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Hebrews 10, verse 8.
Above, when he said sacrifice, and offering, and burnt offerings and offering for sin, thou wouldest not, neither has pleasure therein which are offered by the law.
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God, he taketh away the 1St, that he may establish the 2nd.
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ.
Once for all.
And every priest standeth daily, ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices.
Which can never take away sin.
But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God, from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
Or by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.
We're off the Holy Ghost also as a witness to us for after that, he had said before.
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord. I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them, and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus.
By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, His flesh, and having an high priest over the House of God.
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering, for He is faithful that promised, and let us consider one another to provoke, and to love, and to do good works.
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is.
But exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the day approaching.
Took all those different offerings under the law to bring before us the complete picture of the work of Christ. And there were five different offerings. There was the murder offering, the meat offering or meal offering. There was the peace offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering. And they bring before us various aspects of the work of Christ.
The burnt offering what the work of Christ is to God, who was fully glorified in the work of His Son.
Then there was the meat offering which shows that the Lord Jesus became a man in order to accomplish that work that glorified God. And then the peace offering there could be called a communion offering because Sam had broken fellowship between God and man.
And now it's restored through the work of Christ. The sin offering has to do, particularly with what we are in our nature, the trespass offering of what we have done.
So the whole question of sin was taken up and those various offerings just bring before us the various aspects of the work of Christ. We often say that we worship in the bird offering character because it's very blessed that we see this, that not only has God been satisfied in connection with the work of His Son.
But that he has been glorified, the whole, all that he is in himself has been told out.
Sometimes illustrated like this, I had a great debt that I wasn't able to pay, and someone else paid the debt for me and I receive a receipt that it's paid in full. Why? I have the satisfaction of knowing that the debt is paid, but I haven't learned to know anything about the heart of my creditor. Maybe he likes me, maybe he doesn't. All I know is that he is satisfied.
But if my creditor were to say to his son, you sell your home so he can raise the money.
So that this death can be taken off our books and his son sells his home to.
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Pay the debt. And now he sends me a receipt paid in full through the kindness of my son. That's much more than knowing that my creditor is satisfied. Now I've learned to know my creditor. I go to thank him and I say, oh, I think it's marvelous that you have such thoughts of love toward me that you have a son like that who would be willing to.
Sell his house in order that my debt might be paid. That's much more.
And that's why, brethren, the Burnd often comes first. It tells out the heart of God, not only meets our need, but it tells out the heart of God. And so the meat, the meat offering our meal offering. Christ became a man. I was afraid of my creditor before. I didn't want to meet him because I felt so unable to meet his requirements. But now I have pleasure to in meeting him. I know He loves me. He must love me when He would be willing to ask His Son to.
In order to tell out his heart toward me. And now that's the peace offering or the communion offering, the sin offering and the Pisa and the trespass offering have to do with meeting my need. So here he told these different offerings offered under the law, but he said those were only types and shadows. And now all this has been set aside.
The first has to do with the first covenant that made blessing to man conditional on something himself.
The second makes all the blessing conditional upon what God has done in the person of His Son. And so the whole of the first has come to an end. Now because there were conditions connected with a turn back to Hebrews chapter 8 and you see this Hebrews chapter 8, I'll read from the sixth verse.
But now have he obtained a more excellent ministry? By how much more? Also he is the mediator of a better covenant.
Which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second, or finding float with them? He said, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel, and with the House of Judah.
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in that day, when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the House of Israel after those days, saith the Lord. I will put my laws into their minds, and write them in their hearts, and I will be there to them of God, and they shall be to me of people. They shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord. For all shall know me from the least to the greatest, and I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins. And.
Will I remember no more when God brings in this time of blessing for Israel? Why it will all be founded upon the work of Christ, and so their sins and iniquities he'll remember no more. And more than that, He'll give them a new life, a life that He likes in pleasing God as the law was given. Why there wasn't such a heart in them, Says in Galatians. If there had been a law given, which could have given.
Fairly righteousness had been by the law so we can see the setting aside of the whole order of things. Now we'll see later on in the chapter that we are not the subjects of the new covenant, although we come into the blessing of it. But I believe it's important for us to see right here how that all that which was given an order to God has now been set aside because.
It was a question of whether there was something in man that would respond to the claims of God. There was nothing.
And he couldn't meet his own need. God made a temporary provision through the sacrifices, but now a full provision has been made. The work is complete. God has brought us into blessing, and everything is founded upon what has been accomplished on the cross of Calvary.
And so he shows us that it's all through what Christ has done, not through those sacrifices, not through anything they could do.
Besides, God couldn't find his pleasure in it, could He instead? So here He wasn't satisfied with it, and he couldn't find his pleasure in it. But the what has been brought in not only has fully satisfied God, but he finds His full pleasure in it. And that's the beauty of what we have before us here. All that pleasure is found in the person of His Son and the work of His Son.
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So God is fully satisfied and he's filled with joy, the very thought of his Son going through this for his glory. And it's beautiful to see as well that.
You and I.
Ephesians 51 I think it is.
Our acceptance.
Is on the basis of.
I think I should read it Asian, someone may quote it.
Ephesians 5 Two, Christ hath loved us, and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor. Now the burnt sacrifice and the peace offering and.
The meat offering were all sweet savour offerings, were they not?
But the meat on the the burnt offering especially, it seems to me it's connected here with not only that God himself has been glorified by his Son, but that we have been brought in on that same basis, the blessing.
In Ephesians chapter 3.
Chapter One.
And.
Verse 6.
Reading from verse 5 Ephesians chapter 15, having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He has man is accepted in the beloved.
When we think of that in connection with God the Father having complete and full delight in His beloved Son, and then we read that we are accepted in that beloved one, but can we say about just think of that He had pleasure in us too, because we are accepted in that One who has given His heart complete and full pleasure.
This is wonderful, what a place we've been brought into.
I think we could bring that in in connection with the burnt offering because the burnt offering was the acceptance of offering. The one that brought it was accepted in that offering. And so we're accepted in the Lord Jesus Christ, the one who's been offered up to God as sweet smelling savored, and we are accepted in him.
What a place to be in today. I wonder if we might go to.
2nd Corinthians 3.
That was referred to this morning.
And I'd like to make a statement more as a question connection with what's been said in 2nd Corinthians 3.
You're here in Hebrews have the two covenants, the 1St and the 2nd. As we understand the second it has to do with a Jew in a coming day.
When they will all know the Lord, the law will be written in their hearts and in their mind. But it's been referred to that Lee and Christianity come under the blessings of the new covenant without being under the covenant relationship. But here in 2nd Corinthians 3, the apostle at the beginning of the chapter verse two says about them.
The Corinthian St. ER our epistle written in our hearts.
Known and read of all men, for as much as ye are manifestly declared to be the Epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stones, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
And the chapter goes on and takes up the Old Testament and the New Testament and the administration of condemnation and the administration of righteousness. This morning our brother was talking about the veil, and that's over the heart, especially of the Jew. But we come down to the 17th verse of 2nd Corinthians 3.
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It says now the Lord is not spirit.
And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. And then the last verse 2. But we all with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. Well, it's not it says that.
Now in Christianity, through the light that has shined out, we look back at the Old Testament and see Christ everywhere. By the Spirit of God we seek Christ pointed out everywhere in figure and in shadow, as we have had in our portion here in Hebrews. And then there is the liberty to enjoy the Old Testament.
And in light of the new so that now we have all this.
Written in our hearts now in Christianity.
Have you had a remark on that, brother?
Believe the law was written on tables of stone because that was a picture of the heart of man. There was no response to the claims of Christ or of God. And so God made known his demands, but there was no response. But now she says in Christianity, it's the spirit of the living God written on the fleshy. Writing on the fleshy tables of the heart. God has given you an eye, a new life that responds.
And so it's liberty. I might just comment here that.
In the you read this third chapter and the sixth verse.
Who also have made us able ministers of the New Testament? Not of the latter, but of the Spirit. Or the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. And the seventh verse to the end of the 16th is a parenthesis. And so if you read the end of the sixth verse, for the latter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. Now the Lord is that Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
It was as James spoke of it. It was ilk of ******* which neither we nor our fathers were able to bear. I guess it was Peter said that.
And so it was, therefore it was to them. But now all that the Lord wants us to do is to us liberty. I've heard it said that if it been possible to take away the Lord's liberty, which of course it could not be, it would only have been to take away his liberty to do his father's will. That was the liberty in which he walked down here. Was it any ******* to him to do his father's will now he said The good pleasure of thy will.
By delight, and let me say to every believer in this room, God has given you a life and nature that delights in pleasing God. If you don't have that life in nature, you're not a child of God at all. Now it's true we still have the flesh within us and sometimes we try to pound things on a with tables of stone and the heart and the natural heart never responds to the claims of Christ.
And what Paul was desiring to do.
Was in his ministry to speak to the Newman and if these meetings speak to the new life that God has given to us. If Christ is written upon the fleshy tables of the heart, what will be the response? All the heart will just say, oh, I want to please the Lord God. I have to not must I give up this or must I make this change in my life, but I desire to now of course, as our brother said, the Old Testament was a picture of this.
It wasn't fully brought out, but now it's fully brought out. And so the, the thought is that we're not going back to law as a principle, but that we have a ministry that touches the heart, draws out the heart to Christ. And so I can put it this way, the law said, thou shalt not covet. Do you? And I not desire not to covet because the law said that. No, we say, well, I know it.
Pleasing to my Lord, He has given me all that's necessary, and he sees my need, and so it wouldn't be right for me to do that because I want to please Him. Why does a Christian not kill? Why does he not steal? It's not because we're under law, brethren, but it's because the new man wants to please the Lord. And so the righteousness of the laws fulfilled in US who walk not after the flesh, but after.
Spirit so the whole of the old order of things is set aside. It's true. It's typically Christ and his work, but not until God had given us a new life if we want to please him. And now I say again, the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in US and I've enjoyed in that third chapter, second Corinthians, the fifth verse where Paul said not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of.
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Ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God. Often when you see a a true Christian getting away from the Lord, you feel totally insufficient, unable to be a help to them. But just remember this, if they're truly a child of God, there's a new life there. And if you can just have contact, so to speak, with that new life so that they feel that love of Christ and the claims of Christ.
By the heart will respond, and this is what Paul was seeking to do, he said. I'm not sufficient of myself.
But I know that if the ministry touches the Newman and there's a response created, there will be a desire to please the Lord. And this is to me most beautiful because there were a lot of things going on in Corinth that were causing much grief to the heart of the apostle. But he says, how am I going to meet this? Oh, I must just try and write Christ on their heart. They must try and minister to them so that the love of Christ would constrain them.
That's Christianity. He takes away the 1St that he may establish the second. The whole of the whole order is set aside. And new Christianity is not a system of laws and ordinances. It's fully liberty. And so I believe that's what's brought before us. And this is what he is showing here in our chapter, that there's liberty to come into the presence of God and to enjoy His presence.
Because of what Christ has done and because of this new life we have received. And God was behind it. Because in that third chapter of Second Corinthians, the Spirit of God contrasts the old order and the new as to their glory, and he shows how the first was introduced with glory.
That is, it was introduced by Angel.
Barriers of Angels 68 song.
And in the Exodus, we learned that the elders of Israel were there. We learned that the God of glory was there. And we we learned too, that it was introduced on a pavilion of sapphire stones. A man would think this was tremendous glory. That was that's the way the law was introduced.
But Paul says there's a glory that excels, and as he goes on in the chapter, he shows that.
The glory that excels, the first glory, it just disappears completely.
With the glory that excelled and that's the glory of the introduction of the Spirit. And then in it's the it's the beginning of Paul's ministry in that sense that in the 4th chapter he shows how it all comes about for the individual. Just like in Genesis, God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness and shine in our hearts to give the light.
The knowledge of the glory God in the face of Jesus Christ, showing that the new order has nothing to do with man or his doings, but it's God himself who's behind it. But it's in Christ. And God commanded the light to shine out of darkness, and now there's a glory that excels.
Any other glory that you can think of, and it's really found in the person of pride, and that's Paul's ministry in Second Corinthians, is the glory that excelleth.
Every other glory and we are found as associated with this, with it in Christ. That's our position.
There were two things that were necessary which could not be brought in under the law, and that is that.
The sacrifices were not able to put away sin. It was not possible that the blood of bulls and of dogs should take away sin, and the law couldn't give a new life. Now he shows that these two things are provided in Christianity. And I think that's so beautiful, the way it's brought in here. The whole question of sin settled and then.
A new life imparted. It's a new and it's a living way. And I feel it's very blessed for us to get hold of this because when this old order was introduced, the question of sin must be brought up. But those sizes didn't put away sin. They didn't make the man perfect as pertaining to the conscience. And a new life was not imparted. And so there was no response.
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But oh how blessed it is. Now in Christianity it says here a tenth verse. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ.
Once for all the 14th verse. For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. What a marvelous thing for us to enjoy this fact. The question of sin, brethren, has been settled once for all. It isn't that we're sanctified and perpetuated until we sin again, but it's once for all forever.
The value of the Word of Christ can never, never cease.
And so that's what he is showing, the contrast that it was necessary that all these things, they were in shadow there, but they had to be repeated over and over again. And the priests went as often said, there was no, there was no place for the priest to sit down. We have a lot of chairs here and we're sitting down and doing some of these precious things. But there was no seat in the Tabernacle, only the mercy seat where the blood was sprinkled. But that wasn't for a person to sit down.
There was number seat, the priest was busy all the time and oh how wonderful just to sit down and know that the Lord has done all this for us, that our standing is perfect before God through the work of Christ. This is what he's bringing before us here. And these verses in connection with the work and for them to return them to the old order of things. He's taken away the first, He's established the 2nd.
You have the, you really have the blood here and you have.
The sanctification that is being set apart for God, do you not? And what we have been planned by that precious blood that God is satisfied with, that blood is shed. We have the body of Christ mentioned, and I believe that it's in connection with our being set apart for God, is it not? In that sense?
He had a body, was prepared for him to do his Father's will, and He gave that precious body, who his own self bear our sins, and His own body on the tree, glorified God as man, and offered himself, as it was mentioned in Ephesians, without spot to God.
Saw that that whole question now has been taken up and settled, and the Spirit of God is a witness to us of all this that has been brought about. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. Either which will is the it's the will of God fully. The Lord Jesus subjected himself in every way to the will of God.
Either which will we have been set apart.
So there's no will in it, but God's will.
That's where we stand.
He would never set apart for himself something that wasn't pleasing to him and it has to be holy and pure. That's what we're Speaking of the work of Christ here, isn't it? It's like the vacation is a wonderful thing and that's brought in here. He's taking a peep loud this world for himself. And once we are safe in Christ, we have been set apart by God the Spirit unto himself. But.
Please, your wife, you are sanctified. You are justified.
By Jesus Christ, I think through the Spirit, I'm not sure how that went, but the three things are all true. And there's that sanctification that forever the work of God by the will of God. But of course there's the practical aspect to Israel that our brother brought that up with Washington and we we need to think of that too practically as we go through this theme here, we're Speaking of the sanctification that was the work through the flush.
Glenn stunts and made us fit and pleasing to him, but we've been set aside from this world for himself. In connection with the comments about ourselves as Gentiles not being part of the covenants, we noticed in Hebrews whenever it speaks of the new Covenant, it has to do with the House of Israel and if you go back to Ephesians chapter 2.
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And verse 12.
He is addressing the Gentiles. He says that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. The covenants had to do with Israel, and perhaps we could have sort of illustrated like this.
The covenant, as we know, is entering into a kind of an agreement, and when Israel came out of the land of Egypt.
Then they entered into an agreement, an agreement that is, that they would fulfill God's requirements.
They said all that the Lord has spoken we will do and be obedient and so.
The blessing was conditional on their obedience, and they forfeited every right to blessing on that ground. And so the only way that they can be brought into blessing is that there must be a new covenant, and that goes back to those unconditional promises that were made to Abraham. When God made promise of the possession of the land to Abraham, there were no conditions. It said, In thy seed shall all the families of the earth be.
US and so they forked at every right under that first covenant. There was number blessing for them that way at all.
And now if they're going to be brought into blessing, why it must be founded on something outside of themselves altogether. And here was this one who came, who took a body, who glorified God as man, who finished that work and by his work has brought us into a new place of blessing. And so Israel haven't yet entered into the enjoyment of this.
They're still looked upon as being set aside.
And they as a nation, not my people, is written across them. But there's a day coming when they're going to see that one whom they Pierce. They're going to acknowledge their guilt, and then they will be brought into the blessing. And God will make a new covenant. He'll impart a new life. The Spirit will be poured on him from on high. He'll take away the Stony heart out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh. And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Now as to the Gentile.
Be just like if you had two boys and one boy decides that he's going to try and merit something from you by doing things while he breaks down entirely and you say there's no, there's no good for you under this pledge that you have paid to do what you're told. You've been disobedient. You've earned punishment instead of earning.
The things that you were looking for and someone else takes all his guilt and now he can receive the blessing.
Well, there's another boy in the family and he said, Dad, give me a chance. I'd like to try and see if I can't live up to your requirements. Maybe I could. And then I could tell my friends that I had really earned the things by my own work. All his father says we're not going through that again. You're going to get the same thing as your brother, but you're not going to get it by entering into any agreements on what you can do. It's going to be on the same basis as your brother's going to get it. It's all going to be because.
Somebody else takes your guilt and brings you into a place of favor. Now, brethren, that's our position as Gentiles. We were, we had no part under the first covenant and the promises when that woman came and said, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. Why the Lord said it's not feet to take the children's bread and cast it to dogs. But when she took her place as a Gentile dog and said.
Yes, it's true, she said, but the dogs under the table eat of their masters crumbs. The Lord said, all woman great his life faith be it unto thee even as thou wilt. In other words, he said, you're going to get blessing, but you didn't have any claim for it as one of Israel's children. And so we're not part of Israel or part of Israel's blessing and our blessings not going to be on the earth, brethren. We're going to have something better though.
We're going to have something far better.
We're going to come into the blasting that flows from the work of Christ. And brethren, that's what he opens up here, Our place, which is a more blessed place than Israel ever enjoyed or ever will enjoy, A place of nearness, of worshippers inside the veil and the Holy Spirit sent down.
To be a witness to us, to bring us into the good of this, not of the new covenant which has to do with Israel, but of the blessing that flows from the work of Christ. A far greater blessing than what Israel will have when God finally brings them into the promised blessing in the land of Canaan.
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That covenant, even that covenant, is upon a different basis, is it not? And that's why David is mentioned, is it not in Romans one and the 2nd chapter of of?
Timothy because Christ comes after the seed of David, that is.
It's on the basis of mercy.
It's been said that the sure mercies of David.
We're sure because they didn't depend on David.
That is, David was the king.
And Christ is coming after that line, and that's what Israel is looking for. He's going to come, though, after another order.
Not the original order. He's coming after the order of Melchizedek because we have in Hebrews.
But still it says the seed of David.
And so it's it's on the basis of mercy.
That Israel is going to have a new covenant. It won't be a covenant like to make an agreement on equal terms. It'll be in a covenant which God makes the terms and Israel comes under the blessing of those terms. But as you've said, we're not under any covenant, but we come under certain blessings before the covenants are ever made.
That are mentioned in connection with the covenants.
But our blessings are heavenly and of entirely different character, and we have them now by faith already in the enjoyment of them. And they're sure. And I like that expression that we have in our chapter. It says in the.
In the.
Eighth verse, once for all, the 10th verse by the which will we are sanctified and set apart through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ. Once or all that finishes it. There's nothing to be added to this. There's no covenant connected with it. The work is done. We come under the blessings of it.
It's once and it's for all.
Connection with what you were saying about.
It was a covenant is between two people. I just like to look at a difficult verse in Galatians 3, which I think is very beautiful in that connection, it says.
The 17th 1St Galatians 3. And this I say that the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law which was 430 years after cannot dis annul that it should make the promise of none effect, or if the inheritance fee of the law.
It is no more a promise, but God gave it to Abraham by promise. Now wherefore then serve with the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made. And it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is 1 so.
Isn't this very, very beautiful that a covenant is ordinarily agreement between two people?
But if there was going to be any blessing, if it was between God and man, there couldn't be any because man could never fulfill God's requirements. So God becomes a man in the person of Christ. And now it says God is 1. And so God who made the promises, and his blessed Son in whom all the promises are going to be fulfilled, they're one. So the promise that it's secure because it all depends on price.
And thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
And so that before those covenants were ever entered into with Israel, or will be in a future day, God had made a promise through the through the seed, and not just for Israel, but all the nations of the earth. How wonderful are the ways of God and how blessed for us to see that nothing depends upon man. All the promises of God in him are yay, and in him Amen to the glory of God by us.
They're all in Christ, and yet He was a man.
So the covenant is between God and Christ. It can't fail. He fully did his Father's will. He was perfect, as we've noticed in every way. And so the blessing is secured.
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What are labor connected was connected with the 1St order from morning till evening.
In the Tabernacle, continuous labor and what a contrast it is with.
The position that you and I are in today we had before us in one of the meetings. Let us therefore labor.
I I really believe that there's some sense in that verse in Hebrews 4.
That that.
We have the privilege now, as believers, of laboring.
Not in any sense that they labored, but now because we have the love of God in our hearts, that we have this privilege and the interval before Christ comes. This is what should occupy us, the things that have to do with his glory down here, not just place herself.
I believe it's it's something to be exercised about. We think of all the labor that attended the work of the Tabernacle and the offerings and all, but we're not under this anymore.
There were as Gentiles, but we do have the opportunity now of laboring an entirely different way than we should be.
In verse 18 it says now we're remission of these is there is no more offering for spin.
Well, the 17th verse says and their sin and iniquity will. I remember no more.
Well, whether Jew or Gentile, all must come on that basis of.
Having their spirit and iniquities forgiven and he will remember them no more. And why is it that our sins and iniquities are forgiven? How can they be forgiven and God not remember them anymore?
Well, every time they offered a sacrifice in the Old Testament.
It wasn't long until they remembered the sin again. Then they had to offer another one, and then they remembered the sin again.
But Christ has come, and he has given himself a sacrifice to God.
He has settled a stint question and now all who believe in him perceive him as their savior. They can have the forgiveness of their sins. God will forgive their sins because.
The Lord Jesus Christ.
Has laid a solid, complete, pure foundation upon which God can forgive their saving. They can be forgiven and not even remembered anymore. Just think of that. Not remembered against us anymore. They're gone because as we have had before.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the perfect sacrifice and He has done a complete work.
And so as far as our sins and iniquities are concerned, they are gone forever. It's complete, completely gone. And they're in the depths of the sea. God remembers them against us no more.
This is something that really, if we meditate upon it, it's going to melt our hearts and we'll thank God. And actually, when we come to remember the Lord, we are remembering that God will remember our sins no more because of the sacrifice of faith. We come to show the death of Christ. Why? Because it means so much to us.
Because it means that the complete work has been done.
Sins and iniquities won't be remembered against us no more. So we remember the Lord and show his death till he come. Well, it's connected with having life. These two things are together here. We have life through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ to die for us. We have the forgiveness of our sins because his precious blood was shed in Calvary and the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son cleanses us from all sin and even though after.
Been saved, yet we have the forgiveness of our sin, and that's why we can come and confess them to Him. We don't have to be cleansed from our sins in the sense that we have to have a fresh application of the value of the precious blood of Christ. No, that means that we have the forgiveness of our sin, and it's on that basis that we can come and confess our sins.
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Cleansed from the defilement of sin, what a foundation has been laid for us. God will remember them against us no more. This is as to our standing, of course, and this is what is developed here in Hebrews. Sin in the believers life may and does interrupt communion with God, and there is such a thing as the governmental ways of God and even action in the assembly, but that has nothing to do with our standing every believer.
Even the one who has failed the worst as to his standing is always holy and without blame before God in love. But as to the governmental ways of God and our enjoyment of these things by that can be interrupted and it's a very serious thing, but that's not brought in here. And I believe it's important that we notice the things that differ. We must first of all be at rest as to our standing and then when we know that.
By them. When something comes between us to hinder the enjoyment of that, we want it to be removed. If I know that I'm in a place of favor and acceptance before someone, I'm careful that nothing happens to hinder the enjoyment of that. And if something does come between, I want to have it made right now. That has to do with restoration. But brethren, we need to see that it's not brought in here.
So that when it says their sins and iniquities, I will remember no more.
It doesn't mean that we don't have to confess failure in our lives. It doesn't mean that our lives won't pass into review.
But sin will never be charged to us in the way that sin is charged to one who is still in his sins, saith before God has been removed once for all through the work of Christ. And this is what is being brought out here. And what gives us that boldness to come into His presence is the knowledge of this, the enjoyment of it in our souls. And every believer is entitled to know this and to have boldness to enter into the.
Us by the blood of Jesus. Now he may forfeit the enjoyment of these things through allowed sin in his life by his standing before God is always perfect, founded upon the work of Christ and he sat down, it says forever sat down on the right hand of God. And so he's in that position is having completed everything. There's no more to be done.
So all this rests upon that basis, but not then why is it this next verse comes in here quite a different kind of subject, The 13th verse. From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool, he's now not talking about his friends, but his enemies.
Why is that introduced here? Well, there's only one way that sin could be put away.
And those who reject that provision that God has made will have to meet him as judge instead of as Savior. Now is the opportunity. The one who proclaimed the gospel tonight is inviting sinners to come and meet God as a Savior God, and to know that the blood is on the mercy seat and there's full and free cleansing. If they will only receive it. If they refuse it, then they must meet him as a judge.
And so as the Lord Jesus now sits down at the right hand of God.
It's never again to take up the question of putting away sin. That has been done once for all. Those who reject that provision, there's no hope for them. They'll just have to meet him as the one who is the judge, and they as his enemies, and they'll have to be made his footstool. They'll have to come under His righteous judgment. In that He died. He died unto sin once.
That reminds me of a lady who was brought to know the Lord as her savior.
And she was very happy in the knowledge of salvation. And after a few weeks, she came to the brother who was holding the meetings out in the farmhouse. It was. And she said, I was so happy when I was saved and I knew that my sins were all gone. But she said, I'm afraid that I have sinned since I was a believer. And what about those sins? Well, his brother said to her, I just like to ask you 2 questions.
How many of your sins were future when the Lord Jesus died?
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Well she said, I guess they were all future because I hadn't even been born. Well he said, the second question is do you think the Lord Jesus is going to die again for sin? Well no, she said, I don't suppose he will. And the scripture answers that in that he died. He died unto sin once, but in that he liveth. He liveth unto God, or here by one offering He has perfected forever them that are sanctified. Well he said to her, if the Lord Jesus didn't.
Going to be your sins at the cross, they'll never be settled. And that's the thought here. And if there's someone here who's not saved, why if you have rejected the Savior and you continue rejecting him and go on in your sins, why you'll have to meet him as a judge instead of as a savior. But he wants to be your savior now the blood is on the mercy seat. The way is open for you and.
So how blessed it is that we can beat him as a Savior.
Instead of having to meet him as this verse says, as a judge, just add 1 little thing and that is in Hebrews in Romans 3. There's a verse that somewhat misunderstood here, Romans chapter 3 beginning at verse 23.
For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God has set forth to be a propitiation that means a mercy seat.
Through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance of God to declare, I say at this time his righteousness, that He might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
It's misunderstanding this 25th verse that has kept some from enjoying the security of the believer. When it talks here about the remission of sins that are passed, it doesn't mean that when you receive the Lord, your past sins are put away. It's talking about those who lived and died before the work of Calvary and all those sins were met by the Lord Jesus on the cross.
How did?
How could Abraham be brought into blessing when he died? How could Moses be brought into blessing? Were there any sacrifices that they had ever offered to put away their sins? No, that wasn't possible. But in forbearance, God passed over their sins in view of Calvary and the sins of Moses and the sins of Abraham were placed upon the Lord Jesus, and God declared His righteousness in regards to their sins because.
No one, whether before the cross or after, but ever befitted for the courts of glory apart from the work of Christ. It's just as if there was a debt to be paid. And you say to the creditor, well, don't press that claim on my friend, because in 30 days I'll pay it for him. So he leaves the creditor alone because you've made a promise. And so God made a promise.
A way back when sin entered, he said that the seed of the woman would bruise the serpent's head. And so God declared his righteousness in regard to all those past things. But now I go to a Sinner and say it's not a question of your past sins or your future sins.
God is just and the justifier of one who believes in Jesus. He's just because the payment was made in full. He's your justifier because you believe. So let's be clear about this. The question of sin was settled once for all, and the moment you receive the Lord Jesus, you come into the blessing of that and it's a once for all thing.
The word propitiation is brought in and doesn't that bring before us?
The side of the work of the Lord Jesus Christ that's complete and tells the same questions for bodies concerned, and he's glorified, and the work is of such a character and such fullness and completeness that all could be saved.
But although they all don't believe, they don't accept the Lord Jesus Christ as substitute. Substitution and propitiation are two things that so often are confused. But in propitiation we have before us a full and complete work that the Lord has done, which is enough to save every human being in this world, if they would believe.
He died for all, but it doesn't say he died for the sins of all.
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Back to that we were talking about again, He died for all so that all could believe and be saved. That work is complete and full so that no one can have any excuse for not being saved. And yet the only way to get the benefit of that work that's been done is to each one individually, personally receive the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior own that He is their substitute on Calvary.
Say He died for my sin. He died for my sin.
So that word propitiation sometimes is stumbling, but that word mercy seat really brings before us the mercy of God. He's not willing that any should perish. He wants all to be saved. He wants all to come to repentance. This is God's sight of it. But the substitution side of it is that only those who believe get the benefit of.
Investigation don't be answered in the Day of Atonement. In those twenty months, the first was slaves.
And the second animal, the sins were confessed upon that animal and sent into the wilderness, both a type of the death of Christ. But the first animal speaks of propitiation.
Doesn't have so much the thought in mind of meeting the sinners.
Need but glorifying God and satisfying this place. But the second animal substitution is seen. The sins were confessed upon an animal, and an animal sent into the wilderness to perish, and that speaks of substitution, and there we can say He bore the sins of many.
The first animal propitiation we can say he died for all God's glory has been maintained in the death of Christ and to everything that anybody has ever done, but it doesn't have to thought too much in mind of saving anybody, but glorify God. But the second animal since confessed, that is the side that we can cling to who by faith have accepted the Lord Jesus as Savior.
Propitiation is laying a right to spaces upon which any who want to come may come.
A substitution is the Lord Jesus taking the place of the Sinner who did fund.
His substitution now in the 14th, the 14th and 15th firsts of our chapter.
For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.
Now we already noticed the sanctification that has been set apart by the body of Christ mentioned before. We've been set apart, but now he says we're of the Holy Spirit as witness that is.
He says to us, I suppose that Paul still is has in mind the Jewish people in a sense because.
Remember at the time of Stephen.
That was the witness of the Spirit of God to that nation, and they refused it.
But that witness is still here. To the individual Israel as a nation is is blinded.
But the the witness of the Spirit is still here for Israel, for you and me of course, too. But he's he's writing to the Hebrew people and the Spirit of God is still here in this world. It's the day of the Spirit and he's a constant witness to the conscience of man, that of the.
14 first by one offering, he has perfected forever them that are sanctified.
And so we can apply it in that way that the witness is still here and will be here until Jesus comes. But I like to also plot this way that supposing I get discouraged.
Exposing my faith fails to me. I have the spirit of the witness of the Spirit. It's it applies in that way too. I believe we have this constant witness of the Spirit.
Of the very truth of the previous verse. So all we need to do.
Take the witness of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Read it, believe it. We're, we're at rest in our souls, but simply believing the witness of the Spirit. Can I just say this in connection with the matter that's been talked about, propitiation and substitution and Speaking of Christ dying for all the bearing the sins of many.
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And perhaps this might help to simplify it a man might say to you well I couldn't help it that I was born in sin.
You can reply to him. God is not going to send you to hell because you were born in sin, that Christ died for you and he has opened up a way of blessing for you because people will say that I couldn't help it. Well, that baby that dies, it was born in sin, but it goes to be with Christ in glory because the Lord Jesus by his death has opened up the way of blessing. So if anyone ever says that to you.
Your reply can be Christ died for you.
But you must receive him to have your sins put away. If you receive him and your sins will be put away, that substitution. Well, I just mentioned that because somebody say, what do you mean Christ died for all? Well, no one is going to be sent to hell because he was born in sin.
The work of Christ is so glorious, so wonderful, that it's opened up the way of blessing for the whole human race.
I wondered if we might have both of those things pictured to excite one more case in Israel with the sacrificial lamb, the Passover lamb. In the verse that says, when I see the blood I will pass over you as being God's side of things. He is propitiated through that blood. He is the one who had been offended.
And his rights come in primary. They are first, always thought first.
But the other part of the verse is, The blood shall be unto you for a token.
There's the blood applied by that family, that person there, the first born sheltered under it and that's the exclusion. That's the the man's side of thing. He realized that God is has been propitiated. And then there's expiation. God will not charge him with those sins just in that one verse if we don't have propitiation.
And expiation both. What a contrast is 19 versus to the way things were in the Jewish ritual.
It must have been with fear and trembling that the high priest went in every year with blood and incense, when Nadab in the Bayou attempted to go in apart from God's provision. We know that they were Smith and Dad, and so there must have been that measure of fear. But how lovely this expression. I think it's precious to my heart. Having therefore, brethren, boldness. We have the same word in Ephesians chapter 3 and.
Boldness and access with confidence by the faith of Him the believer can come.
With this holy boldness and his only ground is by the blood of Jesus.
There's nothing in himself, not in some sacrifice of a lamb that a priest in Israel might offer, but it's the work that has been undertaken by God himself, satisfied to the claims of satisfied by God, glorifying him. And so we have boldness, and we come not just into the holy place, but into the very holiest of all.
The very direct presence of God Himself.
And we're perfectly fit to be there.
Don't we need to go back to the 9th chapter and the eighth verse and connected with it to see that wonderful contrast? The 9th chapter in the eighth verse, the Holy Ghost, this signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest well as the first Tabernacle was yet standing.
Not made manifesting, could not go in.
All those shadows and figures of the law.
Told them you can't go in.
But everyone of those shadows and figures pointed to Christ who would open up the way so that we can go in. And now he has gone in as a man. Now he says, you come too and are standing. Gives us that wonderful fullness to go right up into heaven itself, where He has gone to take our.
Offerings of praise.
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Adoration presents them.
God is liberty, isn't it? Coldness? Yes, it's nice to think of this, that we have liberty. In fact, it's really the place where we belong.
The holiest. It isn't simply.
Occasional visit, but this is where we belong.
In the holiest, as believers, we belong in the holiest, whereas the Jew is shut out of the holiest.
It's quite a contrast.
We belong there as priest. I was thinking, Peter says in second chapter of the first Peter fifth verse. He as lively stones are filled up the spiritual house, a holy priesthood to OfferUp spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. There's our boldness. We have priests qualified.
In Christ. And it's wonderful, isn't it? We know it's accepted.
Sacrifice is accepted, and I was thinking of one expression also of boldness because of Christ. That's in the Epistle of God, first Epistle of John.
The 4th chapter and the 17th verse.
Herein is our love, faith for the love of God with us, made perfect, that we may have boldness. We have it not only now, but boldness, the day of judgment, because as He is, so are we in this world.
That's a wonderful thought, isn't it? We even have boldness.
Dead judges.
Well, you know, if you were the judge, you don't tremble on that side of the bench.
The others probably do, and they often tremble even looking at the judge, But we're one with him.
The thought, isn't it? As he is, so are we in this world, even we should ever have a thought of fear in that sense. Fear in the sense of reverence to a holy God. That's different, but never that kind of fear.
His entering in is that only in connection with the worship in the assembly or prayer, or is that a privilege of the individual believer?
It's a 24 hour thing for every believer I noticed back in Chapter 9 and verse 12, either by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood he entered in once into the Holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
By his own blood, by the virtue of his own blood, by the power of his own blood that was shed at Calvary, he entered into the holy Place. And now.
By the blood of Jesus we have wholeness to enter into the holy place, right into the very holiest, into the presence of God. And I think we should remember that, that when we come into the presence of the Lord. Now speaking about coming into the assembly.
In the presence of the Lord Lord's day, that we are in the holiest in the very presence of God. And then when we consider that it's a 24 hour state because that's really where we've been brought into that place, but the Lord has gone there and we have told us to enter into that, I suppose.
The lack of seeing this is what keeps so many.
From the enjoyment of this.
Of being in the holy right, in the very presence of God.
When you think of our being taken to be with the Lord in glory.
Into heaven, into that holiest where the Lord has gone. How much of A change is there going to be for us?
If we are more in the good of being in that place here, it will not be such a great change for us to go there. I believe it's something that we should be exercised about to enjoy this into which we've been brought, and it's by the blood of Jesus. There's no other way we could come into that holiest but find the blood of Jesus.
Precious blood that's been shed. Do we really know the value of that blood Peter speaks of? It has more precious than gold and perishes.
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We know it's valuable. It has a great value, that plug, but how much do we value it? But here it's making a tremendous statement about what is ours by virtue of that blood. We have a beautiful picture of this very simple picture.
The 7th chapter of Luke won't turn to it.
But we see that sinful woman, which is a picture of ourselves, entering Simon's house because Jesus was there.
Wherever Jesus was, that was the place for her. I say it's a very simple picture, but it illustrates the point. Jesus has gone into the most holy place.
For us, we have the title because he is there. That woman would never enter that home at Jesus. Not been there. But as to the comments of her brother and John a moment ago, is it not in John that we have the love that was behind it all?
What we are noticing also now is the work that accomplished it all.
John shows us the love that was behind it in the heart of God.
John, First Epistle of John four. He was quoting, I suppose.
But now we have the work that has completed it all so that we have that assurance that we belong there.
They belong in the holiest. That's our place, because Jesus is there.
Will not have a better standing in heaven than we have already. We already are in the same place of acceptance before God as when we get there. And so it's a new and it's a living way, something that was never known and enjoyed by those in the Jewish rituals that now this is new, that the believer can come. The veil has been wrenched and it's beautiful the way the veil is brought in here.
And if you have a margin in the Bible, you'll notice it says New maid with a new and living way, which he hath new made for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh.
That beautiful veil of blue and purple and scarlet and fine, fine linen is a picture of the various glories that shone out in the person of Christ. But as the Israelite looked at those that beautiful veil, what did it proclaim to him? No entrance here, No entrance, that's what it was saying. But isn't it wonderful that that blessed One who came down?
And became a man the veil, that is to say, his flesh and faith could see in him all those glories, the Blues Speaking of him, Mr. Heavenly 1.
Purple, I believe, speaking to us of his royalty, the spiral of his infinite perfection as man.
Glory of man and then his perfect spotless walk.
Fine wine, linen, fly, all those things we say, oh, I'm far short of that, but oh, how wonderful that when the Lord Jesus did that word and the veil was ran, all God claims against me were met. But there were two things that came from the side of the Lord Jesus, the blood and the water. And the blood speaks of expiation, putting away sin before God. But the water brings in the thought of an entirely new.
In which we have been brought the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost. Or as the Lord said to Peter, when he was washing their feet, He that is washed, he does not save to wash his feet, but is clean everywhere.
So as we enter this place now, always say, I thought I fall far short of that one in whom all those glories shine out. But through his word He has brought thee in, and I I'm not accepted in what I am in myself.
Accepted in the Beloved One, and as it was read to us, as He is, so are we in this world. Where is He? He's there as the one who has glorified God about the whole question of sin. That's my standing before God. And when I lay hold of that, and then I see that through the rent failed, I stand before God in all the perfection of Christ, and He looks upon me as accepted in Him.
And so it's a new way and it's a living way not as it's new, it's entirely different in Christianity. But I say again, one must have a new life in order to enjoy that. And if I could just pass on, that's the thought in this 22nd verse where it says here.
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Our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. That's the blood and our bodies washed with pure water. That's not the thought of our.
Feet having to be washed to restore communion. It's all the thought of the believers standing, so sin is taken away from the conscience by the blood. My standing is perfect in Christ, and so I can come now with holy boldness into His presence. And we'll never really enjoy sitting in His presence on Lord's Day morning unless we enter into this, brethren, and see where God heals us.
As it's been remarked, it isn't just on Lord's Day morning that we can be in his presence.
But there's something special when we come there to appreciate and enjoy and thank him.
For what He has done to fit us to be there. And so unless He thought of laid hold of our souls and are enjoyed by the power of the Spirit, we will not feel at home in His presence. It won't be with boldness, but as the Spirit of God brings them home to our souls today, and we see that we are before God in Christ. That I can say sin God for my conscience through the blood.
God feeds me as a new creature in Christ Jesus.
The righteousness of God in Christ accepted in the Beloved. By now I can enjoy this new and living place, and the priesthood of Christ here is to maintain our souls and the enjoyment of it. What is he doing now? Does he have to offer sacrifices? No, that's all fast. But what is he doing? He's up there. I'm live to lose the enjoyment, but I've got one up there who says you need help along the way so that you don't.
Enjoyment of my love there He is to supply that help. Everything's been provided so that we could happily enjoy this place where grace has brought us through the work of Christ in the 25th 1St. Would you not say the day of apostasy that's approaching?
And then so the expectation before that, let us consider one another to provoke unto law and to good works, not forsaking the assembly of ourselves together, as the man of some is, but exhorting one another so much the more as you see the day approaching. And we do see it approaching, even if we looked at it the other way, the day of Christ coming either way.
This should exercise our hearts no matter which way we look at it.
And I just mentioned that in the just to make a connection in the 24th, in the 23rd verse, the new translation is let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering. So we have faith that lays hold of where God has brought us. We have hope in the 23rd and then in the 24th we have love. And this is very blessed.
Behold fast the confession of our hope. When Israel left Canaan, they had the hope of entering the land.
Did their entrance into the land depend on their faithfulness? They would have never entered it on that ground. What does it depend on? Something that in US? No, I'm holding fast because he's faithful. He's the captain. He's bringing me home. And so for the whole fast, the confession of our hope never waver. Because, oh, you say I'm unfaithful. But he's faithful. He's made a promise.
Founded upon a righteous basis in the Blessed.
Faith and hope and love all made secure to us through what He has done.