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May 26 - Hebrews 10 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean. Here it is a Monday.
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  It's the first day of a new week.
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  It's the 26th of May and I'm delighted to have your company
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  today and maybe even all of this week.
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  So glad that you have tapped on play and said, Sean, come on, I
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  have got a moment and I would love for you to read God's word
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  with me. So that friend, is what we are
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  going to do. And this week we will finish off
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  this wonderful, insightful, majestical, thank you very much
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  hunt for the Wilder People and incredible book.
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  And it will continue to lay out this foundation, this argument
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  to say that Jesus is supreme and that Jesus sacrifice is supreme
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  for everything that we could possibly need.
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  So we quiet our hearts and come before God to hear what He has
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  to teach us. In the words of Hebrew chapter
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  10, the old system under the law of Moses was only a shadow, a
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  dim preview of the good things to come, not the good things
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  themselves. The sacrifices under that system
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  were repeated again and again, year after year, but they were
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  never able to provide perfect cleansing for those who came to
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  worship. If they could have provided
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  perfect cleansing, the sacrifices would have stopped,
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  for the worshippers would have been purified once and for all,
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  and the feelings of guilt would have disappeared.
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  But instead, those sacrifices actually reminded them of their
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  sins year after year. For it is not possible for the
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  blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
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  That is why when Christ came into the world, He said to God,
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  You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings, but
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  you have given me a body to offer.
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  You were not pleased with burnt offerings or other offerings for
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  sin. Then I said, look, I have come
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  to do your will, O God, as is written about me in the
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  Scriptures. First Christ said you did not
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  want animal sacrifices or sin offerings, or burnt offerings or
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  other offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them,
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  though they are required by the law of Moses.
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  Then he said, look, I have come to do your will.
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  He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second into
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  effect. For God's will was for us to be
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  made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once
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  for all time. Under the Old Covenant, the
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  priest stands and ministers before the altar day after day,
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  offering the same sacrifices again and again, which can never
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  take away sins. But our High priest offered
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  himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins good for all
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  time. Then he sat down in the place of
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  honour at God's right hand. There he waits until his enemies
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  are humbled and made a footstool under his feet.
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  For by that one offering he forever made perfect those who
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  are being made holy. And the Holy Spirit also
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  testifies that this is so. For he says, This is the new
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  covenant I will make with my people on that day, says the
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  Lord. I will put my laws in their
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  hearts, and I will write them on their minds.
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  Then he says, I will never again remember their sins and lawless
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  deeds. And when sins have been
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  forgiven, there is no need to offer any more sacrifices.
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  And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter
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  Heaven's Most Holy place because of the blood of Jesus.
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  By his death, Jesus opened a new and life, giving way through the
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  curtain into the Most Holy Place.
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  And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God's
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  house, let us go right into the presence of God with sincere
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  hearts, fully trusting Him. For our guilty consciences have
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  been sprinkled with Christ's blood to make us clean, and our
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  bodies have been washed with pure water.
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  Let us hold tightly, without wavering to the hope we affirm,
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  for God can be trusted to keep His promise.
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  Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and
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  good works. And let us not neglect our
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  meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another,
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  especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
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  Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have
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  received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice
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  that will cover these sins. There is only the terrible
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  expectation of God's judgement and the raging fire that will
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  consume His enemies. For anyone who refused to obey
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  the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the
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  testimony of two or three witnesses.
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  Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those
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  have trampled on the Son of God and have treated the blood of
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  the covenant which made us holy as if it were common and unholy,
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  and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God's
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  mercy to us. For we know the one who says, I
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  will take revenge, I will pay them back.
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  He also said the Lord will judge his own people.
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  It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living
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  God. Think back on those early days
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  when you first learned about Christ.
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  Remember how you remained faithful even though it meant
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  terrible suffering. Sometimes you were exposed to
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  public ridicule and were beaten, and sometimes you helped others
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  who were suffering the same things.
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  You suffered along with those who were thrown into gaol.
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  And when all you owned was taken from you, you accepted it with
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  joy. You knew there were better
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  things waiting for you that will last forever.
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  So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord.
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  Remember the great reward it brings you.
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  Patient endurance is what you need now so that you will
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  continue to do God's will. Then you will receive all that
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  He has promised for in just a little while.
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  The coming One will come and not delay.
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  And my righteous ones will live by faith.
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  But I will take no pleasure in anyone who turns away.
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  But we are not like those who turn away from God to their own
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  destruction. We are the faithful ones whose
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  souls will be saved. Oh Jesus, what a beautiful and
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  sobering chapter this is. Lord, in this chapter you tell
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  us that as we are being transformed by you and
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  everything you've done for us, so we are perfect.
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  It's not a slow, gradual chipping away of sin, but it is
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  a complete transformation that you offer us and that once we
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  are cleansed that we remain in your sanctified promise,
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  continually sanctified. Our Jesus, You remind us that we
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  should not abuse this and go on doing the wrong thing because we
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  know we've got a sweet deal in you and that you'll continue to
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  forgive us and that we need perseverance, ongoing
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  perseverance to continually daily return to you, commit
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  ourselves to you, and living for you.
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  So Jesus, that is what we do. We stand before you so grateful
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  that you have transformed us and made us pure and blameless
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  through you in the Father's presence.
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  And help us continue to stand in that promise and live for you,
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  our beautiful, wonderful Saviour, through whom all things
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  are made and for whom all things are.
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  We love you and we pray all of this in your name, Jesus, Amen.