Latest / Simply Christ Podcast / Hebrews Part 29 - Simply Christ Bible Study

Transcript

Hebrews Part 29 - Simply Christ Bible Study · Simply Christ Podcast

0:04
All righty welcome guys. We are ready to start our next
0:09
Bible study here, our weekly webinar where we study the word
0:13
of God and we look at it to it for direction and guidance and
0:18
we let it transform our lives. And for the next hour, we're
0:22
going to talk in Hebrews about what the author had there to the
0:27
believers. And so if you guys want us, you
0:32
got a question or want to comment, you can do that via the
0:35
chat on whatever platform you're watching.
0:38
And we'll get that up here for us.
0:43
Of course, like always, we are streaming at Facebook and
0:45
YouTube. Our recordings are available at
0:49
Sibley Christ Ministries. You can Google that and get the
0:51
links to all the platforms and the podcast that we put out
0:56
every week as well. So tonight we are going to go
1:01
through Hebrews after 10 verse, starting in verse 4.
1:08
So we're going to start in Hebrews 10/4 and work our way
1:12
through that. We did got 3 verses done last
1:14
week, so maybe we could get 5 or 6 done this week.
1:17
We'll see. That all goes.
1:20
So I don't know who's going to pray for us this evening to get
1:24
started. Melvin, I think you have it in a
1:26
while. Yeah.
1:28
Let's pray. Father, we come to you tonight
1:31
and we just bless you and we are you and we thank you for your
1:34
goodness and we thank you that you have given us your son Jesus
1:39
to redeem us on the cross and that we can have this one
1:43
sacrifice done once that we can put our faith in.
1:48
And Father, I just pray tonight that as we get into your word
1:52
that that your spirit would use our use us and then we could be
1:58
open to your spirit and that only the truth would come out
2:03
and not what we want to say or our flesh.
2:06
And Father, I pray that this Bible study would reach someone
2:11
tonight that is searching and wants to know the truth.
2:15
And Father, we just bless you and we love you and we just
2:20
glorify your name in Jesus name, Amen.
2:23
Amen. That's.
2:25
Right, OK, yes, good evening Cameron.
2:30
Good to have you with us again tonight.
2:33
Appreciate that. And John was on there too, I
2:36
saw. Appreciate you guys being on
2:38
here. Alrighty.
2:40
Hebrews chapter 10 verse 4 says for it is not possible that the
2:46
blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
2:50
And just to get a running context, I'm going to read the
2:54
first 3 verses of this chapter. And because we remember that I
2:59
was thinking about this on Sunday, yesterday, we divide
3:03
this thing up. But it would be good for us to
3:05
remember that when we read this, these scriptures that we should
3:08
read them like we would a book by paragraph and sentence,
3:12
because these references are just Simply put there.
3:15
So we know what each other is talking about when we talk about
3:18
a certain area of the scriptures.
3:20
So it's easy to find. So it's just kind of a key.
3:22
It is not where God divided it to be discussed in certain
3:26
segments. So just to what you think about
3:29
it, think about the scripture written like a book or a story
3:33
or whatever. So starting in verse one, just
3:37
because that's a good place to start, says for the shadow, for
3:39
the law having a shadow of good things to come and not the very
3:43
image of things can never with those sacrifices which they
3:46
offered year by year continually make the comers there unto
3:49
perfect. For then would they not have
3:52
ceased to be offered because that the worshippers,
3:55
worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of
3:59
sins. And we talked about that a lot
4:01
last week. But in those sacrifices there is
4:05
a remembrance again made of sins.
4:08
And for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats
4:12
should take away this this take away sins.
4:15
And the reason I wanted to read that is the key to verse 4 is
4:18
actually a three the full argument there.
4:22
He's saying that the reason that remembrance was made is because
4:28
the blood of bulls and goats cannot or should not, it says
4:32
here, take away sins. And so that makes for an
4:37
interesting argument which we have been hearing through the
4:41
previous chapters of Hebrews. He is making the point here that
4:46
blood of bulls and goat is not able and that Jesus is superior
4:51
in this because his blood is able.
4:54
So he makes a really good argument here and he's going to
4:58
continue on this for several more verses before he lets this
5:02
this idea go. So anyway that I just want to
5:06
get a running start there and I will let you add any comments
5:10
Andrew and the rest of you on why that the blood of bulls and
5:16
goats should not take away Sid. There's probably many reasons
5:22
why not, but he tells us, he just tells us they can't, like
5:26
it's not possible. And what I see here is he's laid
5:32
up a foundation of how Christ is so much better than any Angel or
5:37
prophet or anything that has happened in the past.
5:41
And he had, he uses Old Testament references to this
5:46
time that's going to happen when he says when he says a lot of
5:52
these things here. And he's trying to be sliding
5:55
into this transition time from the administration of the law to
5:59
the administration of the Spirit.
6:01
And the way he's doing it is to prove to them that the blood of
6:07
fools and goats can't take away sins.
6:09
Because if they did, you wouldn't have any more
6:11
conscience of sins and you'd be made perfect.
6:14
Then you wouldn't. Then you would keep doing it.
6:17
If you were made perfect, then you would keep doing these
6:20
sacrifices. But everybody knows that that
6:23
didn't make you perfect. And the reason why is because
6:25
the blood of fools and goats can't make you perfect.
6:28
Why? Because they can't take away,
6:31
you're saying? So the key is that we need our
6:34
sins actually taken away of not just covered, not just not just
6:39
a temporary atonement. We need them to disappear
6:42
completely. And that's what the blood of the
6:45
bulls and goats was impossible to do.
6:47
So he is bringing in the New Testament, he's bringing in the
6:51
new covenant, and he's trying to get them proof to them that they
6:56
have to let go of the old. So they can bring in the second
6:59
or the first they can bring in the second.
7:02
Yeah, that's right, Aaron. Yeah, I was just thinking that
7:07
when he says it is not possible that the blood of bulls, goats,
7:11
take away sand, it's it's I mean, I know this is probably
7:14
something everybody else is going to say.
7:16
You're thinking at least is it's just not equal, right?
7:20
I mean, it's just not an equal thing.
7:22
A animal is not made in the image of God like a man is,
7:27
right? I mean, he, he makes all these
7:28
things and the first six days of creation and he's, and then he
7:32
kind of basically gets done with everything else and says, let us
7:36
make man in our own image and in our own likeness.
7:39
So it's not as valuable. I mean, I, I feel like that's
7:43
the simple short answer is just not as valuable as it's not
7:47
valuable enough to take away sins.
7:49
It took a man to take away men's sins, right?
7:53
I mean, that's that's the thing that really stands out to me in
7:56
that verse. In fact, he's going to go on to
7:58
say that in the next couple is I God, I did not get any pleasure
8:04
out of those sacrifices. I've prepared a body, like a
8:09
human body, for myself. So that's.
8:13
That's what I think about the words.
8:14
Good point, Dad. Oh, oh, he's not.
8:20
Can't hear you, Dad. Yeah, there we go.
8:24
I was going to say something very similar to what Aaron just
8:27
said it that it's the quality of the sacrifice.
8:30
The the worthiness of the sacrifice was not there with
8:33
blood of bulls and of goats. The lifestyle of the Lord Jesus
8:38
earned him the right to become the perfect man, the perfect
8:43
sacrifice, the captain of our salvation.
8:45
Then he laid down his life, because it was finally blood
8:49
that was sufficient to stand before God.
8:51
No flesh and blood had ever been able to stand before God.
8:54
Here was one man that was able. And then he gave up that perfect
8:58
righteous blood and laid it down his own body, which blood of
9:02
bulls and goats was just a mere very pitiful glimpse or shadow
9:08
of the real. Yeah, I, I don't like to put
9:14
some emphasis on take away. You know, in the Old Testament,
9:21
which is what he's arguing about here, you know, the old verses,
9:25
the new, bringing in the new. It he says that they had to have
9:30
a sin offering. It was called an offering, like
9:34
it didn't take away their sins. And so it's only Jesus Christ
9:41
that can take away our sins. And there's, I think all of us
9:45
probably have a desire deep down to have our sins taken away,
9:51
right? I mean, that's, that's the what
9:54
God has put in US actually, the desire to be free and to be have
10:00
our sins taken away. And we try and take them away
10:04
with so many other things and whatever it may be.
10:09
There's a whole bunch of things that people try and do to take
10:14
away their sins, but it's only Jesus Christ that can take away
10:20
our sins, and it's not the blood of bulls and goats.
10:25
And if sorry, can I say something?
10:28
So we just also went through where he talked about what
10:33
qualified Jesus Christ to be a perfect great high priest.
10:37
It was after the order of Melchizedek.
10:39
I don't know if a goat that was after the order of Melchizedek
10:43
that suffered, but that was tempted, that was tried and that
10:48
overcame. And I don't know of a bull that
10:53
was on a cross or tortured like. And I don't know of a bull that
10:57
can sucker those that are tempted, you know, big.
11:00
Point. That's good.
11:01
That's. Good stuff.
11:03
One more thing I wouldn't mind pointing out too is that under
11:06
the old covenant, God did not want the people to forget that
11:10
they had sin. That's right.
11:12
By implication saying, hey, I want you to remember this.
11:15
Remember you are guilty, you are sinful, you are not worthy.
11:19
Keep remembering that. And now one of the new covenant,
11:22
he says, done. That's right, no more
11:24
remembrance. Amen.
11:26
No more of sin, he said in verse 2 there.
11:29
Yeah, that's good right there. Come on.
11:35
Yeah, yeah, I guess I never even thought about it.
11:37
But that was actually the schoolmaster, wasn't it?
11:39
Our, our earnest of being coming up short every single time.
11:42
On and on and on. On and on and on.
11:44
Yeah, Yeah, very good, very good.
11:47
All right, Five and six. Wherefore when he cometh into
11:52
the world, he's saith sacrifice and offering.
11:55
Thou wouldest not but a body has thou prepared me in burnt
12:00
offerings and sacrifices for sin.
12:03
Thou hast had no pleasure. I find that kind of incredible
12:08
actually, that he would say that after having instituting
12:15
actually that many, many years ago.
12:18
So anyway, go ahead and. Yeah, I read this these verses
12:25
and I always scratch my head. He set up this whole temporary
12:33
but foreshadowing because remember in verse one it says
12:37
for the law having a shadow of good things to come, but not and
12:41
not the very nature of the things can never with those
12:44
sacrifices which they offer year by year continual to make the
12:47
comers there and too perfect. I think that was probably the
12:50
reason he didn't like it because it didn't do the job.
12:55
He had no pleasure in it. It was just a remembrance of sin
12:58
made every year. It was just a constant bloodshed
13:01
of innocent animals. I don't know if that's Paul so
13:04
part he didn't like all these animals dying for someone else's
13:08
sins and he said he says he had no pleasure in it.
13:14
Burnt offering and sacrificed his sin had no pleasure in that.
13:18
But the word that sticks out to me a little bit and burnt
13:22
offerings and sacrifice sin thou hast had no pleasure.
13:26
So who is he talking to? I'm assuming it's Jesus talking
13:29
to God. Yeah, I think he's quoting a.
13:34
He's quoting a scripture too, isn't he?
13:36
Yeah, yeah. He's quoting Psalms.
13:39
Verse 40 is what he's quoting. Yeah, right.
13:45
So it's not what I see when I read that.
13:51
Is that the whole foreshadowing thing that he commanded everyone
13:55
to do and that they had to do in order to not either that or die
13:59
and sometimes even in the log, depending on what you did, you
14:02
did die. I mean you the penalty was
14:04
death. But when there was an atonement
14:07
to be made, they used means to weed lay old goat or bull and he
14:12
could never do the job and God just had no pleasure in it.
14:15
What he had pleasure in it, what he was well pleased with was his
14:18
son and his son died and that is what particularly since.
14:25
Yeah, Aaron. Yeah, I don't think he's, I
14:29
don't think he's exactly saying that he asked him to do
14:33
something that that later made him mad other than maybe when
14:37
they were doing it, you know, like when when he was abhorred
14:42
by their sacrifice and you know, like they were still sacrificing
14:45
and in greater iniquity. I think that might have made him
14:48
mad. But I think it's similar to like
14:51
it would be the opposite of what he says in Isaiah 53 and verse
14:55
10. It says, yet it pleased the Lord
14:58
to bruise him yet yet he hath put him to grieve when he when
15:04
he made his soul an offering for our sins.
15:06
And then it says that verse 11 says he shall see the travail of
15:14
his soul and shall be satisfied. I think that's kind of what he's
15:19
saying. He's he's saying I got no
15:23
satisfaction out of it in the sense of it didn't cover your
15:27
all's iniquities, your transgressions towards me.
15:30
Whereas when Christ suffers, he is satisfied now.
15:34
So I don't think he asked him to do something and then decided he
15:37
was aggravated that he that they're doing it.
15:41
Yeah. That's what I was trying to.
15:42
Say, Oh yeah, yeah. And then, but let me, I'll say
15:46
that about those verses. Let me back up and say this.
15:48
Leviticus 17 verse 11 says for the life of the flesh is in the
15:53
blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an
15:58
atonement for your souls. For it is the blood that maketh
16:02
an atonement for the soul. So it's when he says in in verse
16:07
4, it's not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should
16:10
take away sin. He's not saying that blood is
16:12
not what he's looking for. It just wasn't the right kind of
16:16
blood. Right in.
16:17
Other words, it does take blood. It was just that animal blood is
16:21
not equal to human iniquity, I guess you'd say, or whatever,
16:26
you know, like it's not, it doesn't qualify, but.
16:29
Right. Yep.
16:33
Yeah, I think. Sometimes when people hear the
16:35
doctrine of substitutionary atonement described, they get
16:40
the impression that God is this vindictive God that just loves
16:44
the smell of barbecue. And he's like, give me more,
16:46
give me more. I need blood, I need sacrifice.
16:50
You know, like he can't ever be filled up when this is not the
16:53
case at all. He was just looking for, oh, how
16:57
would you say full atonement? He wanted the right thing to
17:02
take the place of. He wanted justice to be fully
17:05
served for there to be a a real substitute made he he wanted man
17:11
to be made right and according to his justice, according to his
17:14
law, according to his own standard of his own character,
17:18
he could not allow men to go. And so he created this, like
17:22
Andrew said before, this temporary image, this great
17:26
object lesson that would serve the purpose of just that alone.
17:31
It's not like he's up there like, yeah, I want more.
17:33
I want more meat. I want more blood.
17:35
Or rather, he was trying to paint a picture for them to see.
17:38
Like Aaron said, this does not satisfy.
17:41
This does not satisfy. There, now I'm satisfied.
17:44
And I think that's that's where the beauty is in it.
17:47
Sometimes Christians who reject substitutionary atonement, they,
17:51
they call it mockingly cosmic child abuse or cosmic child
17:57
sacrifice. And it just, they, they're
17:59
disgusted by it because they think it's this vindictive,
18:01
ugly, evil natured God that just wants, he's out for blood,
18:06
right? But it's not he's, he's making
18:08
it equal. He's correcting everything that
18:11
went wrong and it's it becomes a very beautiful doctrine.
18:16
Melvin. Yeah, it's just interesting to
18:19
me that he says there buddy body has thou prepared me.
18:23
And and someone had said it earlier that God needed a
18:28
person, a person that had flesh just like we did to take away
18:34
our sins, not bulls or or goats. But if you look up that word
18:41
pleasure where he says in burnt offering and sacrifice for sin,
18:45
thou has no pleasure. It says to the prove or to think
18:51
good or to be pleased. So in other words, he had he it
18:56
was not approved like you were saying, Dan, that did he didn't
19:01
approve of that. It's so it's not it's not just
19:06
the blood like it had to be the right blood, right?
19:10
It's like you describe it. He just he didn't approve of the
19:13
bulls and goats. Yeah.
19:16
It is in a sense like not having pleasure in verse 6 there.
19:21
I mean, it's almost in a way like maybe, maybe not, this
19:25
doesn't directly apply, but in a way like with my own, with my
19:29
own kids, like discipline is there's no pleasure in it for
19:32
me, you know, but but it's a necessary part of having
19:38
fulfillment. It's a necessary part of, you
19:41
know, of the the work. Just like this schoolmaster,
19:45
this law that he talks about called it a schoolmaster.
19:48
There wasn't any pleasure necessarily in that schoolmaster
19:51
or that method, but it was a necessary part of attaining the
19:54
the finished, completed work in Christ because otherwise,
19:58
otherwise we wouldn't know our sin had it not been up to us to
20:02
work for that for a while. And and the other on the other
20:05
hand too, like how great is it to God the Father that he can
20:10
take someone like Charlie Kirk? In his arms, fully redeemed and
20:15
just call him a call him a son and be able to say well done,
20:19
you know, by good and faithful Sir or whatever, you know,
20:21
whatever that whatever that reunion was there in that
20:24
instant is because of the difference of this blood that
20:28
we're talking about. This this this blood that Jesus
20:32
provided when he died on the cross is so sufficient that God
20:35
could without any reserve take somebody like Charlie, a
20:39
believer into his arms into his perfect righteous heaven
20:44
heavenly realm. There isn't isn't that good
20:46
news? Isn't that great that that could
20:48
be done, but it yeah. Any other comments on?
20:55
Yeah, what you mentioned about relating to this to your kids as
20:59
far as being satisfied, the glory and the joy it brings us.
21:04
When you see them graduate from being told what to do when you
21:08
see that graduate from you trying to get them to have a
21:12
conviction or or make up your mind and be mature to do the
21:17
right thing on your own. When you see that graduation
21:20
happening and you see that maturity, it glorifies you
21:23
doesn't like it it, it makes you so proud, makes you so happy,
21:27
it's fulfilled. Well, Jesus Christ, I mean, God
21:30
saw his Son fulfill all things like he matured above where the
21:38
first Adam failed. He, he, God was there watching
21:44
his son, his own son, his own flesh, be out there and tried
21:50
and he always chose maturely without him.
21:56
You know, I don't think God had to discipline his son, but his
22:01
Son had to grow up in wisdom and instruction and in
22:05
righteousness. It's like you had to be taught,
22:08
but evidently in order for God to be pleased, he matured
22:14
according to what God considers perfect, and he became a
22:19
perfect, great high priest. And I think you can experience
22:22
that like you were saying. Oh yeah.
22:24
Sure. Hey man, Cameron, I I hit the
22:29
camera to get you unmuted, but it's just spinning on my end.
22:33
So we'll go on to the next first, but you can hop on
22:35
whatever that goes through, or I might have to retry it.
22:41
All right. Verse 7 then said, I lo, I come
22:48
to do thy will, O God, is what it says.
22:51
But in the parentheses, I'll read the whole thing.
22:54
But then then said, I lo, I come in the volume of the book, it is
22:59
written of me to do thy will, O God.
23:02
So when I read a verse like that, I like to read it without
23:05
the parentheses so I can see what he actually is saying.
23:09
So he came to do the will of the Father so that he could provide
23:16
this, this perfect sacrifice. Anything else on that end?
23:22
I'm just so happy that he said, Lo, I come to do thy will, O
23:30
God. It's almost like he had a choice
23:34
and think of, I forget, I think somebody has counted the
23:39
prophecies one time, I forget how many someone said, I think
23:42
there's like 450 or more prophecies of Christ coming.
23:47
And so when he says in the volume of the book, it is
23:50
written of him, he ain't kidding.
23:52
Like there's, I'm assuming I probably insulted him with that
23:55
number. There's probably a lot more, but
23:59
there's a whole volume and he's looking at the Scripture, he's
24:02
looking at the word of God. And that book is it is a whole
24:05
volume of of testifying of him. I mean, look at Isaiah, you guys
24:08
read some of that tonight of God talking about his son coming in
24:14
and Jesus is looking at that and say, you know, like it, you
24:17
know, like it, like it is written in that book.
24:20
A lot of times it's me, I'm here, I'm coming.
24:24
It's not another one. It's not another Christ.
24:26
It's not another priest. It's not another Aaron or
24:29
anything like that or Moses. It's me.
24:32
The one that the book is telling, speaking about is me.
24:36
I am come to do thy will, O God. A.
24:43
Couple things one is I think that shows us that Christ was
24:47
speaking, if you will, even in the Old Testament and then kind
24:53
of like what Andrew just said in that volume of the book and I
24:57
always. Actually have a little.
25:01
I guess I have a little jealousy of those two that was on the
25:04
road to Emmaus. There in Luke 24 and verse 27
25:07
says after he, after Christ says, ought not Christ to have
25:13
suffered these things and to enter into His glory like He
25:16
says ought not like? Don't you know that He should
25:19
have done this? And then it says in verse 27 and
25:21
beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them
25:26
and all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
25:29
So I think there was at least two people that got the full
25:34
volume right. They got to hear and I am
25:37
jealous of that. Obviously.
25:41
I really envy them for getting to hear him personally expound.
25:45
I'd say, you know, I just, I said it and then I thought I
25:50
don't think they were the only ones.
25:51
But I'll tell you another guy that got to hear it is Paul.
25:54
That's right, neither was I taught this of.
25:56
Man. But.
25:58
By Jesus himself, you know, I guarantee you Jesus done the
26:03
same thing for him and went through all of them and
26:05
expounded it to him personally. And that I think I get kind of
26:09
thrilled to think about that as well.
26:11
But but that's what that's what I think.
26:13
But so like I said that that's what it reminds me of in that
26:17
verse for sure. Yeah, Dad.
26:21
Yeah, they said did not our hearts burn within us, right.
26:25
I did a quick Google search. Andrew, you were very close.
26:29
If this search is correct, it says there's about 300
26:32
prophecies, but about 456 passages that can be interpreted
26:36
as Messianic Jewish basically by the Messianic Jewish rabbis.
26:41
So 450 is a is a number you heard somewhere.
26:45
And I was going to say very much the same thing again as what
26:48
Aaron said. I was going to quote that
26:50
passage from from Acts chapter 2.
26:54
There it is the 2 are the two disciples rather on the road to
26:57
Emmaus. How beginning with Moses and the
27:00
prophets. And so this is a a quote from
27:03
Psalm 40, as we've already established and that author of
27:06
the book of Psalms chapter 40. He's already saying in the
27:09
volume of the book. It is written of me.
27:11
So you just that author had the Old Testament writing like
27:16
literally the five books of Moses to go on.
27:18
And he just said that book is just chock full of these
27:21
prophecies. And then you get to the Psalms
27:24
and there's just Messianic Psalm 1 after the other after the
27:27
other. So it's it's there's a volume
27:30
written about this concept of a body hast thou prepared and that
27:35
he was going to come in First Corinthians 15, Paul gives us
27:42
that very clear description of what the gospel is right, that
27:45
he was crucified and raised again the third day according to
27:49
the scriptures. I like how he says that and and
27:52
so someone, a Jewish person like the apostle Paul, who knew that
27:56
book very, very, very, very well.
27:58
He could see it jumping out the pages all over the place, right.
28:02
So I think the more we read the Old Testament, the more Christ
28:06
will see in it. That's.
28:07
For sure. Delvin.
28:11
Yeah, I just appreciate that Jesus came to do the will of God
28:17
and not to do his own will. Right.
28:20
And and it says in John 638 it says, For I came down from
28:24
heaven not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent
28:28
me. And there's also many other
28:31
scriptures. John 5:30 it says I came of my
28:35
own self do nothing as I hear I judge and my judgement are just
28:39
because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father which
28:43
has sent me and so it the scripture.
28:47
I can't think of the verse right now off the top of my head.
28:50
I should but it's the will of the father that all should come
28:54
to know the gospel and to get saved right and to to come to
29:00
the knowledge. I think it says of Jesus Christ
29:03
something of that sort. So that is the will of the
29:06
Father and I'm just glad that that and it blesses me that
29:10
Jesus came willingly, did his Father's will for for mankind.
29:17
Yeah, as you guys were talking, I just remembered I could, I had
29:21
to go look where it was real quick.
29:22
But back in Hebrews 5, verses 789, I'm going to read that real
29:28
quick, just to remember what it meant to do God's will.
29:31
He says, during the days of His flesh, when He had offered up
29:34
prayers and supplication with strong crying and tears unto Him
29:38
that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that He
29:41
feared though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the
29:45
things which He suffered, and then, being made perfect, He
29:49
became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that
29:52
obey Him. Yes, when He says He came to do
29:55
the will the Father, He meant it and it was.
29:59
That. Actually gave us eternal
30:01
security. If he would have sharped his
30:04
duty there, we would yet be in our sins like we were Friar.
30:08
So praise God that. God, God has God has always
30:15
wanted someone to do his will. And Jesus says I'll, I'll do it.
30:19
I come to do your. Amen.
30:21
Yeah, and surprise he actually could and he actually did all
30:25
the way to the death and then the resurrection again.
30:28
Man, that's good plum good. Verse 8 above when he said
30:36
sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin,
30:41
thou wouldest not, neither had his pleasure therein, which are
30:45
offered by the law. Then said he, Lo, I come to do
30:49
thy will, O God, he taketh away the 1st that he may establish
30:55
the SEC. This has already been commented
30:57
on a little bit I believe by Aaron and maybe some others here
31:00
too. But he is reiterating that he
31:02
did not have pleasure in those offerings and those those
31:05
sacrifices, but that he came to take away the 1st that he would
31:10
establish. It's like that.
31:12
Is that good or what? Yeah, it's, it's almost.
31:16
It looks to me like if you don't understand the significance or
31:21
the the what it means when he says he when he quoted verse 5
31:29
and 6, it's like this is what it means.
31:32
He didn't like those things. Then he said in verse 7 though I
31:37
come to do that I will. And then he said like he re
31:40
quotes verse 6 here in eight and then quotes verse 7 again in 9
31:47
said LOI come to do thy will, O God without the preemies like.
31:52
And then he says he taketh away the 1st that he may establish
31:56
the second. So he's like, if if you didn't
31:59
catch what that thing mean, if God had no pleasure and what the
32:05
whole system and the law could offer him, if it wasn't perfect,
32:09
if it didn't make you perfect, if it didn't take away the sins,
32:13
if it wasn't doing the job and I had no pleasure in it, then he
32:17
has to take that thing away. And the way that thing goes away
32:22
is when I come, when I come, the first goes and the second is
32:27
established. And just like what he says then
32:32
say Allah come to the will of that to do thy will of God, he
32:34
taketh away the 1st that he may establish the second.
32:38
So they can't both coexist, which is what I think is kind of
32:47
bringing a fork in and a cloud in most churches is we don't
32:55
understand the concept or we have a hard time with the
32:58
concept of taking away the first so that the second can be
33:02
established somehow. We think because the Old
33:06
Testament speaks of the second Testament coming, we think
33:11
somehow we need to keep them tight together and they need to
33:14
work in unison with each other. And the one complements the
33:19
other one. The one was just simply not good
33:23
enough. And what they foreshadow of
33:24
something that's going to be perfect so that we can put all
33:27
our eggs in the perfect basket. And the only thing that the Old
33:32
Testament does is it shows us the significance of this perfect
33:37
sacrifice, this Christ that is to come.
33:40
And it's not just sort of the hey, still hang on to the
33:43
imperfect 1. He says, no, you leave the 1st
33:46
and go to the second. You can't, you can't be an old
33:50
common and a new common believer.
33:52
There is no such thing in the context of taking away
33:56
sentences, which is what he's talking about.
33:58
Now there's a lot you can learn in the Old Testament.
34:01
It's very significant. It's I would say it's probably
34:03
the most significant book because he just said based on
34:07
that volume is where he's is why he's coming like he's coming
34:11
based on the volume of the book it's written of him.
34:15
So but the I don't know the fancy word for it.
34:21
The my word is the consequences of him coming takes away this
34:30
the first he can't come if the first stays.
34:36
The birth has to go for him to come and we need to know that.
34:41
We need to know that so that we can be consistent when we preach
34:44
the gospel. Otherwise we're inconsistent.
34:47
So I think this is a very powerful verse that he takes
34:50
away the first so he can establish the second.
34:53
Don't say he's going to set the first aside and perfect it by
34:57
the 2nd. That's the way it's taught most
35:01
religions is the the the second complements and perfects the
35:04
first. No, you have to make a clean
35:07
cut. That's what I would say.
35:09
Yep, they're mutually exclusive. They're either one or the other.
35:12
They can't be. Yeah.
35:17
I actually looked for a verse that was that was like a perfect
35:24
quote to this, you know, sacrifice and offering that
35:27
would it's not but the body has that prepared me and I couldn't
35:30
personally find one, but I had never saw this verse honestly
35:34
till tonight in this light in Micah 6 and verse 6.
35:39
It says we're with shall I come before the Lord and bow myself
35:43
before the the high God? Shall I come before him with
35:46
burnt offerings with calves of a year old?
35:49
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of Rams or 10
35:52
thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I come or shall I give my
35:56
first born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin
36:00
of my soul? And actually, even when I read
36:02
that verse, I started to leave out verse 8 because I was like,
36:04
oh man, that's pretty worky there at first sight.
36:08
But but what I was getting at is I never saw this that clearly
36:11
until I was sitting here reading it again.
36:14
Verse 8 says the next verse says he has showed the old man what
36:19
is good and what does the Lord require thee but to do justly to
36:24
love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God.
36:28
You know like that is what Christ did truly like he
36:33
actually did. Verse 8 And I, what else stood
36:37
out to me in these particular this Micah verse is that if he
36:41
gave, you know, like they were to give the, the, the first born
36:47
of their bull or their goat or their whatever on the 8th day,
36:51
like it can stay with its mother for seven days and on the eighth
36:54
days to sacrifice it and all that.
36:55
And he says, shall I give my first born for the, for my
36:58
transgression? In other words, could I use the
37:00
same analogy? Could I say, OK, the the bulls
37:03
and ghosts are not doing it. I'm going to give my first born
37:05
son or daughter on that on an off as an offering for the sin
37:11
of my soul. And you know what, the first,
37:14
you know what that eight day old baby lacks obedience, right?
37:20
I mean, think about the verses that we just read there.
37:22
If he if he tried it, if he tried to give his first born,
37:26
that first born does not have a record of obedience like Christ
37:30
up. I mean, think about the verses
37:32
we just read. Lo, I come to do thy will, the
37:34
thing that made him perfect, the thing that made him the ultimate
37:39
sacrifice. Is.
37:41
The verse 8 in Micah chapter 6, The Walking perfectly before the
37:46
Lord, right. I mean that is what God
37:48
required. That is what he wanted.
37:49
You all already said that that's what he's he's been looking for
37:52
somebody all this time to do his will and there's not been but
37:56
one to do it right, and that's what makes him perfect.
37:59
So I like I just never saw that Micah 6IN that light until this
38:04
evening like till we were studying.
38:05
This. That's good.
38:08
That's good. I think that's a great point.
38:11
You Jesus could not have appeared on the scene as a 33
38:14
year old man to take away our sins.
38:17
He had to be have this body prepared for him.
38:20
He had to do the will of God. He grew in wisdom and stature
38:24
and the knowledge of the Lord. He he grew in it, and he
38:27
advanced in his ability to do God's will, doing it all along
38:31
the way, but perfecting being a man the whole time.
38:36
Matthew chapter 5, verse 18. Jesus Speaking of the law, he
38:40
says, Verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one
38:44
jot or one title shall in no wise pass from the law, until
38:48
when till all be fulfilled. And so.
38:51
He he took away the first, not because he said, well, let's
38:55
just scrap this whole thing. No, he said I fulfilled it and
38:59
now I have removed it and I have established a new covenant.
39:03
The old one is done away. It wasn't sufficient.
39:06
It didn't do the job. It it, it was found to be weak
39:10
in the weakness of flesh. Therefore I had a man fulfill it
39:14
so that we could take it out of the way and establish a second.
39:17
So it's it is very much to do with doing the will of God.
39:22
He, the first covenant became obsolete in regards to pleasing
39:25
God because God has been satisfied, he has been pleased.
39:29
As Aaron mentioned before, I really like that connection to
39:32
he Isaiah 53 where it pleased the Lord to bruise him, and yet
39:38
he was never pleased with these Old Testament sacrifices because
39:43
it wasn't sufficient. The will of God had not been
39:45
done. Yeah, Good stuff, Melvin.
39:49
Yeah, So reason that I see that he's repeating this says he's
39:54
basically repeating verse six and seven again is 6 and 7 is
39:59
what you can find that in Psalms 40.
40:04
And now he's just pointing out here actually what this actually
40:09
means, right? This Old Testament prophecy
40:13
means here. And he says, he says, I like
40:16
what he says there. He says neither had his pleasure
40:18
therein. And verse 8.
40:19
Hebrews 10/8. Therein which are offered by the
40:23
law. So he's making it clear that
40:25
that he did not have pleasure in the bulls and goats that was
40:31
offered according to the law and then he says in verse 9 then
40:35
said he lo, I come to do that will of God talking about Jesus.
40:39
He taketh away the first, the first, and that he may establish
40:45
the second. So I just, I like that he's just
40:49
making it very clear here. And like you were saying,
40:52
Andrew, it it's, it's as clear as clear that the first has to
40:57
be put away before the 2nd can be established.
41:02
And we can't like mix the new covenant in with the law like
41:09
you, you just can't mix that together.
41:11
And too many people try, too many churches try that.
41:14
And this is very clear. So yeah, the the second
41:22
covenant, the new covenant here that he's saying that has that
41:25
has to come after the first one was put away.
41:29
Malcolm Smith in his teaching Jesus and the Pharisees, he
41:33
talks. No, actually it's not in that
41:35
it's Malcolm Smith though, but in a different teaching, I guess
41:39
he talks about that new covenant as being not new in the way that
41:44
you buy the latest model of a car.
41:46
You know that it's brand spanking new, but that new
41:49
covenant is like if someone would invent a brand new method
41:53
of transportation that is far superior, far better than
41:57
anything that we've ever seen before.
41:58
That's that that new covenant and that's that.
42:00
I just say that to say that if there reverse died when he
42:03
taketh away the 1st that he may establish that second.
42:06
That is a that new covenant that is bred and had never been
42:10
before this, this is a this is a brand new thing that is going to
42:15
be far superior what he had. Yeah, because he said, he said
42:20
in Hebrews 8 verse 7 for if that first covenant have been
42:23
faultless, then should don't have place been sought for the
42:27
second, you know so and then he's in in Hebrews eight there
42:32
we were ready went through that. But he points out there that
42:36
this second is he says I will for this is the covenant that
42:41
will I will make the House of Israel after this day and say it
42:44
the Lord. I will put the laws in their
42:45
minds and write them in your hearts.
42:47
And I will be to them a God and should be to me a people.
42:51
So that's the what you were saying, Lee.
42:53
And it's like a new way of transportation.
42:56
It's not a new vehicle. It's a total new way.
43:00
Amen. Yeah, another comment I got is
43:04
concerning his will and so him and his father are one he says
43:10
in John and so it's it's also not their will that we perish
43:16
with this second Peter 39. The Lord is not slack concerning
43:20
his promise as some men count slackness, but his
43:22
long-suffering through US word through US word not willing that
43:26
any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
43:31
I just like that verse in the context of God Jesus coming and
43:36
do the Father's will because his will is is that you don't
43:39
perish. That's what he's coming.
43:42
Yeah, yeah. That is God's love.
43:47
Like it's not his will that you perish.
43:49
He didn't want you to. Yeah.
43:51
What? I was going to say that's a
43:53
verse that I always run to to defend fight to argue against
43:57
Calvinism because he says his bill is that none should perish
44:02
and yet people do it by the thousands, you know, anyway,
44:06
verse 10 by the which will we are sanctified through the
44:13
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
44:17
There's that word again, Andrew once and when we when we go
44:22
through this, this is such a good verse.
44:24
I mean, it is so good. But let's talk a little bit
44:29
about what it means to be sanctified if you have that in
44:32
your heads, because that is a a big miss, misunderstood word in
44:40
the Christian circles, in my opinion.
44:46
Yeah. So the definition of sanctified
44:51
is set apart, like you're separated.
44:53
You're no longer yoked with the same thing that you were.
44:59
Like you're, you're no longer in the common flow, you're set
45:02
apart. So the Bible is consistent that
45:07
everyone that is not a believer is in the Kingdom of darkness
45:11
and the God of this world is who you're loyal to and he rules you
45:17
to be set apart is to be to be sanctified is that you've come
45:21
out from darkness and was set into the Kingdom of their Son in
45:25
light. God is light and him is no
45:27
darkness. So that is quite a, a setting
45:30
apart. He also set us apart in the fact
45:34
that he made us righteous. He made us holy.
45:37
So we're not, we're so far from what we used to be, our old
45:40
history. We're of the world, we're of the
45:43
flesh and we're of sin and we're of death and we have no peace.
45:48
We're in darkness. And the thing that we are is how
45:52
we act and we represent darkness.
45:55
And with no light, when you're sanctified, you're set apart.
46:00
You have the Spirit, you have light, you have Christ.
46:04
Yeah, if your sins taken away, not just covered, not just
46:07
temporary, but it once and for all forever taken away.
46:11
It's quite a setting apart. It's it's not and it's and it's
46:15
something that he did. He said he came to do his will.
46:21
And because he did his will, now this is able to be true.
46:26
But he's able to set us apart once and for all based on him
46:31
doing the will of God, based on his body being sacrificed and
46:36
prepared to be a perfect great high priest, based on him
46:41
hanging on the cross and bleeding, not a bull.
46:44
And you know, all this that he was building up to is coming to
46:47
this. And I think this is one of the
46:49
about the climax of the book of Hebrews, where this is my one of
46:53
my favorite verses. This fixes every man's
46:59
conscience that is still trying to find another atonement or
47:04
somehow find peace with God again after he sinned, or
47:09
someone that is just trying to be sanctified to have God help
47:14
him be more pure, to be more righteous so that he is set
47:17
apart. It's very important to know that
47:20
Jesus Christ and His work given to you.
47:23
It's what sets you apart. It's what purified you.
47:26
It's what took your sins away. The only thing that you can do
47:30
now that he asked of us is to live accordingly, Live in that
47:34
sanctified life where it says sanctify yourselves before God.
47:38
I think there's a verse that says that not to be sanctified,
47:42
but because you are live in that set apart lifestyle with the
47:46
light of with the light of Christ in you, lit up by the
47:50
light of the gospel, changed by the power of God, living in the
47:54
new and living way, not in the oldness of the letter, but in
47:58
the new and living way change different, not still
48:02
representing darkness. So we can't get that mixed up
48:07
when he wants us to live and act the way that he has made us not
48:12
so that I'm tripping over myself here.
48:15
So his, his will is, is that we understand who we are in Christ,
48:20
that we are set apart. And now his will is also that.
48:24
That's the kind of life we represent, like we live out it
48:28
represent, which represents the fact that we are set apart and
48:32
we are His and we're not of the world and of the devil.
48:34
And to become a good witness. Yeah, there's a lot more that
48:39
can be sent to that. That's all I'm going to say.
48:41
I'm taking a lot of time. Yep.
48:43
That's fine, Aaron. Go ahead.
48:47
Yeah, I think, I mean, I think Andrew done a good job when he
48:50
started explaining that of we kind of you see a word like I
48:57
think we said this before when we saw the word sanctified, but
49:01
we see a word and we just attach this this meaning to it and kind
49:06
of make it across the board the old Earth word sanctified.
49:10
It must have something to do with with getting sent out of
49:14
your life or whatever, when actually the if you if that's
49:18
what you think when you see that verse, you're missing the point.
49:21
The point is once for all, right?
49:23
I mean, I think to me, the main phrase in that verse is once for
49:27
all, not the word sanctified. I mean, you could say that once
49:31
for all is leading to the setting apart, but I don't think
49:36
this necessarily has anything to do with taking sin out of your
49:39
life. I think he's just saying in con
49:42
in the context of the comparing the two, right?
49:45
He was saying people were obeying God's will when they
49:50
brought blood of bulls and goats, but it didn't do
49:54
anything, right? That one didn't do anything.
49:57
They were trying to keep his will.
49:58
They were doing whatever that was what he requested, but that
50:01
didn't do anything but this one sacrifice once for all actually
50:06
did by the witch will. That is Jesus coming to do thy
50:11
will, O God, like he came. That was the will of God, that
50:14
man would that some man would obey, and he did that will by
50:19
that will, by his willingness to do so, by that being the will of
50:23
God, by that we are sanctified through the offering of the body
50:28
of Jesus Christ once for all. So I think, like I said, I just
50:31
think that it's easy to get tripped up on a word and miss
50:35
the point of the verse. And I like the point of the
50:37
verse is the once for all point, you know, that's that's the
50:41
point first. I agree.
50:42
And and that's why I said, you know, all the sanctified, like a
50:45
lot of people would tend to believe that, you know, they're
50:48
working on getting sanctified or they're they're progressing in
50:51
their sanctification or whatever.
50:53
And that's simply not the case, as you can see by that once for
50:56
all. Yeah.
50:57
Well, and, and I guess that's kind of what I meant was I think
51:01
we, there are verses that may use the word sanctified to
51:06
indicate that you grow as a Christian, but this ain't one of
51:09
them. I mean, there, this is not one
51:12
of them. And that's what I'm saying is I
51:15
don't want people to see that word and think that it all that
51:19
because most of the time it's not saying that.
51:22
But there are a verse or two. We talked about that before.
51:24
There are a verse or two in there that does seem to indicate
51:28
a change in a person's life. But this is certainly not one of
51:32
them. And most of them are not talking
51:33
about that. Yeah, Go.
51:36
Ahead, Dad. Yeah, my wife really likes her
51:41
pottery, clay mugs and cups. We have a whole cupboard full of
51:45
them, but there's only one that she uses every morning.
51:48
She has another one that she sanctifies for her afternoon tea
51:52
and another one that is sanctified for her evening tea.
51:55
And all the kids know they they all know this is Mom's morning
51:59
mug and this is her afternoon mug.
52:01
Maybe it's the same one, I can't remember now.
52:03
But the evening 1 is a different one.
52:04
Those mugs are sanctified for her use and hers only.
52:08
She's even careful with how they get washed.
52:10
We wash dishes by hand at our place and the kids already know
52:15
wash that one and put it here. It is set apart.
52:18
It is sanctified for mama's use only and it ought to be taking
52:23
WellCare of actually her favorite mug.
52:25
A few months last year sometime did get broken by my 13 year old
52:29
son and he was determined to try to find some new mug to replace
52:34
it with and even see if we can find a pottery maker that could
52:38
make the same mug. And we didn't quite accomplish
52:40
that. But the point is that when
52:43
Christ did the will of God, he took you off that constant
52:47
treadmill of sin sacrifice where you could never quite get ready
52:52
for the masters use. You were never quite set apart
52:55
enough. You were never quite ready for
52:57
God to use. And he said, OK, now I have one
53:00
done one thing by the will of God, by doing the will of God, I
53:03
have now sanctified you to me forever.
53:06
You are now meat. You are now meat for the masters
53:11
use. Oh, you are that mug in his hand
53:14
that can be used you. You might look at yourself and
53:17
think, Oh no, I'm not sanctified enough.
53:20
I'm not clean enough. You're arguing with God at that
53:23
point. God has said that he has
53:26
sanctified you by one offering forever and you are now fit,
53:31
meet, prepared, ready to be used.
53:35
You don't need to make one more sacrifice, nothing else to get
53:38
close to God. You can now go and offer this
53:41
news, this message to those that are still in need of it.
53:45
So that's sanctified is a beautiful word.
53:49
It is glorious, Melvin. Yeah.
53:52
You know, we should pay attention to the words, right?
53:55
It says there we are sanctified. It's not saying we should be or
54:02
we try to be. It says we are sanctified and
54:08
and I like what Aaron was pointing out there and that's
54:13
what I see when I read this verse.
54:15
The focus should be once, right? That's how we are sanctified by
54:20
Jesus Christ. Once one time we are sanctified.
54:24
That's what it says that that's it's just that simple.
54:27
The for all is an italic, so that was added in there was
54:32
actually not a Greek word for that, but that doesn't really
54:36
matter. It just the the emphasis in my
54:39
mind is we are sanctified through the offering of the body
54:44
of Jesus Christ once. And, and that for all in the
54:49
English language, I would say is a final, it's more an emphasis
54:54
that it's not going to happen. Like there's no other need ever
54:56
going to rise up ever again. It's one and done once for all.
55:00
It's I like it there. I mean, I, I think it speaks to
55:04
the fact that it's a one time deal.
55:06
And the thing that I've thought we need to mention is that
55:10
Christianity becoming a Christian has no progression in
55:13
it. Right.
55:16
Yeah. There's no progression in
55:17
becoming a Christian. You, the moment you believe it,
55:24
you're washed. The moment you believe it,
55:27
you're seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
55:30
You didn't sanctify yourself up there.
55:32
You didn't sanctify yourself to be while pleasing to God.
55:38
Jesus Christ sanctified you. Like Dan was saying, ready to be
55:41
revealed in the last day. That's pretty ready to meet the
55:47
Son of Man, but the Day of Judgment ready to be revealed.
55:53
Yeah. Yeah.
55:54
This once for all deals. It eliminates a lot of religion.
55:58
If you would just read it and believe it, you would stop.
56:01
You stop a lot of nonsense. Yeah, yeah.
56:06
And and the other thing it's it's by the offering of the body
56:09
of Jesus Christ. You know, like we can't just go
56:12
ahead and and set ourselves apart.
56:16
We can't we can't do this. We can't do this on our own.
56:19
There is only one way that that was done once by Jesus Christ
56:23
and we get to by faith believe that and be counted as as one of
56:29
him, one of his, you know, So I guess, I guess you said that
56:35
really well, Andrew, that is not a progression.
56:38
And, and again, that's something that we hear all the time on my
56:42
you see, you know, people talking about how that they
56:44
started reading the Bible when they did this and they did this
56:47
and that's part of their testimony.
56:48
Well, that's good. As long as we understand that
56:50
there is actually no progression in becoming or being a Christian
56:55
or not being a Christian. It is one or the other, right?
56:58
And I read another verse. So if you have any other
57:00
comments, go ahead and use up the remaining 3 minutes.
57:03
The the the progression that I agree with is you're heart being
57:10
slowly opens your. Coming to faith.
57:13
Coming to faith is often a progression.
57:16
Sometimes it's years and years of people trying to witness to
57:20
you. That can be a very long
57:22
progression. But there was one time that you
57:27
might not even know when it was. Doesn't matter to me when it
57:30
was, but the moment that God saw that that man is willing to turn
57:37
from any of his own righteousness and turn to God
57:40
for his righteousness, he's done with himself.
57:43
He's repented from his own works, from his own life, from
57:46
the world. He's repented from anything
57:49
other than Jesus Christ. All the other things the world
57:53
and religion and the Bishop and everybody had to offer.
57:57
He's willing to turn his back and do the 180 and walk to
58:01
Jesus. And at some point you did that.
58:04
If you're a believer, at one point you repented and you turn
58:08
to God. You didn't stop sinning, you
58:10
repented towards God. That's another word that is
58:14
misused just like sanctification.
58:16
Repentance is not. You stop so God can make you
58:19
clean you or you became clean so God can make you clean.
58:23
That's just stupid. There's not even, there's no,
58:26
it's not even logic anyhow. I'm using up all the time on
58:29
stuff. Yeah, I just, I didn't even see
58:31
what I was saying there, but Cameron kind of reiterated that
58:34
too. He said it's it's we need to pay
58:37
attention to realize whose body we're dealing with here.
58:41
It's the Son of God, publicly crucified, perfected according
58:44
to the scriptures, as people more fully realize that and
58:48
resting that God is not silent. God gives proper amounts of
58:51
assurance along the way. There is an eternal substance to
58:54
this offer here. And I agree with that 100% too.
58:57
OK, yeah. I wish I could have got you
58:58
unmuted their camera, but for some reason I couldn't.
59:03
I won't take his mic. Any quick closing thoughts yet?
59:07
That you really wanted to say? Anybody, anybody.
59:12
Everybody Satisfied. Good.
59:14
All right, we're going to stop at 8:00 anyway.
59:16
So and I just, I I just want to stop on that.
59:19
No, we're that close. I could push the other one
59:21
through, but this is so good. I like stop on this.
59:23
So anyway, All right, as we conclude today's study that in
59:28
Hebrews 11/1, faith is the substance of things hoped for,
59:31
the evidence of things not seen. And like I always say, I I hope
59:35
that your faith would stand in such a way that you would take
59:37
these words that God gave us and you would believe them to the
59:41
point that you would rather see that than the reality that's
59:46
around you in your life. There were true and I believe
59:49
that actually is attainable as we study the word of God that it
59:53
would affect us to a greater degree than what our senses
59:56
would affect us around us. So so join us next Monday night.
1:00:01
Same time, same place and we'll be back here in Hebrews 10.
1:00:06
So God bless you for your time. Appreciate you all being at all
1:00:08
here and we'll see you again next week.
1:00:11
Thank you. See you guys.