Jesus the Mediator of the Better Covenant

I. The Necessity of Death v 15-22

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15 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.

16 For where a will is involved,

the death of the one who made it must be established.

17 For a will takes effect only at death,

since it is not in force

as long as the one who made it is alive.

18 Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.

19 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, 20 saying,

“This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.”

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21 And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship.

Leviticus 8:14–17 ESV

Then he brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering. And he killed it, and Moses took the blood, and with his finger put it on the horns of the altar around it and purified the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it to make atonement for it. And he took all the fat that was on the entrails and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar. But the bull and its skin and its flesh and its dung he burned up with fire outside the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.

22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood,

and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

Matthew 26:26–29 ESV

Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

The forgiveness of your sin requires Jesus’ death

Through Jesus’ death we are made heirs of God

II. Jesus’ Single Sacrifice v. 23-28

23 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.

24 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.

25 Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly,

as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own,

26 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.

27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

28 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.

Jesus sacrifice is only done once

Jesus is coming again for His people