WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.860 Henry: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.948 --> 00:00:03.878 Day 63. 00:00:04.201 --> 00:00:05.311 Here is the main point. 00:00:05.851 --> 00:00:09.541 We have a high priest who sat down in the place of honor beside the 00:00:09.541 --> 00:00:11.821 throne of the majestic God in heaven. 00:00:12.631 --> 00:00:16.441 There he ministers in the heavenly tabernacle, the true place of 00:00:16.446 --> 00:00:19.711 worship that was built by the Lord and not by human hands. 00:00:20.581 --> 00:00:25.141 And since every high priest is required to offer gifts and sacrifices, our 00:00:25.141 --> 00:00:26.971 high priest must make an offering too. 00:00:27.661 --> 00:00:30.781 If he were here on earth, he would not even be a priest. 00:00:31.051 --> 00:00:35.851 Since there already are priests who offer the gifts required by the law they serve 00:00:35.851 --> 00:00:41.011 in a system of worship that is only a copy, a shadow of the real one in heaven. 00:00:41.821 --> 00:00:46.171 For when Moses was getting ready to build the tabernacle, God gave him this warning. 00:00:46.951 --> 00:00:49.831 Be sure that you make everything according to the pattern I have 00:00:49.831 --> 00:00:51.121 shown you here on the mountain. 00:00:52.306 --> 00:00:57.376 But now Jesus, our high priest, has been given a ministry that is far superior to 00:00:57.376 --> 00:01:02.086 the old priesthood for he is the one who mediates for us, a far better covenant 00:01:02.086 --> 00:01:04.576 with God based on better promises. 00:01:05.356 --> 00:01:08.446 If the first covenant had been faultless, there would've been no need 00:01:08.446 --> 00:01:10.156 for a second covenant to replace it. 00:01:10.636 --> 00:01:14.506 But when God found fault with the people, he said, the day 00:01:14.506 --> 00:01:16.036 is comings, says the Lord. 00:01:16.426 --> 00:01:19.636 When I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. 00:01:20.281 --> 00:01:23.581 This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors. 00:01:23.821 --> 00:01:27.541 When I took them by the hand and led them out of the land of Egypt, they 00:01:27.541 --> 00:01:29.401 did not remain faithful to my covenant. 00:01:29.911 --> 00:01:32.311 So I turned my back on them, says the Lord. 00:01:32.971 --> 00:01:35.941 But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of 00:01:35.941 --> 00:01:37.921 Israel on that day, says the Lord. 00:01:38.461 --> 00:01:42.571 I will put my laws and their minds and I will write them on their hearts. 00:01:42.901 --> 00:01:46.321 I will be their God and they will be my people. 00:01:46.861 --> 00:01:50.191 And they will not need to teach their neighbors nor will they need to teach 00:01:50.191 --> 00:01:55.321 their relatives saying, you should know the Lord for everyone from the least to 00:01:55.321 --> 00:02:00.091 the greatest will know me already and I will forgive their wickedness and I 00:02:00.091 --> 00:02:02.491 will never again remember their sins. 00:02:03.001 --> 00:02:08.491 When God speaks of a new covenant, it means he has made the first one obsolete. 00:02:09.031 --> 00:02:11.881 It is now out of date and will soon disappear. 00:02:13.396 --> 00:02:17.716 That first covenant between God and Israel had regulations for worship 00:02:17.776 --> 00:02:19.396 and a place of worship here on earth. 00:02:20.206 --> 00:02:23.626 There were two rooms in that tabernacle in the first room where 00:02:23.626 --> 00:02:27.916 a lamp stand, a table, and sacred loaves of bread on the table. 00:02:28.486 --> 00:02:30.916 This room was called the holy place. 00:02:31.546 --> 00:02:34.306 Then there was a curtain, and behind the curtain was the second 00:02:34.306 --> 00:02:36.106 room called the most holy place. 00:02:37.141 --> 00:02:40.981 In that room were a gold incense altar and a wooden chest called 00:02:40.981 --> 00:02:44.701 the Ark of the Covenant, which was covered with gold on all sides. 00:02:45.361 --> 00:02:48.271 Inside the ark were a gold jar containing manna. 00:02:48.691 --> 00:02:54.001 Aaron's staff that sprouted leaves, and the stone tablets of the covenant above 00:02:54.001 --> 00:02:59.041 the ark were the cherub of divine glory whose wings stretched out over the ark's 00:02:59.041 --> 00:03:04.231 cover the place of atonement, but we cannot explain these things in detail now. 00:03:05.236 --> 00:03:10.156 When these things were all in place, the priests regularly entered the first room 00:03:10.156 --> 00:03:14.806 as they performed their religious duties, but only the high priest ever entered the 00:03:14.806 --> 00:03:20.686 most holy place and only once a year, and he always offered blood for his own sins 00:03:20.926 --> 00:03:22.726 and for the sins the people had committed. 00:03:22.731 --> 00:03:27.556 In ignorance by these regulations, the Holy Spirit revealed that the 00:03:27.556 --> 00:03:29.386 entrance to the most holy place. 00:03:29.806 --> 00:03:33.196 Was not freely open as long as the tabernacle and the system had 00:03:33.196 --> 00:03:34.726 represented were still in use. 00:03:35.656 --> 00:03:40.576 This is an illustration pointing to the present time for the gifts and 00:03:40.576 --> 00:03:45.106 sacrifices that the priests offer are not able to cleanse the consciences of 00:03:45.106 --> 00:03:50.056 the people who bring them for that old system deals only with food and drink and 00:03:50.056 --> 00:03:55.306 various cleansing ceremonies, physical regulations that were in effect only until 00:03:55.306 --> 00:03:57.136 a better system could be established. 00:03:58.186 --> 00:04:03.106 So Christ has now become the high priest over all the good things that have come. 00:04:03.676 --> 00:04:08.746 He has entered that greater, more perfect tabernacle in heaven, which was not 00:04:08.746 --> 00:04:14.146 made by human hands and is not part of this created world with his own blood, 00:04:14.446 --> 00:04:16.726 not the blood of goats and calves. 00:04:17.026 --> 00:04:21.766 He entered the most holy place once for all time and 00:04:21.766 --> 00:04:23.836 secured our redemption forever. 00:04:24.751 --> 00:04:28.711 Under the old system, the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes 00:04:28.711 --> 00:04:32.911 of a heifer could cleanse people's bodies from ceremonial impurity. 00:04:33.661 --> 00:04:38.431 Just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our consciences from 00:04:38.431 --> 00:04:43.441 sinful deeds so that we can worship the living God for By the power of the 00:04:43.441 --> 00:04:48.601 eternal spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins. 00:04:49.516 --> 00:04:54.136 That is why he is the one who mediates a new covenant between God and people, 00:04:54.646 --> 00:04:58.816 so that all who are called can receive the eternal inheritance God has promised 00:04:58.816 --> 00:05:04.006 them for Christ died to set them free from the penalty of the sins they had 00:05:04.006 --> 00:05:05.626 committed under that first covenant. 00:05:07.186 --> 00:05:10.396 Now when someone leaves a will, it is necessary to prove that 00:05:10.396 --> 00:05:12.406 the person who made it is dead. 00:05:13.246 --> 00:05:16.216 The will goes into effect only after the person's death. 00:05:17.176 --> 00:05:19.006 The person who made it is still alive. 00:05:19.336 --> 00:05:21.256 The will cannot be put into effect. 00:05:22.516 --> 00:05:25.246 That is why even the first covenant was put into effect 00:05:25.246 --> 00:05:26.746 with the blood of an animal. 00:05:27.766 --> 00:05:32.056 For after Moses had read each of God's commandments to all the people, he 00:05:32.056 --> 00:05:36.046 took the blood of calves and goats along with water and sprinkled both the 00:05:36.046 --> 00:05:41.686 book of God's law and all the people using his branches and scarlet wool. 00:05:42.316 --> 00:05:46.546 Then he said, This blood confirms the covenant God has made with 00:05:46.546 --> 00:05:50.566 you, and in the same way, he sprinkled blood on the tabernacle 00:05:50.836 --> 00:05:52.786 and on everything used for worship. 00:05:53.386 --> 00:05:58.516 In fact, according to the law of Moses, nearly everything was purified with blood. 00:05:59.086 --> 00:06:02.206 For without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness. 00:06:03.136 --> 00:06:06.616 That is why the tabernacle and everything in it, which were copies 00:06:06.616 --> 00:06:10.336 of things in heaven had to be purified by the blood of animals. 00:06:11.146 --> 00:06:14.836 But the real things in heaven had to be purified with far better 00:06:14.836 --> 00:06:17.326 sacrifices than the blood of animals. 00:06:18.286 --> 00:06:22.996 For Christ did not enter into a holy place, made with human hands, which was 00:06:22.996 --> 00:06:25.036 only a copy of the true one in heaven. 00:06:25.726 --> 00:06:26.956 He entered into heaven. 00:06:26.956 --> 00:06:30.616 Its itself to appear now before God on our behalf. 00:06:31.276 --> 00:06:35.446 And he did not enter heaven to offer himself again and again, like 00:06:35.446 --> 00:06:39.706 the high priest here on Earth, who enters the most holy place year after 00:06:39.706 --> 00:06:41.266 year with the blood of an animal. 00:06:41.896 --> 00:06:45.886 If that had been necessary, Christ would have had to die again and 00:06:45.886 --> 00:06:48.556 again ever since the world began. 00:06:49.336 --> 00:06:55.246 But now once for all time, he has appeared at the end of the age to remove 00:06:55.246 --> 00:06:57.796 sin by his own death as a sacrifice. 00:06:59.266 --> 00:07:03.736 Just as each person is destined to die, once and after that comes judgment. 00:07:04.366 --> 00:07:08.866 So also, Christ was offered once for all time as a sacrifice to 00:07:08.866 --> 00:07:10.696 take away the sins of many people. 00:07:11.236 --> 00:07:16.096 He will come again, not to deal with our sins, but to bring salvation to 00:07:16.096 --> 00:07:18.076 all who are eagerly waiting for him. 00:07:19.336 --> 00:07:23.176 The old system under the law of Moses was only a shadow. 00:07:23.596 --> 00:07:28.666 A dim preview of the good things to come, not the good things themselves. 00:07:29.716 --> 00:07:33.676 The sacrifices under that system were repeated again and again year 00:07:33.676 --> 00:07:37.516 after year, but they were never able to provide perfect cleansing 00:07:37.516 --> 00:07:38.866 for those who came to worship. 00:07:39.676 --> 00:07:43.036 If they could have provided perfect cleansing, the sacrifices would've 00:07:43.036 --> 00:07:47.986 stopped for the worshipers, would've been purified once for all time, and their 00:07:47.986 --> 00:07:50.266 feelings of guilt would've disappeared. 00:07:51.166 --> 00:07:56.176 But instead those sacrifices actually reminded them of their sins year after 00:07:56.176 --> 00:08:01.756 year for it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 00:08:02.656 --> 00:08:07.906 That is why when Christ came into the world, he said to God, you did not want 00:08:07.906 --> 00:08:13.336 animal sacrifices or sin offerings, but you have given me a body to offer. 00:08:13.906 --> 00:08:17.626 You are not pleased with burnt offerings or other offerings for sin. 00:08:18.406 --> 00:08:21.976 Then I said, look, I have come to do your will. 00:08:21.981 --> 00:08:25.126 Oh God, as is written about me in the scriptures. 00:08:25.966 --> 00:08:31.576 First Christ said you did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings or burnt 00:08:31.576 --> 00:08:35.986 offerings or other offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them, though 00:08:35.986 --> 00:08:37.906 they are required by the law of Moses. 00:08:38.506 --> 00:08:41.866 Then he said, look, I have come to do your will. 00:08:42.586 --> 00:08:46.546 He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second into effect. 00:08:47.296 --> 00:08:50.596 For God's will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice 00:08:50.596 --> 00:08:52.096 of the body of Jesus Christ. 00:08:52.456 --> 00:08:58.486 Once for all time under the old covenant, the priest stands and ministers before 00:08:58.486 --> 00:09:03.766 the alter, day after day, offering the same sacrifices again and again, which 00:09:03.771 --> 00:09:09.916 can never take away sins, but our high priest offered himself to God as a single 00:09:09.916 --> 00:09:12.886 sacrifice for sins, good for all time. 00:09:13.966 --> 00:09:17.326 Then he sat down in the place of honor at God's right hand. 00:09:17.986 --> 00:09:18.406 There. 00:09:18.406 --> 00:09:21.946 He waits until his enemies are humbled and made a footstool 00:09:22.006 --> 00:09:27.316 under his feet for by that one offering, he forever made perfect. 00:09:27.316 --> 00:09:28.996 Those who are being made holy. 00:09:29.346 --> 00:09:34.876 And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so for, he says, this 00:09:34.876 --> 00:09:36.976 is the new covenant I will make. 00:09:37.891 --> 00:09:42.781 With my people on that day, says the Lord, I will put my laws and their hearts 00:09:42.961 --> 00:09:44.851 and I will write them on their minds. 00:09:45.481 --> 00:09:52.261 Then he says, I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds, and when 00:09:52.261 --> 00:09:56.911 sins have been forgiven, there is no need to offer any more sacrifices. 00:09:59.371 --> 00:10:04.441 And so dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven's most holy 00:10:04.441 --> 00:10:06.421 place because of the blood of Jesus. 00:10:07.261 --> 00:10:10.951 By his death, Jesus opened a new and life giving way through the 00:10:10.951 --> 00:10:13.351 curtain into the most holy place. 00:10:14.071 --> 00:10:18.361 And since we have a great high priest who rules over God's house, let us go 00:10:18.361 --> 00:10:22.561 right into the presence of God with sincere hearts, fully trusting him. 00:10:23.371 --> 00:10:26.791 For our guilty consciences have been sprinkled with Christ's blood 00:10:26.941 --> 00:10:30.871 to make us clean and our bodies have been washed with pure water. 00:10:31.861 --> 00:10:35.971 Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm for God can 00:10:35.971 --> 00:10:37.651 be trusted to keep his promise. 00:10:38.431 --> 00:10:42.331 Let us think of ways to motivate one another, to acts of love and good works. 00:10:42.961 --> 00:10:47.131 And let us not neglect our meeting together as some people do, but 00:10:47.136 --> 00:10:50.911 encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is 00:10:50.911 --> 00:10:57.031 drawing near Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we 00:10:57.036 --> 00:10:58.771 have received knowledge of the truth. 00:10:59.401 --> 00:11:02.581 There is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins. 00:11:03.391 --> 00:11:07.741 There is only the terrible expectation of God's judgment and the raging 00:11:07.741 --> 00:11:09.691 fire that will consume his enemies. 00:11:10.501 --> 00:11:15.091 For anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy and 00:11:15.096 --> 00:11:17.161 the testimony of two or three witnesses. 00:11:18.016 --> 00:11:21.406 Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled 00:11:21.406 --> 00:11:25.606 on the son of God and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us 00:11:25.606 --> 00:11:31.006 holy as if it were common and unholy and have insulted and disdained the Holy 00:11:31.006 --> 00:11:33.586 Spirit who brings God's mercy to us. 00:11:34.426 --> 00:11:35.026 For we know. 00:11:35.026 --> 00:11:37.726 The one who said, I will take revenge. 00:11:38.116 --> 00:11:39.406 I will pay them back. 00:11:39.886 --> 00:11:43.366 He also said The Lord will judge his own people. 00:11:44.386 --> 00:11:48.556 It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 00:11:49.816 --> 00:11:53.026 Think back on those early days when you first learned about Christ. 00:11:53.776 --> 00:11:57.406 Remember how you remained faithful even though it meant terrible suffering. 00:11:58.096 --> 00:12:01.966 Sometimes you were exposed to public ridicule and were beaten, 00:12:02.566 --> 00:12:05.776 and sometimes you helped others who were suffering the same things. 00:12:06.796 --> 00:12:10.066 You suffered along with those who were thrown into jail, and 00:12:10.066 --> 00:12:13.966 when all you owned was taken from you, you accepted it with joy. 00:12:14.566 --> 00:12:18.586 You knew there were better things waiting for you that will last forever. 00:12:19.576 --> 00:12:22.726 So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. 00:12:23.146 --> 00:12:25.636 Remember the great reward it brings you. 00:12:26.386 --> 00:12:30.376 Patient endurance is what you need now so that you will continue 00:12:30.376 --> 00:12:34.486 to do God's will, then you will receive all that he has promised. 00:12:35.461 --> 00:12:40.891 For in just a little while, the coming one will come and not delay, and my 00:12:40.891 --> 00:12:43.081 righteous ones will live by faith. 00:12:43.801 --> 00:12:48.421 But I will take no pleasure and anyone who turns away, but we are 00:12:48.421 --> 00:12:51.811 not like those who turn away from God to their own destruction. 00:12:52.411 --> 00:12:56.371 We are the faithful ones whose souls will be saved. 00:12:58.171 --> 00:13:01.021 This concludes today's Immer reading experience. 00:13:01.171 --> 00:13:02.371 Thank you for joining us.