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Voddie Baucham - How Is The New Covenant Different Than the Old Covenant · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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  Speaker 1: There is discontinuity between the Mosaic and the New covenants
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  Speaker 1: as well. First, in the New Covenant, God himself is
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  Speaker 1: our mediator. In the Mosaic covenant, Moses is the mediator,
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  Speaker 1: a mere man is the mediator. But in the New
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  Speaker 1: Covenant we have a better covenant and a better mediator Hebrews.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter eight, Verses six and seven.
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  Speaker 1: But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that
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  Speaker 1: is much more excellent than the old. As the covenant
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  Speaker 1: he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.
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  Speaker 1: For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would
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  Speaker 1: have been no occasion to look for a second Hebrews
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  Speaker 1: three to three. For Jesus has been counted worthy of
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  Speaker 1: more glory than Moses, as much more glory as the
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  Speaker 1: builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.
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  Speaker 1: Christ is our mediator. God himself is our mediator. This
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  Speaker 1: is discontinuity between the covenants. We do have a man
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  Speaker 1: that stands between us and God's unapproachable light. But the
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  Speaker 1: man that stands between us and God's unapproachable light is
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  Speaker 1: the god Man. He is the second person of the Trinity.
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  Speaker 1: He is Christ, Jesus himself, who took on flesh, who
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  Speaker 1: wrapped that righteousness and holiness in flesh, so that he
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  Speaker 1: could reconcile us to God in his unapproachable light in
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  Speaker 1: the New Covenant. Our cleansing is not merely external Hebrews
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  Speaker 1: Chapter ten, verses nineteen to twenty two. Therefore, brothers, since
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  Speaker 1: we have confidence to enter the Holy Place by the
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  Speaker 1: blood of Jesus, by the new and l living way
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  Speaker 1: that he opened for us through the curtain, that is
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  Speaker 1: through his flesh. And since we have a great priest
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  Speaker 1: over the House of God, let us draw near with
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  Speaker 1: a true heart, in full assurance of faith, with our
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  Speaker 1: hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience, and our bodies
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  Speaker 1: washed with pure water. Yeah, there's a washing, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not the same. This is a washing from the inside out.
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  Speaker 1: This is not just clean up your garments on the
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  Speaker 1: outside and observe a few rules before you come into
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  Speaker 1: the presence.
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  Speaker 2: Of Almighty God.
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  Speaker 1: This is be changed from the inside out, not so
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  Speaker 1: that you can come before the presence of God, but
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  Speaker 1: so that you can be in dwelled by the very
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  Speaker 1: presence of God who dwells in unapproachable light.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, this is superior friends, this is greater beyond that.
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  Speaker 1: We find that God was never satisfied with mere outward washing.
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  Speaker 1: Turn to the right and look at the book of Isaiah.
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  Speaker 1: You'll find something very interesting. Remember we talked about progressive revelation,
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  Speaker 1: about God revealing himself to his people progressively over history
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  Speaker 1: and through time. And here what we've got so far
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  Speaker 1: is clean your garments before you come in the presence
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  Speaker 1: of God. Isaiah chapter one. Go down to verse number ten.
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  Speaker 1: Hear the word of the Lord. Your rulers of Sodom,
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  Speaker 1: give ear to the teaching of our God. You people
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  Speaker 1: of Gomora. By the way, Sodom and Gomorrah are toast,
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  Speaker 1: They're gone. He's not writing to Sodom and Gomorrah. He's
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  Speaker 1: writing to Israel, and he's referring to them as Sodom
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  Speaker 1: and Gomorrah. He's making a point here verse eleven. What
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  Speaker 1: to me is the multitude of your sacrifices, says the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and
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  Speaker 1: the fat of well fed beasts. I do not delight
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  Speaker 1: in the blood of bulls, or lambs or goats. When
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  Speaker 1: you come to appear before me, who has required of
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  Speaker 1: you this trampling of my courts. Bring no more vain offerings,
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  Speaker 1: incenses and abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and
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  Speaker 1: the calling of convocations. I cannot endure inequity and solemn assembly,
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  Speaker 1: your new moons and your appointed feast. My soul hates
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  Speaker 1: they have become a burden to me. I am weary
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  Speaker 1: of bearing them. When you spread out your hands, I
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  Speaker 1: will hide my eyes from you. Even though you make
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  Speaker 1: many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full
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  Speaker 1: of blood. Well, what's wrong? What do you need to do?
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  Speaker 2: Next? Verse?
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  Speaker 1: Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean, Remove the evil of your
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  Speaker 1: deeds from before my eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Cease to do evil, learn to do good, Seek.
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  Speaker 1: Justice, correct oppression, Bring justice to the fatherless. Plead the
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  Speaker 1: case of the widow. Come now, let us reason together,
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  Speaker 1: says the Lord. Though your sins are like scarlet, they
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  Speaker 1: shall be as white as snow. Though they are red
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  Speaker 1: like crimson, they shall become like woe. We're not even
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  Speaker 1: at the new Covenant yet, and already God is communicating
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  Speaker 1: to his people Outward washing is not enough. This is
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  Speaker 1: what the Pharisees didn't understand Matthew twenty three, twenty five
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  Speaker 1: and twenty six. Woe do you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites,
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  Speaker 1: For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate,
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  Speaker 1: but inside they are full of greed and self indulgence.
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  Speaker 1: You blind pharisees, first clean the inside of the cup
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  Speaker 1: and the plate, that the outside may also be clean.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus didn't say the outside doesn't matter her.
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  Speaker 2: He said the.
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  Speaker 1: Inside has priority, and that if you clean the inside,
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  Speaker 1: the outside becomes clean.
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  Speaker 2: Can a streetwalker walking to a church looking like a streetwalker?
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  Speaker 2: Yes she can.
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  Speaker 1: But if God, who dwells in unapproachable light, redeems her
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  Speaker 1: and transforms her, will she still continue to walk into
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  Speaker 1: church looking like a streetwalker? You better believe she won't.
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  Speaker 1: She won't because what she will be communicating is a
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  Speaker 1: reality that is no longer consistent with that which she
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  Speaker 1: communicated before. We see washing connected with our very regeneration,
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  Speaker 1: and Titus three four to seven. We have the washing
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  Speaker 1: of regeneration. We have washing connected with our justification one Grinthians,
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  Speaker 1: chapter six, that famous passage, and such.
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  Speaker 2: Worse of you, but you were washed.
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  Speaker 1: Washing, of course, is also equated with our sanctification. Husbands
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  Speaker 1: are to love their wives like Christ love the church
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  Speaker 1: and he gave himself up for her that he might
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  Speaker 1: sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water
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  Speaker 1: with the word. So in our justification and our sanctification
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  Speaker 1: and our regeneration, we see this idea of washing.
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  Speaker 2: We are washed, and we are made cling.
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  Speaker 1: And it is because of this washing that we are
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  Speaker 1: consecrated and made ready to come before the presence of God,
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  Speaker 1: and to even be in dwelt by the presence of God. Thirdly,
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  Speaker 1: in the New Covenant, God comes to us, not the mountain.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing that in the Mosaic Covenant, ear God says,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to come to the mountain, and the people
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  Speaker 1: are going to see me come to the mountain, but
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  Speaker 1: they can't come to close. In the New Covenant, God's
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  Speaker 1: dwelling place is with men again. First Corinthians six nineteen
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  Speaker 1: to twenty. Or do you not know that your body
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  Speaker 1: is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom
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  Speaker 1: you have from God. You are not your own, for
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  Speaker 1: you were bought with a price. So glorify God in
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  Speaker 1: your body. Again, the connection between the inward and the outward,
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  Speaker 1: but it begins on the inside, not on the outside. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: in the New covenant. Another has taken our penalty. You
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  Speaker 1: and I are not worthy to approach God, who dwells
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  Speaker 1: in unapproachable light, and coming as close to God as
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  Speaker 1: you and I have come requires death. And that's exactly
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  Speaker 1: what was paid on our back, so that we might
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  Speaker 1: approach God, so that we might know God, and so
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  Speaker 1: that God might in dwell us. Christ died for sin,
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  Speaker 1: once for all, the just, for the unjust, in order
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  Speaker 1: that he might bring us back to God. All we,
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  Speaker 1: like sheep, had gone astray. Each of us had turned
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  Speaker 1: to his own way. But God hath laid upon him
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  Speaker 1: the iniquity of us all. It is because of the
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  Speaker 1: death of Christ that you and I have the privilege
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  Speaker 1: of approaching this holy and righteous God. It is because
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  Speaker 1: of that that we have the privilege of coming boldly
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  Speaker 1: before the throne of Grace, instead of cowering and fear
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  Speaker 1: like Israel of old, who didn't want to get too
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  Speaker 1: close lest they be put to death. You and I
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  Speaker 1: come boldly, and we cry out Ahbah, Father, and we
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  Speaker 1: are dwelt by God himself.
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  Speaker 2: Do you understand this? Can you comprehend it?
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  Speaker 1: This is why it is so wrong for us to
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  Speaker 1: look at a text like this and come away with
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  Speaker 1: we need to do a better job of getting ready
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  Speaker 1: outwardly to come to church.
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  Speaker 2: Lord help us. That's why we've missed the boat.
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  Speaker 1: If that's the way we approach things like this, and
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately this is often the way we approach.
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  Speaker 2: Things like this.
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  Speaker 1: But when you understand this reality, you don't come to
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  Speaker 1: a place where you say, ah, the outside doesn't matter. No,
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  Speaker 1: We've seen through several texts in the New Testament that
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  Speaker 1: the outside does matter, and when the inside is cleaned up,
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  Speaker 1: it manifests itself on the outside. Not so that we
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  Speaker 1: can somehow come to a place where we believe we've
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  Speaker 1: made ourselves ready and righteous by what we've done, but
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  Speaker 1: we come to a place where we understand that Christ
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  Speaker 1: has made us ready and righteous by what he has done,
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  Speaker 1: and we enter as children of the King. When we come,
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  Speaker 1: there is still consecration. But what this consecration looks like
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  Speaker 1: is being reminded of the sin that is in our lives,
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  Speaker 1: being reminded that Christ has purchased our ransom and has
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  Speaker 1: forgiven us, being reminded of the gratitude that we owe
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  Speaker 1: to him because He has made us right with God
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  Speaker 1: and given us the privilege of approaching God, coming before
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  Speaker 1: God in an attitude of humility, because we do not
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  Speaker 1: approach God, who dwells in unapproachable light, because of our
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  Speaker 1: own merit, but because of the alien righteousness that has
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  Speaker 1: been imputed to us by Christ himself, having earned this
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  Speaker 1: right through his death on the cross. When we understand that,
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  Speaker 1: we can no longer be flippant about approaching God.
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  Speaker 2: When we were in.
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  Speaker 1: Israel, one of the places that I found fascinating. Two
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  Speaker 1: places that I found fascinating were, of course the Temple
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  Speaker 1: mount but also Kumaran, where we found the Kumaran scrolls.
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  Speaker 1: There the temple mountain. Outside the temple, outside the steps,
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  Speaker 1: there are these pools, these pools everywhere they used to
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  Speaker 1: wonder how they baptized thousands of people in the day.
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  Speaker 1: These pools are called mikvas, and they are, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like small swimming pools with stairs going down and then
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  Speaker 1: coming out. And before coming into the temple, the people
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  Speaker 1: of God would come and disrobe and go down into
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  Speaker 1: these mikvahs and immerse themselves in the water, and then
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  Speaker 1: come back out and put on new clothes and go
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  Speaker 1: in the group at Kumaran was a group called the
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  Speaker 1: Essenes and the Aessines had these massive libraries and scrolls
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  Speaker 1: that were incredibly important to them. But before they would
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  Speaker 1: touch any of these scrolls, they had mikvahs all around
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  Speaker 1: where they would immerse themselves to become clean before they
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  Speaker 1: would come out and handle the word of God. And
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  Speaker 1: it was amazing to contemplate the number of times that
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  Speaker 1: these individuals would go into this water and out of
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  Speaker 1: this water, and into this water and out of this
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  Speaker 1: water before they would eat, before they would do this,
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  Speaker 1: before they would do that, this baptism of sorts, that
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  Speaker 1: they would experience, all of this outward rossick washing, being
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  Speaker 1: reminded constantly that I am filthy, that I am not worthy.
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  Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, we still, when we come to faith in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: experience that same washing where we go down into the
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  Speaker 1: waters of baptism and come out of them. And the
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  Speaker 1: picture that we are painting is a picture of Christ
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  Speaker 1: being buried in his death and then coming out of
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  Speaker 1: the grave in his resurrection to walk in newness of
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  Speaker 1: life and listen. Just like Christ does not have to
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  Speaker 1: be buried again, you and I don't have to be
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  Speaker 1: baptized again to come before the presence of God, because
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  Speaker 1: we are baptized into Christ. We are immersed into Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And because of that, His righteousness is our righteousness. His
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  Speaker 1: holiness is our holiness. It is not something that we earn,
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  Speaker 1: It is something that has been freely given.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to me.
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  Speaker 1: If you are here today and you are trying to
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  Speaker 1: be good enough for God outwardly, let me tell you
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  Speaker 1: two things. Number one, you can't get there from here.
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  Speaker 1: It won't work, it'll never happen. You can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: And number two, you don't have to. Christ has accomplished
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  Speaker 1: that on behalf of all of those who will come
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  Speaker 1: to him in repentance and faith.
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  Speaker 2: Stop striving, Stop seeking.
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  Speaker 1: That which is already found in Christ. Cease your efforts
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  Speaker 1: at self righteousness, look to the cross, and right now
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  Speaker 1: recognize that Christ has accomplished that which you never could.
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  Speaker 1: And right now recognize that what is required is for
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  Speaker 1: you to come to Him in repentance and faith and
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  Speaker 1: turn from your sin and turn to Christ so that
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  Speaker 1: He might wash you, so that he might make you hope,
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  Speaker 1: so that He might justify you and sanctify you. And
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  Speaker 1: that God by the power and presence of His Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: God who dwells an unapproachable light, might endwell you and
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  Speaker 1: consecrate you fully. What a tragedy it would be to
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  Speaker 1: walk away from a text like this saying to ourselves
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  Speaker 1: we need to do a better job of cleaning up
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  Speaker 1: the outside of the cup. What a tragedy it would
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  Speaker 1: be to miss what we've learned through progressive revelation, as
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  Speaker 1: God has made this picture clearer and clearer and clearer,
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  Speaker 1: until through the person and work of Christ we see
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  Speaker 1: fully what it means to be consecrated in the presence
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  Speaker 1: of the One true and Living God.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I would ask you to be consecrated day.
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  Speaker 1: I would ask you to be clean to day, not
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  Speaker 1: because of what you do to the outside, but because
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  Speaker 1: of what Christ does to the inside when you come
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  Speaker 1: to Him in repentance and faith, pleading for and finding
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  Speaker 1: his forgiveness, and as a result, walking in His righteousness.