WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:19.559 It's hard to imagine what Palm Sunday must have been like the first time around. 00:00:22.300 --> 00:00:27.960 As I look at the account that John read earlier in the service from the book of John, as I 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:38.299 read the history of the day, I think a people who were longing, a people who were not at 00:00:38.299 --> 00:00:48.519 rest, a people who knew that there was still something yet to come, filled their hearts. 00:00:48.520 --> 00:01:00.240 First century Palestine was a place not of peace, not of ease, but a place of longing. 00:01:00.859 --> 00:01:05.640 A place of longing for the promises of God to be fulfilled. 00:01:06.140 --> 00:01:11.800 A place of longing for one who would come and restore the temple to its glory. 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:25.060 One who would come as a king to win victory over the Roman oppressors and reestablish the 00:01:25.060 --> 00:01:34.439 people of God in all its glory, in all the things that the Old Testament promised. 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:41.980 This is Palm Sunday, and when Jesus sat on the donkey and rode into Jerusalem, and they 00:01:41.980 --> 00:01:48.519 laid down their palm branches before him, and they cried out, Hosanna, Hosanna. 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:55.879 Their hearts were filled with the hope that the king would come. 00:01:55.879 --> 00:02:02.519 They were looking, hoping, praying that he might be the one. 00:02:04.399 --> 00:02:13.740 And yet we know that this same crowd didn't necessarily understand all that Jesus was or 00:02:13.740 --> 00:02:14.800 what he would do. 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:21.859 Their hopes were fickle, and yet still they longed. 00:02:21.860 --> 00:02:29.000 Friends, I wonder if that longing is still in our world today. 00:02:29.940 --> 00:02:33.820 I wonder if that longing is still around. 00:02:34.100 --> 00:02:41.220 If you think back just two years ago to the Arab Spring and the hope that rose up in the 00:02:41.220 --> 00:02:46.420 hearts of many across nations, that their world could be new and that there could be a better 00:02:46.420 --> 00:02:48.740 place and a better way to live. 00:02:51.860 --> 00:02:54.140 The longing is still there. 00:02:54.560 --> 00:03:01.820 I think of my favorite musical of all time, Les Mis, which was about an uprising of students 00:03:01.820 --> 00:03:06.800 in 1840, longing for the world to be a better place. 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:09.160 Do you hear the people sing? 00:03:10.700 --> 00:03:17.180 Singing of a new day that will come where it will be better than it is today. 00:03:17.180 --> 00:03:25.219 Friends, this story has been told over and over and over again in human history. 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:28.540 That it's not finished yet. 00:03:29.060 --> 00:03:32.120 We're still looking for something to come in our hearts. 00:03:34.540 --> 00:03:41.319 And I wonder if the same thing is true in your personal story as it is in the story of the world. 00:03:41.319 --> 00:03:59.680 I wonder if you're living a life looking for something or someone to finally finish your life so that you can hit that place, that sweet spot that your longings are fulfilled, your hopes are realized, your dreams. 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:08.680 And I wonder if the things that drive you is that longing. 00:04:09.580 --> 00:04:15.920 I wonder if the things that drive you is a desire to see that actually happen in your life. 00:04:15.919 --> 00:04:30.419 Maybe they drive our serial relationships looking from one to the next to the next, hoping this might be the one who will make my life complete. 00:04:30.420 --> 00:04:47.120 Maybe it's one rung after another up the ladder in your career, hoping that if I can only get to the next level, maybe then I'll find fulfillment, satisfaction. 00:04:48.500 --> 00:04:51.980 Maybe it's another trip to the Barnes & Noble bookstore. 00:04:52.180 --> 00:04:53.420 I know, people don't do that anymore. 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:57.420 To Amazon, again, looking for the next self-help book. 00:04:57.420 --> 00:05:05.460 Maybe this one will help me figure out what's wrong with me and how I can make my life right. 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:19.379 Friends, the world has lived ever since the fall with this desperate longing for the world to be made right. 00:05:19.379 --> 00:05:25.840 For someone to come and finish what feels so unfinished in our lives. 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:32.539 For someone to come and complete the thing that feels so incomplete to us. 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:38.759 And this brings us to the book of Hebrews this morning. 00:05:39.859 --> 00:05:44.379 Our passage today shows us that, in fact, we need no longer look. 00:05:45.500 --> 00:05:47.620 The one has already come. 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:52.739 And he has finished the work that we need. 00:05:52.740 --> 00:05:57.100 So if you want to turn with me in your Bibles. 00:05:57.920 --> 00:05:59.400 Hebrews chapter 10. 00:06:00.500 --> 00:06:03.759 Page 1006, I think. 00:06:04.019 --> 00:06:04.540 About there. 00:06:05.259 --> 00:06:05.620 7. 00:06:06.340 --> 00:06:07.460 1007. 00:06:09.139 --> 00:06:11.259 Hebrews 10. 00:06:11.259 --> 00:06:15.220 We're going to read verses 11 through 18. 00:06:15.220 --> 00:06:22.640 Let's read this together. 00:06:22.640 --> 00:06:34.620 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices which can never take away sins. 00:06:34.620 --> 00:06:41.480 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins. 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:45.439 He sat down at the right hand of God. 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:51.480 Waiting for that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 00:06:52.759 --> 00:07:01.040 For by a single offering, he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:04.800 And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us. 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:10.740 For after saying, this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declare the Lord. 00:07:10.960 --> 00:07:14.520 I will put my laws in their hearts and write them on their minds. 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:22.220 Then he adds, I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more. 00:07:23.960 --> 00:07:29.500 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin. 00:07:29.500 --> 00:07:32.000 Please pray with me. 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:35.939 Lord, we thank you for your word. 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:42.920 We pray that you would open our minds to understand it and our hearts to receive it. 00:07:44.860 --> 00:07:47.540 God, we pray that you would speak to us. 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:53.339 I pray that your Holy Spirit, Lord, would lead me to speak your words. 00:07:53.339 --> 00:07:58.239 Lord, that your word would come through into our hearts. 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:08.239 Lord, that the glorious, the glorious news of what Christ has done would be sweet and precious to us today. 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:12.299 We pray these things in Jesus' name. 00:08:12.300 --> 00:08:14.879 Lord, that the glorious news of what Christ has done would be sweet and precious to us today. 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:33.379 As we continue in our series of Hebrews, we are at the end of chapter 10, which is the end of a great argument in chapters 9 and 10, which is the end of a greater section that begins in chapter 8, which is the end of a whole section of 10 chapters. 00:08:33.379 --> 00:08:44.779 The whole thrust of which is to say that Christ and his finished work is enough for us. 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:51.419 He has finished what needed to be done on our behalf. 00:08:51.419 --> 00:09:03.399 And if you go on, if you come back, not next week, because next week is Easter, but the week after, we're going to, the rest of the book is about application, about what does this mean for us? 00:09:04.299 --> 00:09:13.839 But for today, what I want to do is sit on this great truth that Christ's finished work is enough for us. 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:16.279 What do I mean by Christ's finished work? 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:21.179 The center of our passage this morning, verses 11 through 18, is verse 14. 00:09:21.179 --> 00:09:23.059 Look with me at it, if you will. 00:09:26.219 --> 00:09:34.479 It says, for by a single offering, he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. 00:09:34.899 --> 00:09:42.879 Now, if you've been coming for the last couple of weeks, I hope that that resounds with glorious truth. 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:48.620 But if you weren't, let's summarize it so we're all on the same page as we keep going. 00:09:48.620 --> 00:09:50.120 What does he mean by this? 00:09:50.220 --> 00:10:06.620 For by this single offering, Christ, acting as a high priest in a heavenly throne room before the judgment seat of God, has gone in and taken a single offering, his very own life, before God. 00:10:06.620 --> 00:10:07.139 In order to pay the penalty for God. 00:10:07.139 --> 00:10:11.200 In order to pay the penalty for our sin. 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:17.220 In order to satisfy the wrath of God against the rebellion of humanity. 00:10:17.220 --> 00:10:25.659 In order to acceptably atone for our sin. 00:10:25.659 --> 00:10:32.439 So that the punishment of our sin is taken by him. 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:37.980 We've seen this in the last couple of chapters. 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:41.500 Why is there a necessity for blood? 00:10:41.620 --> 00:10:46.179 Because without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sin. 00:10:46.179 --> 00:10:52.939 Our rebellion against our creator God is such an offense that it deserves death. 00:10:53.599 --> 00:10:56.559 And so blood must be shed for sin. 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:02.679 And the question is, whose blood can satisfy the wrath of God against that sin? 00:11:03.699 --> 00:11:06.099 And then he talks about the whole Old Testament system. 00:11:06.179 --> 00:11:08.199 How everything had to be covered with blood. 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:11.240 But he says, but it was the blood of bulls and goats. 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:14.719 And the blood of bulls and goats can never take away sin. 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:16.480 It is never sufficient. 00:11:16.820 --> 00:11:21.580 Because how can something not created in the image of God. 00:11:21.700 --> 00:11:25.340 Die for one like us who are created in the image of God. 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:29.820 How can one who has no ability to willfully sin. 00:11:29.940 --> 00:11:31.560 Die for us. 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:37.060 When we daily refuse and reject and dishonor God. 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:40.120 By not worshiping him as we ought to. 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:50.399 And so, and so, the whole Old Testament system of the temple and the sacrifices was given to us to point ahead. 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:54.240 To prepare us to understand all of these things. 00:11:54.899 --> 00:12:03.399 So that when Christ offered a single sacrifice for us of his very own life. 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:05.559 He who is able to offer it. 00:12:06.679 --> 00:12:08.379 Because he had no sin. 00:12:08.860 --> 00:12:11.179 So he didn't have to die for himself. 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:13.980 So he offered it in our place. 00:12:15.620 --> 00:12:21.179 He who is God who became man so that he could die for men and women. 00:12:21.179 --> 00:12:25.419 This is the logic of the gospel. 00:12:25.579 --> 00:12:30.239 And this is what the last two chapters have been building up. 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:35.579 Christ's death secures for us a forgiveness of sin. 00:12:38.059 --> 00:12:41.899 Because he did what only he could do. 00:12:42.259 --> 00:12:43.459 Dying in our place. 00:12:43.719 --> 00:12:46.240 So that God's wrath wouldn't fall on us. 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:49.700 So that God could look on us and pardon us. 00:12:49.700 --> 00:12:54.500 Because he looked on Christ and judged Christ in our place. 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:03.960 And the good news is that this means that we can know God again. 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:07.259 Over and over and over again. 00:13:07.700 --> 00:13:11.419 In this book, we are exhorted to draw near. 00:13:11.419 --> 00:13:14.899 We'll see it again in just the following verses. 00:13:15.139 --> 00:13:17.179 In verses 19 and following. 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:20.159 Therefore, because Christ has done all of this. 00:13:20.419 --> 00:13:21.479 Let us do what? 00:13:22.339 --> 00:13:25.079 Let us draw near to God. 00:13:25.579 --> 00:13:29.919 We finally are able to be God's people. 00:13:30.259 --> 00:13:33.639 Because of what Christ has done. 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:36.839 We are restored to being his. 00:13:38.500 --> 00:13:40.759 Friends, this is the good news of the gospel. 00:13:40.759 --> 00:13:43.580 This is what he means in verse 14 when he says. 00:13:44.059 --> 00:13:47.100 For by a single offering he has perfected. 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:51.539 That is, he has brought to its created end and goal. 00:13:51.899 --> 00:13:54.100 He has brought us, his people. 00:13:54.299 --> 00:13:56.819 To the place where we were meant to be. 00:13:56.919 --> 00:13:58.000 From the very beginning. 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:00.019 Before the foundations of the earth. 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:05.399 He has accomplished that in Christ. 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:07.059 So that we, his people. 00:14:07.220 --> 00:14:09.980 Could now be restored to him. 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:16.259 He has perfected those who are being sanctified. 00:14:16.500 --> 00:14:20.019 That is, those who have been set apart to be his. 00:14:20.220 --> 00:14:24.439 And those who are in the process of becoming his. 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:34.480 And this is the centerpiece of what the writer of Hebrews has been saying over and over again. 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:38.000 By the single offering of his own self. 00:14:38.500 --> 00:14:40.700 Christ has finished this. 00:14:42.540 --> 00:14:46.080 And the particular contribution that our passage makes. 00:14:46.180 --> 00:14:50.020 To all those things that I just said that we've already heard about quite a bit. 00:14:50.340 --> 00:14:51.620 Is in verse 12. 00:14:51.620 --> 00:14:52.940 Look with me in verse 12. 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:56.720 But when Christ had offered for all time. 00:14:56.779 --> 00:14:58.560 Do you see the repetition of these ideas? 00:14:58.560 --> 00:15:03.539 He offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins. 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:06.019 He sat down. 00:15:07.179 --> 00:15:11.899 He sat down at the right hand of God. 00:15:13.940 --> 00:15:15.580 What does this mean? 00:15:15.580 --> 00:15:21.300 What does it mean that Christ is now, having done what he did, he has sat down. 00:15:22.300 --> 00:15:24.040 Means two things for us. 00:15:24.420 --> 00:15:29.460 It means that he has finished his work for us as our king. 00:15:30.139 --> 00:15:35.240 It means that he has finished his work for us as our high priest. 00:15:35.940 --> 00:15:37.700 Both of these are embedded in here. 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:40.000 We're going to look at those in that order. 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:43.879 First of all, he has finished his work for us as our king. 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:47.279 We read earlier in Psalm 110. 00:15:48.299 --> 00:15:49.000 The promise. 00:15:49.500 --> 00:15:52.100 This psalm that talked about the Davidic king. 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:54.299 The Lord David said to my Lord. 00:15:55.899 --> 00:15:57.600 Sit at my right hand. 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:01.779 Till I make your enemies a footstool. 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:04.919 For your feet. 00:16:05.539 --> 00:16:07.620 This promise that was written. 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:12.259 That was promising that one would come in the line of David. 00:16:12.259 --> 00:16:13.299 Who would be the king. 00:16:14.340 --> 00:16:15.200 And here. 00:16:15.539 --> 00:16:16.980 We see the language. 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:18.899 The Hebrew writer. 00:16:19.419 --> 00:16:20.379 The writer of Hebrews. 00:16:20.919 --> 00:16:22.639 Picking up that language again. 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:25.139 So that we remember that he is. 00:16:26.319 --> 00:16:28.360 The fulfillment of the longing. 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:29.899 For that king who would come. 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:31.179 And friends. 00:16:31.340 --> 00:16:32.059 Do not forget. 00:16:32.340 --> 00:16:33.559 If you were here in September. 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:36.000 When we read chapter 1. 00:16:36.100 --> 00:16:36.960 Verse 3. 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:40.580 After having made purifications for sin. 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:44.060 Christ sat down at the right hand of God. 00:16:45.920 --> 00:16:47.820 Or further on in chapter 1. 00:16:47.900 --> 00:16:48.620 Where he talks about. 00:16:48.740 --> 00:16:50.000 For it was not to the angels. 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:51.960 That God was given this great honor. 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:53.860 But in fact it was Christ. 00:16:54.100 --> 00:16:57.259 To whom these words in Psalm 110 was spoken. 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:00.540 Sit at my right hand. 00:17:00.539 --> 00:17:04.779 Until you make an enemy. 00:17:06.099 --> 00:17:08.180 Until your enemies are made a footstool. 00:17:08.940 --> 00:17:09.960 For your feet. 00:17:11.159 --> 00:17:13.659 What does the right hand of God mean? 00:17:14.139 --> 00:17:16.220 It is the place of highest honor. 00:17:17.299 --> 00:17:20.920 It means that having made the acceptable sacrifice. 00:17:21.500 --> 00:17:23.500 God looked at Christ and said. 00:17:23.700 --> 00:17:24.680 Come and sit. 00:17:24.819 --> 00:17:26.559 Your work is finished. 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:30.519 Your work is done. 00:17:31.639 --> 00:17:34.359 I honor you for what you have done. 00:17:34.500 --> 00:17:35.940 I bestow upon you. 00:17:35.940 --> 00:17:38.619 The authority to sit and reign. 00:17:38.899 --> 00:17:41.319 As my executive right hand man. 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:42.579 In the world. 00:17:46.159 --> 00:17:48.019 And I give you the right. 00:17:48.179 --> 00:17:49.720 To be the one through whom. 00:17:50.740 --> 00:17:52.179 There is access to me. 00:17:52.819 --> 00:17:54.480 These are all the different meanings. 00:17:54.899 --> 00:17:56.440 Of sitting at the right hand. 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:57.399 Friends. 00:17:59.119 --> 00:17:59.599 Friends. 00:17:59.759 --> 00:17:59.919 It is. 00:18:01.019 --> 00:18:02.159 Amazing to think. 00:18:02.500 --> 00:18:03.359 About this. 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:05.899 That when Christ sat down. 00:18:06.279 --> 00:18:08.099 It meant that there were no more wars. 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:09.059 For him to fight. 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:11.679 You ever think about this? 00:18:12.599 --> 00:18:14.000 The problem with David. 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:15.779 In 2 Samuel. 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:17.139 Is that he is sitting. 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:18.220 On his throne. 00:18:18.339 --> 00:18:19.779 When he should be fighting a battle. 00:18:24.619 --> 00:18:26.339 The president of the United States. 00:18:26.339 --> 00:18:28.139 Does not stay in camp David. 00:18:28.740 --> 00:18:30.240 When there is a bad war. 00:18:30.379 --> 00:18:31.059 To be fought. 00:18:31.539 --> 00:18:32.619 He only goes. 00:18:32.619 --> 00:18:34.099 For those times of rest. 00:18:34.599 --> 00:18:35.379 When it's. 00:18:35.679 --> 00:18:36.919 When the world is at peace. 00:18:37.179 --> 00:18:38.379 And there is no crisis. 00:18:41.419 --> 00:18:42.980 When Christ sat down. 00:18:43.079 --> 00:18:43.779 It signified. 00:18:43.899 --> 00:18:44.740 That he had fought. 00:18:44.740 --> 00:18:45.699 All the battles. 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:47.419 That needed to be won. 00:18:48.159 --> 00:18:49.179 And what were the battles. 00:18:49.179 --> 00:18:50.220 That he fought the most. 00:18:50.439 --> 00:18:50.639 Well. 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:52.920 He fought the battle. 00:18:52.920 --> 00:18:53.759 Against sin. 00:18:54.800 --> 00:18:56.120 And he overcame it. 00:18:56.800 --> 00:18:58.040 And he fought the battle. 00:18:58.040 --> 00:18:59.080 Against death. 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:01.420 And he rose from the dead. 00:19:02.340 --> 00:19:02.940 And friends. 00:19:03.240 --> 00:19:04.360 This whole message. 00:19:04.360 --> 00:19:05.280 Will be framed. 00:19:05.280 --> 00:19:06.040 By the fact. 00:19:06.040 --> 00:19:07.140 That it's Easter week. 00:19:07.140 --> 00:19:09.520 And when we look ahead. 00:19:09.520 --> 00:19:10.820 To Sunday morning. 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:12.360 And that Christ is risen. 00:19:12.360 --> 00:19:13.180 From the dead. 00:19:13.500 --> 00:19:14.620 The writer of Hebrews. 00:19:14.620 --> 00:19:16.460 Doesn't explicitly say this. 00:19:16.560 --> 00:19:17.620 But the only way. 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:18.620 He could go and sit. 00:19:18.700 --> 00:19:19.820 At the right hand of the father. 00:19:19.940 --> 00:19:21.360 Is because after having died. 00:19:21.460 --> 00:19:22.580 He rose again. 00:19:22.800 --> 00:19:24.320 And having risen again. 00:19:24.320 --> 00:19:25.880 To conquer sin and death. 00:19:26.259 --> 00:19:26.800 Then. 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:27.980 He is able. 00:19:28.280 --> 00:19:28.759 To sit. 00:19:29.100 --> 00:19:29.980 At the right hand. 00:19:30.040 --> 00:19:30.640 Of the father. 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:33.500 And this. 00:19:34.080 --> 00:19:35.580 Is a glorious truth. 00:19:36.320 --> 00:19:37.780 He has sat down. 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:43.180 He has sat down. 00:19:43.180 --> 00:19:44.560 In this place of authority. 00:19:44.800 --> 00:19:45.840 As our king. 00:19:50.020 --> 00:19:50.800 I wonder. 00:19:51.340 --> 00:19:52.640 Those of you who have children. 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:53.860 If you ever feel like. 00:19:54.180 --> 00:19:55.520 If only I could get a minute. 00:19:55.740 --> 00:19:56.520 To sit down. 00:19:58.400 --> 00:20:00.320 Those of you who are in graduate school. 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:01.320 Who are wondering. 00:20:01.420 --> 00:20:02.620 If only I could get a minute. 00:20:02.780 --> 00:20:03.340 To just. 00:20:04.180 --> 00:20:04.460 Sit. 00:20:06.120 --> 00:20:07.700 To know that your work. 00:20:07.700 --> 00:20:08.720 Is done. 00:20:09.720 --> 00:20:10.140 Friends. 00:20:10.259 --> 00:20:11.740 This is something we don't know. 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:12.980 In our human lives. 00:20:13.220 --> 00:20:14.320 Because our work. 00:20:14.660 --> 00:20:15.720 Never feels done. 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:18.940 But friends. 00:20:19.340 --> 00:20:19.780 Christ. 00:20:20.660 --> 00:20:21.520 His work. 00:20:23.060 --> 00:20:24.140 It is done. 00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:28.380 He has conquered sin and death. 00:20:28.440 --> 00:20:30.380 And he sits at the right hand of God. 00:20:31.140 --> 00:20:32.940 Reigning over his people. 00:20:33.620 --> 00:20:35.259 Reigning over this world. 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:36.560 And notice. 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:37.180 Reigning. 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:38.380 He is sitting there. 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:38.759 Reigning. 00:20:38.900 --> 00:20:39.880 Waiting until. 00:20:40.300 --> 00:20:42.200 His enemies are made a footstool to his. 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:44.140 This does not mean. 00:20:44.140 --> 00:20:45.160 That he is hoping. 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:47.160 That that might happen someday. 00:20:48.100 --> 00:20:50.620 It means that it will certainly happen. 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:54.120 And as we look at the broader scope of scripture. 00:20:54.320 --> 00:20:55.759 We know that the only reason. 00:20:55.759 --> 00:20:57.799 That all the enemies of God. 00:20:57.900 --> 00:20:58.720 Have not been put. 00:20:58.879 --> 00:21:00.480 Under the feet of Christ yet. 00:21:00.619 --> 00:21:01.660 Is because he is working. 00:21:01.779 --> 00:21:02.819 His gracious work. 00:21:03.299 --> 00:21:04.940 Of saving more people. 00:21:06.140 --> 00:21:07.519 That's the only reason. 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:08.960 Why he has not done it yet. 00:21:10.740 --> 00:21:11.720 But he will. 00:21:11.900 --> 00:21:12.460 One day. 00:21:12.740 --> 00:21:13.599 It is done. 00:21:13.740 --> 00:21:14.500 It is certain. 00:21:14.740 --> 00:21:15.799 It will happen. 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:19.059 And he is our king. 00:21:19.059 --> 00:21:24.240 Not only. 00:21:24.740 --> 00:21:26.639 Has he sat down as our king. 00:21:26.779 --> 00:21:28.399 But he is also sat down. 00:21:29.240 --> 00:21:30.559 As our high priest. 00:21:31.460 --> 00:21:33.599 This is what frames the rest of our section. 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:34.940 If you look in verse 11. 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:35.919 There is a contrast. 00:21:35.980 --> 00:21:36.519 Isn't there. 00:21:36.779 --> 00:21:38.559 Between verse 11 and verse 12. 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:41.259 Every priest. 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:42.740 That is the priest in the temple. 00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:44.819 The Old Testament Levitical priests. 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:45.679 They stand. 00:21:47.539 --> 00:21:48.099 Excuse me. 00:21:48.179 --> 00:21:50.619 They stand in the temple daily. 00:21:51.039 --> 00:21:52.859 Offering sacrifices for sin. 00:21:53.159 --> 00:21:55.039 Over and over and over again. 00:21:55.700 --> 00:21:57.819 Doves and lambs and bulls and goats. 00:21:58.179 --> 00:22:00.460 Offered over and over and over again. 00:22:01.559 --> 00:22:04.279 For 1500 years they had done this. 00:22:05.319 --> 00:22:08.139 Offered over and over and over again. 00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:13.559 Repeating the same sacrifices. 00:22:13.759 --> 00:22:14.619 And the writer of Hebrews. 00:22:14.980 --> 00:22:15.480 Now just. 00:22:15.679 --> 00:22:16.759 He doesn't even explain it. 00:22:16.799 --> 00:22:17.539 He just says. 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:18.460 And they know. 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:19.480 They can't do it. 00:22:19.619 --> 00:22:21.019 The very fact that they're repeated. 00:22:21.159 --> 00:22:22.119 Means that they can't. 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:24.000 Take away the sin. 00:22:25.119 --> 00:22:27.019 They offer ritual cleansing. 00:22:27.019 --> 00:22:29.099 But they can't get at the heart. 00:22:29.859 --> 00:22:31.740 And so they can't change our sin. 00:22:35.399 --> 00:22:36.559 But Christ. 00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:36.679 Christ. 00:22:38.839 --> 00:22:39.319 Offered. 00:22:39.679 --> 00:22:40.899 For all time. 00:22:42.019 --> 00:22:42.779 A single. 00:22:43.859 --> 00:22:44.419 Sacrifice. 00:22:45.940 --> 00:22:47.119 That is. 00:22:47.519 --> 00:22:47.859 Able. 00:22:48.099 --> 00:22:49.059 To take away sin. 00:22:50.359 --> 00:22:50.919 He. 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:52.700 Sat down. 00:22:52.700 --> 00:22:56.100 He sat down. 00:22:56.100 --> 00:22:56.640 To show. 00:22:56.640 --> 00:22:57.039 That. 00:22:57.400 --> 00:22:59.279 There was no more sacrifices. 00:22:59.700 --> 00:23:00.580 To be made. 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:01.240 Do you see? 00:23:01.319 --> 00:23:02.740 This is how the writer of the Hebrews. 00:23:03.019 --> 00:23:04.220 Ends this section. 00:23:05.080 --> 00:23:06.279 He comes back. 00:23:06.360 --> 00:23:07.799 In verses 15 through 18. 00:23:08.039 --> 00:23:09.039 He re quotes. 00:23:09.319 --> 00:23:10.960 What we've seen multiple times. 00:23:11.080 --> 00:23:12.259 The new covenant promise. 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:13.039 In Jeremiah. 00:23:13.480 --> 00:23:14.019 Saying that. 00:23:14.259 --> 00:23:15.600 That the new covenant. 00:23:15.600 --> 00:23:16.299 Will be one. 00:23:16.360 --> 00:23:17.580 That will change our hearts. 00:23:17.660 --> 00:23:18.580 And not just provide. 00:23:18.779 --> 00:23:19.340 External. 00:23:19.339 --> 00:23:20.439 Cleansing. 00:23:20.579 --> 00:23:21.240 But will provide. 00:23:21.379 --> 00:23:21.879 Internal. 00:23:22.500 --> 00:23:22.980 Transformation. 00:23:23.500 --> 00:23:24.579 For God's people. 00:23:24.799 --> 00:23:26.339 But the very foundation of it. 00:23:26.399 --> 00:23:27.559 Look at the way he says it. 00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:28.720 In verses 15. 00:23:28.899 --> 00:23:30.799 After he gives all those promises. 00:23:31.059 --> 00:23:31.439 Then. 00:23:32.459 --> 00:23:34.579 So his focus is on verse 17. 00:23:36.619 --> 00:23:38.359 I will remember their sins. 00:23:39.059 --> 00:23:40.459 And their lawless deeds. 00:23:40.459 --> 00:23:41.459 No more. 00:23:41.460 --> 00:23:43.940 This is what it means. 00:23:43.940 --> 00:23:45.980 That Christ has sat down. 00:23:47.180 --> 00:23:48.640 He explains it again. 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:49.700 Verse 18. 00:23:50.380 --> 00:23:52.120 Where there is forgiveness of these. 00:23:52.420 --> 00:23:53.340 That is their sins. 00:23:53.340 --> 00:23:54.480 And their lawless deeds. 00:23:55.980 --> 00:23:58.079 There's no longer an offering. 00:23:58.079 --> 00:23:58.920 For sin. 00:23:59.840 --> 00:24:00.980 What does that mean? 00:24:01.400 --> 00:24:02.539 What it means is that. 00:24:02.700 --> 00:24:04.240 The offering has been made. 00:24:05.079 --> 00:24:07.140 It means that the one thing. 00:24:07.140 --> 00:24:08.960 That needed to be done. 00:24:09.100 --> 00:24:09.720 Had been done. 00:24:09.720 --> 00:24:10.799 Done so completely. 00:24:11.120 --> 00:24:12.539 That we no longer need. 00:24:12.539 --> 00:24:14.480 To think about any more offerings. 00:24:14.779 --> 00:24:16.779 It has already been finished. 00:24:16.960 --> 00:24:18.539 And on the basis of that. 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:20.940 It says that God will remember. 00:24:20.940 --> 00:24:22.059 Our sins. 00:24:22.579 --> 00:24:24.019 No more. 00:24:25.660 --> 00:24:26.559 The writer of Hebrews. 00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:27.200 Has used. 00:24:27.759 --> 00:24:28.960 Multiple images. 00:24:28.960 --> 00:24:30.420 In the last chapters. 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:32.120 To help us understand. 00:24:32.600 --> 00:24:32.880 How. 00:24:34.079 --> 00:24:34.640 Incredible. 00:24:35.180 --> 00:24:36.579 The work of Christ is. 00:24:36.579 --> 00:24:39.259 We have been washed clean. 00:24:39.399 --> 00:24:40.759 We who were stained. 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:42.720 Our consciences were stained. 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:43.859 With the guilt of sin. 00:24:44.099 --> 00:24:45.519 We know we've done wrong. 00:24:45.619 --> 00:24:47.359 We have this nagging sense. 00:24:47.460 --> 00:24:49.179 That we're never good enough. 00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:52.500 And we have been purified. 00:24:52.500 --> 00:24:53.819 By the blood of Christ. 00:24:53.819 --> 00:24:54.379 Offered. 00:24:54.639 --> 00:24:55.539 For us. 00:24:58.119 --> 00:24:59.879 We have been forgiven. 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:01.759 The debt that we owed. 00:25:01.980 --> 00:25:03.079 Because of our rebellion. 00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:03.819 Against God. 00:25:03.819 --> 00:25:04.899 Is so great. 00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:07.839 It's a debt we could never pay. 00:25:07.939 --> 00:25:09.519 And yet Christ has come. 00:25:10.419 --> 00:25:11.599 And paid the debt. 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:12.819 Of death. 00:25:13.339 --> 00:25:14.359 On our behalf. 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:19.539 We have been. 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:20.720 Renewed. 00:25:21.859 --> 00:25:23.480 By the blood of Christ. 00:25:24.980 --> 00:25:25.579 Where. 00:25:26.059 --> 00:25:26.899 In our old. 00:25:28.700 --> 00:25:29.299 Covenant. 00:25:30.299 --> 00:25:30.899 Tending. 00:25:30.900 --> 00:25:31.620 Way. 00:25:32.060 --> 00:25:33.380 We so want. 00:25:34.180 --> 00:25:35.259 We so want. 00:25:35.259 --> 00:25:37.259 To make the externals. 00:25:38.580 --> 00:25:39.340 The basis. 00:25:39.340 --> 00:25:40.780 Of how we relate to God. 00:25:40.860 --> 00:25:41.620 And yet God says. 00:25:41.720 --> 00:25:41.840 No. 00:25:41.900 --> 00:25:42.580 I will come. 00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:43.759 And on the basis of Christ. 00:25:44.019 --> 00:25:45.160 I'm going to do things. 00:25:45.160 --> 00:25:45.820 In your heart. 00:25:45.820 --> 00:25:46.540 I'm going to give you. 00:25:46.680 --> 00:25:47.240 A new heart. 00:25:47.880 --> 00:25:49.180 A heart that is now. 00:25:49.280 --> 00:25:49.580 A able. 00:25:50.040 --> 00:25:50.780 To love me. 00:25:51.100 --> 00:25:52.000 And serve me. 00:25:52.320 --> 00:25:53.440 And obey me. 00:25:55.080 --> 00:25:56.120 When you could not. 00:25:56.220 --> 00:25:56.980 Do it before. 00:25:56.980 --> 00:26:01.339 And so. 00:26:01.579 --> 00:26:02.240 There is. 00:26:02.460 --> 00:26:02.779 No. 00:26:03.279 --> 00:26:03.599 More. 00:26:03.759 --> 00:26:04.240 Offering. 00:26:04.900 --> 00:26:05.620 For sin. 00:26:08.940 --> 00:26:10.079 As you meditate. 00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:10.920 And preparing. 00:26:11.079 --> 00:26:11.740 For Good Friday. 00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:12.480 This week. 00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:13.779 Think. 00:26:15.380 --> 00:26:15.960 Think. 00:26:16.039 --> 00:26:17.160 On this passage. 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:19.860 When you read. 00:26:19.980 --> 00:26:20.539 Christ. 00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:22.180 Hanging on the cross. 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:24.160 And cries out. 00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:26.259 It is finished. 00:26:27.420 --> 00:26:28.560 It's done. 00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:30.700 Completely done. 00:26:31.080 --> 00:26:32.180 There is no. 00:26:32.779 --> 00:26:33.220 More. 00:26:33.420 --> 00:26:34.840 That needs to be done. 00:26:35.980 --> 00:26:37.040 For the forgiving. 00:26:37.180 --> 00:26:37.880 Of our sin. 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:39.640 For the restoring. 00:26:39.640 --> 00:26:40.680 Of a relationship. 00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:41.560 With God. 00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:43.480 Friends. 00:26:43.600 --> 00:26:44.440 Think about this. 00:26:46.080 --> 00:26:46.960 If your friend. 00:26:47.060 --> 00:26:47.460 Owed you. 00:26:47.640 --> 00:26:48.500 A thousand dollars. 00:26:50.640 --> 00:26:51.640 Somebody came. 00:26:52.500 --> 00:26:53.300 And paid your friend. 00:26:53.360 --> 00:26:53.600 And said. 00:26:53.599 --> 00:26:54.699 I'm going to pay that debt. 00:26:54.799 --> 00:26:55.039 For you. 00:26:55.119 --> 00:26:56.539 Here's your thousand dollars. 00:27:00.399 --> 00:27:01.319 What would you. 00:27:01.480 --> 00:27:02.899 What would you think. 00:27:04.459 --> 00:27:04.819 If. 00:27:04.939 --> 00:27:05.740 If then the next day. 00:27:05.819 --> 00:27:06.119 You said. 00:27:06.219 --> 00:27:06.359 Well. 00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:07.719 Hey friend. 00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:09.039 How much do I owe you still? 00:27:10.139 --> 00:27:10.500 Can. 00:27:10.619 --> 00:27:11.699 Can I give you a little more? 00:27:11.819 --> 00:27:12.879 I kind of feel bad. 00:27:13.139 --> 00:27:13.639 He kind of. 00:27:13.719 --> 00:27:13.939 You know. 00:27:13.959 --> 00:27:14.259 Like. 00:27:14.399 --> 00:27:14.740 I know. 00:27:14.879 --> 00:27:15.199 But. 00:27:15.439 --> 00:27:15.559 I. 00:27:15.719 --> 00:27:15.959 I. 00:27:15.959 --> 00:27:16.159 I. 00:27:16.159 --> 00:27:16.199 I. 00:27:16.199 --> 00:27:16.219 I. 00:27:16.219 --> 00:27:16.240 I. 00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:16.259 I. 00:27:16.259 --> 00:27:16.279 I. 00:27:16.279 --> 00:27:16.299 I. 00:27:16.299 --> 00:27:16.379 I. 00:27:16.379 --> 00:27:16.419 I. 00:27:16.419 --> 00:27:16.480 I. 00:27:16.839 --> 00:27:16.919 I. 00:27:16.919 --> 00:27:17.000 I. 00:27:17.000 --> 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The guy didn't just pay the $1,000 check, he paid the blank check. He said, 00:28:08.259 --> 00:28:18.940 whatever he owes, I have paid it. Friends, this is the sufficiency of Christ. This is the 00:28:18.940 --> 00:28:29.660 completeness of what he has done for us. This is why we say, this is why he said, it is finished. 00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:41.920 So what does this mean? Briefly, three things. First of all, it means for those who are in Christ, 00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:53.259 there is assurance. It means that there is no sin that you have committed that is so heinous, 00:28:53.259 --> 00:29:02.440 or so ugly, that it is unforgivable, because Christ's offering was accepted by God for you, 00:29:03.340 --> 00:29:09.140 and for the worst thing that you have ever done, or ever thought, or ever said. 00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:23.400 Friends, it means that we, in our assurance, are free from guilt. Yes, your sin is reprehensible, 00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:37.060 it is ugly, it is displeasing to God, and yet, Christ has paid all. He has offered what needed to be 00:29:37.059 --> 00:29:48.759 offered. And so, in the words of the hymn, he can look on Christ, and see our sin there punished at the 00:29:48.759 --> 00:30:00.519 cross, and pardon us. And so, there is no more condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 00:30:00.519 --> 00:30:08.639 Friends, it means that there is assurance of salvation, no matter how imperfect we remain, 00:30:09.240 --> 00:30:17.720 how weak our faith may be, how feeble our fruit may seem, how unresponsive our hearts may be, 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:21.079 how stubborn our wills may rise up. 00:30:21.079 --> 00:30:35.299 Christ has paid it all. And we have assurance that because we are in Christ, all of it's been taken. 00:30:36.639 --> 00:30:45.359 And we are His. And we cannot be taken away. And we cannot get ourselves out. 00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:56.559 We are free from the despair of our ongoing sin, and we are free to rejoice and be glad in our salvation. 00:30:58.859 --> 00:31:06.799 Friends, not only this, but along with this assurance, we also have freedom from our work. 00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:16.379 Because I know we talked about earlier already in that illustration, but we do want, we do want to 00:31:16.379 --> 00:31:22.139 atone for our own sins, over and over again in different ways, don't we? I've sinned, I want to 00:31:22.139 --> 00:31:28.659 make it up to God. I want to try harder to do better. I'm going to be more diligent. I'm going to be, 00:31:28.659 --> 00:31:33.680 do good works of service, because, because I, oh God. 00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:45.299 Friends, we have both religious and irreligious forms of trying to make ourselves acceptable to God on our own basis. 00:31:48.379 --> 00:31:55.700 Whether we try to make our lives acceptable to God by being good people, or by being really religious Christians, 00:31:56.519 --> 00:32:06.059 by devotedly doing our spiritual service, by coming to church every Sunday, whatever it is, 00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:18.500 whatever it is, friends, we don't have to do that anymore. In fact, it's like the guy who goes and tries to pay the debt 00:32:18.500 --> 00:32:23.539 when it's already been paid. It's not only useless, it's foolish. 00:32:23.539 --> 00:32:32.240 Spurgeon said this, 00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:34.960 cast your deadly doings at the foot of the cross. 00:32:35.700 --> 00:32:37.279 Cease from your own works. 00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:39.859 Cease from your own righteousness. 00:32:40.539 --> 00:32:44.099 Cease from resting in your confessions, in your tears, in your prayers, 00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:46.220 in your going to church or your chapel. 00:32:46.220 --> 00:32:50.519 Oh, cease from all of this and in simple faith, accept. 00:32:51.360 --> 00:32:56.140 Take hold of the divine work of the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:32:56.539 --> 00:32:58.579 God needs no more sacrifices. 00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:01.079 God asks no other atonement. 00:33:01.620 --> 00:33:08.140 God looks for nothing on your part to propitiate his regard or present you with acceptance. 00:33:08.140 --> 00:33:17.220 He is satisfied with the divine work of Christ, with his obedience and with his blood shedding. 00:33:19.840 --> 00:33:28.220 Friends, renounce your own doings and rest in the finished work of Christ. 00:33:28.220 --> 00:33:36.880 When you do that, God will expand his arms of love and embrace you. 00:33:37.539 --> 00:33:40.860 Take you into a covenant, filial relationship with himself. 00:33:41.319 --> 00:33:44.839 And from that moment, your path to eternity will be like the sun, 00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:48.460 growing brighter and brighter until the perfect day. 00:33:48.839 --> 00:33:51.960 All is done. Christ has done it. 00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:56.339 What can wash away my sin? 00:33:57.339 --> 00:33:57.740 Nothing. 00:33:58.220 --> 00:33:59.339 But the blood of Jesus. 00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:01.720 What can make me whole again? 00:34:02.759 --> 00:34:03.220 Nothing. 00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:06.460 But the blood of Jesus. 00:34:10.139 --> 00:34:17.539 Friends, I want to simply remark that this is good news for those who know that they need it. 00:34:20.019 --> 00:34:27.039 But if you're here this morning and you are still clinging to the hope or the conviction 00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:33.420 or the desperate claim that you can make yourself acceptable before Christ, 00:34:33.420 --> 00:34:36.599 that it is up to you and you won't let go of that. 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:39.739 Friends, I have no words of comfort for you. 00:34:42.460 --> 00:34:46.820 To cling to those things is to reject the offering of Christ. 00:34:46.820 --> 00:34:53.059 But to let those things go. 00:34:53.059 --> 00:34:55.559 Oh, what freedom there is. 00:34:55.559 --> 00:34:58.920 Oh, what joy and rest there is. 00:34:58.920 --> 00:35:05.599 Because we no longer have to make ourselves acceptable, but we have been declared acceptable by God. 00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:09.940 He looks upon us as sons and daughters because of Christ. 00:35:10.300 --> 00:35:12.380 He accepts us in his Spurgeon's sin. 00:35:12.720 --> 00:35:16.300 Wraps his loving arms around us. 00:35:16.300 --> 00:35:18.880 And welcomes us warmly. 00:35:19.740 --> 00:35:23.420 And promises us eternity with him. 00:35:26.680 --> 00:35:29.039 What a blessed hope. 00:35:31.039 --> 00:35:34.680 Finally, friends. 00:35:35.260 --> 00:35:38.100 Not only do we have assurance of being Christ. 00:35:38.099 --> 00:35:47.980 Not only do we have freedom and rest from our own self-work, self-atonement, 00:35:48.319 --> 00:35:56.960 but we have rest from looking for that something else in life that's finally going to make our lives complete. 00:35:59.460 --> 00:36:03.279 We don't have to look any further. 00:36:03.280 --> 00:36:06.760 All that we have longed for. 00:36:07.300 --> 00:36:09.400 All that we have most needed. 00:36:09.940 --> 00:36:14.400 The very depth of the life that we most want. 00:36:15.420 --> 00:36:19.400 Ultimately, is found alone in Christ. 00:36:21.120 --> 00:36:28.120 And Christ has done all that we need to have that. 00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:30.240 We don't need to look any further. 00:36:30.240 --> 00:36:33.120 This is the whole argument of the book of Hebrews. 00:36:33.280 --> 00:36:37.380 Don't neglect such a great salvation. 00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:40.640 Consider Jesus and what he has done for us. 00:36:41.140 --> 00:36:43.080 Because he has done this for us, 00:36:43.400 --> 00:36:46.960 let us draw near to God in full assurance of faith. 00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:48.900 When we get to chapter 12, 00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:54.180 lay aside every sin and the things that so easily entangle us. 00:36:54.240 --> 00:36:58.380 And let us run the race before fixing our eyes on Jesus, 00:36:58.380 --> 00:37:00.460 the author, the one who has begun it. 00:37:00.460 --> 00:37:03.940 And the perfecter, the one who has finished it for us. 00:37:06.820 --> 00:37:08.119 Friends, stop looking. 00:37:08.820 --> 00:37:10.820 Stop looking for another savior. 00:37:11.139 --> 00:37:15.619 Stop looking for something else to make your life with God complete. 00:37:15.619 --> 00:37:20.219 Christ has done it all. 00:37:20.219 --> 00:37:30.779 The king with all authority became a priest who interceded for us. 00:37:30.780 --> 00:37:36.100 By laying down his own life. 00:37:38.100 --> 00:37:39.980 To purchase us for him. 00:37:39.980 --> 00:37:44.199 And so we have a greater king. 00:37:44.199 --> 00:37:46.019 And a greater salvation. 00:37:46.019 --> 00:37:49.099 And a greater victory over sin and death. 00:37:49.300 --> 00:37:50.699 And a greater rest. 00:37:50.980 --> 00:37:52.079 And a greater hope. 00:37:52.539 --> 00:37:56.000 And a greater high priest who serves in a greater heavenly temple. 00:37:56.539 --> 00:38:00.960 Offering the greatest sacrifice of his own life. 00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:05.199 Friends, there is no other like him. 00:38:08.820 --> 00:38:10.720 There is no other. 00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:14.519 And so we can stand fast. 00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:15.980 And hold firm. 00:38:16.099 --> 00:38:16.980 And press on. 00:38:18.920 --> 00:38:20.780 Because he has done it all. 00:38:20.780 --> 00:38:26.120 Our final application this morning. 00:38:27.120 --> 00:38:28.140 Is down there. 00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:30.480 So. 00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:32.519 I'm going to come down. 00:38:32.720 --> 00:38:34.519 We're going to come to the Lord's table. 00:38:39.160 --> 00:38:41.160 As we come to the Lord's table. 00:38:41.159 --> 00:38:44.619 We celebrate what Christ has done. 00:38:45.279 --> 00:38:46.139 This here. 00:38:46.139 --> 00:38:49.199 Is a celebration of the finished work of Christ. 00:38:50.159 --> 00:38:52.099 And perhaps it's obvious. 00:38:52.339 --> 00:38:53.299 But let's say it again. 00:38:53.659 --> 00:38:55.859 That means that we're not doing it again. 00:38:56.699 --> 00:38:58.699 We're not sacrificing Christ again. 00:38:59.420 --> 00:39:00.619 This is. 00:39:01.259 --> 00:39:02.980 A memorial table. 00:39:03.319 --> 00:39:05.799 Where we remember the work of Christ. 00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:07.659 The finished work. 00:39:07.799 --> 00:39:09.139 The once for all sacrifice. 00:39:09.139 --> 00:39:11.199 That was made. 00:39:11.199 --> 00:39:12.599 On our behalf. 00:39:13.099 --> 00:39:14.480 It is a table for sinners. 00:39:14.719 --> 00:39:16.400 Who know they need a savior. 00:39:17.139 --> 00:39:19.539 It is a table for those who are in Christ. 00:39:20.359 --> 00:39:21.259 Who can come. 00:39:21.659 --> 00:39:23.199 And take the bread and the cup. 00:39:23.279 --> 00:39:25.859 And remember that great sacrifice. 00:39:27.879 --> 00:39:29.099 With sobriety. 00:39:29.219 --> 00:39:31.019 In the face of our sin. 00:39:31.119 --> 00:39:32.839 That necessitated this sacrifice. 00:39:33.519 --> 00:39:35.179 But with great joy. 00:39:35.779 --> 00:39:36.639 With freedom. 00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:38.400 Friends, I asked this morning. 00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:39.660 If you are in Christ. 00:39:39.820 --> 00:39:40.119 Come. 00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:41.720 Take of this. 00:39:41.840 --> 00:39:43.980 And remember the assurance you have. 00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:46.079 The freedom that you have. 00:39:46.180 --> 00:39:48.059 And the rest that you have in him. 00:39:49.320 --> 00:39:50.880 If you are here this morning. 00:39:51.139 --> 00:39:52.519 And you're not in Christ. 00:39:52.940 --> 00:39:55.200 If you've never put your faith. 00:39:55.460 --> 00:39:56.500 In this one. 00:39:56.740 --> 00:39:57.180 Friends. 00:39:57.420 --> 00:39:58.420 Do it this morning. 00:40:00.980 --> 00:40:02.559 There is no one else. 00:40:02.680 --> 00:40:03.900 Who has completed the work. 00:40:04.420 --> 00:40:05.400 Only Christ. 00:40:06.300 --> 00:40:07.260 Do it this morning. 00:40:07.260 --> 00:40:09.440 Let the elements pass you by. 00:40:09.560 --> 00:40:10.220 As you think. 00:40:11.480 --> 00:40:12.560 Or pray. 00:40:12.760 --> 00:40:13.300 And take it. 00:40:13.380 --> 00:40:15.180 As your first expression of faith. 00:40:15.680 --> 00:40:16.880 That you believe. 00:40:17.020 --> 00:40:19.020 That Christ's death for you. 00:40:19.100 --> 00:40:19.960 Is the only. 00:40:20.420 --> 00:40:21.400 And the sufficient. 00:40:22.700 --> 00:40:23.180 Way. 00:40:23.320 --> 00:40:23.860 That you. 00:40:24.820 --> 00:40:25.700 Can be restored. 00:40:25.860 --> 00:40:27.080 To a relationship with God. 00:40:27.079 --> 00:40:30.299 I'm going to ask. 00:40:30.299 --> 00:40:30.679 I'm going to ask. 00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:31.819 The servers. 00:40:32.099 --> 00:40:32.799 To come forward. 00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:33.699 And the music team. 00:40:33.799 --> 00:40:34.460 To come on up. 00:40:39.759 --> 00:40:40.860 The apostle Paul. 00:40:40.980 --> 00:40:41.460 Wrote about. 00:40:41.900 --> 00:40:42.440 What we do. 00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:44.000 As we celebrate the Lord's Supper. 00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:46.619 In first Corinthians 11. 00:40:50.619 --> 00:40:51.539 Says this. 00:40:51.539 --> 00:40:52.019 For. 00:40:52.980 --> 00:40:54.400 I receive from the Lord. 00:40:54.400 --> 00:40:56.179 What I also delivered to you. 00:40:56.719 --> 00:40:57.539 That the Lord Jesus. 00:40:57.739 --> 00:40:58.159 On the night. 00:40:58.239 --> 00:40:59.079 When he is betrayed. 00:40:59.239 --> 00:40:59.920 Took bread. 00:41:00.820 --> 00:41:02.219 And when he had given thanks. 00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:02.920 He broke it. 00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:03.340 And said. 00:41:03.500 --> 00:41:03.779 This. 00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:05.239 Is my body. 00:41:05.340 --> 00:41:06.279 Which is for you. 00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:08.219 Do this. 00:41:08.559 --> 00:41:09.820 In remembrance of me. 00:41:10.679 --> 00:41:11.920 And so we take. 00:41:13.800 --> 00:41:14.840 These trays. 00:41:15.420 --> 00:41:16.219 And this bread. 00:41:16.219 --> 00:41:19.159 And we remember. 00:41:19.319 --> 00:41:20.179 The body of Christ. 00:41:20.619 --> 00:41:21.539 Broken for us. 00:41:23.399 --> 00:41:23.839 Nick. 00:41:23.899 --> 00:41:24.259 Will you pray? 00:41:27.319 --> 00:41:28.259 Let's pray together. 00:41:31.899 --> 00:41:32.879 Our Lord Jesus. 00:41:34.500 --> 00:41:35.819 Thank you for the sufficiency. 00:41:36.299 --> 00:41:37.119 Of what you've done. 00:41:38.459 --> 00:41:40.099 That there is nothing lacking. 00:41:40.819 --> 00:41:41.679 In your body. 00:41:41.799 --> 00:41:42.679 Broken for us. 00:41:43.579 --> 00:41:43.980 Lord. 00:41:44.079 --> 00:41:44.839 Thank you for taking. 00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:46.159 Out of our hands. 00:41:47.159 --> 00:41:48.359 Our deadly doing. 00:41:48.519 --> 00:41:49.219 Our striving. 00:41:50.239 --> 00:41:51.459 Our selfish work. 00:41:52.899 --> 00:41:53.459 And granting. 00:41:53.839 --> 00:41:54.679 Granting to us. 00:41:54.739 --> 00:41:55.319 Your perfection. 00:41:56.839 --> 00:41:57.259 Lord. 00:41:57.319 --> 00:41:58.199 Thank you for giving us. 00:41:58.319 --> 00:41:58.819 This meal. 00:41:58.939 --> 00:41:59.799 That we can hold. 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:00.579 And taste. 00:42:00.779 --> 00:42:01.299 And see. 00:42:01.980 --> 00:42:02.239 Lord. 00:42:02.299 --> 00:42:02.919 So that we can. 00:42:03.099 --> 00:42:03.500 Remember. 00:42:03.659 --> 00:42:04.659 To look to you. 00:42:06.299 --> 00:42:07.299 And the beauty. 00:42:07.759 --> 00:42:08.679 And the completeness. 00:42:08.679 --> 00:42:09.559 Of what you've done. 00:42:10.339 --> 00:42:10.599 God. 00:42:10.819 --> 00:42:11.919 Strengthen our hearts. 00:42:12.599 --> 00:42:13.819 As we take this. 00:42:14.119 --> 00:42:14.799 Bread together. 00:42:15.580 --> 00:42:16.440 For your sake. 00:42:16.539 --> 00:42:16.980 Lord Jesus. 00:42:17.140 --> 00:42:17.820 And in your name. 00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:18.260 We pray. 00:42:18.500 --> 00:42:18.780 Amen. 00:42:18.780 --> 00:42:19.080 Amen. 00:42:35.420 --> 00:42:35.860 Amen. 00:42:35.860 --> 00:43:05.840 Thank you. 00:43:05.860 --> 00:43:35.840 Thank you. 00:43:35.860 --> 00:44:05.840 Thank you. 00:44:05.860 --> 00:44:35.840 Thank you. 00:44:35.860 --> 00:45:05.840 Thank you. 00:45:05.860 --> 00:45:35.840 Thank you. 00:45:35.860 --> 00:46:05.840 Thank you. 00:46:05.860 --> 00:46:35.840 Thank you. 00:46:35.880 --> 00:46:36.640 Let's pray. 00:46:36.639 --> 00:46:46.199 Lord Jesus, we thank you for your blood that you shed on the cross. 00:46:46.199 --> 00:46:55.419 Lord, we thank you for the new covenant that that brings us into, Lord, the new relationship 00:46:55.419 --> 00:47:00.960 with you that we have on the basis of your grace and your forgiveness. 00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:07.519 Lord, we thank you, Lord, we thank you that in that new covenant, you have written your law 00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:16.599 on our hearts and on our minds, and it says you have remembered our sins and our iniquities 00:47:16.599 --> 00:47:32.400 and let us know more, Lord, we thank you, Lord, we thank you that we can walk in newness of life and in the power of your Holy Spirit living in us. 00:47:32.400 --> 00:47:42.099 So, Lord, we pray that you would strengthen us as we take this cup with joy to live the life that you have set before us and that you have won for us at the cross. 00:47:42.700 --> 00:47:42.980 Amen. 00:47:42.980 --> 00:47:43.119 Amen. 00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:04.400 Amen. 00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:34.400 Amen. 00:48:34.400 --> 00:48:35.400 Amen. 00:48:35.400 --> 00:48:36.400 Amen. 00:48:36.400 --> 00:48:37.400 Amen. 00:49:02.400 --> 00:49:04.400 Amen. 00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:05.400 Amen. 00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:06.400 Amen. 00:49:32.400 --> 00:50:02.400 00:50:02.400 --> 00:50:03.400 Amen. 00:50:32.400 --> 00:50:34.400 Amen. 00:50:34.400 --> 00:50:35.400 Amen. 00:50:35.400 --> 00:50:37.400 Amen. 00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:11.400 Till I reach the golden strand 00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:18.880 Just beyond the river 00:51:18.880 --> 00:51:26.400 In the cross, in the cross 00:51:26.400 --> 00:51:32.820 Be my glory ever 00:51:32.820 --> 00:51:40.400 Till my raptured soul shall find 00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:47.400 Rest beyond the river 00:51:47.400 --> 00:51:55.539 Friends, this cup signifies the blood of Christ 00:51:55.539 --> 00:51:57.360 In which he tells us 00:51:57.360 --> 00:52:00.800 I will remember your sins and your lawless deeds no more 00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:02.279 Let's drink this together