Ep 458 | Hebrews 8 - Wade Branch 2/13/22

Well, good morning everyone. It is a wonderful day to be

together today to worship, God to sing his praises, to talk to

him in ways that we really don't deserve to.

But we are privileged to buy Jesus's work and his sacrifice

for us to sing songs of praise to God together as a wonderful

day for that. And I'm excited to study with

you a little bit more of God's word from the book of Hebrews.

So last week, we covered kind of a lot of ground or the week

before, I guess it was going through.

He Is the end of chapter 6 and chapter 7.

So we're going to touch back on chapter 7 because there's some

things I think we need to drive home and clarify a little bit

and then we'll move on through a shorter chapter 8 this week.

They only have 13 verses in Hebrews chapter 8.

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So we'll be spending most of our time there if you'd like to turn

to the book of Hebrews and now song, we'll just saying, not a

step. Will I take without Jesus as the

whole point of what this Riders trying to get the Hebrew

Christians to do is to move. Forward in their pursuit of God,

not apart from Jesus, but with Jesus is saving power and his

work in them and and and to not leave him in the pursuit of God

altogether. So, in Hebrews chapter 8, I

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think the one of the verses it's actually not in the book of

Hebrews, but the verse that kind of sticks out to me in the study

is this verse from Psalm 110 that your people will be

Volunteers in the day of your power.

So we'll get around to And just a minute, but let's take a look

back from last week in the chapter 7 where we left off

talking about this, this mysterious man named Melchizedek

and that is not a name that we use today.

We talked about what that name means.

It had a literal meaning, king of righteousness.

And and it has some connections to Jesus that we talked about

from last time. So just to give us a little bit

of running. Start in verse 14, we said for

it is evident that our Lord speaking of Jesus a row.

Rose from Judah of which tribe. Moses spoke concerning.

Nothing spoke. Nothing concerning priesthood.

And it is yet far more evident. If in the likeness of

Melchizedek there, arises another priest who has come not

according to the law of a fleshly commandment but

according to the power of an endless life.

So that is one of the key ideas. We learn from Melchizedek is

that basically he came from a different priesthood and milk is

a dick was, was a representation of Priesthood.

That would not have it end. That would not have a finite

nature in this life. That Jesus is like Melchizedek.

And that he will have an eternal priesthood in.

Describing Jesus verse 17 for he testifies, you are a priest

forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

So we talked about this last week but we didn't look into

that quotation. We talked about how in Genesis

we learned about milk is A deck and not booked.

But there's actually another passage where this direct quote

comes from that. I would like to talk about for

just a minute as we get started today and that quotation comes

from Psalm 110. So Psalm 110 is the other place.

This is referenced in the Old Testament and they're beginning

in verse 1, the psalmist writes. This the Lord said to my Lord

sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your

footstool. So I believe Is talking and you

know, God the Father speaking to Jesus.

The Lord said to my Lord sit at my right hand, until I make your

enemies your footstool, the Lord shall send the rod of your

strength out of Zion rule in the midst of your enemies.

Verse 3, your people shall be Volunteers in the day of your

power in the beauties of Holiness from the womb of the

morning. You have the do of your youth.

The Lord has sworn and will not relent you are a priest.

Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

So that's where that passage is pulled from the fourth verse of

this song. So I kind of since we're here, I

kind of wanted to take a look at this song.

These first few verses and pull out.

Some of the things surrounding the idea of Melchizedek here.

So this is talking about Jesus and the power that he's going to

embody and represent on the earth and I love how it mentions

this in. Verse 3, your people God's

people. In the Old Testament.

God's people were a nation of physical lineage of people who

lived in one area and he worshiped together and had their

own City. Okay?

So he's saying though, your people, God's people shall be

Volunteers in the day of your power.

Now, I believe this day of your power is, can mean a couple

important things. Number one, God's greatest power

on the earth. I believe was enacted by setting

up his church, through the work of Jesus Christ.

So, when Jesus came, and he set up, God's kingdom come with

power, I believe that that is Jesus's beginning of the church

and the Christian age when God's power was represented through

Jesus and his church in his kingdom.

Now, I also think it's connected to the preceding phrase that

that in the day of God's power, the time in which God's power on

the Earth. Is maybe the strongest or the

most evident, or the most obvious, or real isn't a day

when God's people are volunteers.

Now, if you think about in the Old Testament, there is a sense

in which they were volunteers, that were voluntary offerings,

voluntary service, they would do.

But in some senses, they were just kind of born into a nation.

The beautiful part of the Christian age is we're not made

to do this. It's not because we were part of

some national system that teaches us in our schools, how

to serve, God, and that implements sacrifices between

recess and second class. We're not, that's not the way it

is in our schools, that's not the way the government works

here. Like it might open the Israelite

Nation here today. If you are going to be a

Christian, if you were going to serve God, and if you're going

to be one of his people, it's because your volunteer.

And that is a powerful message of Free Will and God's power in

the world because of free will because when God's work is

greatest you know you'll Testament.

God did them. Wonderful amazing Works where he

would set a mountain on fire to symbolize and express his

presence or he would part a sea and congeal it like jello. he

did these amazing things healing people, but I believe that the

day of God's power is maybe the most powerful in the sense that

it could turn somebody from their own way to do God's will

To have a sacrifice and a plan that is so powerful that it

takes stubborn selfish, unrighteous people like you and

me and it turns us into people who will say God, I will do

anything for you. That is God's greatest power.

I believe, on this plane, this world to turn free people into

willing servants. So God's people will be

Volunteers in the day of his power in the beauties of

Holiness from the womb of the morning, you have the do of your

youth that phrase confuse me. So, there's this, this psalmist

is using poetic language, and I had to consult some commentaries

to see what it might have meant this from the womb of the

morning. A little bit confusing to me.

So one of the commentaries I read said this, the figure is so

beautiful. That words cannot explain it.

You have only to stand early, one morning, when the sun is

beginning to shoot its rays of light up into the sky.

And look at the fields all glistening with do and say once

came all these or where did, where did this do come from?

Where did this is sparkling water?

Come from The answer is they came from the womb of the

morning. So when you find the multitudes

are saved and you see them coming so mysteriously so gently

so divinely and yet so numerously like that do you can

only compare them to the Dew of the morning.

You say whence came these or where these people come from who

are being saved? And the answer is they have come

from the womb of the morning. So That was more than I could

come up with on my own. You take it for what it's worth.

So the description of being God's people coming like the

womb of the morning, being the Dew of the Youth of God's power.

Another important Point, another important point to notice is

this idea of Youth and power, if someone were to talk about

power, it's from a perspective of physical power, it's usually

a youthful thing. NG you don't describe the human

power by old age. Typically it's it's a it's a

youthful, bolstered strength, that's embodied here.

This one with this idea of the youth.

So he's saying you have the do that word do is often

symbolizing freshness. So when it's talking about,

Jesus has power on the earth and this day, it he has a freshness

and a youthfulness with his strength, on the earth, even

though his plan has been going for a long time.

Jesus play might be 2,000 years old but he's not a 2000 year-old

week. Power weak person, Jesus is

Powers great today, it is fresh and he has people coming just

like the Dew of the morning. It's like, how did these people

get here? How is, how are God's people

still coming to serve him? You know, you might think

without, without a draft where everyone is required to enter

the service. This kingdom is going to be

lacking people, right? If God doesn't make people serve

him, this kingdom is going to be short-handed In the beauty of

this passage the Dew of the morning, as look out around

here. Look at this congregation.

There are people who God is working in and saving today.

If we can't even explain it, like the Dew of the morning,

take that for what it's worth. I thought it was interesting and

at least poetic from from the salt.

So Jesus has power is going to be strong on the earth because

people are volunteers today. Verse 4.

The Lord has sworn and will not relent you are a priest forever

according to the order of Melchizedek.

Okay? So just to kind of put a bookend

on chapter 7 and Melchizedek. I don't think he and Melchizedek

is confusing. I think when people Try to and

when I try to look beyond what the scriptures say and figure

out about this milk has a deck that's when it gets confusing.

It's pretty simple idea. The whole point of Melchizedek

is that Jesus came from a different lineage, different

priesthood, that will be Eternal.

And and that stretches beyond the bounds of even the finite

understanding that they would have had of Jewish leadership.

So the Jewish leadership is what they were comfortable with what

they knew and and Jesus is so far beyond that, it's a little

bit strange for them. But nonetheless Jews that

expresses his Jesus power that much more.

He's not from some Earthly lineage.

And I expresses Jesus power. Okay?

For such a high priest was fitting for us, who is Holy

harmless undefiled separate from Sinners and has become higher

than the heavens? Who does not need daily.

As those High priests to offer up sacrifices first for his own

sins and then for the people's for this, he did once for all

when he offered up himself. Okay, so now we are Hebrews 8:1

Hebrews 8:1

There it says, now this is the main point of the things.

We are saying we have such a high priest who is seated at the

right hand of the Throne of the Majesty in the heavens that

phrase right hand of the throne. The right hand is a place of

respect and honor and power and it's not someone who is at the

foot. He is at the right hand of God

and God's power and notice that he's seated.

You know, when someone has It completed work.

It's like that is symbolized by sitting down and taking, taking

rest, taking completion in that work.

Jesus is seated. At the right hand of God, we

know that Jesus had to stand up when he was showing respect for

a Stephen when he was being martyred, once he was being

killed, but Jesus place. Is it a place that finished work

at the powerful right? Hand of the Throne of the

Majesty in the heavens. Speaking of God and his throne

room, Verse 2, a minister of the sanctuary and of the true

Tabernacle, which the Lord directed and not man.

So, in the Old Testament, they had this Tabernacle right where

you had your sacrifices sacrifices or you had your place

of washing, then you enter the holy place where there was the

candlesticks in the showbread and where you had, then in the

most holy place, the Ark of the Covenant and the symbols there.

That was the Tabernacle of the Old Testament.

We've studied about That recently.

He said, Jesus didn't just go in here, like the priest did, and

he didn't even go in the Holy place.

Our he didn't even go into the most, holy place of the

Tabernacle that men built, but he is in the true Tabernacle.

In heaven with God. The true place where God dwells

Jesus goes beyond any of these Old Testament ideas.

Verse 3, for every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts

and sacrifices therefore it is necessary that this one also

have something to offer. So, Jesus is going to be our

priest. The priest job was to offer

sacrifices and gifts, to God on behalf of the people, okay?

So this Jesus should have something To offer, what does he

have to offer? Well, let's consider the Old

Testament sacrifices and offerings to get a little bit of

context for what the Jews might have understood here.

They had five main types of offerings in the Old Testament.

There's a lot of types Within These and so it can get kind of

complicated and a little bit muddy for us who are trying to

understand this later, but there are five main types.

The first main type is the burnt, livestock offering, the

burnt offering. And this is in Leviticus chapter

Leviticus 1 · chapter mention

1. The first seven, chapters line

out these main five offerings and the first chapter tells us

that this burnt life, stock offering is an offering of

atonement and I just kind of given some notes here to

something to think about. This is not an exhaustive study

but that was an offering of substitution.

It was a male without blemish. It was a free will offering so

that person, who one of the Israelites who brought that

offering to, to the Nautical, it was of their free will.

It was laid at the door of the Tabernacle, so it gives Specific

Instructions of where it was brought.

And then when he was going to sacrifice this animal, he had to

lay his hand on the head of the animal.

Okay, we'll talk about that a minute.

And that was to transfer symbolically to transfer the

guilt as the offer killed that animal.

Okay. So it was like, this idea, Idea

that man had sinned and he had a tone that needed to happen for

his sins. And so he would put his hand on

the head of the animal as to symbolically transfer the sins

to the animal. Okay?

And it was killed by the offer, not the priests.

So the person bringing the sacrifice, was the one who did

The Killing maybe this letting of the throat of this animal.

And I'll just kind of make some side notes here.

It's fascinating when we consider Jesus, who is both the

priest and the sacrifice. That Jesus was killed at the

hands of the Jews and Gentiles who laid hands on him.

So when they came to take Jesus, they laid their hands on the

sacrifice. Almost a picture of transferring

guilt to Jesus, as they were going to crucify him for their

sins. They laid hands on him and

similar, to this, this offering of atonement, Jesus, brought

himself as a free will offering and he laid his life down when G

when they came to get Jesus. He said you're not coming to

take me. I could stop.

You basically if I wanted to, but I am laying my life down to

be very clear. This is a free-will offering

from himself and others laid hands on him, okay?

The second type of offering was a grain offering And this isn't

Leviticus chapter to this offering was a type of, was a

kind of Memorial offering. It was finally beaten good

quality flour. So as you'll see what their

sacrifices, it was important that they brought things that

were not just the leftovers or the junk, they brought the best

quality. If it was flower the finest most

closely ground flour, it was to be an unleavened sacrifice

offered with oil and frankincense.

And as we consider Jesus, he is Sacrifice of the bread of life.

So, parallels, all throughout these.

These, these sacrifices, the third set type of sacrifice was

a peace offering and we learned that in chapter 3.

That that sacrifice was to be a male or female the offer.

Again kills this one, the blood would be poured outside the

Tabernacle and the interesting thing about this one to me is

that when they brought this sacrifice part of, it was eaten

by the offer, the individual, In the offering part of, it was

eaten by the priests. And another part was sacrificed

to God. So, this peace offering was a

comic was a combining of all the parties involved to offer an

offering of peace and kind of a celebration of Peace in this

relationship with God. It offered praise and not

necessarily confession like some of the other offerings did.

And as we read in the New Testament, Romans chapter 5, we

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have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Colossians 3 verse 15 and let the peace of God rule in your

Colossians 3:15

hearts to, which also you were called in one body and be

thankful. Okay?

Type number four, was a sin offering.

So the first three it seems, we're more of Fellowship

offerings, but now we're getting into the last Which kind of

changes the tone a little bit. The fourth is a sin offering and

chapter 4 and 5. It talks about how unintentional

sins were some covered in these in these sin offerings and some

were groups in. So, if the people as a whole

sin, they might do an offering like this.

And it was to be a bull without blemish as you see, all these

priests here, putting their hands on on this animal.

So as we see this idea come up a lot with Sacrifices, is to be

something without blemish. Something without fault,

something that did nothing to deserve it, and something that

wasn't just worth being thrown away.

These are the best. And finally, the fifth offering

was a guilt or sometimes called a trespass offering.

So in chapter five and six, this trespass offering was not made

for group of people, it was made for one person and the

difference between the main difference between this offering

and any other kind, is this offering kind of involves some

kind of restitution, this one involved kind of a paying back

for something, you might have done wrong.

So there might be, there could be a payment associated with it.

So with some of these sin offerings in the the trespass,

it's interesting also that the priest would consume part of

these offerings. This is tied in with ideas of

Jesus, being the priest who took on the burdens in the sins.

So many ideas here that I don't have the level of knowledge

necessarily to filter through all of it.

But on this fifth type of offering, if you read Isaiah

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chapter 53, talking about the sins are the suffering.

Jesus would go through it says there.

Jesus was going to be. One, who would bear their

iniquities. He was the only one to Bear

guilt for many people in the Old Testament.

Like, I had said that guilt offering was only offered for

one person, but Jesus, it says, in Isaiah 53.

He shall see the labor of his soul and be satisfied by his

knowledge. My righteous servant shall

justify many right here for. He shall bear their iniquities.

This is exact language. Is tied to the way they describe

the sacrifices in Leviticus? Jesus was the guilt that you is

the iniquity Bearer. He is that guilt or that

trespass offering. It's very direct correlating

language used here between the Leviticus passage and Jesus

being the one who would bear that he is the guilt offering

for us. Okay, so this idea of

sacrificing animals, never really hit that hard for me.

I don't know about you. But since we've never done it,

since we've never seen it, since we've never really felt what it

feels to do that. I never really hit home with me.

until I was doing this study, I started to think about The

process that took for them to prepare this.

And how that offer would bring that sacrifice to the Tabernacle

to bring that sacrifice to the Tabernacle and lay it there.

And it was often a kind of innocent animal.

You noticed that the Bible talks about the lamb being sacrificed,

and Jesus being the Lamb of the world slain for our sins. when

you think about this idea of someone, bringing an innocent

animal, To the Tabernacle to sacrifice.

To have his knife there with him to do the job himself that

really hit with me this time reading through this.

You know, because I grew up hunting and fishing and so

killing an animal for for food, really didn't do much to me.

I was flying with the, I grew up doing it, I was used to it but I

know not everyone here is that way, not everyone here could

kill an animal and not everyone is, could even imagine doing

that. But for me it's different

killing for food versus something like they were about

to do. Because when I kill for food, a

lot of times it was at served a purpose.

They would eat these. So, there's a purpose, even for

food for them, for the priests, but it was different in that

this animal. It was no game.

Pray, even Hunters today. Have this kind of code that you

don't kill an animal when it's just sitting there or sleeping

or bedded down or defenseless God made this sacrifice system

to show them how wrong it should feel.

Imagine if you took a lamb up to the Tabernacle and you said it

on that altar, And you pull out your knife, you brought with

you. And I want to be graphic, but I

think this is graphic. I think to understand the weight

of it. We have to understand that and

you take that knife and you plunge into the throw to that

poor helpless animal. Think about what that would feel

like. It's not a game animal.

It's not something that was how to defense.

It's not something that had a reason to even be there.

It was a, it was a livestock that you would raised.

Imagine the feeling of that of this isn't, right?

Because when that person would lay their hand on that

sacrifice, That land had no fight in him.

That was intended to feel wrong. Because God wanted us to see

that. It took lifeblood.

It took life to remove the death, that our sin had entered

into the world. It took a life blood to

sacrifice. For that sin for that atonement

that needed to happen. And so, as I think about the

idea of killing something innocent It felt really wrong to

think about it, this time to think about doing something to

animal for what I did. so when, when I read John 1:29 is says,

John 1:29

Behold the Lamb of God with which comes to take this away,

the sin of the world that feels wrong from a physical animal

standpoint, more than ever know Soda picture that being said

about, Jesus feels devastatingly wrong.

If Phil's sickening to me to think about laying a hand, even

on an innocent animal and slitting, its throat for

something I did. It should not have happened.

But by God's grace it did. And through these sacrifices, we

can see that. Jesus is our atonement offering,

he is the bread of life, he is our peace offering.

He is our sin offering, and he is our trespass offering.

And his innocence, and it's sad to me, considering all this, the

modern Jews today, there are still Orthodox Jews, they call

them that, that claim to practice Judaism, they don't

believe Jesus was their Messiah. And that is so sad to me because

even they don't sacrifice anymore when their Temple was

destroyed. They now say, we don't have a

fit place to sacrifice but it's no accident.

The old law has been abolished. And so today on the day of

atonement, what Jews do Today, they do something pretty similar

to what Christians do they do? Good deeds.

And they pray. And it's sad because really the

practicing, just a shadow of a shadow, the Old Law was a shadow

of Jesus to come. And so they're practicing not

even the Old Law. They're not even doing it.

They're just practicing a shadow and trying to hold up the day of

atonement and things like that. But they don't even realize I

feel bad for them. They don't even realize what

they're doing. Because Jesus came to not be a

shadow of a shadow. He came to be the substance of

the sacrifices that they had been.

Performing for so many years and I've been doing for so long.

Jesus is the substance. Verse 34, every high priest is

appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices therefore it is

necessary that this one also have something to offer for if

he were on Earth he would not be a priest.

Since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the

law who served the copy, and the shadow of the Heavenly things.

As Moses was divinely, instructed when he was about, to

make the Tabernacle verse 54. He said, see that, you make all

things according to the pattern. Turn shown to you on the

mountain but now he has obtained a more excellent Ministry.

And as much as he is also make mediator of a better Covenant

that word mediator, if you have an argument between siblings,

the person who sometimes there's a third sibling to mediate

between the two and say, hey guys, stop break it up.

You know, that's that's an argument mediator.

But Jesus in a different sense is a mediator and that he's

going between us and God and pleading on our behalf to God

damn. Mercy and to forgive us.

So, Jesus is that mediator of a better Covenant?

Which was established on better promises verse 7 for.

If that first Covenant had been faultless, then no place would

have been sought for a second because finding fault with them.

He says this. And he, this is where the

quotation of Jeremiah chapter 31 starts.

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He says, behold the days are coming, says 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 the day, when I took them by the hand, to lead

them out of the land of Egypt because they did not continue in

my Covenant. And I disregarded them says the

Lord goes on to say, for this is the Covenant that I will make

with the house of Israel. After those days, says the Lord,

we're still in that quotation from from Jeremiah.

I will put my laws in their mind and write them on their hearts.

So, This is the transition that's going to happen.

This is prophesied long ago that God will put his laws in their

mind and write them on their hearts and Jesus when he came

and delivered his first kind of inaugural message on The Sermon

on the Mount. Jesus came and saying things

like you've heard this, you know, do not kill, do not do not

commit adultery. But even if you think about

those things in your heart and you develop that kind of inward

person that's in, he said, I'm going to write my laws on their

minds and in their hearts and it's not going to just be

written on the tablets of stone, where they would come together

and read them and perform the sacrifices and the rituals he

saw him that, I write it on their hearts and change them

from the inside. That and we also think of the

law of Liberty, referencing Galatians Galatians. 5 verse 16

Galatians 5:16

says, I say, then walk in the spirit, and you shall not

fulfill the lust of the flesh for the flesh.

Lusts against the spirit, and the spirit against the Flesh.

And these are contrary to one another so that you do not do

the things that you wish, but if you are led by the spirit, you

are not under the law, this idea of changing from the inside is a

very new testament idea. And that's represented

especially in Galatians. Now the works of the flesh are

evident which are adultery fornication.

Uncleanness lewdness idolatry sorcery hatred contentions

jealousies outbursts of Wrath selfish, Ambitions, dissensions

heresies, Envy murders drunkenness revelries in the

like this is all the works of the Flesh of which I tell you

beforehand. Just as I also told you in time

past that those who practice, such things will not inherit the

kingdom of God but this is the Out change.

But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace.

Long-suffering, kindness goodness, faithfulness,

gentleness self-control against such there is no law and those

who are Christ's have crucified, the flesh with its passions and

desires from the inside out. Just the passions that we that

we seek in life change when we become true, Christians

converted Christians. If we live in the spirit, let us

also walk in the spirit. Let us not become conceited

provoking one, another envying, one, another He said I'm going

to write my laws on their minds and in their hearts.

It's not just going to be a list of do's and don'ts.

It's going to be something that they walk in the spirit of God

and walk in his powerful changing qualities from the

inside out and I will be their God and they shall be my people,

I love that line. God claiming ownership of us.

If you hear a parent who's proud of their child talk about that's

that's my boy. That's my girl right there.

She's she's my child. That's Child right there.

God does that with us? I'm gonna be that that

Christians God. I'm going to be inserts, your

name. I'm gonna be their God and

they're going to be my people. God says that about you today

and he wants to take ownership of you and he is proud of you to

be his child. He is proud to be your father.

One quote said, the best way to make a man.

Keep a law is to make him love the lawgiver.

No, I'm not a lawgiver, but I'm a teacher.

And since I've developed relationships with my students,

they were a lot of them will probably pretty much do anything

for me and will defend me in a lot of situations.

And that's the way God wants us to see him and that we have a

relationship with him that we will do anything for him.

That we will listen to him, if that's what it takes when we

need some change. we must love the lawgiver and that will make

it so much easier to understand obeying his law continue on

continuing on, not quotation from Jeremiah still None of them

shall teach his neighbor and none of it.

Them has brother saying know, the Lord For All Shall know me

from the least of them to the greatest of them.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins

and their Lawless Deeds. I will remember no more God's

power and saving through his mercy.

And his righteousness is going to make people search for him.

It says it's going to be from the least to the greatest when

Jesus came. He said if they're not going to

hear me, go into the highways and the byways invite, anyone

who will come and feast on the bread of life and serve me.

Now this phrase, it says here. No one's going to say know the

Lord and teach them about each other.

Are we really not going to know what's going to teach each other

about the Bible? Well we know that's not true

because passages like Romans tell us you know how were they

gonna hear if they don't have a preacher and how shall they

preach? Unless they are sent.

So we need to have people who are teaching God's word.

It's not what this is saying. I believe what it's saying is

they won't necessarily have to have someone Make them and teach

them from a young age. All the time that God's great

work in his mercy and forgiveness of sins will drive

them to where they don't have to have somebody, like, teach them.

This is what you need to do, but they will come willingly to

serve and to lay down their lives, the mercy driving.

It will call people to the message.

And also because God's people will also no longer be a

physical Nation where they will be taught in their systems and

all those things like like maybe they would have in Jude it and

during Judaism. The world.

In addition, the word will be accessible as opposed to the

tablets possessed and taught by only a few today we have access

to God's work freely and so it's not like someone has to teach

another through oral tradition, through oral Priestly teaching.

We can all study God's word. We don't necessarily have to

have somebody always tell us. This is what you are do.

I'm delivering you this from God view, we can all read the word.

Also the content will be internally based in command and

ritual. So this is represented in the

concluded, work of Jesus, rather than continual sacrifice.

I think this is represented well, New Testament in Acts

Acts 17 · chapter mention

chapter 17. I'll skip down to verse 26.

Paul is talking to the, the people at the areopagus who are

gathered to hear the message of the Gospel, these were actually

Gentiles, but it says, and he has made from one blood every

nation of men to dwell on all the face of the Earth and has

determined their pre appointed times and the boundaries of

their dwellings. So they should seek the Lord and

hope that they might grope for him and find him though.

He is not far from each one of us.

For in him, we live and move and have our being as also, some of

your own poets have said for we are also his offspring

therefore, since we are The Offspring of God, we ought not

to think that the divine nature is like gold or silver Stone

something shaped by Art and man's devising.

Truly these times of ignorance, God, overlooked.

But now commands, all men everywhere to repent because he

has appointed a day on which he will judge the world in

righteousness. By the man whom he has ordained.

He has given Assurance of this to All by raising him from the

dead. I think this speech by Paul in

the areopagus sums up, well this gospel message.

The his will is that people will come and seek him and find him,

and that they won't have to just be taught in a religious

government. How to do everything that these

people will flock to God to serve him willingly, in our last

verse and Hebrews chapter 8, in that he says a New Covenant, he

Hebrews 8 · chapter mention

has made the first obsolete. Now, what is becoming obsolete?

And growing old is ready to vanish away.

So this is speaking of the Old Testament, the Old Testament is

obsolete. What that means, it's no longer

longer relevant necessarily. For current following, the New

Covenant is, what took its place and fulfilled the Old Testament,

that's Commandments and its ordinances.

But the Old Law was not pointless.

In Galatians chapter 3. We read what purpose, then does

Galatians 3 · chapter mention

the law. Serve this old law, it was added

because of transgressions till the seed should come to whom the

promise. Thomas was made and it was

appointed through Angels by the hand of a mediator we learned

that was Jesus. Now a mediator does not mediate

from one only but God is one is then the law against the

promises of God. Certainly not for.

If there had been a law given, which could have given life,

truly righteousness, would have been by the law, but the

scripture has confined all under sin that the Promise by faith in

Christ Jesus. My be given to those who believe

this phrase, he has confined all Or the scripture can finding all

under sin is that saying there's a trap setting up the Old

Testament as a trap the hot and now you're guilty.

No, it just sets. Clear parameters and definitions

that say, because of this law, it's clear to see that.

Hey, you're all confined understanding their it clarifies

what God means about, who is under sin, and who is lost in

sin. It's not some trap but before

Faith came, we were kept under guard by the law kept for the

faith, which would afterward afterward be revealed.

Therefore, the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ that we

might be justified by faith. But after faith has come, we are

no longer under a tutor. So as I understand a tutor

wasn't just someone, you go to for a little math, homework.

Help a tutor was someone who is kind of like an official Mentor.

They would train you Day after day, as kind of a prepared as a,

as a preparer for a great work that you'll do later in life.

When you're young you need a tutor and in this sense for

someone to teach them until they were ready to take on

responsibility, maybe a career, or religious work on their own.

And the Old Testament is saying was that tutor because imagine

if Jesus had come, they said, Behold the Lamb of God which

comes to take away the sin of the world and you didn't have

the Old Testament, they would have said, behold who comes to

take care of what if the Lamb of what?

The Old Testament set up a pattern to where they could see

hey I'm confined under sin and help them see that.

Hey, this is what sacrifice is needed for my sins so that when

the Lamb of God comes that tutor could pass them off to Jesus and

say they are ready. They're ready to understand why

it's so important that they needed me that they needed God

that they needed, Jesus is saving blood.

So, the Old Testament was that tutor to show these early

Christians of Judaism and to show us today even what it was

really requiring of people. To have a relationship with God

and to have his sins atoned for and their spiritual walk a tutor

you might consider out of. This is a bad example but mr.

Miyagi and the Karate Kid. It was someone who brought them

and prepared them for a work. Take it or leave it.

So we're going to stop there today at Hebrews chapter 8 and

Hebrews 8 · chapter mention

I'm thankful today that we have a great high priest and a great

sacrifice who eliminated the need for sacrifice.

Is to continue. I'm so thankful that we don't

have to do all those sacrifices of innocent animals anymore and

frankly that Nobody Does it. The, the Jews themselves don't

even do it today and we can praise God for his work in that.

And today, if you have not contacted that saving blood, how

could you not? The love of Christ, compels us

through these patches like we've seen that God wants you to

volunteer for his service because of his great work for

you. And he wants to voluntarily,

bring you into his kingdom. So that you would reap.

The benefits that we've talked about today of having your sins

forgiven, and having peace with God, and with one another, as we

worship God, if you haven't been ads that Kingdom, you can start

by hearing the word like we've talked about today Believing on

that. Repenting and changing your life

singing, you know, you know what, I'm going to submit my

will and go to God's will because I believe in him and

confess that Jesus Christ. Is the Son of God, be baptized

for the remission of your sins, you can do that today, we're

happy to take care of that or if you would like the prayers of

the church today. It's why we're here or happy to

pray one for another. At this time.

Take care of one of the one of either of these things while we

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