Ep 441 | Hebrews 10 - Wade Branch 4/3/22

Well, good morning everyone. It is a wonderful day together

to be here to worship God, and to sing his Praises with you.

And I've enjoyed it very much, thus far enjoyed our prayers

together and our worship to our God.

If you will turn with me to Hebrews chapter 10, we're going

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to continue our Study Life. We've been doing for the last

close to a year. Now, about, once a month, we've

taken a chapter out of Hebrews. And today, we're covering

chapter 10. It's good to be back with you

guys. We've been gone for a couple

weeks now. We are in Texas.

Then we want to see my new niece up and Oakdale Taylor and his

new nice. And so we're glad to be back

this week and I'm privileged to have the chance to lead the

study today. And as we do this, there's some

things in here that are that are challenging.

There's some things that are comforting and I think God's

word is good about doing that for us.

And I hope you get the same thing out of it that I have

today we have 37 versus to cover.

It's a long chapter but just for your peace of mind, we're going

to have a pretty Section 2. Beginning, we're going to really

slow down and chew through some meet in the middle and then

toward the end will kind of move quickly through the end of the

chapter. So, if you feel like I'm getting

toward the middle and you're wondering when this, when

Pharaoh is going to let us go, there's probably it's probably

going to come faster towards the end.

Okay, so Hebrews chapter 10, our key verses key ideas that I've

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listed on the screen or what he gets into, as the as the

application of all of this, he says, let us draw near Let us

hold fast and consider one another.

So before we get into that a couple lead-up versus clicker

plugged in a couple lead up versus so, Hebrews chapter 9

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ended on the note saying this. Not the, he speaking of Jesus

should offer himself often as the high priest enters the most

holy place every year without blood of another.

He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of

the world. But now once at the end or the

consummation of the ages, he has appeared to put away sin by the

sacrifice of himself and it is appointed for men to die.

Looks but after this the Judgment so Christ was offered

once to Bear the sins of many to those who eagerly wait for him,

he will appear a second time apart from sin for salvation.

So we have a running start now into chapter 10.

Beginning in verse 1, it says for the law, okay?

The Lost speaking of the Old Testament, we've been talking

about the Hebrew Christians, their old watch transition has

been a little bit challenging for them.

He says, for this law having just a shadow of the good things

to come and not the very image of the things.

Okay. So in case you're not familiar

with this idea of Shadow and substance.

Basically if you think about it like God is shining a light

through time and that light comes Comes through from time

catches the present object and it cast a shadow on the ground.

And so God in the futurecast, this light of Jesus and behind

Jesus, there is this Shadow, it's not really him, it's his

shadow, it's the shadow of the New Covenant embodied in the Old

Testament. And so Jesus.

And the New Covenant is this new substance?

It's this the very substance of things to come.

That's Jesus. That's the New Covenant.

And the shadow is everything in the Old Law.

There was just kind of a as you see, a picture of this flower

here. It's just a rough outline.

No color just just a dark image with no depth.

No Beauty necessarily in the shadow except for just the

format holds the Old Testament had its place and it had its

beauty. But the real Beauty, the real

thing that God wants us to be focusing on is this New Covenant

and just like this flower has so much depth and color and nuance,

so that's how much different Jesus is compared to the Old

Law. So this law just had a shadow of

good things to come and not the real image of it.

These things can never with the same sacrifices, which they

offer continually year-by-year make those who approach.

Perfect. This is a continuation of the

same argument. We've been covering for a while

now so I don't want to labor it too much.

The point is Jesus is the Supreme sacrifice that got rid

of all of the sacrifices they used to do.

And he says these same sacrifices that happen over and

over and over year after year, they never made people a pro who

approached perfect that man who came up and laid his head on the

bowl or who laid his head on the lamb and the killed it and never

made him. Perfect.

And never what made him complete.

And forgiving like the new law was designed to verse 24.

Then would they not have ceased to be offered?

If it would have made him perfect, they would have stopped

those offerings year after year, right?

For the worshipers once purified would have had no more

consciousness of sins. So here he uses this word

purified, as we've talked about their their, their systems that

they would do in the Old Testament, it was more of a

purification process. It was a cleansing but it was

not an uprooting of the issue. It was not a once and for all

solution, it was a purification, you know, it was cleaned for a

little bit. If you clean your counter tops,

they need to be cleaned again there, it's a purification

process that has to continually happen.

They would have had no more consciousness of sins, if that

would have been it. Because they were not eternally

forgiven, yet verse 3. But in those sacrifices there is

a reminder of sins every year. when they came to sacrifice the

animal, you know that when they had to Slit that throat again,

That must have pain them every single time they had to do it.

It was a reminder of their failures.

It was a reminder of the wrongs that they had done, maybe

knowingly and maybe unknowingly. They had so many things that

they were reminded of verse 44. It is not possible that the

blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

They can be purified but they couldn't be taken away.

Verse 5. Therefore when he came into the

world, speaking of Jesus he said sacrifice and offering you did

not desire So this is a quote from Psalm chapter 40 and David

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is speaking. Kind of we're connecting some

ideas of Jesus and date is making this prophecy.

But God did not desire sacrifice and offering it says here but a

body you have prepared for me. Jesus had a body prepared for

him by God in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.

You had no pleasure. Then I said, behold I have come

in the volume of the book. It is written of of me to do

your Will O God. So when Jesus came, he was given

a body and it's interesting because We think of we think of

these sacrifices as this was how God's will is set up and it's

true. He's going to say in the next

verse coming up that it was according to God's will that

they were offering these sacrifices, but they didn't

bring him pleasure. Killing these animals here and

after year, what didn't make God happy to see that?

That death continually every year.

That wasn't his plan. God gave them the tree of life

and they rebelled. He wants life for this world. as

I think about this idea when it says here, that Jesus, Came to

God and he had this perspective of I have come to do your Will O

God and in a body you have prepared for me it's a

fascinating thought to think about the perspective of

formation of our Lord and this is kind of a side note.

It's not necessarily what the author is getting out here, but

it's fascinating me to think about Jesus was formed in the

womb just like we are, Jesus was Born just like we were he cried

as a baby just like we did. And as I think about God, the

father's role in that it's fascinating to me to consider

this idea of Jesus being formed and it takes me back to Psalm

139, where the psalmist says O. Lord, you have searched me and

known me. You know, my sitting down in my

rising up. You understand my thought afar

off, you comprehend my path and my lying down and are acquainted

with all my ways. God you know all about me for

there is not a word on my tongue but behold O Lord you know it

all together. You have hedged me behind and

before and laid your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me.

It is high. I cannot attain it.

Considering God's perspective on us is to me, one of the most

satisfying, and Kind of mind-blowing things to think

about God seeing us in all these deep ways leaves me with the

same conclusion that this psalmist reaches in chapter six.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me.

It is high and I cannot attain it.

He goes on to say later in the chapter for you for into my

inward Parts, you covered me in my mother's womb.

I will praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully.

Made marvelous are your works and that my soul knows very

well. Well, my frame was not hidden

from you when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in

the lowest parts of the earth, your eyes saw, my substance

being yet unformed, and in your book, they were all written the

days fashion for me. When his yet there were none of

them. And Hebrews chapter 10, that's

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part of what he says here. A body you have prepared for me.

And as we think about the fact that God foreknew and planned

for Jesus, to be a sacrifice, one must have that have been for

God's from God's perspective, to know that he was forming and

closely designing a body for his son to be brutally crucified one

day. A body, you have prepared for me

and Jesus says I have come to do your Will O God going on in

verse 8, previously saying sacrifice and offering burnt

offerings and offerings for sin. You did not desire nor had

pleasure in them which are offered according to the law.

So he's saying he's repeating. What you just said, God did not

get pleasure out of these old lost sacrifices and burnt

offerings but he makes this point They are offered according

to the law. So it wasn't like it was wrong

but it just wasn't the full picture yet, it was just a

shadow verse 9. Then he said, behold I have come

to do your Will O God he takes away the first that he may

establish the second by that will we have been Sanctified

through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

The problem wasn't the keeping of the law, but the reality is,

the consummation of God's will, was that there would be a

perfect final sacrifice and just like, Jesus, embodies here a

willingly obedient heart. Within that sacrifice the

sentence holds a lot. You know, that God wanted

something better, and Jesus responds that I have come to do

your will. That's kind of the the New

Testament in a nutshell. It is false complete sacrifice

that paid for our sins and it is willing submission to a loving

God, who did them. That is the consummation of

God's will verse 11 and every priest stands, ministering daily

offering repeatedly, the same sacrifices, which can never take

away sins. If you notice, when we went

through the Tabernacle there was nowhere to sit, their work was

symbolically to never end. That was kind of a point, there

was no chairs. There was a table that held the

place where they work, there's a lamp stand.

There was an altar of incense but there was nowhere to sit and

that was supposed to mean that this is never going to end.

Until Jesus comes back. You're never going to be able to

sit down from this endless work of constantly cleaning until

Jesus comes and then yeah. Verse 12, Jesus is going to sit

down in his completed, work verse 12.

But this man Jesus after he had offered one sacrifice for sins

forever. He sat down at the right hand of

God from that time waiting, till his enemies are made his

footstool These priests could finally take their seat because

it was no longer their job to purify.

The people Jesus had done it, and he took his seat at the

right hand of God, for by one offering, he has perfected

forever. Those who are being Sanctified,

it's hard for me to wrap my mind around, how much death went

through the nation of Israel. If you had millions of people,

they say it probably amassed to millions of people offering

sacrifices. I mean I tried to you know copy

and paste over and over until my fingers, got tired to to think

about how many times that would have happened over and over in

the death and the blood and the sacrifice in The Killing Jesus,

took away all that with one sacrifice.

Verse 15. But the Holy Spirit also

witnesses to us for after. He had said before, this is the

Covenant that I will make with them.

After those days, says the Lord, this is that Covenant.

He didn't want the continual sacrifice has to continue those

in. Bring him pleasure, but this,

this is the Covenant that I will make with them.

After those days, says the Lord, I will put my laws into their

hearts and in their minds, I will write them.

It's not just going to be Thing that's on Scrolls.

Where you follow these lists and directions, it's going to be a

law of the heart. Verse 7 then he adds their sins

and their Lawless Deeds, I will remember no more.

There was a constant reminder, but he cut off that constant

reminder and says I'm not going to remember any more, how

awesome must have been for God. I wonder what his emotions do.

As this course of history runs out, we know God got angry, we

know God, there's things that please God, there's things that

don't please God how much of a relief?

Was it for God to finally have the moment where he could say

it's forgiving? I've LED I let it go.

It's remember no more. God wants us to have that moment

because he paid a lot for that moment Verse 18.

Now where there is a remission of these things.

Now what now, where there is a remission of these, these sins,

there is no longer an offering for sin.

So as kind of a side note, we have to remember that there's no

longer an offering both practically speaking in the form

of sacrifices. But we have to remember in our

spiritual walk, to not treat ourselves, like we are the

punishment for our own sins. Because we can have this

mentality that wants to respond to our own guilt with a

self-punishing attitude with an attitude that says, you know,

some sometimes, it even goes to the extreme people harm

themselves, physically people harm themselves emotionally,

they beat themselves down, they self be a little.

We beat ourselves up. And that's kind of a form of a

sacrifice because then the Old Testament sacrifices, there had

to be life given and in a sense, pain suffered for sin. and we

can sometimes feel that urge to, you know, to beat ourselves down

and you know beat myself up like I messed up and I continue to

mess up and That's not our place.

God has told us that we are forgiven.

God has told us that there is no more sacrifice for sins,

including our own emotional sacrifice for putting yourself

in your place over and over. We do need to repent.

Obviously, that's not in the conclusion.

I'm talking about but beating ourselves up.

We don't need to be a Living Sacrifice in that way.

We're to be, living sacrifices serving God, with our lives, not

making ourselves in offering for sin either.

Verse 19, therefore, Brethren having boldness to enter the

holiest by the blood of Jesus. He says he didn't say you should

have boldness, he says, we're having bolt.

We have boldness. That's the way he's expressing

that verb. It's we have boldness.

It's not that you need to have it.

Maybe we should focus on our boldness, but he's saying you've

got it. Jesus broke down that Veil.

He he made the way you have that boldness.

You can talk to God having that boldness to enter the holiest by

the blood of Jesus. Not by our own goodness, not by

our own Merit by the blood of Jesus, may we be careful to talk

to God without respect that we acknowledge, it's not on our

own, but by the blood of Jesus, by a New and Living Way, which

he consecrated for us, which just means he set up, he

initiated this New and Living Way for us through the Veil.

That is his flesh. And since we have a high priest

over the house of God now, he's going to list those three things

I talked about at the beginning. But before we get into those he

tells us that we have a New and Living Way, okay?

If it's 2,000 years old, a lot of things in our days, rust and

corrupt. After a couple decades he said

that this way is new and it is living and it is true today.

It just as it is true, 2,000 years ago and is fresh.

And that sacrifice is Living for us, which he consecrated her set

up through us through the veil. When when God, when God's

finished worked was completed and Jesus was sacrificed the

veil of the temple that last Veil before the holiest, The

holy play, the most holy place this Veil.

You see here. It was ripped from top to

bottom. It says, and that being to

signify that God is the one who did it.

It wasn't ripped from the bottom to the top, like someone else

came in and pull it up, but God himself torn down the veil, from

the top of it all the way to the bottom, to signify that this old

law, the way to God's presence had been paved and had been made

by the blood of Jesus, and by his sacrifice, Through that

Veil. That is his flesh.

And since we have high priest over the house of God, so he's

finally drawing kind of a conclusion.

He's got a lot of chapters of buildup and lead up and

establishing that Jesus is going to be this this supreme

sacrifice once for all time it would be at the consummation of

the ages. He's been building this a lot

now he says, since we have this high priest He's going to tell

us to draw near hold fast to the confession of Our Hope and

consider one another. So this is the part where we're

going to slow down for a little bit and go through these things.

Verse 22. Let us draw near with a True

Heart in full Assurance of Faith, having our hearts

sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies

washed with pure water. So you're probably seeing

there's a lot of Old Testament imagery here, he the but the

main idea he wants us to draw near As you think about what God

wants out of us? He wants us to draw near.

It only makes sense because if you picture yourself as a father

or as a mother who had paid so much to rescue your child.

The only response of a loving parent would say, please draw

near. I saved you.

I rescued, you now come be with me.

That is God's plea to us. Let us draw near with a true

heart and True Heart. I think that's pretty

self-explanatory. A heart that is faithful and

true. And is transparent and real.

A true heart, not a fake heart in full Assurance of Faith,

having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.

So that is, we've been talking about the sprinkling of blood

that would purify in the Old Testament.

Our hearts are sprinkled from an evil conscience, or cleansed and

our bodies washed with pure water.

Now washing is, is a relation to the Old Testament, Washings, but

also an illusion. The baptism where we are washed

and cleansed by the blood of When we make contact with the

blood and baptism, we are washed with pure water.

So what are a couple ways we can draw near to God?

I was trying to think of a couple practical things Beyond.

Maybe just the you need to read God's word and live it and pray

a couple thing practical things. I hope you guys can think of

some things on your own. I'm curious to hear from you,

what you think, maybe after Services.

What are some ways we can draw near to God and Beyond just kind

of the basics? The first thing I thought of was

to pray Ray in a ways that breed closeness and not distance.

Okay? Now, I've kind of put a little

caveat here to Beware of the Never Enough trap.

We have a balance to strike in our prayer lives.

We have balance to strike within God's word that we want to

acknowledge our own. Our own frailties in front of

him. We have to confess our sins,

especially we have to be aware of how great he is, and how

small we are compared to him. That is all a good place in our

prayer lives, but we have to be aware that that can become a

cycle of only talking to God about how I'm so sorry for my

sins. And I'm, I'm solo and I'm never

good enough. God wants us to draw near to him

because he paid to stop that endless cycle of sacrifice where

we were never Her ceremonially good enough.

We are for deemed and forgiving and so we can talk to God in a

way that breathes closeness and where we draw near to him and

thank him for the Forgiveness. What we don't just say, God, I'm

sorry, I messed up, I'm so bad, but we say God, thank you, thank

you so much that you have pulled me near that.

You have saved me that you have welcomed me in your presence.

And I have an open invitation to your throne.

Because as we've said a father that just went through a huge

Rescue Mission rescue mission that took thousands of years to

lay out. He doesn't want us to sit there

and just wallow in our own, our own self-pity, our own wrongs,

he wants us to move forward, and he wants us to thank him and

enjoy a relationship where we draw near to him because of that

a prayer life where we always say the negatives will create

Students in our own minds from God, may we not get stuck in

that trap. So, let's pray in ways that

breed closeness not distance. And so part of that is realizing

God's perspective, meditate on passages.

Like when Jesus said in Matthew 23, verse 37, Jerusalem

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Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and Stones, those who

are sent to her, how often I wanted to gather your children

together and the way a hen gathers, her chicks under her

wings, and you were Willing but this the context of this is kind

of sad but the blue part I highlighted is special.

It helps us see what God wants us to be aware of is that he's

not just a warning. God, he is a God who I can't

think of a more tender picture than a mother, hen Gathering her

chicks to protect them and shelter them.

And to draw them near. And this ties into the next

thing we're going to talk about in praying, God's word, back to

him. So this this is a huge part of

developing, this closeness is develop a relationship where

we're reciprocating, the communication that God has

started with us through his work, okay?

This has been one of the biggest things for me and helping

develop a prayer life that is. Number one, not vain repetition

and because we can run out of things to say sometimes but also

in a way that I feel like my prayer life Life adapts and

adjust to my understanding of God's will.

So as I grow in knowledge of God's were, I want to pray that

back to God, for example, it's taken it, let's take something

just that we read. Recently, I picked this

scripture at random. If we're reading the scripture

Hebrews 925 where it said not that he should offer himself

often as the high priest enters the most holy place every year

with the blood of another. He then would have had to suffer

often since the foundation End of the world.

But now once at the end of the ages, he has appeared to put

away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

So I just picked a random passage.

So here's how we might pray. This passage back to God.

God, thank you so much that I don't have to live under the Old

Law where sacrifices were continually made and never

forgiven truly, but thank you so much that I'm now live in this

end of the ages where Jesus has put away sin for me.

That is a prayer to God, where we are reading what God Said.

And we respond with a prayer of thankfulness a prayer that says

God, you know, I'm taking in what you read, what you told me

and I want to turn it into praise and into Thanksgiving.

So, that was just a random example.

You could pray any passage back to God.

Truly, here's another one. If we were to look at Jeremiah

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chapter 32 because this is just referenced in the context, I

picked this one. I'll just read the blue section.

It says God prophesying that they shall be my people.

Speaking of this new law and I will be their God then I will

give them one heart and one way that they may fear me forever

for the good of them and their children.

After them, I just pulled this out of a recent context and

Hebrews and we can pray that and we can say, God, thank you so

much that you have welcomed me to be one of your people.

Thank you. You can renew my heart and that

you can teach me your ways and I pray that you will teach me.

Teach my heart changed my heart, and renew my ways, so that I can

have a family that follows your will, so that I can pass on your

goodness to others. As this passage says for the

good of their children after them, we can turn every passage

that we read truly into a prayer to God somehow and if you're

struggling with your prayer, Life that has been a big help

for me, and this is something that we are supposed to use in

our classrooms all the time. We just refer to it and

teaching, as a sentence frame, when we're trying to teach

students how to learn how to communicate, we give them a

sentence, like, I like how the author uses blank to show blank

when we're learning to communicate, we need things to

get us started. Things to get us going.

So, this is nothing new. This is not unique to to God's

word and And it's a way we learn to communicate by by taking what

we can start with and working off of that, I think will help

us our prayer lives. So the next thing he says he

says, or the next way to draw near, he tells us to cleanse our

hearts. So we've talked about Having

good prayer lives. We've talked about praying God's

will back to him, but it also tells us in this passage that we

are to have hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.

So way to draw near to God is to cleanse our hearts.

And that's something God can do, but it takes, that's not easy.

It's not easy on us because that means habits have to change.

If we have sinful habits, if we have sinful addictions, if we

have sinful things that we are a part of regularly, those things

are going to pollute our hearts and it's going to keep us from

from fully experiencing The Nearness to God that we need to

living out and thinking on pure things will help call me mind

riddled with the consequences and fears brought on by sin.

So that is a huge step in drawing near to God as cleansing

our hearts. okay, so the second thing he tells us, he says let

us draw near And then he says, let us hold fast.

This is the second one. Let us hold fast.

The confession of Our Hope, without wavering.

For he, who promised is faithful.

They're having challenging times now, and he is telling them

basically, to hold on because you said it in the good times

and now it's time to hold on through the challenging times.

The confession of the Hope, how do we hold on to the confession

of our hope? Well, it's with Session.

It's very very simple. We got to say it we've got to

talk about our hope and I think the simplest way to start is to

talk about our hope to God himself.

This ties in with praying God's will talking to God about our

hope. Talking to God, in the sense

that God, I cannot wait for you to return.

I'm so excited for you to be here.

Maybe, I'm disappointed that you didn't come today but I cannot

wait, maybe tomorrow. You will be here, I don't know,

something, whatever you think of, but having the perspective

that we are talking to God about our hopes that confession of Our

Hope, Number two, we want to talk talk about it and say it

confess it to people who will reciprocate it.

So that might start with your families.

Maybe your families are faithful, and they would

reciprocate that hope they would encourage you in that hope.

But they, maybe it's not your family, and maybe it's the

people in here and hopefully it is, the people in here.

Maybe may we reciprocate and talk about together the hope.

And the confession of our hope that we are, Are looking forward

to an excited for the return of our savior.

The hope that is ahead of us must be shared within us to keep

our faith holding fast and thirdly to those who don't yet

reciprocate it. I've got yet they're highlighted

because we never know who might one day change their heart, and

we can slowly start to work in confessions of Our Hope into our

daily life. There's a lot of ways people can

do that, and you can do that in your own way, but when people

bring challenges to you, is often a good time to share what

gets you through. So you can confess your hope to

God to people who reciprocate it and also to those who do not yet

reciprocate it and that will help to hold on to the

confession of our hope that we have in Jesus.

Okay, the next thing he says, we've got let us draw near

we've, got let us hold fast, the confession of Our Hope.

And the third lettuce is let us consider one another in order to

stir up, love and good works. So, I like the language to stir

up, usually means some trouble, but he says to stir up and to,

to awaken and turn up, good works.

And love, you know, when you have a if you have a cup of hot

chocolate or I don't know, cider or something.

You've poured into a drink where that powder is at the bottom.

It is not good. When all, that's just sitting on

the bottom. You want to, you know, when you

get that drink, you want to Stir It Up so that it goes throughout

the whole body and goes throughout the whole body of

liquid. So you have a good drink, he

wants us to stir up. Love and good works one upon one

or two for one another so that we as a body can all be Growing

and full of those good works and that love.

To consider one another verse 25.

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner

of some. But exhorting, one another and

so much the more as you see the day approaching.

So I don't really have to come up with how to consider one

another in this passage, because he tells us an example, he tells

us to not not stay away from when your brothers and sisters

get together. When we are assembling together

as a body. Consider one another, and let's

be here for that. When we consider one another,

that's going to help us hold on in times of challenge but are

also maybe if we're not having the challenging time, it's going

to help other people. Hold on, and their time of

challenge we all come in here, different places.

Maybe this morning, you are high as a kite but maybe if you're in

here today, maybe you're real low.

Today we are constantly at a different point, so sometimes we

need it and sometimes we want to be here.

And sometimes someone else is like, man, I'm pretty good.

I could go do something else today and I'm be fine.

That's not the point. The point is, if we're all at

different places, we all come together throughout that, that's

how we share. That's how we share our

struggles and our good times and our bad times because maybe you

don't need it today, but maybe someone else needs you today.

Consider one another to store up these love and good works. he

says, as the manner of some, you know, I believe we need to

definitely make our best effort to to be in God's worship.

And but if you're worried about, let's say, someone says, man, I

some people are really worried about.

I missed a Wednesday night or something like that.

This is kind of a side point, but, you know, if especially

like if you're sick he's talking about a manner, it's a habit.

Some people make a habit out of just not being there, but if

it's a habit of being there, that's kind of the point he's

making. So the head Mitchell coming to

the assembly. Is the point of this passage.

As is the manner of some, but exhorting, one another and so

much more. As you see the day approaching

that day, I believe is reference to the coming of Jesus.

He's already talked about in chapter 9.

I don't believe this is talking about the destruction of

Jerusalem because it wouldn't really fit the context.

But he has talked about Jesus coming again.

And so as we see that day of Jesus coming, let's do this, all

the more As we see the day approaching, let's assemble,

let's exhort one another. Let's be together and I know

it's been hard after covid. We've kind of separated a little

bit because we just haven't been together as much.

But let's work on that verse 26. For if we sin willfully, after

we have received the knowledge of the truth there, no longer

remains a sacrifice for sins, okay?

So in the Old Testament, they didn't have sacrifices for

willful sins where you just did it anyway.

They had sacrifices for For sins where they're committed

ignorance and other things like that.

But there's no sacrifice for a scene where you just wanted to

do it anyway. And you just went ahead and

rebelled and that's just it. He's saying here that there's

not a sacrifice that covers that type of set.

It doesn't mean that you can't repent, and it's doesn't mean

that if you did it in a moment, knowing what you're doing, you

can't repent. But if that sends stays as a I

did it and I'm unrepentant, if it stays in that category, then

there's no sacrifice for that Sam.

That's it. You can't cover that.

He has a plan to cover people who are willing to repent and

change their lives. And so, if you have sinned, you

feel like Manna the other day. I knew what I was doing and I

messed up and I did anyway, he's not saying that you can't be

forgiven, he's saying that it can't stay as unrepented Sin to

be forgiven of. Okay, so verse 27, but a certain

fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation, which

will devour the adversaries. When we sin, willfully, we stay

in it. Always got to look forward to is

fear. Here, there's a certain fearful

expectation. He says, and that will devour

God's adversaries. We're going to start moving

faster, through the end of the chapter.

Now, verse 28, and he who has rejected Moses law, the Old

Testament dies without Mercy. On the testimony of two or three

Witnesses. So in the old lock, there were

certain things that if you did and just took two or three

people to say. Yeah, he did that and you could

die. So, if it just took two or three

people in Moses's law, verse 29 of how much worse punishment do

you suppose, will, he be thought worthy, who has trampled, the

Son of God underfoot counted, the blood of the Covenant by

which he is Sanctified a common thing and insulted the spirit of

Grace A long sentence. But basically, he said, if, in

the Old Law, when I was just bulls and goats who are dying,

if, if people in that time who sinned wilfully could be killed

for that, how much more serious, how much worse do you think it

is? If people see the Son of God,

see everything. He did and trample him

underfoot. Basically, they see that

sacrifice and they just they run right over it.

Those who count the blood of the Covenant Jesus Blood by which he

was Sanctified a common thing. So they treat Jesus blood.

Like yes, any other blood. I don't need to do anything.

It was just a normal guy with with a common blood.

That is insulting, the spirit of Grace that has come to save us.

And it's saying how much more punishment will he be worthy of

who tramples God's son underfoot like this and insults God's

spirit? For we know him.

Who said vengeance is mine? I will repay says the Lord.

And again, the Lord will judge his people.

He's not even talking here about judging the world.

He's saying the Lord will judge his people.

He's writing the Hebrew Christians.

The Lord will judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall

into the hands of the Living God, that's true.

Remember, there's always two sides.

There's always two truths to most of these situations.

So it is a fearful thing to fall into His hands, but he's

speaking in the context of Disobedience and willful

responding with willful sin. The other side of this is that

we already talked about is true. Our Lord Is Still Loving and

good God and he, and he's a refuge for us as we read.

He said, how often I wanted to gather your children together,

the way it chin, but the way hen gathers her chicks under her

wings, it is a fearful thing. If we are not right with God,

but can also be Very comforting thing to be in God's hands

depends on where we're at verse 32 but recall, the former days.

So he's going to think back on, sometimes that was good and he's

going to encourage them to, in this chapter we're going to call

the former days in, which after you were illuminated, when

you're enlightened by God's truth.

You endured a great struggle with sufferings partly, while

you are made a spectacle, both by reproaches and tribulations.

So you had sufferings of your own own and partly while you

became Companions of those who were so treated.

So they suffered in two different ways.

They were mistreated themselves and they were supporting people

who are being mistreated verse 34.

For you had compassion on me and my chains and joyfully accepted

the plundering of your goods, the plundering of your goods, a

lot of people sacrifice to take care of those who are in need in

the early church and they willfully gave what they had to

serve. Knowing that you have a better,

and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven.

Remember any good you do is just temporary things here.

If you give someone something and it fills their need just

temporary. We have treasure and possessions

in heaven. Therefore, do not cast away your

confidence which has great reward for you have need of

endurance. So that after you have done the

will of God, you may receive the promise.

For yet a little while. And he who is coming, will come

And will not tarry. Now, the just shall live by

faith in a little while. He says, he who it is coming, he

who is to come in the future. That's going to be in the past

pretty soon. He's going to come.

He who is coming will come and it's all going to be completed.

One day, it's all going to be over.

Now, the just shall live by faith, but if anyone draws back,

my soul has no pleasure in him. But we are not of those who draw

back to Perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the

Soul, this is the end of this chapter and he is already making

the transition Hebrews 11, where he talks about those who walked

by faith. He's saying, we are not those

who draw back to Perdition or destruction.

Our It will not those kind of people but where those kind of

people who believe to the saving of the soul.

And next time, I speak, we're going to talk about the kind of

people who do that from the Old Law, and Hebrews chapter 11,

Hebrews 11 · chapter mention

where we hear of the Hall of Faith.

That's the lesson for today from Hebrews chapter 10.

Hebrews 10 · chapter mention

I hope you can take these things for your own prayer.

Life, your own spiritual perspective and I hope you're

both comforted and challenge today.

As I was myself, if you haven't started this walk and you

haven't been Kind of initiated into this New Covenant, broaden

and contacted the with the blood of Christ, you can do that

today. It's simple.

Jesus says, we're told that you can hear God's word believe that

Jesus Christ is the Son of God and died for us for the

remission of our sins confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of

God, repent of our past life and say, you know what, I'm going to

take all of that and I'm going to turn and move to God's Will

and follow him. You can repent and be baptized

for the remission of your sins. If I've already done that and

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