WEBVTT 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:07.158 Whoo. All right. 00:00:07.206 --> 00:00:08.582 Wow. Y'all can have a seat. 00:00:08.582 --> 00:00:11.222 And that's what it's all about right there. 00:00:11.334 --> 00:00:12.754 Just speak Jesus. 00:00:13.454 --> 00:00:18.782 The second priority of this gathering is that we live Jesus all around 00:00:18.838 --> 00:00:22.366 us. So you're going to run into people that need all the things that song 00:00:22.366 --> 00:00:22.998 talks about. 00:00:22.998 --> 00:00:28.804 And so which kind of ties right into today's message because we are still 00:00:28.844 --> 00:00:30.476 discussing the object of our faith. 00:00:30.476 --> 00:00:31.466 And guess what? 00:00:31.532 --> 00:00:33.842 The object of our faith is Jesus. 00:00:34.404 --> 00:00:35.676 And so today's message, 00:00:35.676 --> 00:00:37.532 really sort of more detailed, 00:00:37.548 --> 00:00:39.652 is just Jesus Christ once for all. 00:00:39.652 --> 00:00:40.620 So we're going to look at that. 00:00:40.620 --> 00:00:43.284 But I got to tell you about something that didn't make the top four 00:00:43.284 --> 00:00:46.584 today. Tonight we have a hymn scene, 00:00:46.884 --> 00:00:49.620 meaning that we're going to get together and open some hymnals, 00:00:49.620 --> 00:00:51.164 and it'll be on the wall, 00:00:51.164 --> 00:00:51.494 too. 00:00:51.372 --> 00:00:54.564 For those of you that forgot how to use a hymnal, 00:00:54.564 --> 00:00:55.412 several years ago, 00:00:55.412 --> 00:00:56.044 we did it. 00:00:56.044 --> 00:00:56.732 Not several years, 00:00:56.732 --> 00:00:57.484 probably last year. 00:00:57.484 --> 00:01:00.428 Year before we did a hymn sing and we put the hymnals out and didn't put 00:01:00.428 --> 00:01:01.228 it on the screen. 00:01:01.228 --> 00:01:01.972 And somebody said, 00:01:01.972 --> 00:01:05.612 I can't see these words because now we've gotten used to them being 00:01:05.612 --> 00:01:06.504 really big. 00:01:07.324 --> 00:01:10.148 But tonight we're doing a hymn sing at 06:00. 00:01:10.316 --> 00:01:13.636 At 05:00 we're doing a reception for Michael and Jenna Morton. 00:01:13.740 --> 00:01:15.876 Michael got married on June 1, 00:01:15.940 --> 00:01:17.884 and he and Jenna moved off to Farmville. 00:01:17.884 --> 00:01:19.988 And they are. 00:01:20.156 --> 00:01:22.036 He said to me this morning in a text, 00:01:22.036 --> 00:01:22.744 he said, 00:01:23.544 --> 00:01:24.200 and here you go. 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:26.528 I like this because it sounds like they're shopping. 00:01:26.320 --> 00:01:26.936 He said, 00:01:26.936 --> 00:01:29.604 we're going to try a church this morning. 00:01:31.744 --> 00:01:32.744 I was like, 00:01:32.904 --> 00:01:35.160 okay. But anyway, 00:01:35.192 --> 00:01:36.224 so y'all pray for them, 00:01:36.224 --> 00:01:38.064 newly married and all that sort of thing, 00:01:38.064 --> 00:01:40.768 as they try to find where God wants them to worship. 00:01:40.768 --> 00:01:42.240 That's really what they're doing. 00:01:42.240 --> 00:01:45.560 They're trying to find worship and so pray for them. 00:01:45.592 --> 00:01:46.640 But tonight at five, 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:49.928 we're doing a reception for them right here in the welcome center. 00:01:49.440 --> 00:01:52.818 And if you want to just bless them with some kind of gift, 00:01:52.818 --> 00:01:55.066 you can drop it off at the welcome desk this morning. 00:01:55.066 --> 00:01:56.242 If you can't be here tonight, 00:01:56.242 --> 00:01:57.434 but there'll be a basket, 00:01:57.434 --> 00:01:59.546 might be a basket at the welcome desk this morning. 00:01:59.546 --> 00:02:00.258 There is. 00:02:00.386 --> 00:02:02.610 So if you want to be a blessing to Michael and Jenna, 00:02:02.610 --> 00:02:05.580 just drop something in the basket for them and. 00:02:06.114 --> 00:02:08.410 Or you can come tonight and bring it tonight. 00:02:08.202 --> 00:02:12.778 And then after that is that parent meeting for Camp Caraway and a couple 00:02:12.778 --> 00:02:17.242 things. We're less than a month from Camp Caraway now, 00:02:17.298 --> 00:02:21.132 and that's the camp where all our first graders through 8th graders go 00:02:21.132 --> 00:02:25.036 off to the Ashburgh area up at Camp Caraway. 00:02:25.100 --> 00:02:27.340 And last I heard, 00:02:27.372 --> 00:02:28.924 we were 80 ish and kids. 00:02:28.924 --> 00:02:32.444 And we have to take a ratio of adults with us. 00:02:32.444 --> 00:02:33.956 And so we're still. 00:02:34.140 --> 00:02:35.972 Today there's supposed to be a baked sale, 00:02:35.972 --> 00:02:37.612 right? It's going on. 00:02:37.628 --> 00:02:38.972 There's baked goods out there, 00:02:38.972 --> 00:02:40.292 y'all. So don't leave home with. 00:02:40.292 --> 00:02:40.540 I mean, 00:02:40.540 --> 00:02:43.700 don't leave here without them and grab you something. 00:02:43.772 --> 00:02:45.422 Make a donation to camp. 00:02:45.508 --> 00:02:46.340 I will tell you, 00:02:46.340 --> 00:02:47.620 we need some guys, 00:02:47.620 --> 00:02:50.590 some men who are willing to go to camp. 00:02:51.474 --> 00:02:54.934 And particularly be on the middle school side of things, 00:02:55.234 --> 00:02:58.618 because we just need some more men to go to camp. 00:02:58.618 --> 00:03:01.178 So if you're one of those available kind of people, 00:03:01.178 --> 00:03:03.818 let trudy and Beth know that you're available. 00:03:03.826 --> 00:03:04.816 There you go. 00:03:05.114 --> 00:03:05.530 All right. 00:03:05.530 --> 00:03:09.282 So I like it where we are now in the book of Hebrews. 00:03:09.282 --> 00:03:11.930 Because now we're getting down to some summary, 00:03:12.122 --> 00:03:16.170 sort of now that the writer of Hebrews and God by inspiration has made 00:03:16.170 --> 00:03:20.916 the case that we get to these words like sense. 00:03:20.980 --> 00:03:21.996 Therefore, however, 00:03:22.100 --> 00:03:23.028 those kind of things. 00:03:23.028 --> 00:03:27.700 And the translation that we use on Sunday mornings is the CSB Christian 00:03:27.732 --> 00:03:28.664 standard Bible. 00:03:29.004 --> 00:03:35.504 And it starts chapter ten with sense meaning not since, 00:03:36.764 --> 00:03:37.612 but since. 00:03:37.668 --> 00:03:43.132 The law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the reality 00:03:43.308 --> 00:03:44.948 itself of those things. 00:03:44.996 --> 00:03:48.956 It can never perfect the worshippers by the same sacrifices they 00:03:48.980 --> 00:03:50.780 continually offer year after year. 00:03:50.852 --> 00:03:53.772 Otherwise, wouldn't they have stopped being offered since the 00:03:53.772 --> 00:03:55.212 worshippers, worshippers, 00:03:55.308 --> 00:03:57.292 purified once and for all, 00:03:57.468 --> 00:04:00.544 would no longer have any consciousness of sins. 00:04:01.204 --> 00:04:02.460 But in the sacrifices, 00:04:02.460 --> 00:04:04.980 there's a reminder of sins year after year. 00:04:04.772 --> 00:04:09.356 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 00:04:09.356 --> 00:04:11.124 Therefore, as he was coming into the world, 00:04:11.124 --> 00:04:11.832 he said, 00:04:11.988 --> 00:04:14.272 you did not desire sacrifice and offering, 00:04:14.272 --> 00:04:15.680 but you prepared a body for me. 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:18.864 You did not delight in whole burnt offerings and sin offerings. 00:04:18.864 --> 00:04:19.528 Then I said, 00:04:19.528 --> 00:04:22.040 see, it is written about me in the scroll. 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:23.144 I have come to do your will, 00:04:23.144 --> 00:04:23.474 God. 00:04:23.432 --> 00:04:25.952 And after he says above what he says above, 00:04:25.952 --> 00:04:30.272 you did not desire or delight in sacrifices and burnt sacrifices and 00:04:30.288 --> 00:04:33.512 offering whole burnt offerings and sin offerings which are offered 00:04:33.512 --> 00:04:34.264 according to the law. 00:04:34.264 --> 00:04:35.416 He then says, 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:37.136 see, I have come to do your will, 00:04:37.136 --> 00:04:39.552 he takes away the first to establish the second. 00:04:39.552 --> 00:04:40.764 By this will, 00:04:41.894 --> 00:04:45.414 we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ. 00:04:45.414 --> 00:04:48.110 Once. Once for all time. 00:04:48.182 --> 00:04:51.974 Every priest stands day after day ministering and offering the same 00:04:52.134 --> 00:04:53.886 sacrifices time after time, 00:04:53.950 --> 00:04:55.930 which can never take away sins. 00:04:56.054 --> 00:04:57.078 But this man, 00:04:57.126 --> 00:05:00.110 after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, 00:05:00.182 --> 00:05:02.174 sat down at the right hand of God. 00:05:02.174 --> 00:05:04.846 He is now waiting until his enemies are made his footstool. 00:05:04.846 --> 00:05:11.258 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are sanctified. 00:05:11.346 --> 00:05:14.546 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. 00:05:14.570 --> 00:05:15.898 For after he says, 00:05:16.066 --> 00:05:20.210 this is the covenant I will make with them after those days, 00:05:20.242 --> 00:05:20.834 the Lord says, 00:05:20.834 --> 00:05:23.738 I will put my laws on their heart and write them on their minds, 00:05:23.738 --> 00:05:28.602 and I will never again remember their sins and their lawless acts. 00:05:28.658 --> 00:05:31.034 Now, where there is forgiveness of these, 00:05:31.154 --> 00:05:33.458 there is no longer an offering for sin. 00:05:33.458 --> 00:05:34.786 So let's pray together. 00:05:34.850 --> 00:05:40.314 Father, we thank you for showing us what's important. 00:05:41.014 --> 00:05:49.614 God, we thank you for highlighting your work through the ages, 00:05:49.694 --> 00:05:52.094 going all the way back to the fall, 00:05:52.094 --> 00:05:56.384 going all the way back to the promise of salvation and the Messiah. 00:05:56.310 --> 00:05:56.630 And God, 00:05:56.630 --> 00:06:03.282 we thank you that we can sit in this room in 2024 and know you meant this 00:06:03.338 --> 00:06:04.574 message for us. 00:06:04.914 --> 00:06:05.482 So, God, 00:06:05.482 --> 00:06:07.090 help us to not just hear you, 00:06:07.090 --> 00:06:08.740 but to listen to you. 00:06:09.114 --> 00:06:12.050 And God help us to make priority in our lives, 00:06:12.050 --> 00:06:14.410 those things which are a priority to you. 00:06:14.410 --> 00:06:15.946 We pray it in Jesus name. 00:06:15.946 --> 00:06:16.654 Amen. 00:06:17.474 --> 00:06:17.890 All right, 00:06:17.890 --> 00:06:21.734 so the point of today's message is pretty straightforward. 00:06:24.114 --> 00:06:27.494 Jesus Christ is the final sacrifice. 00:06:27.894 --> 00:06:29.382 So we've been looking at it, 00:06:29.382 --> 00:06:30.334 and this week, 00:06:30.334 --> 00:06:31.566 even in some of the devotional, 00:06:31.566 --> 00:06:33.766 I went through the whole summary of things, 00:06:33.766 --> 00:06:37.382 and I'm going to do it really quickly and really briefly just for the fun 00:06:37.382 --> 00:06:37.710 of it, 00:06:37.710 --> 00:06:40.438 because I've kind of got it memorized now. 00:06:40.486 --> 00:06:43.806 So Jesus is the point. 00:06:43.910 --> 00:06:44.462 All right, 00:06:44.462 --> 00:06:46.238 that's kind of what we're looking at. 00:06:46.238 --> 00:06:48.782 But here's what we found out in Hebrews so far. 00:06:48.518 --> 00:06:49.462 God has spoken. 00:06:49.462 --> 00:06:51.814 He spoke through prophets and angels in days past, 00:06:51.814 --> 00:06:52.862 but in these last days, 00:06:52.862 --> 00:06:53.926 he spoke it through his son, 00:06:53.926 --> 00:06:56.110 Jesus. Jesus is the son. 00:06:56.182 --> 00:06:58.492 Jesus is the heir of all things. 00:06:58.714 --> 00:07:02.074 Jesus is the exact expression of the essence of God. 00:07:02.114 --> 00:07:03.866 He is the radiance of God's glory. 00:07:03.866 --> 00:07:05.810 He is the creator of all things. 00:07:05.810 --> 00:07:08.120 He is the sustainer of all things. 00:07:08.122 --> 00:07:09.614 And as such, 00:07:09.954 --> 00:07:13.374 he is the king of kings. 00:07:13.754 --> 00:07:15.970 He is the high priest. 00:07:16.122 --> 00:07:18.474 Everything about the Old Testament, 00:07:18.514 --> 00:07:19.174 the covenant, 00:07:19.186 --> 00:07:19.846 the law, 00:07:19.954 --> 00:07:21.482 the sacrificial system, 00:07:21.618 --> 00:07:23.154 all point us to Jesus. 00:07:23.154 --> 00:07:24.066 And so today, 00:07:24.066 --> 00:07:26.370 I can preach this message in one, 00:07:26.370 --> 00:07:27.354 one statement. 00:07:27.654 --> 00:07:29.754 Jesus is the point. 00:07:30.814 --> 00:07:33.454 We should be paying attention to him more. 00:07:34.134 --> 00:07:35.118 We can't. 00:07:35.286 --> 00:07:39.576 It's not cool to just satisfy ourselves with a little bit of Jesus. 00:07:39.694 --> 00:07:40.594 You see, 00:07:40.974 --> 00:07:45.102 we really need to focus our hearts and our minds on Jesus. 00:07:45.158 --> 00:07:47.806 We know from John 316 where it says, 00:07:47.990 --> 00:07:50.834 for God so loved us the world, 00:07:51.454 --> 00:07:53.774 that he gave his only begotten, 00:07:53.814 --> 00:07:56.394 his unique one and only son. 00:07:57.364 --> 00:08:01.544 That whoever believes in him don't have to perish, 00:08:02.084 --> 00:08:03.644 but they have everlasting life, 00:08:03.644 --> 00:08:06.180 this unique one and only person, 00:08:06.292 --> 00:08:08.372 Jesus, you see? 00:08:08.508 --> 00:08:11.644 And so he goes back right here in this bit of a summary. 00:08:11.372 --> 00:08:16.500 Since the law is only a shadow of the good things to come and not the 00:08:16.500 --> 00:08:18.124 reality itself of those things, 00:08:18.124 --> 00:08:21.820 it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they 00:08:21.852 --> 00:08:23.380 continually offer year after year. 00:08:23.380 --> 00:08:27.532 So remember that the writer of Hebrews is writing to a hebrew people who 00:08:27.532 --> 00:08:30.940 have given themselves for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years to 00:08:30.940 --> 00:08:38.184 this system of law and this system of sacrificial covenant following. 00:08:38.724 --> 00:08:39.388 And yes, 00:08:39.436 --> 00:08:42.460 we know from the book of Hebrews that the sacrificial system in the blood 00:08:42.460 --> 00:08:45.548 of bulls and goats allowed God not to see their sin, 00:08:45.548 --> 00:08:50.044 but that their sin would be covered for a time during the old covenant, 00:08:50.044 --> 00:08:51.892 is what he says in the Book of Hebrews. 00:08:51.892 --> 00:08:54.214 But it doesn't do the job. 00:08:54.874 --> 00:08:58.094 It doesn't perfect for all time. 00:08:58.634 --> 00:09:01.604 See, the sacrifice of a bull isn't good enough. 00:09:01.874 --> 00:09:02.534 I mean, 00:09:02.586 --> 00:09:03.734 bull's blood. 00:09:04.114 --> 00:09:06.546 Now, why does he go into this right here? 00:09:06.546 --> 00:09:08.856 He starts getting really specific about this. 00:09:08.922 --> 00:09:11.066 Otherwise, wouldn't they have stopped being offered? 00:09:10.802 --> 00:09:11.674 Since the worshipers, 00:09:11.674 --> 00:09:12.874 purified once for all, 00:09:12.874 --> 00:09:15.514 would no longer have any consciousness of sins? 00:09:15.794 --> 00:09:17.090 But in the sacrifices, 00:09:17.090 --> 00:09:19.666 there is a reminder of sins year after year, 00:09:19.666 --> 00:09:23.520 for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin. 00:09:23.520 --> 00:09:25.168 So what's he talking about right there? 00:09:25.168 --> 00:09:25.400 All right, 00:09:25.400 --> 00:09:27.124 so every year, 00:09:27.984 --> 00:09:30.384 the people had to go to the temple, 00:09:30.384 --> 00:09:33.432 and they would go to the temple for other reasons during the year. 00:09:33.432 --> 00:09:34.432 But every year, 00:09:34.568 --> 00:09:36.204 the day of atonement, 00:09:36.864 --> 00:09:40.952 the sin offering that took place every year was the reminder that, 00:09:41.008 --> 00:09:41.964 guess what? 00:09:42.424 --> 00:09:44.644 Your sin stinks. 00:09:45.764 --> 00:09:47.140 Okay, can I just go ahead? 00:09:47.140 --> 00:09:49.716 And so guess what? 00:09:49.900 --> 00:09:51.944 Our sin stinks. 00:09:53.084 --> 00:09:54.396 So the remainder, 00:09:54.500 --> 00:09:56.084 year after year after year, 00:09:56.084 --> 00:09:57.828 was sin is serious, 00:09:57.916 --> 00:09:58.572 folks. 00:09:58.708 --> 00:10:00.540 And you're gonna drag a cow, 00:10:00.540 --> 00:10:01.156 a bull, 00:10:01.156 --> 00:10:05.188 a goat or something to the temple every year as a. 00:10:05.316 --> 00:10:07.396 As an act of worship, 00:10:07.460 --> 00:10:11.704 as an act of sacrifice to remind you that your sin stinks. 00:10:12.344 --> 00:10:15.176 See? So when I looked at this, 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:15.552 I was like, 00:10:15.552 --> 00:10:16.168 all right. 00:10:16.168 --> 00:10:21.856 So this idea that they repetitively did this sacrificial system as a 00:10:21.880 --> 00:10:25.688 reminder, it reminded them year after year of their sin. 00:10:25.856 --> 00:10:27.312 And yet God was. 00:10:27.408 --> 00:10:30.816 God was accomplishing something in the levitical law, 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:32.160 in the sacrificial system, 00:10:32.224 --> 00:10:38.048 that let them know there was coming a time when there would be a greater 00:10:38.096 --> 00:10:42.110 sacrifice. There would be a sacrifice that once for all. 00:10:42.142 --> 00:10:45.518 And that's why he goes back over here in verse 16 and quotes Jeremiah 31, 00:10:45.518 --> 00:10:50.430 that there would be a new covenant with a new sacrifice that would, 00:10:50.622 --> 00:10:54.206 he would never remember their sins and their lawless acts. 00:10:54.230 --> 00:10:56.790 So everything about the covenant, 00:10:56.902 --> 00:10:58.222 the tabernacle, 00:10:58.398 --> 00:10:59.590 the levitical law, 00:10:59.662 --> 00:11:00.958 the sacrificial system, 00:11:01.046 --> 00:11:03.014 all of that points us to Jesus. 00:11:02.766 --> 00:11:05.914 And Jesus is the final sacrifice. 00:11:07.254 --> 00:11:11.554 So all the other sacrifice was insufficient sacrifice. 00:11:11.974 --> 00:11:13.302 So when he gets to verse five, 00:11:13.302 --> 00:11:13.590 he says, 00:11:13.590 --> 00:11:15.230 therefore, as he was coming into the world, 00:11:15.230 --> 00:11:15.582 he said, 00:11:15.582 --> 00:11:18.574 you did not desire sacrifice and offering, 00:11:18.654 --> 00:11:20.304 but you asked for it. 00:11:20.694 --> 00:11:21.958 But that's not what he wanted. 00:11:21.958 --> 00:11:23.278 What did he want? 00:11:23.054 --> 00:11:24.394 He wanted the heart, 00:11:25.334 --> 00:11:26.526 he wanted faith, 00:11:26.590 --> 00:11:27.934 he wanted trust. 00:11:28.094 --> 00:11:32.084 What God was laying out for us is I'm going to give you this system to 00:11:32.084 --> 00:11:34.380 teach you how to love me, 00:11:34.412 --> 00:11:35.764 how to trust me, 00:11:35.924 --> 00:11:39.140 how to understand that I am providing for you, 00:11:39.332 --> 00:11:42.972 see? So all of those were insufficient sacrifices. 00:11:43.028 --> 00:11:43.580 And then he says, 00:11:43.580 --> 00:11:45.716 but you prepared a body for me. 00:11:45.716 --> 00:11:49.052 You did not delight in whole burnt offerings and sin offerings. 00:11:48.220 --> 00:11:50.500 So this comes from psalm, 00:11:50.572 --> 00:11:52.104 I think it's psalm 40, 00:11:53.164 --> 00:11:53.972 something like that. 00:11:53.972 --> 00:11:56.828 But if you read it in the psalm now, 00:11:56.828 --> 00:12:03.384 it kind of in the Septuagint and in later translations it was sort of 00:12:04.924 --> 00:12:07.524 reworded a little bit to give a little different understanding. 00:12:07.524 --> 00:12:09.948 And I don't argue with those kind of things because those people are a 00:12:09.948 --> 00:12:11.684 whole lot smarter than I am. 00:12:11.684 --> 00:12:13.196 But if you look in the psalm, 00:12:13.196 --> 00:12:14.932 the actual translation says, 00:12:15.068 --> 00:12:17.824 you bored out an ear for me. 00:12:18.844 --> 00:12:22.420 Now right here we read you prepared a body for me. 00:12:22.260 --> 00:12:23.324 So what does it mean? 00:12:23.324 --> 00:12:24.252 What was he talking about? 00:12:24.252 --> 00:12:24.912 Right there? 00:12:25.068 --> 00:12:25.472 All right, 00:12:25.472 --> 00:12:30.444 so if God wants us to worship him, 00:12:31.504 --> 00:12:32.032 if it, 00:12:32.032 --> 00:12:37.144 if it's God's desire for us to give ourselves over to him, 00:12:37.304 --> 00:12:40.404 what do we need to do first? 00:12:41.464 --> 00:12:45.754 And what does the very first thing we learn in Hebrews talk about? 00:12:45.624 --> 00:12:49.084 God has spoken and we better listen. 00:12:49.624 --> 00:12:56.202 Better clean out your ears so you can hear what God has asked for and you 00:12:56.218 --> 00:12:58.250 can surrender yourself to him. 00:12:58.402 --> 00:12:59.258 You see? 00:12:59.426 --> 00:13:03.854 So the idea of the ear hearing is the idea of surrender, 00:13:04.194 --> 00:13:06.202 that I'm not just giving my ear, 00:13:06.202 --> 00:13:07.474 I'm giving my whole self. 00:13:07.474 --> 00:13:09.530 You've prepared a body for me. 00:13:09.562 --> 00:13:13.242 You did not delight in the whole burnt offerings and sin offerings. 00:13:13.242 --> 00:13:14.714 And then I said after that, 00:13:14.714 --> 00:13:16.442 see, it's written about me in the scroll. 00:13:16.442 --> 00:13:17.482 I have come to do your will. 00:13:17.482 --> 00:13:18.770 So these are all psalm, 00:13:18.770 --> 00:13:19.738 prophetic passage, 00:13:19.786 --> 00:13:25.632 messianic passage that refer to the kingship of David in one sense, 00:13:25.768 --> 00:13:31.208 but it also is the prophecy of Christ's ultimate kingship and that he 00:13:31.256 --> 00:13:35.000 came to accomplish what no one else could accomplish, 00:13:35.032 --> 00:13:37.328 because Jesus is the only begotten. 00:13:37.376 --> 00:13:41.124 Jesus is the unique one and only son of God. 00:13:41.544 --> 00:13:44.684 See, King David couldn't die for our sins. 00:13:45.344 --> 00:13:47.124 Neither could the high priests. 00:13:47.524 --> 00:13:51.484 Neither could the bulls or the goats or the pigeons or whatever. 00:13:52.164 --> 00:13:53.092 So in verse eight, 00:13:53.092 --> 00:13:54.508 when he says after, 00:13:54.556 --> 00:13:55.824 he says above, 00:13:56.564 --> 00:14:00.036 you did not desire or delight in sacrifices and offerings, 00:14:00.060 --> 00:14:02.828 whole burn offerings and sin offerings which are offered according to the 00:14:02.828 --> 00:14:04.148 law. He then says, 00:14:04.156 --> 00:14:05.684 see, I have come to do your will. 00:14:05.436 --> 00:14:08.932 He takes away the first to establish the second. 00:14:08.988 --> 00:14:12.412 So the writer of Hebrews is telling us the first covenant accomplished 00:14:12.412 --> 00:14:14.228 what it was supposed to accomplish. 00:14:14.228 --> 00:14:15.172 The Old Testament, 00:14:15.172 --> 00:14:15.732 the covenant, 00:14:15.732 --> 00:14:16.564 the levitical law, 00:14:16.564 --> 00:14:17.852 the sacrificial system, 00:14:17.988 --> 00:14:22.624 all pointed God's people to a manger in Bethlehem. 00:14:23.164 --> 00:14:24.904 That's what the prophets say, 00:14:25.324 --> 00:14:26.724 right? You know, 00:14:26.764 --> 00:14:28.236 Bethlehem, Ephrathah, 00:14:28.380 --> 00:14:30.030 you're a little bitty place, 00:14:30.884 --> 00:14:33.194 but out of you will come one. 00:14:33.236 --> 00:14:34.886 So, so God had taken, 00:14:34.964 --> 00:14:40.980 taken the broader picture of the exodus and the tabernacle and the people 00:14:41.052 --> 00:14:43.404 and the nation and the levitical law and the, 00:14:43.404 --> 00:14:46.988 the sacrificial system and the high priest and the blood of bulls and 00:14:46.988 --> 00:14:53.692 goats, and he pointed all to Jesus by this will. 00:14:53.748 --> 00:14:54.624 What will? 00:14:55.324 --> 00:14:56.348 The will of God. 00:14:56.348 --> 00:15:00.748 The statement of God's provision of salvation. 00:15:00.836 --> 00:15:03.806 Remember, a will isn't in effect until somebody dies. 00:15:03.884 --> 00:15:05.864 Got that about a chapter ago. 00:15:06.364 --> 00:15:07.892 So who had to die? 00:15:07.892 --> 00:15:11.860 We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ 00:15:11.860 --> 00:15:13.374 once for all time. 00:15:13.414 --> 00:15:14.990 Now, what body are we talking about? 00:15:14.990 --> 00:15:17.960 We're talking about the body you prepared for him, 00:15:19.014 --> 00:15:19.754 right? 00:15:20.134 --> 00:15:23.350 So when you start cross referencing these things together, 00:15:23.422 --> 00:15:28.574 you see that God is summarizing everything he did in the Old Testament 00:15:28.654 --> 00:15:32.366 and brings it all the way up to the sacrifice, 00:15:32.430 --> 00:15:34.846 the death of his son Jesus. 00:15:35.030 --> 00:15:35.974 We look at that. 00:15:35.974 --> 00:15:36.278 I mean, 00:15:36.278 --> 00:15:36.766 I see it. 00:15:36.766 --> 00:15:36.998 I mean, 00:15:36.998 --> 00:15:37.902 I grew up with it, 00:15:37.902 --> 00:15:42.756 right? I had one of those little picture bibles when I was in first 00:15:42.820 --> 00:15:44.104 grade, Sunday school, 00:15:44.404 --> 00:15:44.996 you know, 00:15:44.996 --> 00:15:49.652 that showed me Jesus with kids sitting on his knee and showed me Jesus by 00:15:49.652 --> 00:15:51.460 the river or by the water, 00:15:51.460 --> 00:15:54.956 and showed me Jesus hanging out with his disciples. 00:15:55.020 --> 00:15:55.684 And showed me, 00:15:55.684 --> 00:15:56.228 showed me, 00:15:56.228 --> 00:15:59.308 I had the picture of Jesus in the temple flipping tables over, 00:15:59.308 --> 00:16:01.948 right? You see those pictures in the Bible, 00:16:01.980 --> 00:16:04.108 right? And then you get to that picture where, 00:16:04.108 --> 00:16:05.810 where Jesus is carrying the cross. 00:16:05.810 --> 00:16:08.322 And then you see the picture of Jesus on the cross. 00:16:08.322 --> 00:16:12.002 And then you see the picture of Jesus empty tomb and Jesus standing 00:16:12.002 --> 00:16:15.930 outside the tomb with Mary bowed at his feet. 00:16:15.962 --> 00:16:16.450 You see? 00:16:16.450 --> 00:16:20.562 So you got all this picture image of what God is pointing to, 00:16:20.562 --> 00:16:22.418 which is the sacrifice of his son, 00:16:22.418 --> 00:16:26.570 Jesus. He is the abundant sacrifice, 00:16:26.762 --> 00:16:30.534 offering the body of Jesus Christ once for all time. 00:16:30.864 --> 00:16:32.112 Now, I told you last week. 00:16:32.112 --> 00:16:35.742 There are those who practice the death of Jesus every Sunday. 00:16:36.824 --> 00:16:37.384 You know, 00:16:37.384 --> 00:16:38.168 they believe that. 00:16:38.168 --> 00:16:41.120 Yeah, every time we go ahead, 00:16:41.192 --> 00:16:41.760 I'll say it. 00:16:41.760 --> 00:16:42.824 Every time we do communion, 00:16:42.824 --> 00:16:44.044 Jesus dies again. 00:16:44.544 --> 00:16:45.864 That's what they believe. 00:16:46.944 --> 00:16:47.568 See? 00:16:47.696 --> 00:16:49.080 So when I look at this, 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:52.208 and this tells me that Jesus died once for all time, 00:16:52.208 --> 00:16:53.920 and then he goes back to remind us again, 00:16:53.920 --> 00:16:56.392 every priest stands day after day, 00:16:56.448 --> 00:17:00.188 ministering and offering the same sacrifices time after time, 00:17:00.236 --> 00:17:01.796 which can never take away sin. 00:17:01.796 --> 00:17:03.104 But this man, 00:17:04.164 --> 00:17:07.308 which, offering one sacrifice for sins forever, 00:17:07.356 --> 00:17:08.620 sat down at the right hand of God. 00:17:08.620 --> 00:17:09.556 So remember now, 00:17:09.556 --> 00:17:13.596 we've got the idea that Jesus is not simply king, 00:17:13.660 --> 00:17:15.640 but he is also high priest. 00:17:16.084 --> 00:17:19.384 And the law said a man could not be both. 00:17:19.764 --> 00:17:20.764 Remember way back, 00:17:20.804 --> 00:17:21.464 chapters ago, 00:17:21.476 --> 00:17:22.436 we talked about Saul, 00:17:22.436 --> 00:17:24.746 who decided to offer his own sacrifices. 00:17:24.984 --> 00:17:26.240 And Samuel walked up and said, 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:27.560 what are you doing? 00:17:28.384 --> 00:17:28.808 He said, 00:17:28.808 --> 00:17:30.128 well, you were late. 00:17:31.584 --> 00:17:32.256 Samuel said, 00:17:32.280 --> 00:17:35.324 but it's not your place to offer the sacrifices. 00:17:36.544 --> 00:17:38.524 You know what his punishment was? 00:17:38.904 --> 00:17:41.644 He lost the kingdom and died. 00:17:43.144 --> 00:17:51.124 Okay? So there is this expectation and anticipation of obedience. 00:17:52.224 --> 00:17:53.296 And Christ, 00:17:53.480 --> 00:18:00.240 Jesus, Jesus the Christ is the only one who has ever been wholly and 00:18:00.272 --> 00:18:03.968 completely obedient to the will of God. 00:18:04.096 --> 00:18:07.484 And he is the unique son of God man. 00:18:08.064 --> 00:18:10.044 But he also came from God. 00:18:10.080 --> 00:18:11.164 He is God. 00:18:11.784 --> 00:18:13.792 That's why when it says back in chapter two, 00:18:13.792 --> 00:18:14.944 where it says he is the exact, 00:18:14.944 --> 00:18:15.600 or chapter one, 00:18:15.600 --> 00:18:21.204 chapter, the exact expression of the essence of God, 00:18:22.184 --> 00:18:22.840 Jesus said, 00:18:22.840 --> 00:18:23.752 if you've seen me, 00:18:23.752 --> 00:18:25.072 you've seen the father. 00:18:26.584 --> 00:18:28.564 I and my father are one. 00:18:29.144 --> 00:18:29.568 You know, 00:18:29.568 --> 00:18:33.244 there's some people who can't get past that. 00:18:33.704 --> 00:18:35.684 They think it's a math thing. 00:18:37.184 --> 00:18:37.728 All right, 00:18:37.728 --> 00:18:39.404 one doesn't equal three. 00:18:41.424 --> 00:18:42.928 But if you use the word God, 00:18:42.928 --> 00:18:45.374 instead of getting hung up on the math, 00:18:45.374 --> 00:18:46.754 he's one God, 00:18:47.614 --> 00:18:49.714 which is beyond our understanding. 00:18:50.254 --> 00:18:52.910 See? So then we keep reading. 00:18:52.942 --> 00:18:53.674 He says, 00:18:54.254 --> 00:18:54.982 this man, 00:18:55.038 --> 00:18:57.078 after offering the one sacrifice for sin, 00:18:57.078 --> 00:18:58.510 sat down at the right hand of God, 00:18:58.510 --> 00:19:00.982 and he's now waiting until his enemies are made his footstool. 00:19:00.982 --> 00:19:01.990 What's he waiting for? 00:19:01.814 --> 00:19:03.464 The ultimate victory over sin, 00:19:03.510 --> 00:19:05.474 death, Satan and hell. 00:19:06.774 --> 00:19:08.374 Anybody here still deal with sin? 00:19:08.374 --> 00:19:09.694 Don't raise your hand, 00:19:10.674 --> 00:19:12.450 right? Yeah, 00:19:12.482 --> 00:19:14.174 we still deal with sin. 00:19:15.234 --> 00:19:17.170 We still deal with the self. 00:19:16.826 --> 00:19:17.978 Paul's the one who told us. 00:19:17.978 --> 00:19:18.250 He said, 00:19:18.250 --> 00:19:19.900 I'm killing my old man. 00:19:20.066 --> 00:19:23.226 I remember the first time I heard a song about killing my old man back in 00:19:23.226 --> 00:19:24.050 the eighties. 00:19:24.242 --> 00:19:25.226 I was like, 00:19:25.226 --> 00:19:26.876 oh, that's kind of mean. 00:19:26.994 --> 00:19:28.818 I kind of like my daddy, 00:19:28.818 --> 00:19:29.514 right? 00:19:29.674 --> 00:19:31.170 But what he's talking about is that, 00:19:31.170 --> 00:19:33.174 that self within us, 00:19:33.714 --> 00:19:35.454 that serves self. 00:19:38.214 --> 00:19:40.910 For by one offering, 00:19:40.982 --> 00:19:43.074 he has perfected forever, 00:19:43.414 --> 00:19:45.074 those who are sanctified, 00:19:45.534 --> 00:19:46.870 those who are set apart, 00:19:46.870 --> 00:19:48.814 those who have been called out. 00:19:48.814 --> 00:19:51.574 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this, 00:19:51.574 --> 00:19:52.894 for after he says, 00:19:54.054 --> 00:19:55.942 this is the covenant I will make with them, 00:19:55.942 --> 00:19:57.030 this comes out of Jeremiah. 00:19:57.030 --> 00:19:58.318 I've already mentioned it. 00:19:58.318 --> 00:19:59.222 After those days, 00:19:59.222 --> 00:19:59.814 the Lord says, 00:19:59.814 --> 00:20:01.678 I will put my laws on, 00:20:01.678 --> 00:20:03.490 on their hearts and write them on their minds, 00:20:03.490 --> 00:20:07.934 and I will never again remember their sins and their lawless acts. 00:20:08.314 --> 00:20:10.854 Now, where there is forgiveness of these, 00:20:11.154 --> 00:20:13.714 there's no longer an offering of sin. 00:20:13.754 --> 00:20:16.134 So what is the great forgiveness? 00:20:17.594 --> 00:20:20.026 I remember having this conversation, 00:20:20.090 --> 00:20:22.070 I won't call it an argument, 00:20:22.114 --> 00:20:25.054 having this conversation in seminary one time. 00:20:25.394 --> 00:20:27.690 Sometimes in the New Testament, 00:20:27.722 --> 00:20:29.454 you see forgiveness of sins, 00:20:30.184 --> 00:20:32.164 and you see forgiveness of sin. 00:20:33.064 --> 00:20:37.164 What's the great sin that Christ died for? 00:20:38.544 --> 00:20:39.924 Our rebellion, 00:20:41.184 --> 00:20:42.888 our rebellion against God. 00:20:42.936 --> 00:20:46.236 All the other sins fall under the idea of rebellion. 00:20:47.104 --> 00:20:47.704 So, see, 00:20:47.704 --> 00:20:48.920 God has forgiven us, 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:53.312 our rebellion against him while we were still sinners. 00:20:53.408 --> 00:20:55.204 Christ died for us, 00:20:56.124 --> 00:20:59.704 so our sin is forgotten. 00:21:00.884 --> 00:21:02.304 We have forgiveness, 00:21:04.004 --> 00:21:06.996 and you don't do that every year. 00:21:07.060 --> 00:21:09.700 You don't do that over and over again. 00:21:09.796 --> 00:21:13.944 You can't work hard enough to earn it and accomplish it yourself. 00:21:15.124 --> 00:21:21.376 So it comes down to Jesus Christ is the once for all king, 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:22.936 priest, sacrifice, 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:26.192 savior. Now, 00:21:26.288 --> 00:21:29.216 my encouragement all of this year, 00:21:29.280 --> 00:21:32.376 so far as we've been making our way through Hebrews, 00:21:32.376 --> 00:21:35.016 is we better be paying attention to Jesus. 00:21:35.904 --> 00:21:39.534 We better be focusing our hearts and our minds on Jesus. 00:21:39.904 --> 00:21:42.544 There's a whole lot of tradition out there. 00:21:42.616 --> 00:21:43.680 For instance, 00:21:43.872 --> 00:21:46.782 levitical law and the practice of the sacrifices. 00:21:46.968 --> 00:21:47.938 Do you know, 00:21:47.938 --> 00:21:54.458 it got to the point where for them it was not an act of worship, 00:21:54.506 --> 00:21:56.156 it's just what we do. 00:21:58.514 --> 00:21:59.010 Oh, yeah, 00:21:59.010 --> 00:22:00.994 well, we have to take this sacrifice, 00:22:00.994 --> 00:22:02.274 or we have to take this grain, 00:22:02.274 --> 00:22:03.530 or we have to take this oil, 00:22:03.530 --> 00:22:05.840 or we have to take this animal. 00:22:07.074 --> 00:22:08.854 I remember we did a, 00:22:09.514 --> 00:22:12.484 I was preaching through John a couple years ago. 00:22:12.618 --> 00:22:13.458 Remember I told you, 00:22:13.458 --> 00:22:13.762 I said, 00:22:13.762 --> 00:22:14.178 you know, 00:22:14.178 --> 00:22:17.634 we got to the place where Jesus washed the feet of the disciples. 00:22:17.634 --> 00:22:18.122 I said, 00:22:18.122 --> 00:22:20.938 those were the same feet that walked down the street where they were 00:22:20.938 --> 00:22:25.250 hauling sheep and goats and bulls into town to take them to the temple to 00:22:25.250 --> 00:22:30.214 sacrifice, and Jesus got down and cleaned those feet, 00:22:30.834 --> 00:22:33.458 right? Can you imagine what it would be like? 00:22:33.290 --> 00:22:34.274 You're getting ready to leave home, 00:22:34.274 --> 00:22:35.774 up in galilee somewhere, 00:22:36.234 --> 00:22:38.314 and you've picked out the sheep that's the cleanest, 00:22:38.314 --> 00:22:38.842 the brightest, 00:22:38.842 --> 00:22:39.370 the prettiest, 00:22:39.370 --> 00:22:40.734 the most perfect sheep, 00:22:41.204 --> 00:22:44.444 and you're going to take him with you to Jerusalem, 00:22:44.444 --> 00:22:47.244 right? You're going to take him down the road with you. 00:22:47.244 --> 00:22:49.604 Your kids are going to be playing with him. 00:22:49.604 --> 00:22:50.924 Probably got a name, 00:22:51.604 --> 00:22:54.772 right? You're taking that sheep down there to do what? 00:22:54.548 --> 00:23:00.204 So that you and your family can stand there while that sheep's throat is 00:23:00.364 --> 00:23:01.064 cut. 00:23:04.004 --> 00:23:10.062 Kind of points out how serious our sin is and the sacrifice Jesus made 00:23:10.238 --> 00:23:11.514 for that sin. 00:23:12.054 --> 00:23:16.434 And we should pay more attention to Jesus every day of our lives. 00:23:16.854 --> 00:23:18.766 Okay, see, 00:23:18.790 --> 00:23:21.054 if you don't know Jesus this morning, 00:23:21.054 --> 00:23:23.034 we want you to know Jesus. 00:23:23.454 --> 00:23:25.046 I love it that you're here. 00:23:25.046 --> 00:23:28.366 We have a great time here on Topsail island. 00:23:28.430 --> 00:23:30.454 And I know there's folks who come every year. 00:23:30.454 --> 00:23:31.114 Thank y'all. 00:23:31.182 --> 00:23:32.502 Glad y'all are here. 00:23:33.034 --> 00:23:34.770 There's some folks who come for vacation, 00:23:34.770 --> 00:23:35.282 and I say, 00:23:35.282 --> 00:23:35.842 come on back. 00:23:35.842 --> 00:23:37.822 Cause we vacation all year round. 00:23:40.154 --> 00:23:41.474 But here you go. 00:23:41.954 --> 00:23:45.914 If you don't take anything out of this worship hour this morning, 00:23:46.354 --> 00:23:48.106 we want you to take Jesus. 00:23:48.106 --> 00:23:49.154 Maybe you're a Christian. 00:23:49.154 --> 00:23:50.634 Maybe you've trusted Jesus. 00:23:50.674 --> 00:23:53.974 You've received the salvation that God's offered in the shed. 00:23:53.802 --> 00:23:54.618 Blood of Jesus. 00:23:54.618 --> 00:23:55.734 Maybe, you know, 00:23:56.554 --> 00:24:02.014 but. But you're one of those people that the world crowds your walk. 00:24:03.314 --> 00:24:03.834 You know, 00:24:03.834 --> 00:24:04.690 Sundays are great. 00:24:04.690 --> 00:24:06.586 Cause we're all reminded on Sunday morning, 00:24:06.586 --> 00:24:07.246 but Monday. 00:24:07.162 --> 00:24:09.534 Ah. All right, 00:24:10.714 --> 00:24:13.666 see, we're supposed to focus. 00:24:13.850 --> 00:24:17.574 Pay attention to Jesus, 00:24:18.834 --> 00:24:19.774 the friend, 00:24:21.034 --> 00:24:23.786 right? Think about him. 00:24:23.890 --> 00:24:29.534 Ever send a text to somebody that just pops into your mind for no reason? 00:24:31.294 --> 00:24:34.924 Maybe they're not popping into your mind for just no reason. 00:24:35.814 --> 00:24:37.822 Maybe you're supposed to send them a note and say, 00:24:37.822 --> 00:24:38.390 you know what? 00:24:38.390 --> 00:24:39.390 I was thinking about you. 00:24:39.390 --> 00:24:41.040 I was praying for you. 00:24:41.774 --> 00:24:44.182 Can I pray specifically for you? 00:24:44.358 --> 00:24:48.294 Man, you don't know what kind of conversation that can open up. 00:24:48.294 --> 00:24:49.902 See, if you don't know Jesus this morning, 00:24:49.902 --> 00:24:50.934 we want you to know Jesus. 00:24:50.934 --> 00:24:52.814 If you're not focused on Jesus this morning, 00:24:52.814 --> 00:24:54.454 we want you to focus on Jesus. 00:24:54.454 --> 00:24:56.830 Maybe you want to come be a part of what God's doing here at the 00:24:56.830 --> 00:25:00.188 gathering, because it's kind of fun and God's doing some really cool 00:25:00.188 --> 00:25:04.436 things. We just want you to answer God this morning as we sing this last 00:25:04.436 --> 00:25:04.868 song. 00:25:04.956 --> 00:25:08.732 You respond to whatever God has spoken in your heart. 00:25:08.788 --> 00:25:09.420 All right, 00:25:09.420 --> 00:25:13.084 I'll be down here at the front to pray with you if you want to pray, 00:25:13.084 --> 00:25:16.604 but you pay more attention to Jesus than you do me, 00:25:16.604 --> 00:25:17.820 please. All right, 00:25:17.932 --> 00:25:18.612 let's pray. 00:25:18.708 --> 00:25:19.572 God, thank you. 00:25:19.572 --> 00:25:20.404 Thank you for your love, 00:25:20.404 --> 00:25:23.044 and thank you that you've loved us first. 00:25:24.264 --> 00:25:25.984 God, we want to love you back. 00:25:25.984 --> 00:25:26.280 I mean, 00:25:26.280 --> 00:25:30.304 we wouldn't be here this morning if we didn't want to love you back. 00:25:30.304 --> 00:25:30.840 So, God, 00:25:30.840 --> 00:25:35.096 my prayer this morning would be that we would focus our hearts and our 00:25:35.096 --> 00:25:37.360 minds and our attention on you, 00:25:37.552 --> 00:25:41.960 God. That we'd understand the sacrifice that Jesus made for us. 00:25:41.992 --> 00:25:42.920 That, yes, 00:25:43.112 --> 00:25:45.208 it was brutal and it was ugly, 00:25:45.208 --> 00:25:46.198 and it was. 00:25:47.344 --> 00:25:50.884 But it's the reminder that our sin is serious, 00:25:51.864 --> 00:25:56.324 God, when we live our lives in open rebellion against you, 00:25:57.464 --> 00:26:02.032 Father, my prayer would be that this morning we'd stop and we'd take 00:26:02.088 --> 00:26:06.124 notice that you loved us first and you loved us most, 00:26:06.504 --> 00:26:08.814 and you certainly love us the best. 00:26:09.104 --> 00:26:09.680 So God, 00:26:09.680 --> 00:26:11.184 help us to love you back. 00:26:11.184 --> 00:26:13.164 We pray it in Jesus name. 00:26:13.184 --> 00:26:13.504 Amen.