy (10:1-4)

Hebrews 10:1–4 NASB95

For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins? But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Colossians 1:15 NASB95

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

In this text Christ is said to be “the image of the invisible God.” In Colossians, Christ is the image means to partake in the essence or nature of what it means to be God. So too here, we see the law is inferior because it doesn’t participate in the reality of what it foreshadows or forecasts

Hebrews 7:11 NASB95

Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for on the basis of it the people received the Law), what further need was there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be designated according to the order of Aaron?

Hebrews 7:19 NASB95

(for the Law made nothing perfect), and on the other hand there is a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Hebrews 9:9 NASB95

which is a symbol for the present time. Accordingly both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make the worshiper perfect in conscience,

Hebrews 10:5 NASB95

Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, “Sacrifice and offering You have not desired, But a body You have prepared for Me;

Jesus’ Once for All Sacrifice Canceled Old Testament System (10:5-10)

a. Jesus Completed Sacrifice (10:11-14)

Hebrews 10:11 NASB95

Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;

Deuteronomy 10:8 NASB95

At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to serve Him and to bless in His name until this day.

Deuteronomy 18:7 NASB95

then he shall serve in the name of the Lord his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the Lord.

Numbers 4:3 NASB95

from thirty years and upward, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the tent of meeting.

Numbers 8:25–26 NASB95

“But at the age of fifty years they shall retire from service in the work and not work any more. “They may, however, assist their brothers in the tent of meeting, to keep an obligation, but they themselves shall do no work. Thus you shall deal with the Levites concerning their obligations.”

Leviticus 1:4 NASB95

‘He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, that it may be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf.

Exodus 29:38 NASB95

“Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two one year old lambs each day, continuously.

Numbers 28:3 NASB95

“You shall say to them, ‘This is the offering by fire which you shall offer to the Lord: two male lambs one year old without defect as a continual burnt offering every day.

Hebrews 10:12 NASB95

but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God,

Psalm 110:1 NASB95

The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”

Hebrews 10:13 NASB95

waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet.

Hebrews 10:14 NASB95

For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

Final Forgiveness Promised in New Covenants Realized (10:15-18)

Hebrews 10:15–18 NASB95

And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying, “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, “And their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.