Hebrews 13:10-
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Lord, here we go again!
Pray.
Think myself empty.
Read myself full.
Write myself clear.
Pray myself haught.
Be myself.
Forget myself.
Lord, let this message be a beacon for you. Let me be forgotten and invisible. Let them see and know you, only you. “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.” Psalm 19:14
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The word Gospel means “good news”. It’s pretty important to understand that. The Bible is not a book that tells us what we have to do to earn salvation, it is a book that tells us what God did to earn our salvation. What he did was send Jesus. Jesus did for us what we could never do for ourselves and he paid for what we had done in his body on the cross. God created human beings and intended for them to be ruling creatures. We were supposed to be under God but over everything else. We were supposed to rule over creation under the guidance and authority of God’s Word and to function as conduits for all the blessings of heaven. That’s how it was supposed to be, but unfortunately, the Bible tells the story of how our first parents, Adam and Eve, fell into sin by choosing to rebel against God’s Word in order to become autonomous ruling creatures. Basically, they wanted to be gods unto themselves, deciding good and evil. From that point on, humanity has been on a downward spiral moving further and further away from God and our original design and glory. The heart of the Gospel is the Good News that Jesus has come as God in the flesh and has obeyed God perfectly and has therefore won the right to all the blessings God originally intended to give to men and women. Furthermore, through his sacrificial death on the cross, he has paid the debt that we owed to God for disobeying his commands. There is therefore no need anymore for us to hide from God. In Jesus, we can come home and we can be restored. The climax of the Gospel is the great news that he rose from the dead and ascended into heaven where he now intercedes on our behalf. He gives the Holy Spirit to all his people and he slowly but surely, changes our hearts, reforms our desires and teaches us how to be the children of God we were always intended to be. For now, Jesus remains in heaven, changing the world one person at a time, but one day he will return and judge the world in righteousness. He will remove from this world all sin and all causes of sin and he will restore the cosmos to a state of peace, prosperity and flourishing and all those who have received him as their Lord and Savior will participate in his rule and enjoy his goodness forever.
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PRAY
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Let’s start out with a couple questions:
These are questions to gauge your response
POLL
There are appropriate responses and then there are ridiculous responses, right?
10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat. 11 For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp. 12 So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. 13 Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured. 14 For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. 15 Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. 16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
So, a couple weeks ago we started in Hebrews 13 looking at how we have appropriate response to fellow christians. Within that, we looked at those that have specific needs, to our families, and the fellowship of the church.
This week, we’re going to look at a right response to God. But, we’re gonna do this a bit different tonight. You’re going to help me work through this passage. We’re gonna do it together.
God gave all believers the greatest commandment through his Son, Jesus. Someone tell me what that commandment is.
—Love God, love others.
Right!
Have you ever thought about how you love God? How you respond to God?
Commitment, praise, and kind deeds to others are spiritual responses God loves.
Lea, Thomas D. Hebrews, James. Vol. 10. Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1999. Print. Holman New Testament Commentary.
Someone tell me what symbolism is?
13:10. This verse uses much symbolism to contrast the privileges of those Jews who were believers with those who were not. Faith in Jesus provides an approach to God from which unbelief separates. Those Jews who had become Christians had access to a special altar, Christ’s atoning death. Believing Jews had eternal access to all the spiritual blessings Jesus could provide for them. Unbelieving Jews minister at the tabernacle. These Jews had no access to the benefits Christ made available.
Unbelieving Jews may have eaten the material food of the Jewish altar, but they enjoyed no link with Christ. Believers contact Christ himself and live with a daily experience of his benefits. This subtle warning urged the readers not to turn away from Christ to the meaningless rituals of Judaism and so lose the privilege of access to Jesus.
11 But the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung— 12 all the rest of the bull—he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place, to the ash heap, and shall burn it up on a fire of wood. On the ash heap it shall be burned up.
This offering signified the removal of impurity from the community (Lev 4:1–21) and from individuals (Lev 4:22–35). The purification offerings of the community could not be eaten by the priests; instead, they had to be taken outside the camp and burned (Lev 4:11–12, 20–21; 6:30; 16:27). The blood from those offerings was brought into the tabernacle and sprinkled before the veil that separated the holy place from the most holy place—the holy of holies (Lev 4:5–7). The purification offerings required for the Day of Atonement followed similar procedures, except that the high priest brought the blood all the way into the holy of holies (Lev 16:11–16).
Barry, John D. et al. Faithlife Study Bible. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2012, 2016. Print.
13:11. This verse focuses on the offering of the blood of animals to God and the burning of the bodies of the animals outside the camp. Jewish high priests who brought sin offerings to God did not eat from the altar. The sacrifices were burned. The actions of the high priests symbolized the actions of unbelievers, for the priest was among those who ministered at the tabernacle. Again we see unbelievers do not have any real contact with Christ and the benefits he offers.
Christians do have spiritual access to the great sin offering Jesus presented. This offering is their food, nourishing and refreshing their souls as they feed on Christ by faith.
13:12–13. These verses build on the knowledge that Jesus died outside the walls of Jerusalem (John 19:20). Jesus died to make the people holy. He wanted to produce followers with pure consciences. Jesus’ death outside Jerusalem represented his rejection by religious Jerusalem. Unbelieving Jews attached a stigma to Jesus’ exclusion from Jerusalem and his crucifixion. Instead of complaining about the circumstances, believers commit themselves to Christ.
What was the camp?
Thus, Hebrews urges us to go outside the camp of Judaism. We are to reject the fellowship and rituals of Judaism and cling only to Jesus. In so doing we surrender security and court danger. We must venture into new territory under the flag of Jesus without fearing ridicule from unbelievers. Bearing the disgrace of commitment to Jesus brings eternal reward.
13:14. This verse adds two features to the appeal for commitment to Christ. First, Christians live for the future, not the present. No matter how appealing life in the present is, believers are looking for the city that is to come. Christians look for a reward which lies ahead.
Second, Christians enjoy togetherness. We must not allow our practice of Christianity to degenerate into self-seeking individual choices. Believers who move forward for Christ like a mighty army find encouragement from common commitment and enthusiasm.
The point he is making is that the followers of Jesus are to be happy to leave the city and its Temple, even though their fellow Jews will regard them as traitors and heap shame on them.
Wright, Tom. Hebrews for Everyone. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2004. Print.
13:15. Christians must also present a sacrifice of praise. This praise is to be constant. We find no circumstances in which praise for God is inappropriate. Believers find no joy in dead animals, but in the living Lord. His glory, not our comfort, is to be our desire. God is not pleased by animal sacrifices, but by believers who acknowledge his goodness, greatness, and mercy (Ps. 51:15–17).
13:16. Hebrews calls us to commitment to Christ, to praise for God, and to do good and to share with others. This demands that we share our material plenty with the needy. We are to be on the lookout for occasions where we can give spontaneous help. Christians respond to Christ’s atoning death with good deeds and praise, not with animals. God finds great pleasure in these responses.
Lea, Thomas D. Hebrews, James. Vol. 10. Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1999. Print. Holman New Testament Commentary.
What’s a sacrifice?
Be Loyal—(13:7-12)
Be Bold—(13:13-14)
Be Worshipful—(13:15-16)
The result of it all, again, is glad and uninhibited worship (verses 15–16). This, rather than endless dead animals, is the ‘sacrifice’ that God really wants. God wants people who will name the name of Jesus, in prayer, worship and testimony, even if it costs them dear. Their witness will bear fruit. And the common life of the Christian community, the life of generous-hearted fellowship, is itself in that sense a ‘sacrifice’, an act of worship. God is delighted with it. Never allow yourself to get into the way of thinking that, just because nothing you can do can earn his favour, God isn’t pleased with what you attempt in his name. Precisely because love cannot be earned or deserved, it is always delighted when it receives answering love. As the final section of the letter will insist, this too is, in any case, the work of his grace.
Wright, Tom. Hebrews for Everyone. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2004. Print.
2 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;
worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness.
The gospel is the good news that God, the loving Creator, sovereign King, and holy Judge of all, has looked upon men and women wonderfully and uniquely made in His image who have rebelled against Him, are separated from Him, and deserve death before Him, and He has sent His Son, Jesus, God in the flesh, the long-awaited King, to live a perfect and powerful life, to die a sacrificial and substitutionary death, and to rise from the grave in victory over sin, Satan, and death. The gospel is a summons from God for all people in all nations to repent and believe in Jesus for the forgiveness of sins, turning from all idols to declare allegiance to Jesus alone as King and trust in Jesus alone as Lord. All who turn from Jesus will experience everlasting, horrifying suffering in hell, while all who trust in Jesus will experience everlasting, satisfying communion with God in heaven. (Secret Church 2020, David Platt, Radical.net)