WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:15.660 As we begin this morning, I simply want to reiterate on behalf of my family the thanks that we have towards you all as a church for your support of us as a family. 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:26.140 We have been enjoying the season of good health for my wife, and it's been a great blessing, and we want to give God the thanks and the glory for it. 00:00:26.140 --> 00:00:37.600 And I just want to, as I have opportunity to take the pulpit again in the morning for what has felt like a long time, I want to say to you how much it has meant to us. 00:00:38.179 --> 00:00:48.880 The number of you who have said we're praying, we're caring, the ways you have tangibly showed your support, and for us, it's been truly overwhelming. 00:00:49.140 --> 00:00:52.260 So I do just want to say thank you. 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:54.100 We are beginning. 00:00:54.659 --> 00:00:55.640 We are not beginning. 00:00:55.640 --> 00:01:01.079 We are continuing in our series in the book of Hebrews this morning. 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:06.439 And as I was thinking about the passage this morning, something came to mind. 00:01:06.540 --> 00:01:16.280 I have on my bookshelf a copy of Evidence That Demands a Verdict, Part 2, by Josh McDowell. 00:01:16.939 --> 00:01:18.799 Now, some of you may have heard of this book. 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:19.640 Some of you may not. 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:20.960 It was written in the 80s. 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:32.019 It was a compilation of some of the archaeological and other evidences to help support why we think the Bible is true, why some of its claims seem to be reasonable or supportable. 00:01:32.019 --> 00:01:33.679 And it's a good book. 00:01:33.879 --> 00:01:35.579 But that's not why it's important. 00:01:36.179 --> 00:01:41.359 The reason why it's important for us this morning is because every time I look at that book, I feel guilty. 00:01:41.359 --> 00:01:47.840 Because that book was given to me as a freshman in college in 1987. 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:50.019 It was actually loaned to me. 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:51.319 It was not given to me. 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:53.180 And that's why I feel guilty. 00:01:53.180 --> 00:02:07.820 Not only was it loaned to me as a freshman in college by a campus ministry worker, and that I've had it on my shelf, I have worked not only with this man, but with his daughter, who was on staff here at Yale for two years. 00:02:08.219 --> 00:02:11.620 I have had multiple opportunities to return this book. 00:02:11.620 --> 00:02:22.659 And every time I see it, I just feel a little ashamed that I still have this book that's not mine on my bookshelf. 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:31.319 Now, I don't know about you and whether there's evidence that demands a verdict part two on your bookshelf. 00:02:31.580 --> 00:02:34.400 But my guess is there's one in your heart. 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:50.140 I think all of us, if we are honest, could think back and think that there is something in our life, something we've done, something we have said, that we wish we hadn't. 00:02:51.040 --> 00:02:57.120 Something that we feel this surge of guilt in our hearts when we consider it. 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:11.700 Though maybe not in the same extreme way, we are like Lady Macbeth, walking around, looking at our hands and thinking, the stain of what we have done is on our hands and on our hearts. 00:03:11.699 --> 00:03:41.439 And if you're wondering whether that's a universal truth, fascinatingly, a professor down at something called the Christian Counseling and Education Foundation down in Philadelphia, which is a great biblical counseling program, a guy named Ed Welch, has his classes do an exercise every year where they go out and they just talk to someone. 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:48.639 Anyone, anyone, family members, Christian, non-Christian, church, non-church, do you struggle with feeling guilty in your life? 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:51.060 And do you know what he said? 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:57.960 85 percent, 85 percent of the people that his students talk to feel guilty. 00:03:59.740 --> 00:04:02.099 There are different kinds of guilt to be sure. 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:09.800 Sometimes there are guilt that's true because we know God and we know what he has said and we have disobeyed him. 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:23.360 There is also a guilt that we can sometimes feel when we have been a victim, when we have been the recipient of someone else's sin and yet it makes us feel dirty and we feel guilty about it. 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:33.960 There's a kind of guilt that we sometimes feel when we have disappointed someone else, whether what we've done is right or wrong. 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:49.639 And there's a kind of guilt that we feel simply because we're human and we haven't been able to save all the problems of global hunger and the threat of nuclear war and sex trafficking and on and on and on. 00:04:49.740 --> 00:04:55.039 That we haven't been able to solve all the problems of the world or maybe just in a smaller sense. 00:04:55.040 --> 00:05:03.980 There are times when we haven't been able to be the human being we ideally would want to be because of our own human limitations. 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:09.500 So there's guilt that we feel and some of it is more legitimate. 00:05:10.100 --> 00:05:11.740 Some of it is certainly legitimate. 00:05:11.960 --> 00:05:13.520 Some of it may not be legitimate. 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:18.279 But it's a well-worn path in our heart. 00:05:18.620 --> 00:05:19.500 I believe. 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:26.560 Our consciences are predisposed to guilt. 00:05:27.459 --> 00:05:28.879 It dogs us. 00:05:28.979 --> 00:05:30.439 We slide quickly into it. 00:05:30.979 --> 00:05:33.579 And we get out of it slower than molasses. 00:05:33.579 --> 00:05:46.019 We spend an inordinate amount of our time and energy and life seeking to explain or justify or overcome or atone for those things that we feel guilty about. 00:05:49.919 --> 00:05:52.959 If you're still not convinced yet, let me ask you one more question. 00:05:52.959 --> 00:06:12.599 If you found out today that someone is going to do a thorough background check, they were going to talk to all of your known associates, they were going to talk to your family members, they were going to talk to your high school boyfriends and girlfriends, they were going to talk to your elementary school pals who you ran around the woods with, or whatever it is. 00:06:12.740 --> 00:06:15.159 They were going to comb through your life. 00:06:16.899 --> 00:06:18.759 Would you be afraid of what they would find out? 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:29.379 What if not only could they talk to everyone, but they had been spying on you so they know what you were doing in private when no one else was looking? 00:06:33.339 --> 00:06:47.939 What if they had spiritual insight to be able to see into your heart and to know that whatever the facade you put forward, they could see into the very depths of how you thought, how you felt. 00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:53.099 In every circumstance of your life. 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:01.240 Guilt is a reality for many of us. 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:05.939 Question is, what do we do with it? 00:07:07.099 --> 00:07:10.240 And that, friends, brings us to our passage this morning. 00:07:13.180 --> 00:07:18.560 The writer of Hebrews has been building an argument for a while about the greatness of Christ. 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:28.680 And here in chapter 9, we come to a great piece of news about what Christ has done for us. 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:34.639 So if you want to turn in your pew Bibles, let me look it for you. 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:40.780 Pew Bibles, you can look on page 1006, Hebrews chapter 9. 00:07:41.180 --> 00:07:50.220 We're going to be looking at verses 11 through 14 this morning, but it's really a follow-up to verses 1 through 10 that Greg preached on last week. 00:07:50.220 --> 00:07:55.980 So I'm going to read chapter 9, 1 through 14, so we can see where we are going. 00:07:55.980 --> 00:08:05.060 Now, even the first covenant had regulations for worships and an earthly place of holiness. 00:08:05.060 --> 00:08:12.020 For the tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the presence. 00:08:12.540 --> 00:08:13.860 It is called the holy place. 00:08:14.020 --> 00:08:18.360 Behind the second curtain was a second section called the most holy place. 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:23.560 Having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:30.460 in which was a golden urn holding the manna and Aaron's staff that budded and the tablets of the covenant. 00:08:32.100 --> 00:08:35.980 Above it were the cherubim of the glory overshadowing the mercy seat. 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:38.680 Of these things we cannot now speak in detail. 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:44.019 These preparations having thus been made, the priests go regularly into the first section, 00:08:44.019 --> 00:08:49.659 performing their ritual duties, but into the second only the high priest goes, 00:08:49.659 --> 00:08:55.240 and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself 00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:57.919 and for the unintentional sins of the people. 00:08:58.779 --> 00:09:04.699 By this, the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet open, 00:09:05.019 --> 00:09:11.059 as long as the first section still is standing, which is symbolic for the present age. 00:09:11.059 --> 00:09:18.059 According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper, 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:23.059 but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed, 00:09:23.500 --> 00:09:25.799 until the time of reformation. 00:09:28.379 --> 00:09:33.939 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:40.259 then through the greater and more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, 00:09:40.259 --> 00:09:44.659 he entered once for all into the holy places, 00:09:45.419 --> 00:09:51.639 not by means of the blood of goats and calves, but by means of his own blood, 00:09:52.139 --> 00:09:54.679 thus securing an eternal redemption. 00:09:55.899 --> 00:10:01.360 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:04.539 sanctify for the purification of the flesh, 00:10:04.539 --> 00:10:13.039 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without blemish to God, 00:10:14.199 --> 00:10:22.139 purify our consciences, our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. 00:10:23.139 --> 00:10:24.339 Please pray with me. 00:10:24.340 --> 00:10:27.920 God, we thank you this morning. 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:30.740 We thank you for your word. 00:10:31.180 --> 00:10:37.560 You have not left us seeking and grasping to know you in our own finite and limited ways, 00:10:37.680 --> 00:10:39.740 but you have revealed yourself in your word, 00:10:39.980 --> 00:10:43.120 and you have taught us and you have shown us who you are. 00:10:44.280 --> 00:10:49.800 God, you have given us this word so that we might know the precious truths of who you are, 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:54.159 and so that we may know how precious, in fact, you are. 00:10:55.559 --> 00:11:01.539 God, we pray this morning that you would be with us as we look into your word. 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:05.379 May your Holy Spirit take this word and pierce our hearts with it. 00:11:06.939 --> 00:11:11.159 Reveal to us if there are wayward ways in us. 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:20.360 And Lord, point us, I pray, point us to the one, only, and certain hope that is in Christ. 00:11:21.559 --> 00:11:23.860 We pray these things in Jesus' name. 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:25.379 Amen. 00:11:27.659 --> 00:11:31.319 As we look at this section in the book of Hebrews, 00:11:31.819 --> 00:11:35.360 verses 1 through 10 of chapter 9 have set up the antithesis, 00:11:35.500 --> 00:11:38.620 the old ways of God's revelation, 00:11:38.620 --> 00:11:41.679 how he had said this is in the old covenant, how it was going to work. 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:47.460 And then in verse 11 and following, we finally see him come to the new way. 00:11:47.539 --> 00:11:50.740 And he said, this is Christ's work for you. 00:11:52.060 --> 00:11:56.820 And in fact, as you look at it, you see that verses 11 and 12 are introductory in some ways 00:11:56.820 --> 00:11:59.580 to the whole rest of chapter 9. 00:11:59.960 --> 00:12:05.620 The richness of the vocabulary pulls the threads from the different sections 00:12:05.620 --> 00:12:10.580 of actually even looking back to chapter 7 and 8 and looking ahead to chapter 10. 00:12:10.580 --> 00:12:13.379 The weave of this book is a beautiful one. 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:18.679 And verses 11 and 12 are kind of an introductory launching statement 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:22.580 that has all these rich images that he doesn't explain. 00:12:22.700 --> 00:12:26.799 He just uses to explain what Christ has done. 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:32.740 And then 13 and 14 describe the effect of what Christ has done in a very particular 00:12:32.740 --> 00:12:37.959 and powerful way for us as we think about the problem of guilt in our lives. 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:41.719 And so, what we're going to do is we're going to look at this. 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:45.679 We're going to look first at the context of Christ's work. 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:49.359 Then we're going to look at the crux of the center of Christ's work. 00:12:49.439 --> 00:12:53.799 And then we're going to look at the cleansing consequence of Christ's work. 00:12:53.799 --> 00:12:55.359 So, there are your C's for today. 00:12:55.479 --> 00:12:56.819 If you like them, you can write them down. 00:12:57.319 --> 00:13:03.699 So, the context, the center crux, and the cleansing consequence of Christ's work. 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:08.039 So, first, look with me at verses 1 through 10 again. 00:13:08.359 --> 00:13:10.139 Pastor Greg preached on this last week. 00:13:10.579 --> 00:13:15.959 He pointed out how the tabernacle was a part of a broader theology about access to God 00:13:15.959 --> 00:13:22.000 and living in fellowship with God and enjoying life that comes from God 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:26.799 that starts all the way back before the earthly tabernacle in the desert. 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:31.879 It starts all the way back in the Garden of Eden and extends all the way to the new heavens 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:33.100 and the new earth in Revelation. 00:13:33.539 --> 00:13:35.519 And what a glorious picture it was. 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:41.139 But, just in case you don't remember, verses 1 through 10 are meant to say 00:13:41.139 --> 00:13:47.000 that the earthly tabernacle that God instructed Moses and the Israelites in the Old Testament 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:51.620 to put up was not the end goal. 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:57.120 And it was never able to bring us into that fellowship with God. 00:13:57.220 --> 00:14:04.980 In fact, its whole point was rather to expose our need and to expose our weakness. 00:14:05.860 --> 00:14:08.279 Do you remember how it said, verses 1 through 5? 00:14:08.440 --> 00:14:09.820 There are these two sections. 00:14:09.940 --> 00:14:11.840 A first section and a second section. 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:19.759 And the reason why there are sections is because God needed to teach the people 00:14:19.759 --> 00:14:26.660 that you cannot just walk up to the holy God of the universe with impunity. 00:14:27.180 --> 00:14:29.060 That you cannot approach Him. 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:31.360 He is like a consuming fire. 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:38.120 And if you come to Him with impurity, you will face the fire of His judgment. 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:41.840 And that's the whole point of the tabernacle. 00:14:42.179 --> 00:14:44.179 That's the whole point of the sacrifices. 00:14:44.879 --> 00:14:52.560 Sacrifices were offered again and again to remind the people of the severity of their sin. 00:14:53.179 --> 00:14:56.560 That they could not blithely walk into the presence of God. 00:14:56.659 --> 00:15:01.820 But they had to deal with the fact that their sin was an offense to God. 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:08.060 And in fact, that offense was so great that the punishment for it was death. 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:12.240 And so blood had to be shed. 00:15:12.620 --> 00:15:16.820 And so when you go back and you read Exodus and Leviticus and Numbers, 00:15:16.899 --> 00:15:20.799 you read the regulations of what happened in the tabernacle. 00:15:21.179 --> 00:15:24.299 There is so much blood shed. 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:29.399 And it's kind of gross to us today. 00:15:30.100 --> 00:15:35.200 We've sort of become desensitized to blood on one hand, and so we love pulp fiction. 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:41.020 And yet on the other hand, we think it's gross and has no place in religion. 00:15:41.820 --> 00:15:43.280 That that's an old idea. 00:15:43.900 --> 00:15:52.360 But in fact, the seriousness of the offense of sin is the purpose of all that blood. 00:15:53.720 --> 00:15:55.120 It's to show us. 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:57.480 It's to show us. 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:01.639 That our sin is really offensive to God. 00:16:02.899 --> 00:16:10.600 It's to show us what the Apostle Paul put so clearly in Romans. 00:16:12.179 --> 00:16:15.259 That there is no one righteous, not one. 00:16:15.860 --> 00:16:19.759 That all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:23.799 And that the wages of sin is death. 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:28.480 And that's the whole point of the tabernacle in some ways. 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:32.580 It's simply to say, look, this is how bad it is. 00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:34.980 And you need a Savior. 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:42.139 You need something outside of yourselves to help you so that you can approach God. 00:16:42.139 --> 00:16:55.059 Now, the other part that I want you to see is that the tabernacle was given as a gracious teaching tool. 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:58.519 Because God knows that we wouldn't get this on our own. 00:16:59.039 --> 00:17:01.199 God knows that we wouldn't just figure it out. 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:09.440 And so God gives us this tabernacle to teach us, to show us, to prepare us for how he would then come. 00:17:10.380 --> 00:17:15.779 How he would then come and work to address our need. 00:17:18.500 --> 00:17:20.960 Because we are stained with sin. 00:17:21.220 --> 00:17:25.259 And so we do, in fact, stand guilty before God. 00:17:25.259 --> 00:17:32.400 And whether the particular ways that our guilt works its way through our conscience and into our lives. 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:35.339 Some legitimate, maybe some not legitimate. 00:17:35.799 --> 00:17:38.660 It wells up so easily in our hearts. 00:17:38.700 --> 00:17:42.059 Because, in fact, we all stand before God. 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:43.879 Guilty before him. 00:17:45.220 --> 00:17:46.460 We all know this, right? 00:17:46.500 --> 00:17:47.519 Well, nobody's perfect. 00:17:48.579 --> 00:17:49.299 Exactly. 00:17:49.299 --> 00:18:00.359 And yet the God of the Bible is a perfect, majestic, glorious, beautiful, righteous God. 00:18:00.579 --> 00:18:03.079 Who has never done anything wrong. 00:18:04.220 --> 00:18:07.240 And who hates evil in all of its forms. 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:20.160 And because we are not perfect, we cannot blithely walk up to him and expect to be embraced. 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:26.640 That is the point of verses 1 through 10. 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:36.100 And it sets up, then, the glorious three-letter word, but. 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:37.360 Verse 11. 00:18:37.460 --> 00:18:39.280 Look with me at verse 11 again, right? 00:18:39.940 --> 00:18:41.500 Do you see what I, do you see it there? 00:18:43.740 --> 00:18:44.220 But. 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:50.080 It's coming right after he says, these things can't accomplish it. 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:56.259 They can't, as long as the two sections of the temple still stand, we don't have access to God. 00:18:56.259 --> 00:19:01.660 As long as the sacrifices keep needing to be offered, they can't cleanse our conscience. 00:19:03.460 --> 00:19:03.940 But. 00:19:05.900 --> 00:19:06.920 Let's read it again. 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:09.000 But when Christ appeared. 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:10.980 As a high priest. 00:19:11.059 --> 00:19:13.000 Remember what we've learned in chapter 7 and 8? 00:19:13.220 --> 00:19:16.900 About a high priest who would come, who would stand between us and God. 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:22.039 When Christ appeared as a high priest. 00:19:22.099 --> 00:19:23.299 Of the good things to come. 00:19:23.539 --> 00:19:24.539 Remember chapter 8? 00:19:24.539 --> 00:19:27.420 Remember what Reese preached about the promise of the new covenant? 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:29.839 How God would write the law on our hearts. 00:19:30.019 --> 00:19:31.960 And give us a new heart and a new law. 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:34.319 Remember what we read this morning in Ezekiel. 00:19:34.399 --> 00:19:38.819 About how this new promises of Christ will come and restore all things. 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:39.720 And make things new. 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:42.039 And wash our hearts clean. 00:19:42.639 --> 00:19:45.519 And give us hearts of flesh instead of hearts of stone. 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:50.819 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come. 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:53.799 Then through a greater and more perfect tent. 00:19:53.859 --> 00:19:56.799 Not made with hands that is not of this creation. 00:19:57.180 --> 00:20:00.160 Do you remember Nick preached on this way back in chapter 8? 00:20:00.420 --> 00:20:03.900 How having a heavenly temple is better than having an earthly one? 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:09.500 Because in heaven he can actually do the spiritual work that needs to be done before God. 00:20:09.500 --> 00:20:14.380 Where on the earth all we were doing was dealing with the outside. 00:20:14.380 --> 00:20:19.200 But now Christ has gone into a heavenly tent. 00:20:19.280 --> 00:20:24.080 So that he can deal with the eternal and internal realities of the human soul. 00:20:24.660 --> 00:20:28.320 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come. 00:20:28.700 --> 00:20:30.780 Then through the greater and more perfect tent. 00:20:30.900 --> 00:20:33.680 Not made with hands that is not of this creation. 00:20:34.300 --> 00:20:35.360 And this is his work. 00:20:35.480 --> 00:20:36.320 Listen to it carefully. 00:20:36.760 --> 00:20:40.840 He entered once for all into the holy places. 00:20:41.340 --> 00:20:42.540 I'm going to skip for a second. 00:20:42.539 --> 00:20:44.940 By means of his own blood. 00:20:45.460 --> 00:20:48.740 Thus securing for us an eternal redemption. 00:20:49.899 --> 00:20:52.740 This is what Christ has done for us. 00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:56.259 He has walked into the throne room of God. 00:20:56.259 --> 00:21:03.119 And he has faced the perfect and ferocious fire of God's judgment. 00:21:04.019 --> 00:21:05.259 And he has taken. 00:21:06.200 --> 00:21:09.899 He has gone in there by means of his own blood. 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:12.039 Thus securing for us. 00:21:12.539 --> 00:21:13.700 An eternal redemption. 00:21:16.659 --> 00:21:18.859 What in the world does that mean? 00:21:19.799 --> 00:21:22.180 Those are great spiritual words, aren't they? 00:21:22.220 --> 00:21:23.599 That we talk about and banding about. 00:21:23.779 --> 00:21:25.139 What does that mean? 00:21:27.220 --> 00:21:32.799 Well, the once for all I'm going to leave for the guys who are preaching the next couple of weeks. 00:21:32.899 --> 00:21:34.240 Because it's coming up really well. 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:37.299 And even the contrast. 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:43.700 He said it talks about not by the blood of goats and of bulls. 00:21:44.099 --> 00:21:46.779 That's referring to Leviticus 16. 00:21:47.059 --> 00:21:49.660 And in the Old Testament there was a day of atonement. 00:21:49.740 --> 00:21:53.039 The one day of the year when the high priest would go into the Holy of Holies. 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:54.859 He would bring an offering for himself. 00:21:54.980 --> 00:21:56.640 He would bring an offering for the people. 00:21:56.640 --> 00:21:58.500 Once a year. 00:21:58.920 --> 00:22:01.140 To cover over their unintentional sins. 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:04.160 And he did it over and over again. 00:22:05.220 --> 00:22:07.380 And as we saw in verses 9 and 10. 00:22:07.700 --> 00:22:12.560 It could only bring provisional standing before God. 00:22:12.759 --> 00:22:16.240 It could only deal with the external ritual impurity. 00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:19.299 It could never get to our hearts and change it. 00:22:20.279 --> 00:22:22.039 But now Christ comes. 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:26.880 And Christ as a greater high priest goes into a greater tabernacle. 00:22:27.900 --> 00:22:29.700 With a greater offering. 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:33.180 By means of his own blood. 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:36.180 Christ offers not bulls and goats. 00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:39.079 But he offers his very life. 00:22:42.099 --> 00:22:44.779 He's referring to Jesus' death on the cross. 00:22:44.779 --> 00:22:46.019 When he says this. 00:22:46.240 --> 00:22:47.500 That Jesus came. 00:22:47.859 --> 00:22:48.579 And he offered. 00:22:49.839 --> 00:22:51.039 His death. 00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:55.079 On behalf of ours. 00:22:56.319 --> 00:22:57.220 His life. 00:22:57.720 --> 00:22:58.720 For our life. 00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:00.339 The great exchange. 00:23:00.759 --> 00:23:01.839 We who are sinful. 00:23:02.519 --> 00:23:05.900 Are given Christ's perfectly righteous life. 00:23:05.980 --> 00:23:07.140 And his perfect obedience. 00:23:08.660 --> 00:23:10.079 He who is perfectly. 00:23:10.579 --> 00:23:11.920 Without sin. 00:23:12.140 --> 00:23:13.599 And righteous in every way. 00:23:13.779 --> 00:23:14.599 Takes on. 00:23:14.599 --> 00:23:16.399 All of our guilt. 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:20.059 All of the punishment. 00:23:21.339 --> 00:23:22.740 The right punishment. 00:23:22.939 --> 00:23:23.659 That God. 00:23:24.579 --> 00:23:26.659 Has stored up against sin. 00:23:27.619 --> 00:23:28.159 Christ. 00:23:28.219 --> 00:23:29.000 Takes it. 00:23:29.339 --> 00:23:30.319 Upon himself. 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:31.579 He stands in our place. 00:23:31.579 --> 00:23:32.539 He stands in our place. 00:23:32.539 --> 00:23:33.480 As a substitute. 00:23:33.480 --> 00:23:34.899 That only he could do. 00:23:34.899 --> 00:23:38.019 Because bulls and goats are not human beings. 00:23:38.019 --> 00:23:39.240 They are not souls. 00:23:39.240 --> 00:23:40.899 And they cannot sin against God. 00:23:40.899 --> 00:23:41.919 The way humans can. 00:23:41.919 --> 00:23:44.519 Therefore they cannot be a substitute. 00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:47.119 Only a human being. 00:23:47.119 --> 00:23:50.299 Could substitute for another human being. 00:23:50.299 --> 00:23:52.779 But only a sinful substitute. 00:23:52.779 --> 00:23:54.859 Only a sinless substitute. 00:23:54.859 --> 00:23:55.579 Could work. 00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:58.539 Because human beings all need to die for their own sins. 00:23:59.039 --> 00:23:59.940 So Christ. 00:24:00.159 --> 00:24:01.059 Walks in. 00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:03.079 With his own blood. 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:05.000 As the only person. 00:24:05.240 --> 00:24:05.619 Ever. 00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:06.599 Who could make. 00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:08.839 The offering necessary. 00:24:09.559 --> 00:24:11.460 To satisfy God's wrath. 00:24:12.519 --> 00:24:13.559 And to make a way. 00:24:13.559 --> 00:24:16.500 To make a way for us. 00:24:16.559 --> 00:24:19.000 To go back into the very presence of God. 00:24:19.240 --> 00:24:21.399 A way into the holy of holies. 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:24.240 Christ goes before us. 00:24:24.240 --> 00:24:25.099 As a holy. 00:24:25.339 --> 00:24:26.419 As a high priest. 00:24:26.559 --> 00:24:28.000 So that we can go in. 00:24:28.339 --> 00:24:29.299 After him. 00:24:30.339 --> 00:24:33.059 And draw near to God. 00:24:36.039 --> 00:24:37.519 This is the work of Christ. 00:24:37.639 --> 00:24:39.899 And it secures an eternal redemption. 00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:42.259 Redemption is when you buy something back. 00:24:42.339 --> 00:24:42.519 Right? 00:24:42.519 --> 00:24:44.240 You can redeem your bottles. 00:24:44.500 --> 00:24:45.859 The people buy it back. 00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:46.799 You get five cents. 00:24:47.319 --> 00:24:47.500 Right? 00:24:47.960 --> 00:24:48.440 Christ. 00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:51.000 Pays an unimaginable price. 00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:52.579 Of his very own life. 00:24:54.339 --> 00:24:56.019 To purchase us back. 00:24:56.759 --> 00:24:57.759 From the guilt. 00:24:58.319 --> 00:24:59.059 And the stain. 00:24:59.680 --> 00:25:00.460 And the punishment. 00:25:01.079 --> 00:25:01.619 Of sin. 00:25:03.980 --> 00:25:04.500 This. 00:25:05.059 --> 00:25:07.200 Is the act of Christ for us. 00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:08.539 This is the crux. 00:25:09.879 --> 00:25:11.200 Of Christ's work. 00:25:12.519 --> 00:25:18.700 One more observation. 00:25:18.700 --> 00:25:20.559 On verses 11 and 12. 00:25:20.559 --> 00:25:21.920 Before we go on to 13. 00:25:23.139 --> 00:25:23.579 No. 00:25:23.819 --> 00:25:26.160 This is an observation from 13 and 14. 00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:28.279 But one more observation about his work. 00:25:28.960 --> 00:25:29.519 And that is that. 00:25:29.599 --> 00:25:30.139 Do you see? 00:25:30.299 --> 00:25:31.960 Look with me in verse 14. 00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:35.720 How much more will the blood of Christ. 00:25:35.720 --> 00:25:37.440 Who through the eternal spirit. 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:39.740 Offered himself without blemish to God. 00:25:40.620 --> 00:25:41.220 Friends. 00:25:41.319 --> 00:25:42.400 If you ever wondered. 00:25:42.500 --> 00:25:45.180 Whether Jesus' sacrifice was unwilling. 00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:46.680 If you ever wondered. 00:25:46.680 --> 00:25:49.100 That Jesus was somehow duped by God. 00:25:49.360 --> 00:25:50.579 Into doing something. 00:25:50.579 --> 00:25:52.039 That he didn't think would happen. 00:25:52.299 --> 00:25:53.380 If you ever thought. 00:25:53.559 --> 00:25:55.079 That God had not planned this. 00:25:55.200 --> 00:25:56.319 From all eternity. 00:25:56.319 --> 00:25:59.559 This passage reminds us. 00:26:00.339 --> 00:26:01.679 That it is in fact. 00:26:01.779 --> 00:26:03.179 The three persons of the Trinity. 00:26:03.339 --> 00:26:04.980 The Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 00:26:05.099 --> 00:26:06.200 Working in concert. 00:26:06.399 --> 00:26:08.319 From before the beginning of time. 00:26:08.919 --> 00:26:10.779 To plan this great redemption. 00:26:11.379 --> 00:26:14.159 To plan this great salvation for us. 00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:20.259 As we've read in the book of Hebrews. 00:26:20.779 --> 00:26:22.160 If you go back to chapter 2. 00:26:22.259 --> 00:26:22.779 Do you remember? 00:26:23.340 --> 00:26:24.420 How should we survive. 00:26:24.759 --> 00:26:25.880 If we neglect. 00:26:26.620 --> 00:26:28.140 Such a great salvation. 00:26:30.779 --> 00:26:32.740 I'm not expounding on this more. 00:26:32.740 --> 00:26:34.200 Because this is exactly. 00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:35.300 What we'll be preaching on. 00:26:35.420 --> 00:26:36.800 For the next three or four weeks. 00:26:37.360 --> 00:26:38.779 More and more of the specifics. 00:26:38.779 --> 00:26:40.720 Of how the blood of Christ works. 00:26:41.180 --> 00:26:42.680 How it is that it is an offering. 00:26:42.680 --> 00:26:44.960 That establishes this eternal redemption. 00:26:47.740 --> 00:26:49.120 So I want to move on. 00:26:49.539 --> 00:26:50.580 And focus again. 00:26:50.640 --> 00:26:52.440 On the end of verse 14. 00:26:53.160 --> 00:26:55.160 I want to talk about the consequences. 00:26:56.080 --> 00:26:57.259 Of Christ's work. 00:26:58.320 --> 00:26:59.400 The cleansing. 00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:01.000 Power. 00:27:01.400 --> 00:27:02.200 Of his work. 00:27:02.779 --> 00:27:03.860 For us. 00:27:05.160 --> 00:27:05.940 Look with me. 00:27:06.019 --> 00:27:06.680 Verse 14. 00:27:09.740 --> 00:27:11.240 Let's read 13 and 14. 00:27:11.400 --> 00:27:12.360 Just to get the context. 00:27:12.359 --> 00:27:13.259 For if the blood. 00:27:13.259 --> 00:27:14.559 Of goats and bulls. 00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:16.199 And the sprinkling of defiled persons. 00:27:16.199 --> 00:27:17.579 With the ashes of a heifer. 00:27:18.139 --> 00:27:19.759 Sanctify for the purification. 00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:20.799 Of the flesh. 00:27:21.479 --> 00:27:22.599 How much more. 00:27:22.779 --> 00:27:23.819 Will the blood of Christ. 00:27:24.459 --> 00:27:25.799 Who through the eternal spirit. 00:27:26.059 --> 00:27:26.799 Offered himself. 00:27:26.959 --> 00:27:28.059 Without blemish to God. 00:27:28.179 --> 00:27:29.419 Purify our conscience. 00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:31.059 From dead works. 00:27:31.599 --> 00:27:32.399 To serve. 00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:33.899 The living God. 00:27:36.279 --> 00:27:36.879 First of all. 00:27:36.919 --> 00:27:38.059 I want you to see the contrast. 00:27:38.339 --> 00:27:39.539 I've been talking about it already. 00:27:39.539 --> 00:27:39.659 You. 00:27:39.980 --> 00:27:41.940 But the blood of bulls and goats. 00:27:42.940 --> 00:27:43.700 Leviticus 16. 00:27:43.700 --> 00:27:45.859 And the ashes of the red heifer. 00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:46.659 If you want to look it up. 00:27:46.759 --> 00:27:47.700 It's numbers. 00:27:47.940 --> 00:27:48.940 Chapter 19. 00:27:49.460 --> 00:27:51.059 It took a goat outside the camp. 00:27:51.159 --> 00:27:51.700 They burned it. 00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:52.619 They took the ashes. 00:27:52.980 --> 00:27:54.079 The ashes were stored. 00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:55.279 Whenever someone. 00:27:55.420 --> 00:27:56.399 Had made themselves. 00:27:56.639 --> 00:27:57.720 Richly impure. 00:27:57.920 --> 00:27:59.220 By touching a corpse. 00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:00.299 You could go. 00:28:00.379 --> 00:28:00.839 And the priest. 00:28:00.940 --> 00:28:01.680 Would take the ashes. 00:28:01.819 --> 00:28:02.740 And mix it with water. 00:28:02.940 --> 00:28:03.899 And spread it on you. 00:28:03.900 --> 00:28:04.660 It's an interesting. 00:28:05.240 --> 00:28:05.640 Picture. 00:28:05.780 --> 00:28:06.700 Given that Ash Wednesday. 00:28:06.840 --> 00:28:07.800 Was just a week ago. 00:28:07.800 --> 00:28:08.820 And the ashes. 00:28:08.820 --> 00:28:09.920 Would cover over. 00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:11.900 That ritual impurity. 00:28:12.060 --> 00:28:12.820 And allow a person. 00:28:12.940 --> 00:28:13.480 To reenter. 00:28:13.700 --> 00:28:14.500 Into temple worship. 00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:19.980 All of it is external. 00:28:21.060 --> 00:28:22.840 It can't get to your heart. 00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:26.539 But the good news is. 00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:27.879 That the blood of Christ. 00:28:29.779 --> 00:28:30.959 Purifies our conscience. 00:28:30.959 --> 00:28:32.240 From dead works. 00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:34.500 To serve. 00:28:34.899 --> 00:28:35.699 The living God. 00:28:36.819 --> 00:28:37.299 Friends. 00:28:37.419 --> 00:28:38.740 This is the good news. 00:28:39.740 --> 00:28:40.699 That the writer of Hebrews. 00:28:40.699 --> 00:28:42.639 Wants us to shout for joy. 00:28:42.759 --> 00:28:43.959 About this morning. 00:28:45.339 --> 00:28:46.740 That this is the work. 00:28:46.859 --> 00:28:47.740 That Christ has done. 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:49.240 So let's talk about it. 00:28:49.299 --> 00:28:49.879 For a little bit. 00:28:50.259 --> 00:28:50.899 First of all. 00:28:50.900 --> 00:28:52.940 He's purified us. 00:28:53.460 --> 00:28:55.060 This is a picture of cleansing. 00:28:55.460 --> 00:28:56.740 A picture of washing. 00:28:57.200 --> 00:28:58.120 A picture of. 00:28:58.240 --> 00:28:59.840 Of wiping away. 00:29:01.759 --> 00:29:03.660 It's not simply a picture. 00:29:03.660 --> 00:29:04.759 Of covering over. 00:29:05.100 --> 00:29:06.580 It's not simply a picture. 00:29:07.160 --> 00:29:07.460 Of. 00:29:07.700 --> 00:29:08.660 Of somehow. 00:29:09.259 --> 00:29:09.820 Obscuring. 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:11.160 So that we can't see. 00:29:11.340 --> 00:29:12.500 That it's still there. 00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:13.320 But somehow. 00:29:13.640 --> 00:29:13.800 It's. 00:29:13.920 --> 00:29:14.840 It's not as. 00:29:14.980 --> 00:29:15.320 As. 00:29:15.800 --> 00:29:16.320 Prominent. 00:29:16.519 --> 00:29:17.500 As it used to be. 00:29:18.860 --> 00:29:19.759 He says. 00:29:19.940 --> 00:29:20.800 How much more. 00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:21.940 Will the blood of Christ. 00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:23.039 Purify. 00:29:23.180 --> 00:29:24.079 Our conscience. 00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:26.319 Purify. 00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:27.220 Our inner. 00:29:28.220 --> 00:29:28.700 Being. 00:29:29.559 --> 00:29:30.339 Our sense. 00:29:30.339 --> 00:29:30.919 Of right. 00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:31.579 And wrong. 00:29:31.720 --> 00:29:32.440 The place. 00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:33.019 Where. 00:29:33.460 --> 00:29:34.220 God has put. 00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:34.720 In us. 00:29:34.859 --> 00:29:35.579 To know. 00:29:36.419 --> 00:29:37.119 What is right. 00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:37.700 And wrong. 00:29:37.919 --> 00:29:38.379 It is. 00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:39.039 In our very. 00:29:39.359 --> 00:29:39.839 Soul. 00:29:40.259 --> 00:29:40.879 That we. 00:29:41.539 --> 00:29:42.259 That our conscience. 00:29:42.579 --> 00:29:43.180 Dwells. 00:29:45.700 --> 00:29:46.579 And Christ. 00:29:46.659 --> 00:29:47.639 Gets into there. 00:29:47.640 --> 00:29:49.000 And he purifies. 00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:49.480 Us. 00:29:51.100 --> 00:29:51.520 One. 00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:51.920 By. 00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:52.759 Giving us. 00:29:52.759 --> 00:29:53.740 This new standing. 00:29:53.740 --> 00:29:54.540 That we're. 00:29:54.759 --> 00:29:55.520 This justification. 00:29:55.520 --> 00:29:56.600 That we'll continue. 00:29:56.600 --> 00:29:57.160 To explain. 00:29:57.500 --> 00:29:57.660 This. 00:29:57.900 --> 00:29:58.280 This place. 00:29:58.340 --> 00:29:58.860 Where we get. 00:29:58.980 --> 00:29:59.740 Christ's righteousness. 00:29:59.740 --> 00:30:00.560 And so we have. 00:30:00.700 --> 00:30:01.420 This new standing. 00:30:01.420 --> 00:30:02.720 But it's more than that. 00:30:02.780 --> 00:30:03.520 He purifies. 00:30:03.520 --> 00:30:04.340 Our conscience. 00:30:04.600 --> 00:30:05.680 He purifies. 00:30:05.680 --> 00:30:06.780 Our awareness. 00:30:06.780 --> 00:30:08.180 Of good and evil. 00:30:08.180 --> 00:30:09.759 He purifies. 00:30:09.759 --> 00:30:10.420 Us. 00:30:10.779 --> 00:30:11.560 By giving us. 00:30:11.580 --> 00:30:12.480 A new heart. 00:30:13.200 --> 00:30:14.420 So that we can. 00:30:14.920 --> 00:30:15.820 Not only know. 00:30:16.259 --> 00:30:17.340 Right and wrong. 00:30:17.460 --> 00:30:18.480 But we can love. 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:19.779 Right and wrong. 00:30:19.940 --> 00:30:20.660 And in fact. 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:22.500 We can begin to do. 00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:23.500 Right. 00:30:23.660 --> 00:30:24.920 In a way that we were never. 00:30:25.539 --> 00:30:26.240 Able to. 00:30:26.840 --> 00:30:27.299 Before. 00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:31.840 That conscience. 00:30:32.019 --> 00:30:32.759 Is burdened. 00:30:34.600 --> 00:30:35.080 By. 00:30:35.940 --> 00:30:36.779 Our dead. 00:30:37.220 --> 00:30:37.620 Works. 00:30:37.619 --> 00:30:38.739 What does this mean? 00:30:39.139 --> 00:30:39.719 Well if you go back. 00:30:39.719 --> 00:30:40.599 To chapter 6. 00:30:40.679 --> 00:30:41.139 Verse 1. 00:30:41.199 --> 00:30:41.899 It'll talk about. 00:30:42.179 --> 00:30:42.739 How repentance. 00:30:42.739 --> 00:30:43.559 From dead works. 00:30:43.559 --> 00:30:44.299 Is a part of. 00:30:45.119 --> 00:30:46.139 Basic Christianity. 00:30:47.239 --> 00:30:47.959 We ought not. 00:30:48.059 --> 00:30:49.000 To overthink it. 00:30:49.919 --> 00:30:51.079 It simply means. 00:30:51.079 --> 00:30:52.279 The works that we do. 00:30:52.479 --> 00:30:53.379 That lead to death. 00:30:53.699 --> 00:30:54.379 And that flow. 00:30:54.599 --> 00:30:55.679 From our spiritual death. 00:30:56.019 --> 00:30:56.799 It's a synonym. 00:30:56.959 --> 00:30:57.500 For sin. 00:30:59.879 --> 00:31:00.519 He's saying. 00:31:00.639 --> 00:31:01.399 That he purifies. 00:31:01.399 --> 00:31:02.199 Our conscience. 00:31:02.979 --> 00:31:04.099 From the presence. 00:31:04.219 --> 00:31:04.919 And the reality. 00:31:04.919 --> 00:31:05.619 Of sin. 00:31:05.779 --> 00:31:06.619 In our lives. 00:31:06.619 --> 00:31:08.959 Now. 00:31:09.139 --> 00:31:09.419 We know. 00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:10.919 That's not perfectly true. 00:31:11.059 --> 00:31:11.379 Right. 00:31:12.179 --> 00:31:13.159 For Christians. 00:31:13.299 --> 00:31:14.439 You can continue to sin. 00:31:14.500 --> 00:31:15.699 After you've known Christ. 00:31:16.599 --> 00:31:17.979 It will be one day. 00:31:18.779 --> 00:31:19.219 One day. 00:31:19.319 --> 00:31:20.899 Christ will finish this work. 00:31:21.199 --> 00:31:21.919 And we will be no. 00:31:22.139 --> 00:31:22.759 Longer. 00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:24.099 Able to sin. 00:31:25.139 --> 00:31:26.479 But even now. 00:31:26.919 --> 00:31:27.679 Christ has. 00:31:28.679 --> 00:31:29.319 Purified. 00:31:29.819 --> 00:31:31.019 Our conscience. 00:31:31.739 --> 00:31:32.679 From sin. 00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:33.740 That is. 00:31:35.299 --> 00:31:36.440 He has shown us. 00:31:36.440 --> 00:31:36.880 The things. 00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:38.160 That we are to repent of. 00:31:38.420 --> 00:31:39.279 He has shown us. 00:31:39.279 --> 00:31:39.759 The things. 00:31:39.759 --> 00:31:40.900 That we are to turn. 00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:42.480 To Christ's sufficient. 00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:43.279 Sacrifice. 00:31:43.400 --> 00:31:43.860 To cover. 00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:45.740 He has shown us. 00:31:45.740 --> 00:31:46.580 Those things. 00:31:49.779 --> 00:31:51.460 What a wonderful thing. 00:31:51.600 --> 00:31:52.500 It is. 00:31:53.180 --> 00:31:53.740 That that. 00:31:54.240 --> 00:31:55.000 Is true. 00:31:55.660 --> 00:31:56.700 That we are washed. 00:31:56.820 --> 00:31:57.200 Clean. 00:31:57.400 --> 00:31:58.100 Wiped away. 00:31:58.299 --> 00:31:59.019 And the stain. 00:31:59.460 --> 00:32:00.360 Is removed. 00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:02.279 Friends. 00:32:02.339 --> 00:32:03.279 I don't know about you. 00:32:03.359 --> 00:32:04.059 But I struggle. 00:32:04.199 --> 00:32:04.599 To believe. 00:32:04.699 --> 00:32:05.659 That's actually true. 00:32:07.939 --> 00:32:08.839 Every once in a while. 00:32:08.939 --> 00:32:09.899 I do our kids laundry. 00:32:11.039 --> 00:32:11.939 Not all the time. 00:32:12.219 --> 00:32:12.859 I'll confess. 00:32:13.379 --> 00:32:14.299 Every once in a while. 00:32:14.519 --> 00:32:15.539 I do our kids laundry. 00:32:16.339 --> 00:32:17.139 And our kids. 00:32:17.259 --> 00:32:17.919 Have more stains. 00:32:17.919 --> 00:32:18.719 On their clothes. 00:32:18.859 --> 00:32:20.019 Than you would ever believe. 00:32:20.199 --> 00:32:20.479 Well. 00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:21.279 Some of your parents. 00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:21.979 You would believe it. 00:32:21.979 --> 00:32:22.659 Because you've seen it. 00:32:24.979 --> 00:32:26.199 It is so hard. 00:32:26.199 --> 00:32:27.019 To keep a piece. 00:32:27.019 --> 00:32:27.619 Of clothing. 00:32:27.899 --> 00:32:28.299 Clean. 00:32:29.179 --> 00:32:30.119 From stain. 00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:31.979 And it's so hard. 00:32:32.059 --> 00:32:33.539 Once it's been stained. 00:32:33.699 --> 00:32:35.259 To try to get it out. 00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:37.579 My wife has magical tips. 00:32:37.879 --> 00:32:38.579 That she knows. 00:32:38.579 --> 00:32:40.059 About how to get rid of stains. 00:32:40.079 --> 00:32:41.119 And different things. 00:32:41.659 --> 00:32:42.719 But you know what? 00:32:44.839 --> 00:32:46.199 I kind of give up. 00:32:47.240 --> 00:32:48.119 Eli's five. 00:32:48.199 --> 00:32:50.079 He doesn't have to have a stainless shirt. 00:32:50.259 --> 00:32:51.259 He just needs a shirt. 00:32:51.500 --> 00:32:52.559 Something to keep him warm. 00:32:53.339 --> 00:32:54.279 I give up. 00:32:54.299 --> 00:32:55.779 Because I think it's impossible. 00:32:56.339 --> 00:32:58.579 To actually maintain the cleanliness. 00:32:58.579 --> 00:33:00.659 Of the clothes of a five-year-old. 00:33:03.199 --> 00:33:04.199 Sometimes I think. 00:33:04.919 --> 00:33:06.099 That's how I approach. 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:09.519 My relationship with God too. 00:33:10.299 --> 00:33:11.199 I just give up. 00:33:11.579 --> 00:33:12.799 I think it's not possible. 00:33:13.139 --> 00:33:13.980 It can't be true. 00:33:14.059 --> 00:33:14.740 That that's really. 00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:16.519 And I just become accustomed to it. 00:33:16.579 --> 00:33:17.419 I become accustomed. 00:33:17.740 --> 00:33:19.119 To having stained clothes. 00:33:19.199 --> 00:33:20.480 And having a stained conscience. 00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:22.379 I become accustomed. 00:33:22.379 --> 00:33:23.279 To my sin. 00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:28.099 I become accustomed. 00:33:28.099 --> 00:33:28.759 To guilt. 00:33:28.879 --> 00:33:30.819 Being a normal part of my life. 00:33:35.299 --> 00:33:36.039 But friends. 00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:36.920 What Christ has done. 00:33:37.019 --> 00:33:38.619 Is he's washed us clean. 00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:42.579 Which means that when we sin. 00:33:43.180 --> 00:33:44.440 We have a high priest. 00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:45.480 That we can turn to. 00:33:45.579 --> 00:33:46.139 For cleansing. 00:33:47.379 --> 00:33:48.579 And we have a place. 00:33:48.660 --> 00:33:49.460 That we can go. 00:33:49.460 --> 00:33:51.660 Repentance. 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:52.819 And faith. 00:33:52.900 --> 00:33:54.180 And trusting in Christ. 00:33:54.539 --> 00:33:55.920 Where those sins. 00:33:56.019 --> 00:33:56.880 Are washed away. 00:33:57.660 --> 00:33:59.340 And they're no longer ours. 00:34:04.620 --> 00:34:05.500 What are the things. 00:34:05.559 --> 00:34:07.059 That you struggle to believe. 00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:09.280 That God can actually do that. 00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:10.360 In your life. 00:34:10.699 --> 00:34:10.980 With. 00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:13.059 There are a couple of things. 00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:13.840 That I thought of. 00:34:15.059 --> 00:34:16.240 Things that I do. 00:34:16.579 --> 00:34:17.019 Recurrently. 00:34:17.019 --> 00:34:18.380 I know it's wrong. 00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:19.639 I don't want to do it. 00:34:20.380 --> 00:34:21.380 But I did it again. 00:34:24.259 --> 00:34:25.440 Sometimes we give up on that. 00:34:25.480 --> 00:34:26.039 And we just think. 00:34:26.179 --> 00:34:27.059 I don't want to do it. 00:34:27.099 --> 00:34:27.659 I know it's wrong. 00:34:27.719 --> 00:34:28.440 But I'm going to do it anyway. 00:34:28.539 --> 00:34:29.280 So I might as well do it. 00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:31.000 Right? 00:34:31.300 --> 00:34:32.159 I mean let's be honest. 00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:33.400 Sometimes we get there. 00:34:35.659 --> 00:34:37.400 Can Christ wash away. 00:34:38.840 --> 00:34:39.840 Those sins. 00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:44.619 How about the sins of omission. 00:34:44.739 --> 00:34:45.940 Rather than the sins of commission. 00:34:47.019 --> 00:34:48.039 How's your prayer life? 00:34:50.280 --> 00:34:50.679 Yeah. 00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:51.759 That's a terrible question. 00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:52.179 Isn't it? 00:34:53.179 --> 00:34:54.159 How's your prayer life? 00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:56.860 Do you feel guilty about your prayer life? 00:34:58.280 --> 00:34:58.880 I do. 00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:02.880 Do you feel guilty about not reading your Bible as much? 00:35:05.480 --> 00:35:06.900 Do you feel guilty about. 00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:09.539 How little you think of Christ during the day? 00:35:09.539 --> 00:35:14.559 Maybe some of you. 00:35:14.980 --> 00:35:17.079 There is a Lady Macbeth part of it. 00:35:17.659 --> 00:35:19.159 You've done something really terrible. 00:35:19.860 --> 00:35:20.779 And you just think. 00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:23.440 Christ can forgive all those sins of gossip. 00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:24.179 And lying. 00:35:24.460 --> 00:35:25.440 And you know. 00:35:26.119 --> 00:35:27.300 Just little things. 00:35:27.420 --> 00:35:28.699 But you don't know what I've done. 00:35:28.980 --> 00:35:30.000 It's so bad. 00:35:31.380 --> 00:35:32.500 Christ couldn't do it. 00:35:32.500 --> 00:35:39.539 We carry around the weight of guilt. 00:35:41.059 --> 00:35:41.480 Like. 00:35:41.619 --> 00:35:42.099 Like. 00:35:42.579 --> 00:35:43.699 Rodrigo Mendoza. 00:35:44.519 --> 00:35:45.679 Have you guys seen the mission? 00:35:45.940 --> 00:35:46.880 It's old now. 00:35:47.260 --> 00:35:48.019 I'm getting older. 00:35:48.119 --> 00:35:49.980 My movie illustrations are getting more. 00:35:50.199 --> 00:35:50.920 Out of date. 00:35:51.380 --> 00:35:52.559 But if you haven't seen it. 00:35:52.619 --> 00:35:53.679 It was award winning. 00:35:54.800 --> 00:35:55.559 Oscar winning. 00:35:55.679 --> 00:35:56.900 It was a great movie. 00:35:56.900 --> 00:35:59.820 Robert De Niro plays Rodrigo Mendoza. 00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:00.740 Who is a. 00:36:03.079 --> 00:36:03.800 Conquistador. 00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:06.760 Who captures. 00:36:07.059 --> 00:36:08.420 South American natives. 00:36:08.539 --> 00:36:10.160 And sells them into slavery. 00:36:11.240 --> 00:36:12.980 One day he comes home. 00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:14.139 And he finds. 00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:17.200 His younger brother in bed with his fiance. 00:36:18.980 --> 00:36:19.700 And. 00:36:20.420 --> 00:36:21.500 In a fit of. 00:36:22.160 --> 00:36:23.079 Passionate anger. 00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:24.760 Perhaps righteous. 00:36:24.760 --> 00:36:25.280 But. 00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:27.400 He kills his brother. 00:36:28.340 --> 00:36:29.900 And he's overcome with guilt. 00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:32.920 He lies in a prison. 00:36:33.040 --> 00:36:33.660 In despair. 00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:39.360 A Catholic priest. 00:36:39.580 --> 00:36:40.440 Jesuit comes. 00:36:40.740 --> 00:36:41.780 One who's worked with. 00:36:42.620 --> 00:36:43.820 The local. 00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:45.140 Local South Americans. 00:36:46.740 --> 00:36:47.640 He comes. 00:36:47.720 --> 00:36:47.980 And he. 00:36:48.560 --> 00:36:49.260 Gives this man. 00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:49.519 A. 00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:51.580 A task of penance. 00:36:51.579 --> 00:36:54.980 What he does. 00:36:54.980 --> 00:36:56.159 Is he takes all of. 00:36:56.539 --> 00:36:57.460 The markings. 00:36:57.460 --> 00:36:58.659 Of this man's life. 00:36:58.819 --> 00:36:59.920 As a conquistador. 00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:00.719 His armor. 00:37:01.079 --> 00:37:01.779 His sword. 00:37:02.460 --> 00:37:03.400 He wraps it. 00:37:03.980 --> 00:37:05.159 In this rope bag. 00:37:05.500 --> 00:37:07.239 And he ties it around Mendoza. 00:37:07.559 --> 00:37:08.639 And then they go. 00:37:09.279 --> 00:37:10.159 Into the jungle. 00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:11.719 To find. 00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:12.460 The people. 00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:14.340 That he had once enslaved. 00:37:14.340 --> 00:37:17.680 This was the punishment. 00:37:18.840 --> 00:37:19.280 Now. 00:37:21.800 --> 00:37:23.700 This is not a great picture of redemption. 00:37:24.980 --> 00:37:25.820 In the movie. 00:37:26.240 --> 00:37:27.900 But it is a great picture of guilt. 00:37:29.700 --> 00:37:30.220 Because. 00:37:30.460 --> 00:37:31.340 What you see. 00:37:31.579 --> 00:37:32.880 Is Rodrigo Mendoza. 00:37:33.400 --> 00:37:34.640 Clawing his way. 00:37:34.880 --> 00:37:36.000 Through the jungle. 00:37:36.460 --> 00:37:37.640 Up cliffs. 00:37:37.980 --> 00:37:39.180 Up a waterfall. 00:37:39.179 --> 00:37:42.259 With this. 00:37:43.579 --> 00:37:45.099 A hundred pound. 00:37:45.659 --> 00:37:46.019 Sack. 00:37:46.119 --> 00:37:46.779 Of armor. 00:37:47.179 --> 00:37:48.000 On his back. 00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:52.500 His guilt. 00:37:53.179 --> 00:37:54.599 He carried with him. 00:37:57.099 --> 00:37:58.799 Trying to earn forgiveness. 00:37:58.799 --> 00:37:59.519 On his own. 00:38:01.079 --> 00:38:01.679 Friends. 00:38:01.779 --> 00:38:03.119 I think we carry our guilt. 00:38:03.460 --> 00:38:04.480 Like that. 00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:05.559 As well. 00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:08.619 And we don't believe. 00:38:08.619 --> 00:38:10.139 That the blood of Christ. 00:38:11.639 --> 00:38:12.759 Is able. 00:38:13.380 --> 00:38:15.039 To purify our conscience. 00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:16.059 From dead works. 00:38:17.799 --> 00:38:19.339 But Christ has. 00:38:20.699 --> 00:38:22.359 His offering on the cross. 00:38:22.460 --> 00:38:23.079 Is sufficient. 00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:24.440 To God. 00:38:25.819 --> 00:38:27.039 And through repentance. 00:38:27.179 --> 00:38:27.739 And faith. 00:38:28.299 --> 00:38:29.619 We take hold of that. 00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:31.699 And he cuts the cord. 00:38:32.659 --> 00:38:34.079 And releases the burden. 00:38:34.179 --> 00:38:34.880 Of our guilt. 00:38:35.339 --> 00:38:36.719 And we are now free. 00:38:36.900 --> 00:38:37.460 To go. 00:38:37.460 --> 00:38:40.039 And serve him. 00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:42.220 We are now free. 00:38:42.220 --> 00:38:44.000 To live a new life. 00:38:44.139 --> 00:38:45.260 That is unburdened. 00:38:45.260 --> 00:38:46.260 From that guilt. 00:38:47.599 --> 00:38:49.119 What does that look like? 00:38:49.619 --> 00:38:50.059 Well. 00:38:50.179 --> 00:38:51.280 Here's one of the most. 00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:52.300 Amazing things. 00:38:52.300 --> 00:38:53.240 About knowing that. 00:38:53.539 --> 00:38:54.220 Christ's blood. 00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:55.559 Is purified our conscience. 00:38:56.559 --> 00:38:57.960 Is that we can confess. 00:38:57.960 --> 00:38:58.639 Our sins. 00:38:58.639 --> 00:39:02.279 The world. 00:39:02.279 --> 00:39:03.460 The world often looks at Christians. 00:39:03.599 --> 00:39:03.900 And think. 00:39:04.059 --> 00:39:05.839 How can you be so self-righteous. 00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:07.259 And think how great you are. 00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:07.879 Friends. 00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:09.900 That's because we haven't done a good job. 00:39:09.900 --> 00:39:11.099 Of confessing our sin. 00:39:11.859 --> 00:39:12.779 We are. 00:39:12.980 --> 00:39:13.900 As Christians. 00:39:14.319 --> 00:39:16.179 The ones who are most free to say. 00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:19.000 Look at how ugly my sin is. 00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:21.059 Look at how dirty. 00:39:21.400 --> 00:39:23.239 My heart is. 00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:24.859 Apart from Christ. 00:39:24.860 --> 00:39:24.980 Christ. 00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:26.820 I am a sinner. 00:39:27.620 --> 00:39:29.420 And I cannot save myself. 00:39:29.680 --> 00:39:31.200 I am stained. 00:39:32.500 --> 00:39:32.880 Oh. 00:39:33.539 --> 00:39:34.480 But Christ. 00:39:34.940 --> 00:39:35.860 But Christ. 00:39:35.860 --> 00:39:37.000 Christ has lifted the burden. 00:39:37.380 --> 00:39:39.360 And Christ has washed away the stain. 00:39:39.579 --> 00:39:41.559 And Christ has made me clean. 00:39:41.559 --> 00:39:43.980 And so I can confess my sin. 00:39:44.039 --> 00:39:45.679 Because it's taken care of. 00:39:45.860 --> 00:39:47.619 Because it's been done. 00:39:48.119 --> 00:39:48.719 Already. 00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:52.579 And what a great way. 00:39:52.799 --> 00:39:54.940 That that frees our hearts. 00:39:55.880 --> 00:39:57.400 It frees our hearts. 00:39:57.400 --> 00:39:58.639 To worship God. 00:39:58.799 --> 00:40:00.380 Because we don't fear. 00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:01.759 Coming to him. 00:40:03.239 --> 00:40:04.559 We don't fear. 00:40:04.679 --> 00:40:05.119 Wondering. 00:40:05.299 --> 00:40:06.239 How is he going to. 00:40:06.340 --> 00:40:08.019 Will he see my sin. 00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:10.239 And bring upon me. 00:40:10.239 --> 00:40:11.439 Disapproval. 00:40:11.579 --> 00:40:12.099 And judgment. 00:40:12.279 --> 00:40:13.259 And condemnation. 00:40:16.259 --> 00:40:16.779 No. 00:40:16.919 --> 00:40:18.500 There is no condemnation. 00:40:18.500 --> 00:40:20.259 For those who are in Christ Jesus. 00:40:21.059 --> 00:40:22.879 He has washed us clean. 00:40:23.079 --> 00:40:24.939 From the stain of sin. 00:40:26.919 --> 00:40:27.979 We are free. 00:40:28.099 --> 00:40:29.799 To proclaim this goodness of Christ. 00:40:29.879 --> 00:40:30.379 To others. 00:40:30.619 --> 00:40:32.519 Without being afraid. 00:40:32.879 --> 00:40:34.339 That we will be disqualified. 00:40:35.259 --> 00:40:36.659 How can you be a Christian? 00:40:37.319 --> 00:40:38.799 I know what you do. 00:40:38.919 --> 00:40:39.279 I know. 00:40:39.280 --> 00:40:41.320 I saw you lose it. 00:40:41.600 --> 00:40:42.820 Last week at work. 00:40:43.140 --> 00:40:44.400 And get really angry. 00:40:44.840 --> 00:40:46.700 How can you come and tell me about Christ? 00:40:47.240 --> 00:40:47.760 Oh friend. 00:40:47.820 --> 00:40:49.960 That's exactly why I can't tell you about Christ. 00:40:50.820 --> 00:40:52.280 Because that's my sin. 00:40:53.500 --> 00:40:55.019 And I need a great savior. 00:40:55.360 --> 00:40:56.019 And so do you. 00:40:57.900 --> 00:40:59.220 So we are free. 00:41:00.540 --> 00:41:02.320 From the burden of guilt and shame. 00:41:02.420 --> 00:41:04.060 We are free to confess our sins. 00:41:04.060 --> 00:41:06.660 We are free to tell others about Christ. 00:41:06.659 --> 00:41:09.159 And we are free to love others. 00:41:10.019 --> 00:41:10.519 Truly. 00:41:11.420 --> 00:41:14.420 Because we are no longer spending all of our time. 00:41:14.899 --> 00:41:16.920 Managing our guiltiness. 00:41:17.139 --> 00:41:18.440 What do I mean by this? 00:41:19.759 --> 00:41:20.259 Friends. 00:41:20.319 --> 00:41:21.980 When Adam sinned in the garden. 00:41:22.099 --> 00:41:22.719 What happened? 00:41:23.219 --> 00:41:24.299 God came and said. 00:41:24.399 --> 00:41:25.039 Where are you? 00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:26.319 What did he do? 00:41:27.399 --> 00:41:28.239 He hid. 00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:31.279 He blamed. 00:41:31.279 --> 00:41:31.399 He blamed. 00:41:35.959 --> 00:41:37.219 He justified. 00:41:41.559 --> 00:41:43.319 What do we do on top of that? 00:41:44.299 --> 00:41:47.099 Well we try to atone for it. 00:41:47.679 --> 00:41:49.279 We try to make up for it. 00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:53.880 Let me illustrate this. 00:41:53.940 --> 00:41:54.900 I've been thinking about this. 00:41:54.960 --> 00:41:56.980 You can think about it in lots of different contexts. 00:41:57.100 --> 00:41:59.180 But when I say something hurtful to my wife. 00:41:59.220 --> 00:42:00.380 Which sometimes I do. 00:42:00.640 --> 00:42:01.500 I confess it. 00:42:01.980 --> 00:42:03.940 When I say something hurtful to my wife. 00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:05.880 Or if that doesn't connect with you. 00:42:05.880 --> 00:42:07.640 If I lie to my roommate. 00:42:07.860 --> 00:42:08.740 Or to my boss. 00:42:09.200 --> 00:42:11.900 Or if I am mean to my sibling. 00:42:12.300 --> 00:42:13.340 My brother or sister. 00:42:13.680 --> 00:42:15.160 Or if I look at that website. 00:42:15.260 --> 00:42:16.040 That I know I shouldn't. 00:42:16.039 --> 00:42:19.139 Or if I let biting sarcasm slip through my lips. 00:42:19.300 --> 00:42:21.779 Or just fill in the gap with whatever it is. 00:42:21.820 --> 00:42:22.880 When you do something. 00:42:22.980 --> 00:42:24.119 And you know immediately. 00:42:24.619 --> 00:42:27.259 I feel terrible. 00:42:29.179 --> 00:42:32.599 I feel that guilt rushes up in my heart. 00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:34.159 What do I do with it? 00:42:35.039 --> 00:42:37.880 Well often my first response is I justify it. 00:42:38.420 --> 00:42:39.480 Well she deserved it. 00:42:39.559 --> 00:42:40.079 I was right. 00:42:40.420 --> 00:42:41.420 I know I shouldn't have been angry. 00:42:41.500 --> 00:42:42.159 But I was right. 00:42:43.219 --> 00:42:44.380 And it wasn't so bad. 00:42:44.460 --> 00:42:45.960 I mean I was trying to get to something good. 00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:46.460 Wasn't I? 00:42:46.460 --> 00:42:48.360 I needed to be that forceful. 00:42:48.480 --> 00:42:50.360 Or else she never would have heard me. 00:42:52.460 --> 00:42:54.719 Or you think I'm bad. 00:42:54.779 --> 00:42:55.779 Look at all the other people. 00:42:55.940 --> 00:42:58.059 Who completely don't have any patience. 00:42:58.400 --> 00:43:00.199 I am such a great husband. 00:43:00.380 --> 00:43:01.639 Can't you give me a break? 00:43:01.739 --> 00:43:03.699 Anyone would have done this in this circumstance. 00:43:06.759 --> 00:43:08.739 So usually I try to deny it. 00:43:08.779 --> 00:43:09.659 Or justify it. 00:43:10.380 --> 00:43:13.679 And then if I can't do that. 00:43:13.679 --> 00:43:15.359 Then or even when I try. 00:43:15.539 --> 00:43:17.179 Ultimately my conscience wells up. 00:43:17.279 --> 00:43:19.159 And I feel awful. 00:43:19.899 --> 00:43:21.039 I feel ashamed. 00:43:21.819 --> 00:43:23.019 I want to hide. 00:43:23.699 --> 00:43:25.639 Sometimes literally I want to just go away. 00:43:25.839 --> 00:43:26.119 So that. 00:43:26.940 --> 00:43:28.299 So that I can't be seen. 00:43:28.359 --> 00:43:29.480 Because I feel terrible. 00:43:29.480 --> 00:43:34.880 What I really want is to pretend it didn't happen. 00:43:35.519 --> 00:43:36.659 I want to go away. 00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:37.659 And then come back. 00:43:38.440 --> 00:43:40.260 And then I want it to be overlooked. 00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:43.320 Have you ever thought about this? 00:43:43.400 --> 00:43:44.039 When you have like. 00:43:44.119 --> 00:43:45.500 When you've done something wrong to someone. 00:43:45.579 --> 00:43:46.740 What do you really want them to say? 00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:47.659 Oh don't worry about it. 00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:48.179 It's okay. 00:43:48.480 --> 00:43:49.099 It's okay. 00:43:51.300 --> 00:43:51.940 But you know what? 00:43:51.960 --> 00:43:52.500 It's not. 00:43:54.619 --> 00:43:55.519 It's not okay. 00:43:55.519 --> 00:43:56.820 When you've done something wrong. 00:43:56.920 --> 00:43:57.759 It's not okay. 00:43:58.099 --> 00:43:58.400 It's. 00:43:58.480 --> 00:43:59.199 It's wrong. 00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:00.679 And. 00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:03.719 And we want to somehow deny its wrongness. 00:44:04.719 --> 00:44:07.460 And so we spend a lot of time trying to get that. 00:44:07.759 --> 00:44:08.719 Trying to get this like. 00:44:08.820 --> 00:44:09.179 It's okay. 00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:09.699 It's okay. 00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:10.519 You know. 00:44:10.599 --> 00:44:10.820 Oh. 00:44:10.900 --> 00:44:12.519 Let's not get all worked up about it. 00:44:15.579 --> 00:44:17.619 That's my second strategy. 00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:20.139 My third strategy is that I want to redeem it. 00:44:21.559 --> 00:44:24.320 We were talking about this in our small group on Friday night. 00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:27.019 How easy it is to try to say I'm sorry. 00:44:27.160 --> 00:44:27.680 I'm sorry. 00:44:27.860 --> 00:44:28.460 I'm sorry. 00:44:28.660 --> 00:44:29.160 I'm sorry. 00:44:29.280 --> 00:44:31.280 Like if I say I'm sorry enough. 00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:33.380 That'll actually make it okay. 00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:35.360 Or. 00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:35.680 Or. 00:44:35.860 --> 00:44:37.280 I really do feel terrible about it. 00:44:37.340 --> 00:44:38.120 So I say I'm sorry. 00:44:38.180 --> 00:44:39.220 And then the next day I wake up. 00:44:39.240 --> 00:44:40.120 And I still feel terrible. 00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:41.740 So I say I'm sorry again. 00:44:42.260 --> 00:44:43.360 And then I wake up the next day. 00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:44.140 And I still feel terrible. 00:44:44.200 --> 00:44:45.620 So I say I'm sorry again. 00:44:47.600 --> 00:44:49.080 Maybe I try to atone for it. 00:44:49.080 --> 00:44:50.220 By trying to make. 00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:51.720 Be especially nice to her. 00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:53.900 Try to sort of get in her good graces again. 00:44:54.340 --> 00:44:54.559 You know. 00:44:54.639 --> 00:44:56.000 I buy her some flowers. 00:44:56.500 --> 00:44:56.619 Or. 00:44:56.920 --> 00:44:57.200 You know. 00:44:57.300 --> 00:44:58.599 I get her a little gift. 00:44:58.740 --> 00:44:58.800 Or. 00:44:59.380 --> 00:44:59.860 You know. 00:44:59.940 --> 00:45:01.639 I get up extra early. 00:45:01.800 --> 00:45:03.320 So that the kids don't wake her. 00:45:03.420 --> 00:45:05.019 And I make her a nice breakfast. 00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:09.240 Maybe I make promises. 00:45:09.420 --> 00:45:10.440 I'll never do that again. 00:45:13.680 --> 00:45:14.079 Friends. 00:45:14.079 --> 00:45:16.559 All of our attempts to self-atone. 00:45:19.139 --> 00:45:21.079 Are external washings. 00:45:21.079 --> 00:45:26.319 The only hope for us. 00:45:26.739 --> 00:45:27.860 Is Christ. 00:45:29.739 --> 00:45:32.119 Who is able to purify our conscience. 00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:33.239 From dead works. 00:45:35.739 --> 00:45:37.579 So that we can serve. 00:45:37.940 --> 00:45:38.759 The living God. 00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:41.319 Part of the blessing. 00:45:41.819 --> 00:45:43.460 Of knowing that the blood of Christ. 00:45:43.639 --> 00:45:45.000 Has washed away my sin. 00:45:45.340 --> 00:45:46.079 Is that. 00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:48.059 I don't have to spend my time. 00:45:48.199 --> 00:45:49.079 Doing all this. 00:45:49.420 --> 00:45:50.960 I can simply go to Brandy. 00:45:51.039 --> 00:45:51.440 And say. 00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:53.360 That was wrong. 00:45:53.840 --> 00:45:54.500 I'm sorry. 00:45:54.920 --> 00:45:55.960 Will you forgive me? 00:45:57.319 --> 00:45:58.179 And you know what? 00:45:58.799 --> 00:46:00.019 When she says yes. 00:46:01.179 --> 00:46:02.099 It's all done. 00:46:02.960 --> 00:46:04.319 And then I can spend. 00:46:04.519 --> 00:46:05.679 All of my energy. 00:46:06.119 --> 00:46:07.019 Loving her. 00:46:07.340 --> 00:46:08.920 Not because I'm trying to get back. 00:46:08.920 --> 00:46:09.880 Into her good graces. 00:46:10.039 --> 00:46:11.199 Or because I'm trying to sort of. 00:46:11.199 --> 00:46:12.379 Make up for what's happened. 00:46:12.639 --> 00:46:14.299 But because I want to love her. 00:46:14.879 --> 00:46:16.159 And because I want her good. 00:46:18.839 --> 00:46:19.419 And friend. 00:46:19.500 --> 00:46:20.839 How much more is that true. 00:46:22.139 --> 00:46:23.059 With the Lord. 00:46:27.059 --> 00:46:28.539 How much more is that true. 00:46:28.579 --> 00:46:29.139 With the Lord. 00:46:29.639 --> 00:46:30.839 That when we know. 00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:32.039 That we are truly. 00:46:32.500 --> 00:46:33.019 Deeply. 00:46:34.019 --> 00:46:34.419 Completely. 00:46:35.980 --> 00:46:37.239 Forgiven of our sin. 00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:38.399 That we are washed. 00:46:38.799 --> 00:46:39.199 Clean. 00:46:39.419 --> 00:46:40.099 In the blood. 00:46:40.359 --> 00:46:40.980 Of the lamb. 00:46:41.199 --> 00:46:42.939 From all of the stain. 00:46:42.939 --> 00:46:43.439 Of guilt. 00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:44.319 In our life. 00:46:46.799 --> 00:46:47.239 Friends. 00:46:47.339 --> 00:46:47.919 What worship. 00:46:48.059 --> 00:46:48.859 Would we bring. 00:46:49.739 --> 00:46:51.019 To this gathering. 00:46:51.379 --> 00:46:52.079 Every morning. 00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:53.299 Not. 00:46:53.759 --> 00:46:54.519 Oh God. 00:46:55.019 --> 00:46:55.960 I hope you'll. 00:46:56.099 --> 00:46:56.799 I hope you'll. 00:46:56.980 --> 00:46:57.799 Bear my presence. 00:46:57.799 --> 00:46:58.399 This morning. 00:46:58.619 --> 00:46:58.779 But. 00:46:59.199 --> 00:46:59.739 Oh God. 00:46:59.799 --> 00:47:01.000 I am a great sinner. 00:47:01.119 --> 00:47:02.699 But you are a great savior. 00:47:03.439 --> 00:47:04.079 And I am here. 00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:05.039 To sing your praises. 00:47:05.279 --> 00:47:05.679 This morning. 00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:07.659 What freedom. 00:47:07.659 --> 00:47:08.519 Does it give us. 00:47:08.619 --> 00:47:09.619 To love others. 00:47:09.819 --> 00:47:10.659 Because we're not. 00:47:10.659 --> 00:47:11.319 Managing. 00:47:11.699 --> 00:47:12.940 All of our sin. 00:47:13.199 --> 00:47:13.940 But we're free. 00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:15.119 To confess our sin. 00:47:15.339 --> 00:47:15.980 And point. 00:47:16.619 --> 00:47:17.599 To Christ. 00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:18.719 And make Christ. 00:47:18.819 --> 00:47:19.859 Great in our lives. 00:47:19.899 --> 00:47:20.920 As we love others. 00:47:21.319 --> 00:47:22.359 And serve them. 00:47:28.399 --> 00:47:29.039 Friends. 00:47:29.039 --> 00:47:29.119 Friends. 00:47:32.119 --> 00:47:33.940 For all who are in Christ. 00:47:35.019 --> 00:47:36.319 We are washed. 00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:36.380 We are washed. 00:47:38.180 --> 00:47:39.680 The work of Christ. 00:47:39.680 --> 00:47:40.420 Is an anchor. 00:47:40.420 --> 00:47:41.580 For our soul. 00:47:41.580 --> 00:47:42.680 Into heaven. 00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:46.440 It is a perfect sacrifice. 00:47:46.440 --> 00:47:48.059 By an eternal high priest. 00:47:48.180 --> 00:47:49.460 In the heavenly tabernacle. 00:47:49.660 --> 00:47:51.660 That is secured for us. 00:47:51.780 --> 00:47:52.519 In heaven. 00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:54.180 An eternal redemption. 00:47:55.340 --> 00:47:56.760 We are washed. 00:47:57.600 --> 00:47:59.440 In the blood of Christ. 00:48:00.440 --> 00:48:01.380 And our guilt. 00:48:01.580 --> 00:48:02.519 Is taken away. 00:48:02.519 --> 00:48:07.980 I want to close. 00:48:07.980 --> 00:48:08.980 With the exhortation. 00:48:08.980 --> 00:48:10.079 That we will see. 00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:11.679 At the end of chapter 10. 00:48:12.119 --> 00:48:13.099 You can just listen. 00:48:13.840 --> 00:48:14.380 Chapter 10. 00:48:14.440 --> 00:48:15.139 Verse 19. 00:48:15.500 --> 00:48:15.820 Therefore. 00:48:17.179 --> 00:48:18.679 Since we have confidence. 00:48:18.679 --> 00:48:20.259 To enter the holy places. 00:48:20.259 --> 00:48:21.360 By the blood of Jesus. 00:48:21.739 --> 00:48:22.519 By the new. 00:48:22.519 --> 00:48:23.500 And living way. 00:48:23.860 --> 00:48:25.739 That he opened for us. 00:48:25.860 --> 00:48:26.460 Through the curtain. 00:48:26.460 --> 00:48:27.880 That is through his flesh. 00:48:28.440 --> 00:48:30.159 And since we have a great high priest. 00:48:30.159 --> 00:48:31.299 Over the house of God. 00:48:31.579 --> 00:48:33.059 Let us draw near. 00:48:33.379 --> 00:48:34.599 With a true heart. 00:48:34.699 --> 00:48:36.259 In full assurance of faith. 00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:38.460 With our hearts sprinkled clean. 00:48:38.460 --> 00:48:39.639 From an evil conscience. 00:48:40.099 --> 00:48:41.399 And our bodies washed. 00:48:41.519 --> 00:48:42.460 With pure water. 00:48:43.480 --> 00:48:44.839 Let us hold fast. 00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:46.239 To the confession of our hope. 00:48:46.279 --> 00:48:47.219 Without wavering. 00:48:47.859 --> 00:48:49.119 For he who promised. 00:48:49.239 --> 00:48:49.779 Is faithful. 00:48:50.219 --> 00:48:51.239 And let us consider. 00:48:51.359 --> 00:48:52.539 How to stir one another. 00:48:53.259 --> 00:48:54.759 To love and good works. 00:48:55.059 --> 00:48:56.759 Not neglecting to meet together. 00:48:56.759 --> 00:48:57.960 As is the habit of some. 00:48:58.219 --> 00:48:59.779 But encouraging one another. 00:48:59.780 --> 00:49:00.680 And all the more. 00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:01.500 As you see. 00:49:01.880 --> 00:49:02.600 The day. 00:49:03.000 --> 00:49:03.720 Drawing near. 00:49:05.519 --> 00:49:06.820 Let us draw near. 00:49:07.560 --> 00:49:08.920 Let us hold fast. 00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:10.420 And let us. 00:49:10.700 --> 00:49:12.100 Stir one another up. 00:49:12.920 --> 00:49:14.080 Because Christ. 00:49:14.240 --> 00:49:15.220 Has washed us clean. 00:49:15.620 --> 00:49:16.160 Let's pray. 00:49:21.640 --> 00:49:22.760 God we do pray. 00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:23.440 That you would. 00:49:24.280 --> 00:49:25.560 Help us this morning. 00:49:25.559 --> 00:49:26.559 Lord. 00:49:26.559 --> 00:49:27.559 Lord. 00:49:29.559 --> 00:49:30.920 Convict us. 00:49:31.880 --> 00:49:32.159 Lord. 00:49:33.059 --> 00:49:34.179 Show us the ways. 00:49:34.299 --> 00:49:35.460 That we have neglected. 00:49:36.539 --> 00:49:37.440 The cleansing. 00:49:37.659 --> 00:49:38.380 Washing power. 00:49:38.539 --> 00:49:39.119 Of your blood. 00:49:40.500 --> 00:49:42.099 The ways that we deny it. 00:49:42.199 --> 00:49:43.360 The ways that we doubt it. 00:49:43.480 --> 00:49:44.360 The ways that we. 00:49:44.759 --> 00:49:45.440 Refuse it. 00:49:47.940 --> 00:49:48.340 Lord. 00:49:48.420 --> 00:49:49.539 May we take hold of it. 00:49:49.619 --> 00:49:50.119 This morning. 00:49:50.119 --> 00:49:52.519 And know the joy. 00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:53.420 And the freedom. 00:49:54.819 --> 00:49:55.719 That comes. 00:49:56.779 --> 00:49:58.359 From knowing that we are washed. 00:49:58.460 --> 00:49:58.960 In your blood. 00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:01.779 We pray this in Jesus name. 00:50:02.359 --> 00:50:02.679 Amen. 00:50:02.679 --> 00:50:32.659 Thank you.