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 And if you would open up your Bibles to Hebrews chapter 10, I'm going to read through verses 1-18.

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! We are starting to see the end of Hebrews in the distance.

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 So Hebrews 10, 1-18, hear God's word.

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 For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities,

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 it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.

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 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins.

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 But in these sacrifices, there is a reminder of sins every year, for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

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 Consequently, when Christ came into the world, He said,

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 Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me.

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 In burnt offerings and in sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.

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 Then I said, Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.

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 When He said above, You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings.

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 These are offered according to the law.

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 Then He added, Behold, I have come to do your will.

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 He does away with the first in order to establish the second.

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 And by that will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

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 And every priest stands daily at the service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices which can never take away sins.

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 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God,

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 waiting from that time until His enemy should be made a footstool for His feet.

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 For by a single offering, He has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

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 And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us for after saying,

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 This is the covenant that I will make with them.

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 After those days, declares the Lord, I will put my laws on their hearts and write them on their minds.

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 Then He adds, I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.

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 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering of sin.

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 May God bless the hearing of His word.

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 Can you guess which virus this is I'm about to describe?

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 You've got a child or a grandchild with an itchy rash around the trunk of their body.

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 And then they start itching it.

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 They start, boop, boop, boop, boop.

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 You know what that is, don't you?

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 Chicken pox.

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 The symptoms of chicken pox are pretty easy to cite.

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 Do you know what the symptoms of legalism are?

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 Legalism is the belief that your eternal standing with God

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 is dependent upon your personal present obedience.

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 Legalism says your eternal standing before God depends on your daily obedience to God.

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 Legalism is a toxic distortion of the gospel of grace.

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 It says God's grace can save you plus something else, your obedience.

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 And the thing about this toxic distortion of legalism is that it's unhealthy for a Christian.

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 It's unhealthy for a church.

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 It can be oppressive.

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 It can puff up some people while totally kind of suffocating others.

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 It's a subtle shift of dependence off of the risen Christ and onto yourself.

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 So how do you know if you've got legalistic tendencies?

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 Well, do you have a tendency of thinking that your eternal standing before God

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 depends upon whether you're having a daily quiet time, reading your Bible,

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 or you're getting to church every Sunday?

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 Do you think that your eternal standing with God depends upon your up-to-date confession of sin?

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 In other words, if you were to die and not have confessed all of your sin,

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 do you think that your eternal salvation would be in jeopardy?

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 Maybe you think that your eternal standing with God is in jeopardy every time you sin.

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 Maybe you think that your eternal standing with God depends on kind of what's more in the columns.

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 More good works than evil works.

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 The thinking is, if I have more good works than evil works, then I'm in right standing with God.

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 Is that what you're thinking?

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 That's not the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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 Do you think that your salvation depends in any way on your obedience,

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 on your performance, on your repeated sacrifices day after day, year after year?

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 Your eternal standing before God depends solely on the once-for-all sacrifice of Christ.

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 The antidote to legalism is this once-for-all sacrifice of Christ.

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 And so here's what I'm going to try to convince you of from Hebrews 10, 1-18 this morning.

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 Here it is.

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 Hold fast to Christ and say good riddance to legalism.

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 Kick it to the curb.

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 In Hebrews 10, 1-18,

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 the author of Hebrews is kind of wrapping up a line of argument that he started in chapter 8.

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 He's been making a case that the new covenant is better than the old covenant

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 because the new covenant can actually rid you of all your sins

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 where the old covenant couldn't.

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 And remember, he's writing to a church that was suffering for Christ

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 and they were being tempted to go back to the ineffective animal sacrifices of the old covenant.

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 We're tempted to go back to the ineffective offerings of legalism,

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 thinking that is what makes us right with God.

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 And so there are two reasons from this text

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 why you should hold fast to Christ and kick legalism to the curb.

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 Reason number one, Christ's superior sacrifice.

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 And reason number two, Christ's superior priesthood.

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 So let's look now at these two points from this passage,

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 starting with Christ's superior sacrifice.

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 The book of Hebrews is one long exhortation to hold fast to Christ all the way to the end.

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 And one of the repeated kind of tools that the author of Hebrews uses to help exhort us

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 is by comparing and contrasting.

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 And so again and again, he shows us that Christ is better.

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 Again and again, Christ is superior of all different sorts.

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 And here in chapter 10, verses 1 through 10,

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 we have a comparison of sacrifices.

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 Let's look at the inferior sacrifice first.

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 It's spelled out in verses 1 through 4.

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 It starts with a reference to the law.

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 For since the law, the law of Moses,

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 has but a shadow of the good things to come,

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 of the true form of these realities.

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 The law of Moses is talking about the Ten Commandments,

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 all of the commandments spelled out in the first five books of the Bible.

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 And what we're being told here is that the law of Moses and the commanded sacrifices,

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 they're but a shadow of the good things to come.

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 If you look back at chapter 9, verse 11, we read this.

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 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come,

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 you see, the good things to come was Christ and all that he offered.

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 And somehow the law of Moses would point to him.

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 It was a shadow of the good things to come.

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 But it wasn't the good things.

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 And so that little phrase, the true form of these realities,

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 instead of the true form of these realities,

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 what it's getting at is the law of Moses and its sacrificial system.

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 It lacked substance.

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 The one who would come with the good things,

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 there's where the substance is.

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 And what is striking is what we read in verse 1,

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 the law and its commandments,

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 it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year,

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 make perfect those who draw near.

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 This is shocking.

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 The writer of Hebrews is saying that the law of Moses and all of its commands

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 and all of its sacrifices,

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 it's all of the Levitical priests,

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 all of what they were doing day after day,

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 was ineffective.

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 Powerless.

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 To make perfect those who draw near.

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 When the writer of Hebrews is using that made perfect language,

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 he's talking about being cleansed from your sin,

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 of having your sins fully taken away,

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 of knowing that you've been completely and fully forgiven by God,

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 that there's no condemnation for you.

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 God's wrath has been satisfied.

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 That's the point of verse 2.

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 If these animal sacrifices of the law of Moses

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 could actually cleanse your conscience,

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 then they would cease being offered.

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 But they were being offered day after day.

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 They were ineffective.

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 What they were effective at is reminding people of their sins.

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 Verse 3.

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 But they're ineffective because it's impossible

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 for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

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 That blood, that death lacked power.

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 When we apply this to our legalistic thinking,

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 when you think that your daily devotions,

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 your weekly church attendance,

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 doing more good than evil,

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 even the frequent confessing of your sins,

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 when you think that these are the things

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 that keep me saved,

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 you're making a mistake.

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 None of these has the power to take away your sins.

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 In verses 1-4, we have this

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 inferior sacrifices of the old covenant.

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 They're ineffective.

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 They're powerless.

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 And then in verses 5-10 comes the contrast.

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 Comes Christ's superior sacrifice.

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 In verse 5,

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 oh man,

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 the author of Hebrews does some crazy stuff here.

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 Remember in chapter 10, verse 1,

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 where he starts?

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 He starts by saying,

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 for since the law has but a shadow of the good things.

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 Look where he starts in verse 5.

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 Consequently, when Christ came into the world,

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 he said,

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 he said,

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 whatever he's about to say,

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 it trumps the law of Moses.

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 Jesus said,

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 I came not to abolish the law,

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 but to fulfill it.

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 If you would flip back to the beginning,

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 the very first two verses of the book of Hebrews,

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 here's what's going on right here.

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 Long ago at many times,

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 and in many ways,

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 God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,

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 Moses being one of them.

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 But in these last days,

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 he has spoken to us by his son.

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 That's what's going on here.

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 It's Christ's final word on the matter.

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 And what the author of Hebrews does is,

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 he puts the final word as fulfillment.

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 He has Jesus speaking

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 from Psalm chapter 40,

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 verses 6 through 8,

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 a Psalm of David.

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 And he's saying like,

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 this has been fulfilled.

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 It's in the mouth of Jesus.

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 And we read,

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 sacrifices and offerings

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 you have not desired,

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 but a body you have prepared for me.

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 In burnt offerings

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 and in sin offerings,

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 you have taken no pleasure.

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 When David wrote that,

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 he was talking about being

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 his heart fully unto God.

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 When the author of Hebrews

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 has Jesus saying that,

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 what he's saying

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 is something monumental,

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 a huge paradigm shift.

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 He's saying that

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 all of the Old Testament sacrifices

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 are now obsolete.

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 God takes no more delight

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 in them.

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 These were in reference

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 to the sacrifices

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 of the Old Testament.

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 In verse 7,

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 we read,

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 then I said,

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 behold,

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 I have come to do your will,

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 O God,

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 as it is written of me

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 in the scroll of the book.

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 That's David

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 originally saying,

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 I've come to do your will

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 as your king.

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 It's been written me

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 of the scroll of the book,

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 probably Deuteronomy 17,

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 these instructions to a king,

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 with Jesus saying it.

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 He's coming to do the will of God

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 to save all who would believe in him,

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 to establish a forever kingdom.

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 Do you remember when Jesus was in Gethsemane

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 and he said,

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 not my will,

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 but your will be done to his father?

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 Do you remember Isaiah 53.10

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 that says,

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 it was the will of the Lord

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 to crush him?

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 This will is God's will

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 and Jesus came to do it

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 and by him quoting Psalm 40,

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 6-8,

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 what the author of Hebrews is doing

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 is he's saying,

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 this is the one,

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 the descendant of David,

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 David's greater son.

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 Remember Psalm 110,

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 the Lord said,

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 to my Lord?

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 And the sacrifices,

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 there's a shift.

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 In verse 5,

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 we read,

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 but a body have you prepared for me.

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 This is talking about sacrifices.

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 And so in the words of Christ,

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 it's his body

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 that God has prepared.

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 It's a better sacrifice.

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 A once for all,

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 single,

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 for all time

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 sacrifice.

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 So what the author of Hebrews

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 is doing here

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 in extraordinary fashion

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 is he has Christ

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 speaking

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 Psalm 40,

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 6-8

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 in order to demonstrate

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 he's the final word

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 on the topic of sacrifice.

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 Because he is the sacrifice.

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 Maybe the question

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 needs to become this.

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 Why was it impossible

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 for the blood of goats

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 and bulls

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 to take away sin?

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 But why is it

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 that this single,

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 once for all,

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 sacrifice of Christ

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 can take away sin,

00:16:20.219 --> 00:16:22.799
 can make us sanctified?

00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:23.419
 Verse 10.

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 And by that will,

00:16:25.419 --> 00:16:26.459
 we have been sanctified

00:16:26.459 --> 00:16:27.219
 through the offering

00:16:27.219 --> 00:16:28.519
 of the body of Jesus Christ

00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:29.399
 once for all.

00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:31.039
 How does that work?

00:16:33.299 --> 00:16:34.279
 Well, remember

00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:36.419
 who Jesus is.

00:16:37.779 --> 00:16:39.079
 He's totally God.

00:16:41.019 --> 00:16:42.019
 Totally man.

00:16:43.379 --> 00:16:44.120
 He's totally man.

00:16:44.179 --> 00:16:45.000
 He is the perfect

00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:47.099
 representative man,

00:16:47.339 --> 00:16:48.379
 yet without sin.

00:16:48.579 --> 00:16:49.240
 Remember that?

00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:52.180
 from Hebrews chapter 4, 15.

00:16:52.340 --> 00:16:53.060
 He was tempted

00:16:53.060 --> 00:16:53.899
 in every way

00:16:53.899 --> 00:16:55.279
 yet without sin.

00:16:55.620 --> 00:16:56.580
 And he is God.

00:16:58.000 --> 00:16:59.620
 His death satisfies

00:16:59.620 --> 00:17:01.100
 God's wrath forever.

00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:06.559
 That's why Jesus' blood

00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:07.339
 is better than

00:17:07.339 --> 00:17:08.140
 the blood of animals.

00:17:09.019 --> 00:17:10.359
 His blood is the power.

00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:10.439
 power.

00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:13.939
 The power to deliver us

00:17:13.939 --> 00:17:16.039
 from our sins.

00:17:17.659 --> 00:17:18.740
 What we have here

00:17:18.740 --> 00:17:19.719
 is quite a comparison

00:17:19.719 --> 00:17:21.659
 between the inferior

00:17:21.659 --> 00:17:25.159
 sacrifices of animals

00:17:25.159 --> 00:17:26.699
 and the superior

00:17:26.699 --> 00:17:29.079
 sacrifice of Christ.

00:17:29.719 --> 00:17:31.639
 The repeated offerings

00:17:31.639 --> 00:17:32.819
 of these animals

00:17:32.819 --> 00:17:34.339
 points to their

00:17:34.339 --> 00:17:35.779
 ineffectiveness.

00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:37.899
 But the once for all

00:17:37.899 --> 00:17:39.459
 sacrifice of Christ

00:17:39.460 --> 00:17:41.420
 it points to

00:17:41.420 --> 00:17:42.380
 how effective

00:17:42.380 --> 00:17:43.559
 it is.

00:17:46.420 --> 00:17:48.180
 Christ alone

00:17:48.180 --> 00:17:49.519
 takes away

00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:50.600
 our sins.

00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:51.460
 For the legalists

00:17:51.460 --> 00:17:51.860
 in the room,

00:17:52.500 --> 00:17:53.779
 this is really good news.

00:17:54.980 --> 00:17:56.380
 Because what this means

00:17:56.380 --> 00:17:57.900
 is that your

00:17:57.900 --> 00:18:00.019
 eternal standing

00:18:00.019 --> 00:18:00.819
 with God

00:18:00.819 --> 00:18:02.680
 depends

00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:04.840
 not on

00:18:04.840 --> 00:18:06.000
 any repeated

00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:07.360
 effort of yours,

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 but on the

00:18:09.819 --> 00:18:11.799
 once for all

00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:12.939
 sacrifice

00:18:12.939 --> 00:18:14.179
 of Christ.

00:18:16.179 --> 00:18:16.939
 Amen.

00:18:19.939 --> 00:18:21.279
 Christ's superior

00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:22.579
 sacrifice

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 is amazing.

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 Imagine

00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:28.759
 you owe

00:18:28.759 --> 00:18:30.699
 50 million dollars

00:18:30.699 --> 00:18:31.199
 in debt.

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 But you're responsible.

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 people.

00:18:36.500 --> 00:18:37.860
 So you set up

00:18:37.860 --> 00:18:38.740
 a payment plan

00:18:38.740 --> 00:18:40.480
 to work with

00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:40.839
 your

00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:42.059
 $75,000

00:18:42.059 --> 00:18:43.160
 a year income.

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 And so you

00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:45.620
 are able to

00:18:45.620 --> 00:18:46.120
 set aside

00:18:46.120 --> 00:18:47.339
 $300 a month

00:18:47.339 --> 00:18:48.100
 to start

00:18:48.100 --> 00:18:48.940
 paying down

00:18:48.940 --> 00:18:50.259
 this debt.

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 So for the

00:18:50.779 --> 00:18:52.259
 next 50 years,

00:18:52.600 --> 00:18:53.460
 every month,

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 you are paying

00:18:54.360 --> 00:18:55.799
 $300 a month

00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:57.180
 on the nose

00:18:57.180 --> 00:18:58.059
 and your credit

00:18:58.059 --> 00:18:59.120
 rating starts to go up.

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 You're like,

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 oh, this is good.

00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:01.360
 I am paying

00:19:01.360 --> 00:19:02.140
 off my debt.

00:19:02.220 --> 00:19:02.600
 I'm doing

00:19:02.600 --> 00:19:03.539
 what I can.

00:19:03.539 --> 00:19:04.720
 You're feeling

00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:05.279
 pretty good

00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:06.180
 about yourself.

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 And then when you

00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:09.480
 come to the end

00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:10.139
 of your life,

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 you realize

00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:12.319
 that these

00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:13.980
 50 years

00:19:13.980 --> 00:19:14.839
 of paying

00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:15.480
 $300

00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:16.799
 a month

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 amounts to

00:19:18.159 --> 00:19:20.180
 $180,000,

00:19:20.819 --> 00:19:23.039
 which is

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 less

00:19:23.639 --> 00:19:25.039
 than half

00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:26.720
 of 1%

00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:27.859
 of the

00:19:27.859 --> 00:19:28.819
 $50 million

00:19:28.819 --> 00:19:29.680
 debt

00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:30.359
 you owe.

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 not even

00:19:33.059 --> 00:19:33.579
 a dent.

00:19:35.479 --> 00:19:36.339
 It's a picture

00:19:36.339 --> 00:19:37.519
 of Old Testament

00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:38.459
 sacrifice

00:19:38.459 --> 00:19:39.279
 of animals.

00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:41.000
 Not even

00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:41.459
 a dent.

00:19:42.639 --> 00:19:43.179
 It shows us

00:19:43.179 --> 00:19:43.699
 our sin

00:19:43.699 --> 00:19:45.099
 but does

00:19:45.099 --> 00:19:46.059
 not take

00:19:46.059 --> 00:19:47.119
 away sins

00:19:47.119 --> 00:19:47.599
 fully

00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:48.339
 and finally.

00:19:49.639 --> 00:19:50.219
 But imagine

00:19:50.219 --> 00:19:52.219
 if you've got

00:19:52.219 --> 00:19:52.919
 a billionaire

00:19:52.919 --> 00:19:53.759
 uncle

00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:55.979
 and he

00:19:55.979 --> 00:19:56.599
 loves you

00:19:56.599 --> 00:19:57.039
 dearly.

00:19:57.039 --> 00:19:59.099
 he finds

00:19:59.099 --> 00:19:59.559
 out that

00:19:59.559 --> 00:19:59.920
 you've got

00:19:59.920 --> 00:20:00.359
 a $50

00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:01.299
 million debt

00:20:01.299 --> 00:20:02.240
 and with

00:20:02.240 --> 00:20:03.480
 one single

00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:04.720
 check offering

00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:05.639
 once for

00:20:05.639 --> 00:20:06.379
 all for

00:20:06.379 --> 00:20:07.240
 all time,

00:20:07.500 --> 00:20:08.180
 he pays

00:20:08.180 --> 00:20:08.740
 off your

00:20:08.740 --> 00:20:09.159
 debt

00:20:09.159 --> 00:20:09.920
 in full.

00:20:10.879 --> 00:20:11.519
 Now that's

00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:12.000
 effective.

00:20:13.099 --> 00:20:13.779
 Now that's

00:20:13.779 --> 00:20:14.319
 superior.

00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:15.960
 That's

00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:16.440
 done.

00:20:18.879 --> 00:20:19.559
 And if you

00:20:19.559 --> 00:20:19.859
 pulled out

00:20:19.859 --> 00:20:20.519
 your checkbook

00:20:20.519 --> 00:20:20.960
 and said,

00:20:21.399 --> 00:20:21.920
 okay uncle,

00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:22.500
 can I start

00:20:22.500 --> 00:20:22.960
 paying you

00:20:22.960 --> 00:20:23.839
 $300 a month?

00:20:24.879 --> 00:20:25.359
 He'd be like,

00:20:25.420 --> 00:20:25.879
 no, you don't

00:20:25.879 --> 00:20:26.220
 get it.

00:20:26.220 --> 00:20:26.660
 This is a

00:20:26.660 --> 00:20:26.920
 gift.

00:20:28.860 --> 00:20:29.640
 Enjoy it.

00:20:30.019 --> 00:20:30.660
 Live free.

00:20:32.900 --> 00:20:34.039
 The antidote

00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:35.140
 to legalism

00:20:35.140 --> 00:20:36.339
 is what we

00:20:36.339 --> 00:20:36.720
 see in

00:20:36.720 --> 00:20:37.299
 verse 10.

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 And by that

00:20:38.339 --> 00:20:38.759
 will, the

00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:39.440
 will of God,

00:20:39.539 --> 00:20:40.039
 we have been

00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:40.860
 sanctified through

00:20:40.860 --> 00:20:41.680
 the offering of

00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:42.279
 the body of

00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:43.039
 Jesus Christ

00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:44.059
 once for

00:20:44.059 --> 00:20:44.620
 all.

00:20:45.539 --> 00:20:45.839
 He's a

00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:46.640
 superior

00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:48.420
 sacrifice.

00:20:49.640 --> 00:20:50.180
 Hold fast

00:20:50.180 --> 00:20:50.680
 to Christ

00:20:50.680 --> 00:20:53.539
 and kick

00:20:53.539 --> 00:20:54.160
 legalism to

00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:54.640
 the curb.

00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:56.640
 God's

00:20:56.640 --> 00:20:57.200
 second point.

00:20:57.800 --> 00:20:58.240
 Reason number

00:20:58.240 --> 00:20:58.600
 two,

00:20:59.400 --> 00:20:59.920
 Christ's

00:20:59.920 --> 00:21:00.360
 superior

00:21:00.360 --> 00:21:01.000
 priesthood.

00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:04.060
 There is

00:21:04.060 --> 00:21:05.560
 another

00:21:05.560 --> 00:21:06.400
 comparison and

00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:07.020
 contrast in

00:21:07.020 --> 00:21:07.620
 this passage.

00:21:08.340 --> 00:21:08.680
 And it's in

00:21:08.680 --> 00:21:09.220
 verses 11

00:21:09.220 --> 00:21:09.800
 through 18.

00:21:10.560 --> 00:21:11.300
 And the

00:21:11.300 --> 00:21:12.240
 contrast is

00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:14.140
 between the

00:21:14.140 --> 00:21:15.240
 inferior

00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:17.000
 priesthood of

00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:18.360
 the Levites,

00:21:18.560 --> 00:21:19.140
 old covenant,

00:21:19.420 --> 00:21:20.340
 and the superior

00:21:20.340 --> 00:21:21.420
 priesthood of

00:21:21.420 --> 00:21:21.800
 Christ,

00:21:22.140 --> 00:21:22.740
 new covenant.

00:21:22.740 --> 00:21:23.519
 And both

00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:24.559
 priests deal

00:21:24.559 --> 00:21:25.380
 in sacrifices.

00:21:25.740 --> 00:21:26.259
 So let's look

00:21:26.259 --> 00:21:26.779
 at the inferior

00:21:26.779 --> 00:21:27.579
 priesthood first

00:21:27.579 --> 00:21:28.200
 in verse 11.

00:21:29.059 --> 00:21:29.839
 We read this.

00:21:32.339 --> 00:21:32.740
 And every

00:21:32.740 --> 00:21:33.599
 priest stands

00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:34.620
 daily at his

00:21:34.620 --> 00:21:35.579
 service offering

00:21:35.579 --> 00:21:36.400
 repeatedly the

00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:37.299
 same sacrifices,

00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:38.779
 which can never

00:21:38.779 --> 00:21:39.700
 take away sins.

00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:41.839
 One of the

00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:42.900
 things you're

00:21:42.900 --> 00:21:43.620
 aware of about

00:21:43.620 --> 00:21:44.940
 these inferior

00:21:44.940 --> 00:21:46.640
 priests is that

00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:46.940
 there are more

00:21:46.940 --> 00:21:47.339
 than one.

00:21:48.700 --> 00:21:49.720
 There are many.

00:21:49.720 --> 00:21:49.779
 many.

00:21:51.180 --> 00:21:51.839
 And all of

00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:52.360
 these men,

00:21:52.559 --> 00:21:53.299
 they lived and

00:21:53.299 --> 00:21:53.920
 then they died.

00:21:55.100 --> 00:21:55.900
 And then all of

00:21:55.900 --> 00:21:56.620
 these human

00:21:56.620 --> 00:21:57.640
 priests were

00:21:57.640 --> 00:21:58.019
 sinners.

00:21:58.160 --> 00:21:58.400
 Do you remember

00:21:58.400 --> 00:21:58.880
 how they would

00:21:58.880 --> 00:21:59.460
 have to offer

00:21:59.460 --> 00:22:00.319
 sacrifice for

00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:01.600
 themselves before

00:22:01.600 --> 00:22:02.160
 they had to

00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:03.180
 offer sacrifice

00:22:03.180 --> 00:22:03.940
 for the people?

00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:04.799
 They were

00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:05.220
 sinners.

00:22:05.360 --> 00:22:05.720
 They had to

00:22:05.720 --> 00:22:06.720
 offer sacrifices

00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:07.480
 for themselves.

00:22:07.860 --> 00:22:08.360
 And what we

00:22:08.360 --> 00:22:09.380
 see here is

00:22:09.380 --> 00:22:10.019
 that they were

00:22:10.019 --> 00:22:11.440
 offering repeated

00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:13.279
 sacrifice, the

00:22:13.279 --> 00:22:14.519
 same sacrifice

00:22:14.519 --> 00:22:15.779
 of animals,

00:22:16.880 --> 00:22:17.940
 bloody messes

00:22:17.940 --> 00:22:18.539
 that couldn't

00:22:18.539 --> 00:22:19.820
 take away sins

00:22:19.820 --> 00:22:21.660
 over and over

00:22:21.660 --> 00:22:23.220
 and over again.

00:22:24.180 --> 00:22:25.000
 And the result,

00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:25.960
 verse 11,

00:22:27.960 --> 00:22:30.500
 it could never

00:22:30.500 --> 00:22:32.420
 take away sins.

00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:34.720
 This past week

00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:35.200
 I was reading

00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:35.620
 in one of the

00:22:35.620 --> 00:22:36.519
 commentaries and

00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:37.840
 one of the

00:22:37.840 --> 00:22:39.039
 writers pointed

00:22:39.039 --> 00:22:40.000
 to Sisyphus,

00:22:41.299 --> 00:22:43.400
 the figure from

00:22:43.400 --> 00:22:44.059
 Greek mythology.

00:22:44.200 --> 00:22:44.880
 Remember this guy?

00:22:44.980 --> 00:22:45.660
 The gods punished

00:22:45.660 --> 00:22:47.220
 him for eternity.

00:22:47.220 --> 00:22:48.660
 And they punished

00:22:48.660 --> 00:22:49.579
 him because he

00:22:49.579 --> 00:22:50.900
 had to push this

00:22:50.900 --> 00:22:52.400
 boulder up, this

00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:53.120
 huge hill.

00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:54.559
 And then once he

00:22:54.559 --> 00:22:55.259
 got to the hill,

00:22:55.660 --> 00:22:56.279
 the boulder would

00:22:56.279 --> 00:22:56.920
 just go roll down

00:22:56.920 --> 00:22:57.700
 again and then he

00:22:57.700 --> 00:22:58.220
 would have to push

00:22:58.220 --> 00:22:58.940
 it back up,

00:22:59.319 --> 00:23:00.660
 strenuous, repeated,

00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:01.700
 time and time

00:23:01.700 --> 00:23:02.779
 again, and he

00:23:02.779 --> 00:23:04.339
 never got it done.

00:23:05.759 --> 00:23:07.279
 It's this repeated,

00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:09.660
 ineffective picture

00:23:09.660 --> 00:23:11.120
 of futility.

00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:13.979
 And what we see

00:23:13.979 --> 00:23:15.000
 going on here is

00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:15.799
 that the Levitical

00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:16.399
 priesthood,

00:23:16.819 --> 00:23:17.619
 though set up by

00:23:17.619 --> 00:23:18.699
 God, those

00:23:18.699 --> 00:23:19.939
 serving to expose

00:23:19.939 --> 00:23:20.719
 our sin,

00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:22.500
 it's Sisyphus-like

00:23:22.500 --> 00:23:24.879
 in its ineffectiveness

00:23:24.879 --> 00:23:26.699
 and in its futility.

00:23:28.879 --> 00:23:29.959
 It doesn't take away

00:23:29.959 --> 00:23:30.439
 sins.

00:23:33.439 --> 00:23:34.500
 This is the inferior

00:23:34.500 --> 00:23:36.599
 priesthood that has

00:23:36.599 --> 00:23:37.159
 now been made

00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:37.680
 obsolete.

00:23:39.720 --> 00:23:41.060
 By the superior

00:23:41.060 --> 00:23:42.220
 priesthood of Christ.

00:23:43.340 --> 00:23:44.000
 And we see this

00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:45.160
 superior priesthood in

00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:47.840
 verses 12, 13, and

00:23:47.840 --> 00:23:48.300
 14.

00:23:49.900 --> 00:23:50.980
 We're not talking

00:23:50.980 --> 00:23:51.800
 multiple priests,

00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:52.940
 we're talking one.

00:23:54.000 --> 00:23:55.140
 And we're talking one

00:23:55.140 --> 00:23:56.080
 priest in the order

00:23:56.080 --> 00:23:57.160
 of Melchizedek who

00:23:57.980 --> 00:23:59.000
 died and then was

00:23:59.000 --> 00:23:59.960
 raised from the dead.

00:24:00.040 --> 00:24:01.240
 He's alive today.

00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:04.160
 It's a single

00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:05.779
 offering, 12 and

00:24:05.779 --> 00:24:06.180
 14.

00:24:07.779 --> 00:24:08.779
 And yes, he's

00:24:08.779 --> 00:24:09.980
 human, but he's a

00:24:09.980 --> 00:24:11.240
 human who never

00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:12.299
 offered a sacrifice

00:24:12.299 --> 00:24:13.799
 for his sins because

00:24:13.799 --> 00:24:14.680
 he never sinned.

00:24:14.740 --> 00:24:15.680
 He was sinless.

00:24:17.720 --> 00:24:18.819
 He's totally human,

00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:19.759
 so he can represent

00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:22.319
 us fully, but he's

00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:23.799
 also totally God.

00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:24.740
 Flip back to

00:24:24.740 --> 00:24:25.940
 Hebrews chapter 1.

00:24:28.039 --> 00:24:29.079
 We read in verse

00:24:29.079 --> 00:24:29.440
 3,

00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:31.500
 He, the Son,

00:24:31.740 --> 00:24:32.980
 Christ, is the

00:24:32.980 --> 00:24:34.700
 radiance of the

00:24:34.700 --> 00:24:36.880
 glory of God and

00:24:36.880 --> 00:24:39.059
 the exact imprint of

00:24:39.059 --> 00:24:39.960
 His nature.

00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:41.940
 And He upholds the

00:24:41.940 --> 00:24:43.160
 universe by the word

00:24:43.160 --> 00:24:44.180
 of His power.

00:24:45.299 --> 00:24:45.920
 He's God.

00:24:47.340 --> 00:24:48.259
 And all of God's

00:24:48.259 --> 00:24:49.580
 power and He's

00:24:49.580 --> 00:24:50.900
 human in all of

00:24:50.900 --> 00:24:52.620
 humanity without sin.

00:24:54.059 --> 00:24:54.740
 A superior

00:24:54.740 --> 00:24:55.340
 priest.

00:24:55.339 --> 00:24:55.399
 Christ.

00:24:57.279 --> 00:24:58.419
 And the sacrifice

00:24:58.419 --> 00:24:59.559
 that He offers

00:24:59.559 --> 00:25:02.919
 is far better.

00:25:05.139 --> 00:25:07.179
 He didn't need to

00:25:07.179 --> 00:25:08.059
 offer an animal

00:25:08.059 --> 00:25:09.859
 because He never

00:25:09.859 --> 00:25:10.220
 sinned.

00:25:10.279 --> 00:25:11.699
 What He did is He

00:25:11.699 --> 00:25:14.199
 offered Himself for

00:25:14.199 --> 00:25:15.000
 our sins.

00:25:15.659 --> 00:25:17.000
 This totally God,

00:25:17.199 --> 00:25:18.000
 totally man,

00:25:18.500 --> 00:25:19.659
 priest, king,

00:25:19.859 --> 00:25:20.939
 offered Himself,

00:25:20.940 --> 00:25:22.440
 as one commentator

00:25:22.440 --> 00:25:23.039
 talked about,

00:25:23.420 --> 00:25:25.000
 the offering and

00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:26.740
 the offerer are

00:25:26.740 --> 00:25:28.240
 one and the same.

00:25:31.039 --> 00:25:31.759
 Single,

00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:33.640
 once for all,

00:25:34.680 --> 00:25:37.000
 for all time.

00:25:37.120 --> 00:25:37.700
 Did you see that in

00:25:37.700 --> 00:25:38.240
 verse 14?

00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:41.759
 Sacrifice for our

00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:42.180
 sins.

00:25:45.460 --> 00:25:46.620
 Do you know what

00:25:46.620 --> 00:25:48.279
 is striking about

00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:48.880
 this passage?

00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:51.880
 it's the posture

00:25:51.880 --> 00:25:52.820
 between the

00:25:52.820 --> 00:25:53.280
 priests.

00:25:54.800 --> 00:25:55.540
 If you look at

00:25:55.540 --> 00:25:56.140
 verse 11,

00:25:57.780 --> 00:25:58.500
 every priest

00:25:58.500 --> 00:25:59.540
 stands

00:25:59.540 --> 00:26:00.700
 daily.

00:26:01.820 --> 00:26:02.340
 They're busy.

00:26:03.100 --> 00:26:04.300
 Busy offering

00:26:04.300 --> 00:26:05.880
 ineffective sacrifices.

00:26:07.300 --> 00:26:07.920
 But then when you

00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:08.740
 look down to

00:26:08.740 --> 00:26:09.540
 verse 12,

00:26:10.800 --> 00:26:11.540
 when Christ had

00:26:11.540 --> 00:26:12.300
 offered for all

00:26:12.300 --> 00:26:13.040
 time a single

00:26:13.040 --> 00:26:13.800
 sacrifice for

00:26:13.800 --> 00:26:14.220
 sins,

00:26:14.820 --> 00:26:15.460
 He sat

00:26:15.460 --> 00:26:16.620
 down

00:26:16.620 --> 00:26:18.100
 at the right

00:26:18.100 --> 00:26:18.480
 hand.

00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:19.740
 of God.

00:26:21.060 --> 00:26:22.060
 It's a reference

00:26:22.060 --> 00:26:22.860
 to Psalm 110

00:26:22.860 --> 00:26:23.700
 again.

00:26:25.220 --> 00:26:26.040
 He sat

00:26:26.040 --> 00:26:26.640
 down.

00:26:26.740 --> 00:26:27.240
 It's a picture

00:26:27.240 --> 00:26:28.680
 of being done.

00:26:28.780 --> 00:26:29.340
 Remember from the

00:26:29.340 --> 00:26:29.960
 cross, He said,

00:26:30.080 --> 00:26:30.980
 it is finished.

00:26:32.520 --> 00:26:33.480
 If you go back

00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:34.420
 to Hebrews 1,

00:26:35.420 --> 00:26:36.520
 we read this.

00:26:37.460 --> 00:26:37.920
 Verse 3,

00:26:38.040 --> 00:26:38.680
 after making

00:26:38.680 --> 00:26:39.780
 purification for

00:26:39.780 --> 00:26:40.260
 sins,

00:26:40.620 --> 00:26:41.820
 He sat down

00:26:41.820 --> 00:26:42.520
 at the right

00:26:42.520 --> 00:26:43.020
 hand of

00:26:43.020 --> 00:26:43.500
 majesty.

00:26:44.060 --> 00:26:44.540
 Work

00:26:44.540 --> 00:26:45.580
 finished.

00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:48.060
 One and done.

00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:49.720
 single.

00:26:51.440 --> 00:26:52.980
 Once for all.

00:26:53.320 --> 00:26:54.300
 For all time.

00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:55.320
 Done.

00:26:58.380 --> 00:26:59.980
 It's an amazing

00:26:59.980 --> 00:27:00.500
 work.

00:27:02.500 --> 00:27:03.980
 Through His death,

00:27:04.980 --> 00:27:06.080
 He has perfected

00:27:06.080 --> 00:27:06.900
 for all time

00:27:06.900 --> 00:27:09.100
 those who are

00:27:09.100 --> 00:27:10.120
 being sanctified.

00:27:10.119 --> 00:27:10.199
 God.

00:27:12.139 --> 00:27:12.959
 And now He

00:27:12.959 --> 00:27:13.419
 waits.

00:27:13.919 --> 00:27:14.699
 He's alive.

00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:16.579
 He's waiting

00:27:16.579 --> 00:27:17.739
 on His throne

00:27:17.739 --> 00:27:18.239
 and look at

00:27:18.239 --> 00:27:18.759
 verse 13.

00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:19.239
 Waiting from

00:27:19.239 --> 00:27:20.399
 that time

00:27:20.399 --> 00:27:20.859
 until His

00:27:20.859 --> 00:27:21.379
 enemies should

00:27:21.379 --> 00:27:21.899
 be made a

00:27:21.899 --> 00:27:22.579
 footstool for

00:27:22.579 --> 00:27:23.439
 His feet.

00:27:23.479 --> 00:27:23.879
 It's like a

00:27:23.879 --> 00:27:24.199
 picture of

00:27:24.199 --> 00:27:25.119
 Jesus lounging

00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:26.119
 with His feet

00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:27.279
 kicked up and

00:27:27.279 --> 00:27:28.059
 His enemies

00:27:28.059 --> 00:27:28.759
 are His

00:27:28.759 --> 00:27:29.359
 footstool.

00:27:29.479 --> 00:27:30.000
 It's a picture

00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:30.799
 of authority

00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:31.859
 and dominance

00:27:31.859 --> 00:27:33.899
 who are His

00:27:33.899 --> 00:27:34.299
 enemies.

00:27:34.759 --> 00:27:35.079
 Sin,

00:27:35.379 --> 00:27:35.679
 death,

00:27:35.919 --> 00:27:36.259
 devil.

00:27:37.299 --> 00:27:37.739
 We're one

00:27:37.739 --> 00:27:38.799
 day closer to

00:27:38.799 --> 00:27:39.139
 them being

00:27:39.139 --> 00:27:40.039
 eradicated.

00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:42.059
 Thrown down

00:27:42.059 --> 00:27:42.539
 forever.

00:27:44.940 --> 00:27:45.500
 And for a

00:27:45.500 --> 00:27:46.159
 church that

00:27:46.159 --> 00:27:46.980
 was originally

00:27:46.980 --> 00:27:47.859
 received this

00:27:47.859 --> 00:27:48.180
 who are

00:27:48.180 --> 00:27:48.879
 suffering for

00:27:48.879 --> 00:27:49.240
 Christ,

00:27:49.399 --> 00:27:50.019
 that would be

00:27:50.019 --> 00:27:51.019
 a huge assurance

00:27:51.019 --> 00:27:51.460
 for them.

00:27:52.139 --> 00:27:53.119
 That Christ

00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:54.680
 is in control.

00:27:55.619 --> 00:27:56.200
 He's not

00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:57.419
 standing,

00:27:58.019 --> 00:27:58.519
 wringing His

00:27:58.519 --> 00:27:59.259
 hands.

00:28:00.220 --> 00:28:00.960
 He's seated.

00:28:02.460 --> 00:28:03.019
 And one of the

00:28:03.019 --> 00:28:03.779
 things that He is

00:28:03.779 --> 00:28:04.599
 doing for us

00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:05.919
 as our

00:28:05.919 --> 00:28:06.500
 great high

00:28:06.500 --> 00:28:06.899
 priest.

00:28:07.019 --> 00:28:07.500
 And we know

00:28:07.500 --> 00:28:08.139
 this from

00:28:08.139 --> 00:28:08.980
 chapter 7

00:28:08.980 --> 00:28:09.740
 verse 25

00:28:09.740 --> 00:28:10.519
 is He's

00:28:10.519 --> 00:28:11.059
 interceding

00:28:11.059 --> 00:28:11.599
 for us.

00:28:12.919 --> 00:28:13.599
 That we

00:28:13.599 --> 00:28:14.219
 would live in

00:28:14.219 --> 00:28:14.519
 the good

00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:15.359
 things that He

00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:15.959
 has come and

00:28:15.959 --> 00:28:16.539
 established.

00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:18.299
 The fullness

00:28:18.299 --> 00:28:18.740
 of our

00:28:18.740 --> 00:28:19.240
 salvation.

00:28:26.159 --> 00:28:26.819
 If you

00:28:26.819 --> 00:28:27.319
 are

00:28:27.319 --> 00:28:32.759
 tending

00:28:32.759 --> 00:28:33.299
 towards

00:28:33.299 --> 00:28:34.140
 legalism,

00:28:35.140 --> 00:28:36.879
 what this

00:28:36.879 --> 00:28:37.640
 helps us

00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:38.220
 to see

00:28:38.220 --> 00:28:38.980
 is this.

00:28:40.599 --> 00:28:41.379
 You're

00:28:41.379 --> 00:28:42.700
 not your

00:28:42.700 --> 00:28:43.440
 own self

00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:43.980
 appointed

00:28:43.980 --> 00:28:45.759
 priest who

00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:46.720
 mediates his

00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:47.480
 or her

00:28:47.480 --> 00:28:48.460
 salvation

00:28:48.460 --> 00:28:50.039
 through your

00:28:50.039 --> 00:28:50.740
 own

00:28:50.740 --> 00:28:51.519
 offerings.

00:28:53.299 --> 00:28:53.839
 Christ

00:28:53.839 --> 00:28:54.920
 did that

00:28:54.920 --> 00:28:56.000
 once as

00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:56.379
 your high

00:28:56.379 --> 00:28:56.680
 priest.

00:28:58.480 --> 00:28:59.660
 Once for

00:28:59.660 --> 00:29:00.039
 all.

00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:01.119
 And now

00:29:01.119 --> 00:29:01.539
 He's bringing

00:29:01.539 --> 00:29:02.259
 it to bear in

00:29:02.259 --> 00:29:02.759
 our lives

00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:03.140
 from the

00:29:03.140 --> 00:29:03.559
 throne of

00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:03.940
 grace.

00:29:07.900 --> 00:29:08.680
 There is

00:29:08.680 --> 00:29:10.799
 no

00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:12.720
 service,

00:29:13.279 --> 00:29:13.660
 amount of

00:29:13.660 --> 00:29:14.119
 service you

00:29:14.119 --> 00:29:14.859
 can render.

00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:15.640
 There is

00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:17.500
 no amount

00:29:17.500 --> 00:29:18.160
 of offerings

00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:18.859
 you can

00:29:18.859 --> 00:29:19.339
 give.

00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:19.720
 There's

00:29:19.720 --> 00:29:21.240
 no end

00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:21.839
 to your

00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:22.440
 confessing

00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:22.879
 of your

00:29:22.879 --> 00:29:23.839
 sin that

00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:24.680
 will make

00:29:24.680 --> 00:29:25.519
 you

00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:27.339
 holy in

00:29:27.339 --> 00:29:27.660
 God's

00:29:27.660 --> 00:29:27.859
 sight.

00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:29.839
 It's only

00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:30.180
 through the

00:29:30.180 --> 00:29:30.440
 blood.

00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:31.820
 Christ's

00:29:31.820 --> 00:29:31.940
 blood.

00:29:32.019 --> 00:29:32.299
 He is

00:29:32.299 --> 00:29:32.840
 no

00:29:32.840 --> 00:29:34.120
 Sisyphus.

00:29:35.799 --> 00:29:36.200
 It's a

00:29:36.200 --> 00:29:36.920
 contrast between

00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:38.000
 the ineffective

00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:38.940
 feudal

00:29:38.940 --> 00:29:40.240
 offerings of

00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:40.799
 the old

00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:41.200
 covenant

00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:42.700
 and the

00:29:42.700 --> 00:29:43.380
 effective

00:29:43.380 --> 00:29:45.500
 and profitable

00:29:45.500 --> 00:29:46.900
 and fruitful

00:29:46.900 --> 00:29:47.840
 offering of

00:29:47.840 --> 00:29:48.200
 the one

00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:48.779
 time

00:29:48.779 --> 00:29:49.720
 all

00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:50.720
 once for

00:29:50.720 --> 00:29:51.519
 all sacrifice

00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:52.160
 of Christ.

00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:53.620
 He secured

00:29:53.620 --> 00:29:54.220
 our eternal

00:29:54.220 --> 00:29:54.640
 redemption.

00:29:54.640 --> 00:29:56.540
 And when

00:29:56.540 --> 00:29:56.940
 we get to

00:29:56.940 --> 00:29:57.640
 verse 14,

00:29:58.340 --> 00:29:59.060
 we read that

00:29:59.060 --> 00:29:59.540
 his once

00:29:59.540 --> 00:29:59.960
 for all

00:29:59.960 --> 00:30:00.759
 sacrifice,

00:30:01.620 --> 00:30:01.820
 well,

00:30:01.960 --> 00:30:02.840
 it took

00:30:02.840 --> 00:30:03.300
 away all

00:30:03.300 --> 00:30:03.560
 of our

00:30:03.560 --> 00:30:03.980
 sins.

00:30:04.120 --> 00:30:04.900
 It perfected

00:30:04.900 --> 00:30:05.380
 for all

00:30:05.380 --> 00:30:05.800
 time.

00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:06.740
 That's

00:30:06.740 --> 00:30:07.220
 flying in

00:30:07.220 --> 00:30:07.720
 the face

00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:08.100
 of

00:30:08.100 --> 00:30:08.920
 10-1.

00:30:09.780 --> 00:30:10.340
 These

00:30:10.340 --> 00:30:11.020
 animal

00:30:11.020 --> 00:30:11.660
 sacrifices

00:30:11.660 --> 00:30:12.400
 can never,

00:30:12.520 --> 00:30:12.800
 by the

00:30:12.800 --> 00:30:13.040
 same

00:30:13.040 --> 00:30:13.800
 sacrifices

00:30:13.800 --> 00:30:14.160
 that are

00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:14.540
 continually

00:30:14.540 --> 00:30:14.920
 offered

00:30:14.920 --> 00:30:15.440
 every year,

00:30:15.860 --> 00:30:16.520
 make perfect

00:30:16.520 --> 00:30:17.000
 those who

00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:17.480
 draw near.

00:30:18.060 --> 00:30:18.320
 Whose

00:30:18.320 --> 00:30:18.860
 sacrifice

00:30:18.860 --> 00:30:19.259
 can?

00:30:19.740 --> 00:30:20.620
 Christ's

00:30:20.620 --> 00:30:21.340
 has.

00:30:21.339 --> 00:30:23.359
 is

00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:23.799
 perfected

00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:24.119
 for all

00:30:24.119 --> 00:30:24.359
 time.

00:30:24.459 --> 00:30:24.599
 We're

00:30:24.599 --> 00:30:25.119
 completely,

00:30:25.419 --> 00:30:25.619
 utterly

00:30:25.619 --> 00:30:26.079
 forgiven

00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:26.619
 of our

00:30:26.619 --> 00:30:26.859
 sin.

00:30:26.939 --> 00:30:27.159
 If you

00:30:27.159 --> 00:30:27.500
 put your

00:30:27.500 --> 00:30:28.159
 faith in

00:30:28.159 --> 00:30:28.599
 Christ,

00:30:29.079 --> 00:30:29.579
 you are

00:30:29.579 --> 00:30:31.399
 forever

00:30:31.399 --> 00:30:32.639
 forgiven

00:30:32.639 --> 00:30:33.599
 of your

00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:34.099
 sin.

00:30:35.579 --> 00:30:36.359
 And we

00:30:36.359 --> 00:30:36.980
 are now

00:30:36.980 --> 00:30:37.439
 being

00:30:37.439 --> 00:30:38.119
 sanctified.

00:30:38.299 --> 00:30:38.799
 This one

00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:39.439
 verse holds

00:30:39.439 --> 00:30:40.000
 two things

00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:40.439
 at the same

00:30:40.439 --> 00:30:40.779
 time.

00:30:41.299 --> 00:30:41.439
 Your

00:30:41.439 --> 00:30:42.079
 position

00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:43.559
 as being

00:30:43.559 --> 00:30:44.720
 kind of

00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:45.099
 brought into

00:30:45.099 --> 00:30:45.879
 right standing

00:30:45.879 --> 00:30:46.539
 with God,

00:30:46.639 --> 00:30:46.919
 you've been

00:30:46.919 --> 00:30:47.539
 perfected,

00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:47.899
 you've been

00:30:47.899 --> 00:30:48.519
 sanctified,

00:30:48.959 --> 00:30:49.439
 we'll often

00:30:49.439 --> 00:30:49.839
 use the

00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:50.419
 word

00:30:50.419 --> 00:30:51.220
 justified,

00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:52.299
 you're in

00:30:52.299 --> 00:30:52.939
 right standing

00:30:52.939 --> 00:30:53.559
 with God,

00:30:53.879 --> 00:30:54.399
 and at the

00:30:54.399 --> 00:30:54.859
 same time,

00:30:54.939 --> 00:30:55.159
 we are

00:30:55.159 --> 00:30:55.839
 being

00:30:55.839 --> 00:30:56.599
 sanctified,

00:30:56.919 --> 00:30:57.279
 we are

00:30:57.279 --> 00:30:57.839
 being

00:30:57.839 --> 00:30:58.619
 transformed,

00:30:59.259 --> 00:30:59.679
 we are

00:30:59.679 --> 00:31:00.119
 being

00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:00.919
 conformed

00:31:00.919 --> 00:31:01.319
 into the

00:31:01.319 --> 00:31:01.759
 image of

00:31:01.759 --> 00:31:02.119
 Christ.

00:31:02.519 --> 00:31:02.859
 In chapter

00:31:02.859 --> 00:31:03.220
 12,

00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:03.679
 we will be

00:31:03.679 --> 00:31:04.480
 sharing more

00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:04.819
 and more

00:31:04.819 --> 00:31:05.159
 in the

00:31:05.159 --> 00:31:05.419
 holiness

00:31:05.419 --> 00:31:05.939
 of God.

00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:08.839
 Both

00:31:08.839 --> 00:31:09.359
 are true.

00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:12.139
 And it's

00:31:12.139 --> 00:31:12.639
 because of

00:31:12.639 --> 00:31:13.779
 this once

00:31:13.779 --> 00:31:14.339
 for all

00:31:14.339 --> 00:31:14.939
 sacrifice

00:31:14.939 --> 00:31:15.799
 that set

00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:16.119
 it into

00:31:16.119 --> 00:31:16.459
 motion.

00:31:17.859 --> 00:31:18.000
 So

00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:18.759
 positionally,

00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:19.539
 we're

00:31:19.539 --> 00:31:20.799
 secure based

00:31:20.799 --> 00:31:21.759
 upon this

00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:22.879
 finished work

00:31:22.879 --> 00:31:23.359
 and

00:31:23.359 --> 00:31:24.599
 experientially,

00:31:24.819 --> 00:31:25.299
 we are

00:31:25.299 --> 00:31:25.779
 becoming

00:31:25.779 --> 00:31:26.639
 more and

00:31:26.639 --> 00:31:27.299
 more

00:31:27.299 --> 00:31:28.240
 holy

00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:29.299
 as God

00:31:29.299 --> 00:31:30.339
 is holy.

00:31:31.019 --> 00:31:31.299
 And you

00:31:31.299 --> 00:31:31.960
 can't confuse

00:31:31.960 --> 00:31:32.359
 the two.

00:31:33.639 --> 00:31:34.019
 You being

00:31:34.019 --> 00:31:34.919
 holy doesn't

00:31:34.919 --> 00:31:35.799
 make you

00:31:35.799 --> 00:31:37.240
 perfect.

00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:38.419
 God by

00:31:38.419 --> 00:31:38.799
 his grace

00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:39.299
 makes you

00:31:39.299 --> 00:31:39.919
 perfect through

00:31:39.919 --> 00:31:40.559
 Christ's death

00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:41.359
 and then he

00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:41.980
 makes you

00:31:41.980 --> 00:31:43.019
 experientially

00:31:43.019 --> 00:31:43.819
 holy.

00:31:45.059 --> 00:31:45.700
 This is

00:31:45.700 --> 00:31:46.159
 Christ's

00:31:46.159 --> 00:31:46.539
 superior

00:31:46.539 --> 00:31:47.019
 priesthood.

00:31:47.099 --> 00:31:47.539
 This is why

00:31:47.539 --> 00:31:47.720
 he's

00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:49.000
 interceding

00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:49.420
 for us

00:31:49.420 --> 00:31:49.960
 right now

00:31:49.960 --> 00:31:51.519
 from the

00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:51.859
 throne

00:31:51.859 --> 00:31:52.720
 of grace.

00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:54.539
 You're

00:31:54.539 --> 00:31:54.940
 not your

00:31:54.940 --> 00:31:55.380
 own

00:31:55.380 --> 00:31:56.740
 self-appointed

00:31:56.740 --> 00:31:57.259
 priest.

00:31:59.819 --> 00:32:00.480
 When it

00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:00.779
 comes to

00:32:00.779 --> 00:32:01.519
 your salvation,

00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:03.619
 when it

00:32:03.619 --> 00:32:03.900
 comes to

00:32:03.900 --> 00:32:04.319
 making you

00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:04.779
 perfect,

00:32:06.420 --> 00:32:07.819
 when it

00:32:07.819 --> 00:32:08.460
 comes to

00:32:08.460 --> 00:32:09.940
 taking away

00:32:09.940 --> 00:32:10.440
 all of

00:32:10.440 --> 00:32:11.180
 your sins,

00:32:11.759 --> 00:32:12.140
 Christ

00:32:12.140 --> 00:32:12.759
 offered

00:32:12.759 --> 00:32:13.319
 himself

00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:14.460
 for

00:32:14.460 --> 00:32:15.880
 your sins

00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:17.700
 once and

00:32:17.700 --> 00:32:18.500
 for all

00:32:18.500 --> 00:32:19.920
 and sat

00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:20.660
 down.

00:32:21.900 --> 00:32:22.560
 Done.

00:32:23.080 --> 00:32:23.620
 It is

00:32:23.620 --> 00:32:24.020
 finished.

00:32:25.140 --> 00:32:25.500
 So let me

00:32:25.500 --> 00:32:25.920
 just say it

00:32:25.920 --> 00:32:26.360
 this way.

00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:27.900
 Christian,

00:32:28.100 --> 00:32:28.400
 there is

00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:29.640
 absolutely

00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:30.960
 nothing you

00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:31.920
 can do

00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:33.600
 to add

00:32:33.600 --> 00:32:34.460
 to what

00:32:34.460 --> 00:32:34.940
 he has

00:32:34.940 --> 00:32:35.460
 done.

00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:37.120
 Nothing.

00:32:38.220 --> 00:32:38.800
 Nothing.

00:32:40.060 --> 00:32:40.980
 And now

00:32:40.980 --> 00:32:42.120
 he ever

00:32:42.120 --> 00:32:42.540
 lives

00:32:42.540 --> 00:32:43.760
 to make

00:32:43.760 --> 00:32:44.440
 intercession

00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:45.580
 for you.

00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:46.900
 What a

00:32:46.900 --> 00:32:47.660
 great high

00:32:47.660 --> 00:32:48.220
 priest we've

00:32:48.220 --> 00:32:48.440
 got.

00:32:49.820 --> 00:32:50.180
 In verses

00:32:50.180 --> 00:32:50.759
 15 through

00:32:50.759 --> 00:32:51.120
 18,

00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:52.700
 the writer

00:32:52.700 --> 00:32:53.220
 of Hebrews

00:32:53.220 --> 00:32:54.019
 comes full

00:32:54.019 --> 00:32:54.400
 circle.

00:32:55.259 --> 00:32:55.580
 He comes

00:32:55.580 --> 00:32:56.140
 back around

00:32:56.140 --> 00:32:57.039
 to quoting

00:32:57.039 --> 00:32:57.759
 from Jeremiah

00:32:57.759 --> 00:32:58.340
 31.

00:32:59.620 --> 00:33:00.519
 And after

00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:01.519
 quoting from

00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:02.480
 Jeremiah 31,

00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:04.019
 he says

00:33:04.019 --> 00:33:04.380
 this in

00:33:04.380 --> 00:33:05.039
 verse 18,

00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:05.620
 where there

00:33:05.620 --> 00:33:06.279
 is forgiveness

00:33:06.279 --> 00:33:07.100
 of these,

00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:08.640
 where there's

00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:09.299
 full forgiveness

00:33:09.299 --> 00:33:10.000
 of your sin,

00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:11.019
 where the new

00:33:11.019 --> 00:33:11.860
 covenant has

00:33:11.860 --> 00:33:12.420
 come,

00:33:12.779 --> 00:33:13.440
 where Christ's

00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:14.720
 once for

00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:15.259
 all,

00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:16.180
 for all

00:33:16.180 --> 00:33:16.660
 time,

00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:17.799
 sacrifice

00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:19.019
 has come

00:33:19.019 --> 00:33:19.740
 to bear

00:33:19.740 --> 00:33:20.160
 and it

00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:20.700
 has.

00:33:21.700 --> 00:33:22.220
 There is

00:33:22.220 --> 00:33:22.700
 no longer

00:33:22.700 --> 00:33:23.440
 any offering

00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:24.039
 for sin,

00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:25.680
 no need

00:33:25.680 --> 00:33:26.059
 for animal

00:33:26.059 --> 00:33:26.779
 sacrifice.

00:33:27.740 --> 00:33:28.340
 It's been

00:33:28.340 --> 00:33:28.900
 made obsolete.

00:33:31.140 --> 00:33:31.880
 So what this

00:33:31.880 --> 00:33:32.500
 means for us

00:33:32.500 --> 00:33:33.039
 is this,

00:33:33.820 --> 00:33:34.660
 we hold

00:33:34.660 --> 00:33:35.480
 fast

00:33:35.480 --> 00:33:36.360
 to Christ

00:33:36.360 --> 00:33:38.519
 and we

00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:38.960
 say good

00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:39.320
 riddance

00:33:39.320 --> 00:33:40.039
 to legalism.

00:33:40.039 --> 00:33:42.119
 there's no

00:33:42.119 --> 00:33:42.599
 hope in it.

00:33:43.639 --> 00:33:44.259
 There's no

00:33:44.259 --> 00:33:45.019
 salvation in it.

00:33:46.059 --> 00:33:46.839
 So what do

00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:47.299
 you do

00:33:47.299 --> 00:33:50.079
 when you

00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:50.700
 start seeing

00:33:50.700 --> 00:33:51.460
 legalistic

00:33:51.460 --> 00:33:52.220
 symptoms

00:33:52.220 --> 00:33:53.279
 start to

00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:53.740
 show up

00:33:53.740 --> 00:33:54.599
 in yourself,

00:33:55.379 --> 00:33:56.279
 whether that's

00:33:56.279 --> 00:33:56.980
 towards yourself

00:33:56.980 --> 00:33:57.519
 or maybe

00:33:57.519 --> 00:33:58.700
 towards others?

00:33:59.839 --> 00:34:00.440
 Maybe you

00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:01.039
 start

00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:02.079
 wondering

00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:03.659
 or fearing

00:34:03.659 --> 00:34:04.659
 that your

00:34:04.659 --> 00:34:05.579
 standing with

00:34:05.579 --> 00:34:06.379
 God is now

00:34:06.379 --> 00:34:07.180
 in jeopardy

00:34:07.180 --> 00:34:08.200
 because you

00:34:08.200 --> 00:34:08.659
 haven't had

00:34:08.659 --> 00:34:09.200
 your quiet

00:34:09.200 --> 00:34:09.820
 time in

00:34:09.820 --> 00:34:10.400
 three days

00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:11.639
 or you

00:34:11.639 --> 00:34:12.039
 haven't been

00:34:12.039 --> 00:34:12.880
 to church

00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:13.380
 in three

00:34:13.380 --> 00:34:13.860
 weeks

00:34:13.860 --> 00:34:16.059
 or maybe

00:34:16.059 --> 00:34:16.460
 because you

00:34:16.460 --> 00:34:17.159
 haven't confessed

00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:18.119
 your sin

00:34:18.119 --> 00:34:19.039
 recently

00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:20.940
 or maybe

00:34:20.940 --> 00:34:21.659
 it's just

00:34:21.659 --> 00:34:22.059
 because you

00:34:22.059 --> 00:34:22.579
 just don't

00:34:22.579 --> 00:34:23.059
 feel like

00:34:23.059 --> 00:34:23.619
 you're good

00:34:23.619 --> 00:34:24.019
 enough.

00:34:26.820 --> 00:34:27.760
 You take

00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:28.240
 your eyes

00:34:28.240 --> 00:34:28.920
 off yourself

00:34:28.920 --> 00:34:31.139
 and you

00:34:31.139 --> 00:34:32.000
 set your

00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:32.760
 eyes

00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:34.139
 on Christ

00:34:34.139 --> 00:34:35.460
 and you

00:34:35.460 --> 00:34:36.319
 hold fast

00:34:36.319 --> 00:34:37.219
 to Christ

00:34:37.219 --> 00:34:38.119
 his once

00:34:38.119 --> 00:34:38.619
 for all

00:34:38.619 --> 00:34:39.239
 sacrifice

00:34:39.239 --> 00:34:40.039
 and his

00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:40.719
 ongoing

00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:41.879
 interceding

00:34:41.879 --> 00:34:42.619
 priesthood

00:34:42.619 --> 00:34:43.579
 and you

00:34:43.579 --> 00:34:44.440
 say good

00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:44.920
 riddance

00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:45.440
 to these

00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:46.099
 legalistic

00:34:46.099 --> 00:34:46.599
 fears.

00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:50.039
 Would you

00:34:50.039 --> 00:34:50.539
 repeat after

00:34:50.539 --> 00:34:50.799
 me?

00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:53.259
 Christ is

00:34:53.259 --> 00:34:53.539
 my

00:34:53.539 --> 00:34:56.359
 risen

00:34:56.359 --> 00:34:56.879
 and reigning

00:34:56.879 --> 00:34:59.819
 priest

00:34:59.819 --> 00:35:00.339
 and king

00:35:00.339 --> 00:35:02.980
 the anchor

00:35:02.980 --> 00:35:03.779
 of my soul.

00:35:04.139 --> 00:35:06.819
 who now

00:35:06.819 --> 00:35:07.519
 intercedes

00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:08.119
 for me

00:35:08.119 --> 00:35:12.079
 the once

00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:13.019
 and for

00:35:13.019 --> 00:35:13.480
 all

00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:14.879
 sacrifice

00:35:14.879 --> 00:35:15.819
 for my

00:35:15.819 --> 00:35:16.239
 sins.

00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:23.279
 Knowing

00:35:23.279 --> 00:35:23.900
 that Jesus

00:35:23.900 --> 00:35:24.719
 is your

00:35:24.719 --> 00:35:25.440
 perfect

00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:26.019
 substitute

00:35:26.019 --> 00:35:26.940
 who has

00:35:26.940 --> 00:35:27.420
 paid for

00:35:27.420 --> 00:35:27.900
 all of

00:35:27.900 --> 00:35:28.639
 your sins

00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:30.519
 now you

00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:30.940
 read your

00:35:30.940 --> 00:35:31.440
 Bible with

00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:31.759
 joy.

00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:34.040
 now you

00:35:34.040 --> 00:35:34.400
 come to

00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:34.780
 church as

00:35:34.780 --> 00:35:35.260
 often as

00:35:35.260 --> 00:35:35.700
 you can.

00:35:37.200 --> 00:35:37.920
 Now you

00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:38.680
 confess your

00:35:38.680 --> 00:35:39.480
 sin whenever

00:35:39.480 --> 00:35:40.080
 the spirit

00:35:40.080 --> 00:35:40.840
 brings it to

00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:41.500
 your mind

00:35:41.500 --> 00:35:42.880
 and now you

00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:43.400
 do good

00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:44.000
 works

00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:45.320
 not because

00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:45.840
 you're earning

00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:46.580
 your salvation

00:35:46.580 --> 00:35:47.700
 because all

00:35:47.700 --> 00:35:48.260
 of these are

00:35:48.260 --> 00:35:49.440
 outworkings of

00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:50.100
 your salvation

00:35:50.100 --> 00:35:53.360
 and there is

00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:53.740
 joy

00:35:53.740 --> 00:35:55.920
 and at the

00:35:55.920 --> 00:35:56.460
 heart of it

00:35:56.460 --> 00:35:58.240
 is the

00:35:58.240 --> 00:35:59.000
 once and for

00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:00.120
 all sacrifice

00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:00.559
 of Jesus

00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:01.000
 Christ.

00:36:02.179 --> 00:36:03.039
 Let's pray.

00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:08.859
 Lord Jesus

00:36:08.859 --> 00:36:09.559
 we are so

00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:10.719
 grateful for

00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:11.239
 what you have

00:36:11.239 --> 00:36:11.980
 done and

00:36:11.980 --> 00:36:12.460
 what you are

00:36:12.460 --> 00:36:12.799
 doing.

00:36:14.139 --> 00:36:14.859
 Thank you

00:36:14.859 --> 00:36:15.299
 Lord Jesus

00:36:15.299 --> 00:36:16.039
 for bearing

00:36:16.039 --> 00:36:17.859
 the full

00:36:17.859 --> 00:36:18.440
 weight

00:36:18.440 --> 00:36:20.859
 of our

00:36:20.859 --> 00:36:21.719
 sin and

00:36:21.719 --> 00:36:22.900
 God's wrath

00:36:22.900 --> 00:36:23.980
 towards that

00:36:23.980 --> 00:36:24.359
 sin.

00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:26.339
 And thank you

00:36:26.339 --> 00:36:26.960
 that now

00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:28.119
 we get to

00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:28.739
 live for you

00:36:28.739 --> 00:36:29.299
 with a clear

00:36:29.299 --> 00:36:29.779
 conscience

00:36:29.779 --> 00:36:31.359
 and we

00:36:31.359 --> 00:36:32.619
 can make

00:36:32.619 --> 00:36:33.639
 much of

00:36:33.639 --> 00:36:34.059
 reading our

00:36:34.059 --> 00:36:35.059
 Bibles and

00:36:35.059 --> 00:36:36.259
 coming gathering

00:36:36.259 --> 00:36:36.859
 together on

00:36:36.859 --> 00:36:38.039
 Sundays and

00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:38.939
 confessing our

00:36:38.939 --> 00:36:39.699
 sins and

00:36:39.699 --> 00:36:40.199
 doing good

00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:41.399
 things because

00:36:41.399 --> 00:36:41.779
 we've been

00:36:41.779 --> 00:36:43.719
 freed of

00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:44.159
 thinking that

00:36:44.159 --> 00:36:44.899
 these somehow

00:36:44.899 --> 00:36:46.439
 make us

00:36:46.439 --> 00:36:47.459
 acceptable in

00:36:47.459 --> 00:36:48.039
 your sight.

00:36:50.379 --> 00:36:51.059
 Through

00:36:51.059 --> 00:36:51.879
 Christ's death

00:36:51.879 --> 00:36:52.539
 you have made

00:36:52.539 --> 00:36:53.399
 us acceptable

00:36:53.399 --> 00:36:54.439
 in your sight.

00:36:55.399 --> 00:36:56.059
 Thank you

00:36:56.059 --> 00:36:56.539
 Lord Jesus.

00:36:57.539 --> 00:36:57.779
 Amen.

00:36:58.739 --> 00:37:14.879
 Thank you so much for

00:37:14.879 --> 00:37:15.579
 coming from

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