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Jesus Christ - a better and once and for all sacrifice - a better covenant & confidence
Introduction:
Is “new & improved” always better - if not, are we willing to affirm the older “tried & true”?
When faced with change, what comforts and reassures us?
In which do we take more comfort - the old familiar or the new that addresses a real need that perhaps we hesitate admitting.
What does it take for us to completely shift from the old to the new/better?
Change and shifting to something new is never easy, especially when we are the first in to change and those around us resist the change and therefore rather than being included, we are viewed with some distrust.
First farmer in an area to use chemical fertilizer
First in a family or neighbourhood to shift from no faith or nominal religious to evangelical church
Believer’s baptism by immersion after having been christened or baptized by parents when we were babies
Walking away from a conservative evangelical trust in the Lord to embrace what is diametrically contrary to what they had previously professed to believe.
Having repeatedly reminded his readers that what Jesus Christ did was without question better than anything they had known and trusted, the writer of Hebrews again summarized what he had written in .
It was not that the shed blood of sheep and goats served no purpose.
They did temporarily sanctify to the purification of the flesh, that the goat and bull blood were never able to deal with more than the outer flesh.
They were never able to restore one on one intimacy with/closeness with God the Father.
There unbridgeable chasm of sin was a glaring reality.
Then there was the priesthood, the members if which only because of their ancestry could approach God on behalf of the rest of the nation.
And even with the priesthood, only a limited number ever served in the temple in Jerusalem.
And of that limited number, an even more limited number, selected by drawing lots, was allowed to enter the holy of holies once a year on behalf on the rest the nation of Israel.
For the average Israelite, forgiveness of sin and personal intimacy with the God was only something to be read and dreamed about.
The sovereign, holy, all powerful creator of the universe was to be feared and served from a distance.
On a comparatively few individuals, those called to by God, say a bit of His person and heard His voice.
For the majority, it seemed God kept them at a safe distance.
BUT
BECAUSE Jesus (the blood of Jesus) secured an eternal redemption -
THEREFORE, He is the mediator of a new covenant -
THEREFORE, we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus -
BECAUSE Jesus (the blood of Jesus) secured an eternal redemption -
Preparation of the tabernacle/temple - 9:1-5 - 5 verses as compared to 50 chapters in the OT describing in minute detail the layout of and preparation the tabernacle.
Tabernacle service - 9:6-10 - 5 verse summary of
BUT
BUT Jesus - high priest, sacrifice - own blood, once and for all
Jesus appeared as a High Priest
Greater and more perfect tent
Entered once and for all by means of His own blood
Offered - ministered
Secured eternal - past, present & future redemption
An evangelist tells a story from the days when he held tent meetings many years ago.
One day, after a series of meetings was over, he was pulling up tent stakes.
A young man approached him and asked what he had to do to be saved.
The evangelist answered, “Sorry, it’s too late.”
“Oh no,” was the response.
“You mean it’s too late because the services are over?”
“No,” the evangelist said, “I mean it’s too late because it’s already been done.
Everything that could be done for your salvation has already been done.”
After explaining Christ’s finished work to the young man, he led him to saving faith.
To purify our consciences from dead works to serve to living God - 9:11-12
purify our consciences
purify - cleanse the cleanse NASB - purge your conscience KJV
cleanse ceremonially or morally
conscience - inward moral impressions of one’s actions and principles
Written in our hearts.
Ignoring conscience desensitizes and eventually silences
Titus 1:
our conscience needs to purified and recalibrated
Dead works /dead offering as compared a living Saviour, living
When told that before Christ anything and everything that we would offer to God is dead, why would we, anyone think that be so presumptuous as to bring to God a dead offering.
Second to that realization would be that we are not only serving a living God, but we have access to Him through a living mediator - Jesus Christ.
An eternal/once for all redemption - 9:13-14
THEREFORE, He is the mediator of a new covenant - 9:15-10:18
The Scriptures assure us and affirm unequivocally that Jesus secured an eternal redemption.
From Jesus’ perspective on the cross, “It was finished”.
When the Father raised Jesus from the grave, the Father was affirming that the eternal redemption was secured.
The redeemed are brought back and set free.
That having been underscored that Jesus is the mediator of a new covenant.
Mediator - “go-between/arbitrator - in this sense between God and man.
Under the Old Covenant - dependent on the priests and high priests as mediators.
While we are encouraged to pray for, intercede, give thanks for all people including kings and those in high positions, the mediation that Paul and the writer of Hebrews spoke of focused on salvation.
1 Tim
Promised eternal inheritance - 9:15
That the called might receive.
Called to salvation in Christ - God calls all men to be saved.
For those who hear God’s and believe as well as those who hear God’s call and reject it.
Eternal inheritance - salvation
1 Pet
Eternal
Redeems those from the transgressions committed under the first covenant
Looked forward to the promised Messiah
Rom 3:
Death required for a will to take affect.
Covenant - first covenant inaugurated - dedicated KJV - with blood - inaugurate & dedicate equally valid when we remember that the focus is confirming something NEW.
NO shedding of (Jesus) blood - NO forgiveness of (our) sins/purification - 9:22,23
vs 22 - old covenant
vs 23 - new covenant - heavenly things - better sacrifices- body and blood of Christ.
once and for all at the end of the ages - New Testament/New Covenant era
Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, … to save those who are eagerly waiting for Him - 9:28
All men have to die.
After death the judgment.
Not only did Christ rise from the dead, He ascended and is coming again.
Second time for salvation - not to deal with sin - but to save those who are eagerly waiting for Him - unto salvation KJV
- wait for Him NASB - Greek - waiting salvation - BETTER - BUT - He is our salvation - our salvation draws nigh.
Jesus is our salvation.
Lk 21:
We have been saved/sanctified through the offering of the body of Christ once and for all - 10:1, 10
Here the writer of Hebrews seems to be stressing that the Hebrew believers need to discard their old system and offerings that were part of the old covenant.
They did not work, and were therefore needed again and again.
If the OT believers’ consciences had been cleansed by condemning guilt - 9:9, there would have freedom and and sense that the sacrifices were no longer needed.
It was never about the sacrifices - David understood and Jesus amened what David said -
Heb 10:
Christ’s witness:
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