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Hebrews 10:1-18 - Religion Doesn't Save; Only Jesus Saves · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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Speaker 1: we're going to be diving into a really intense topic
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Speaker 1: today in the Book of Hebrews. Stay tuned for a
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Speaker 1: Hebrews chapter ten today. Okay, hopefully you're ready to study
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Speaker 1: the Bible with me. Let's go ahead and turn to
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Speaker 1: Hebrews chapter ten. If you're able to read the Bible
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Speaker 1: with me today, we're gonna be talking about a few
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Speaker 1: topics today mainly legalism and how it's so unnecessary and
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Speaker 1: very terrible, and how unfortunately a lot of Christians get
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Speaker 1: kind of swept into legalism. We're also going to be
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Speaker 1: talking about how animal sacrifices we're both necessary but very
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Speaker 1: much unnecessary, and I'll explain what I mean by that
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Speaker 1: in a little bit, and also talking about another verse
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Speaker 1: in Hebrews that says you can't lose salvation. Once you
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Speaker 1: have salvation, it's over and done. You have it, you
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Speaker 1: cannot lose it. We're going to talk about all of
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Speaker 1: that today Hebrews ten one through eighteen. For the law
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Speaker 1: having a shadow of the good to come, not the
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Speaker 1: very image of the things, can never with the same
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Speaker 1: sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually make perfect
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Speaker 1: to those who draw near or else. Wouldn't they have
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Speaker 1: ceased to be offered because the worshippers, having been once cleansed,
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Speaker 1: would have had no more consciousness of sins. But in
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Speaker 1: those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of the sins.
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Speaker 1: For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and
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Speaker 1: goats should take away sins. Therefore, when he comes into
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Speaker 1: the world, he says, you didn't desire sacrifice an offering,
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Speaker 1: but you prepared a body for me. You had no
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Speaker 1: pleasure in the burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. Then
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Speaker 1: I said, behold, I have come in the scroll of
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Speaker 1: the book that is written of me, to do your will,
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Speaker 1: Oh God. Previously saying sacrifices and offerings, and whole burnt
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Speaker 1: offerings and sacrifices for sin, you didn't desire, neither had
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Speaker 1: pleasure in them, those which are offered according to the law.
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Speaker 1: Then he has said, behold, I have come to do
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Speaker 1: your will. He takes away the first that he may
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Speaker 1: establish the second, by which will have been sanctified through
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Speaker 1: the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
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Speaker 1: Every priest indeed stands day by day serving an offering,
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Speaker 1: often the same sacrifices, which can never take away the sins.
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Speaker 1: But He, when he offered one sacrifice for sins forever
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Speaker 1: sat down on the right hand of God from that time,
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Speaker 1: waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet,
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Speaker 1: For by one offering he is perfected forever those who
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Speaker 1: are being sanctified. The Holy Spirit also testifies to us,
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Speaker 1: for after saying this is the covenant that I will
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Speaker 1: make with them. After those days, says the Lord, I
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Speaker 1: will put my laws on their heart. I also will
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Speaker 1: write them on their mind. Then, he says, I will
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Speaker 1: remember their sins and their iniquities no more. Now where
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Speaker 1: remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
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Speaker 1: For the past couple weeks now in Hebrews, we've been
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Speaker 1: talking about how the Old Testament laws could not save
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Speaker 1: and it was only a temporary forgiveness, which we're going
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Speaker 1: to talk about right now. It says in verse one,
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Speaker 1: for the law having a shadow of the good to come,
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Speaker 1: not the very image of the things, can never with
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Speaker 1: the same sacrifices year by year make perfect those who
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Speaker 1: draw near. Okay, So the law is a shadow of
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Speaker 1: good things to come, meaning it is an imitation of
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Speaker 1: all of the heavenly things, right, the good things to come,
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Speaker 1: the salvation that Jesus was going to give to all
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Speaker 1: of us. The author says it was not the very
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Speaker 1: image of this. And the reason the author is talking
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Speaker 1: about this don't forget you know, he is writing this
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Speaker 1: letter to the Hebrews, the Jewish Christians who probably still
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Speaker 1: try to follow the Old Testament laws, who still think
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Speaker 1: that the Old Testament laws can save them. And there's
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Speaker 1: actually a lot of Christians that do this to this day.
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Speaker 1: They believe that in order to be a true Christian,
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Speaker 1: you must believe in Jesus and you must follow the
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Speaker 1: Old Testament laws as well. And I'm sorry because I
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Speaker 1: forget the name of that sect of Christianity. But unfortunately
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Speaker 1: it just falls into legalism all over again, because the
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Speaker 1: Old Testament laws cannot save us. There are good things
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Speaker 1: in the Old Testament laws. There are even things in
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Speaker 1: the Old Testament laws I would recommend people do because
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Speaker 1: it's probably good for you. For example, don't eat something
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Speaker 1: that has been dead for three days lying on the
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Speaker 1: side of the road. That's not good. There's a lot
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Speaker 1: of good things in the Old Testament laws. But these
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Speaker 1: things cannot save you. They cannot get you closer to God.
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Speaker 1: Just like any other religious thing that we do, whether
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Speaker 1: it's wearing a certain outfit or bowing in a certain direction,
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Speaker 1: or going to church five times a week, or giving
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Speaker 1: tithes and offerings, none of these things actually give you
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Speaker 1: any extra brownie points with God. Now, it might be
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Speaker 1: a personal conviction you have to do some of these things,
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Speaker 1: and that's good if you have a personal conviction. But
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Speaker 1: still these things do not give you any extra brownie
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Speaker 1: points with God. God is not like keeping a tally.
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Speaker 1: Oh you know, Jen, she wore a skirt above her
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Speaker 1: knees on Tuesday, so that's negative two points. Oh, but
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Speaker 1: she picked up litter off the ground on Wednesday night,
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Speaker 1: so that's a plus two points. So it evened out.
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Speaker 1: That is not what God is doing up in heaven.
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Speaker 1: God is looking at us, and he sees our hearts.
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Speaker 1: He sees the corruption on the inside, and that is
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Speaker 1: what he looks at. It actually says in scripture, I
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Speaker 1: forget where this verse is, but to God, all of
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Speaker 1: our good works are like filthy rags. And when the
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Speaker 1: author said filthy rags, he was talking about menstrual rags.
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Speaker 1: You can look that up. So that is how disgusting
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Speaker 1: our good deeds are to God, especially if we're doing
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Speaker 1: them with the wrong heart, or if we're doing it
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Speaker 1: just to gain points with God. It just does not
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Speaker 1: work that way. It is not the good place you
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Speaker 1: know that show, that TV show. It is not the
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Speaker 1: good place. It is heaven where God resides. So the
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Speaker 1: Old Testament laws cannot save us. And if you think
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Speaker 1: that you must follow the Old Testament laws to truly
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Speaker 1: be a Christian. Then unfortunately you haven't quite understood the
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Speaker 1: g of grace that Jesus gives us, because you know,
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Speaker 1: the bad news is is that we are fully corrupt
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Speaker 1: and that God can see our depravity, I suppose in
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Speaker 1: our hearts. But the good news is, in spite of
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Speaker 1: our depravity, God still loves us all the same and
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Speaker 1: he wants to save us from that depravity. So let's
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Speaker 1: continue in Hebrews ten, verse two, and this is my paraphrase.
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Speaker 1: These sacrifices year by year, which are offered continually, cannot
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Speaker 1: make perfect the people who are offering the sacrifices, or
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Speaker 1: else wouldn't they have ceased to be offered because the worshippers,
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Speaker 1: having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness
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Speaker 1: of sins. So the author is making the point that
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Speaker 1: one of the reasons the Old Testament sacrifices didn't work
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Speaker 1: was because they kept having to be offered over and
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Speaker 1: over and over again. You don't really have salvation if
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Speaker 1: you have to do things in order to keep gaining salvation.
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Speaker 1: You are either saved or you are not saved. And
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Speaker 1: these Old Testament sacrifices weren't really working on a core
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Speaker 1: level because they kept having to be sacrificed over and
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Speaker 1: over and over again. I mean, you can look at
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Speaker 1: the Old Testament laws. These people had to bring in
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Speaker 1: these animals for pretty much every sin that they realized
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Speaker 1: that they did. The priests had to offer these sacrifices
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Speaker 1: for themselves day after day. These sacrifices weren't really working.
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Speaker 1: In verse three, in those sacrifices, there is a yearly
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Speaker 1: reminder of sins, for it is impossible that the blood
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Speaker 1: of bulls and goats should take away sins. And in
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Speaker 1: reading that, you might be like, Jen, you just went
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Speaker 1: off on a whole thing last week about how animal
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Speaker 1: sacrifice was necessary. So how is that possible that animal
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Speaker 1: sacrifice was necessary if it is impossible that the blood
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Speaker 1: of bulls and goats can take away sins? And I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna lie. When I first read this, I was like,
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Speaker 1: uh oh, did I teach something wrong? You know? I
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Speaker 1: was teaching that the animals gave temporary forgiveness? Was that wrong? Like?
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Speaker 1: What is the point of animal sacrifices? So I dug
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Speaker 1: a little bit deeper, and one of the things I've
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Speaker 1: always mentioned to you guys, is if you don't understand
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Speaker 1: a verse, it's really good to go back to the
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Speaker 1: Hebrew and the Greek because that is the original language
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Speaker 1: that the Bible was written in. So let's do that
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Speaker 1: by looking at the word atonement in the Old Testament.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully you guys remember me talking about the day of Atonement.
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Speaker 1: That was the big holiday every single year that the
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Speaker 1: Jewish people still do to this day. It's often called
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Speaker 1: kippor okay. That is the day where the Jewish people
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Speaker 1: fast and they take a day off and it's very somber.
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Speaker 1: They go to the temple. Back in the Old Testament days,
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Speaker 1: there was an animal sacrifice done. There was like this
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Speaker 1: scapegoat thing that would take place, but I'm not going
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Speaker 1: to talk about that today. There was a lot of
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Speaker 1: ritual that went into the because it was the one
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Speaker 1: day a year where there would be atonement made for
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Speaker 1: the sins of the people. So what does that word
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Speaker 1: atonement mean? You know, for those of you who are
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Speaker 1: like me that grew up in a Christian household, sometimes
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Speaker 1: you know, you hear these words like atonement since you
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Speaker 1: were a little kid, and yet you don't really know
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Speaker 1: what the word means. That was me today. I actually
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Speaker 1: thought the word atonement meant forgiveness, but it actually means
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Speaker 1: something a little bit different than that. If you look
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Speaker 1: at the Hebrew, the word atonement going to Exodus, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: what is this chapter Exitus twenty nine Versus thirty five
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Speaker 1: and thirty six do for Aaron and his sons everything
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Speaker 1: I've commanded you? Taking seven days to ordain them, sacrifice
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Speaker 1: a bull each day as a sin, offering to make
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Speaker 1: atonement or kipporum, purify the altar by making atonement or
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Speaker 1: kapoor for it and annoying it to consecrate it. So
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Speaker 1: what does that word kapoor mean or atonement? In its
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Speaker 1: basic form, kipoor means a covering, which most people translate
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Speaker 1: as forgiveness, and it can be translated that way, but
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Speaker 1: a covering is actually a much better understanding of what
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Speaker 1: the word atonement means. So it's not exactly forgiveness, but
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Speaker 1: it kind of is. So let me give you a
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Speaker 1: little analogy here that I thought up all by myself,
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Speaker 1: because this is something that I do. Have you ever
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Speaker 1: like walked into a filthy room and you're like, oh
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Speaker 1: my gosh, I got to clean this filth off my floor.
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Speaker 1: And so you grab everything and you either throw it
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Speaker 1: in the closet or you throw it in a pile
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Speaker 1: somewhere like in the corner, or you tuck it under
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Speaker 1: the bed or under the desk or anywhere that it's
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Speaker 1: like out of sight. Because I do that all the time.
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. When I was a little kid,
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Speaker 1: I used to get in trouble all the time because
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Speaker 1: when my parents told me to clean my room, I
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Speaker 1: would just shove it all under my bed and not
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Speaker 1: think about it. It was covered, and I was like,
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Speaker 1: this is a problem for another day, not going to
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Speaker 1: deal with it right now. It was covered. In other words,
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Speaker 1: there was kipor I guess over it, if you want
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Speaker 1: to use the Hebrew word for it. So think about
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Speaker 1: it the same way in the Old Testament days where
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Speaker 1: the sins were still there, but they were covered by
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Speaker 1: the blood of the animal. They weren't gone, they were covered.
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Speaker 1: They were kind of like out of sight until a
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Speaker 1: later time, so that God wasn't disgusted with the individual.
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Speaker 1: And they're like sin out in the open. The blood
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Speaker 1: of the goats and the bulls and the sheep would
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Speaker 1: cover the sins of the people. But going back to
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Speaker 1: Hebrews ten, verse four, it was impossible that the blood
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Speaker 1: of bulls and goats would take away the sins. They
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Speaker 1: could cover over the sins, but they could not take
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Speaker 1: away the sins. There is only one sacrifice that could
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Speaker 1: take sins away completely. Because going back to my analogy,
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Speaker 1: you know, you get all the junk out of sight,
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Speaker 1: out of mind by throwing it under your bed or
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Speaker 1: under your desk or whatever, but you know it's still there.
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Speaker 1: You still have that kind of like sinking feeling in
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Speaker 1: your stomach, or you're like, yes, I do have to
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Speaker 1: get to this at some point, just not right now,
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Speaker 1: not even tomorrow, not even in a few weeks necessarily,
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Speaker 1: but I still have to get to it. Doesn't it
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Speaker 1: feel so much better when you finally get to all
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Speaker 1: that junk under your bed and you throw away the
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Speaker 1: crap that you don't want, and you put your dirty
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Speaker 1: clothes in the laundry and hang them up, and you
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Speaker 1: make everything clean, and you know at that point that
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Speaker 1: when you walk into your room and it looks clean,
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Speaker 1: it actually is clean. It's not just stuffed away somewhere.
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Speaker 1: That is what Jesus did. He took away the sins.
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Speaker 1: He made it clean. The blood of the goats and
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Speaker 1: the bulls was necessary because it covered the sins, but
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Speaker 1: it didn't take the sins away. Only Jesus could do that.
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Speaker 1: So now the author of Hebrews in verse five quotes
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Speaker 1: from my favorite Psalm, Psalm chapter forty. And this is
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Speaker 1: the septuagen version of this Psalm, by the way, So
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Speaker 1: it's slightly different than if you go to Psalm forty,
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Speaker 1: verses six through eight and read it in whatever version
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Speaker 1: you read from. Because the Septuagint, by the way, was
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Speaker 1: the Greek version of the Bible during the days of
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Speaker 1: the guy who wrote Hebrews. So there's a septuagent version
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Speaker 1: of Psalm forty and also a Hebrew version of Psalm forty.
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Speaker 1: They're very close to each other, but there is one
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Speaker 1: thing that makes them slightly different. So I could open
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Speaker 1: up a can of worms and talk about, you know,
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Speaker 1: the infallibility of the original text. But instead of going
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Speaker 1: down that rabbit trail, I'll just tell you that that
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Speaker 1: I believe the Bible right here that we have is
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Speaker 1: God's word. I believe that God is all powerful and
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Speaker 1: that he can sustain his word. If he is all powerful,
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Speaker 1: and he can create the entire universe and create humanity
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Speaker 1: and all the animals and everything, he can certainly preserve
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Speaker 1: his word. So in Hebrews chapter ten, we have the
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Speaker 1: septuagent version of Psalm chapter forty, and going back to
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Speaker 1: Psalm forty, we also have the Hebrew version of it,
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Speaker 1: which means that both versions of Psalm forty is God's
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Speaker 1: word because it was preserved in scripture. I'll talk about
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Speaker 1: what the difference is here in a second. So it
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Speaker 1: says in Hebrews ten five through seven, therefore when he
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Speaker 1: comes into the world, Jesus, he says, you didn't desire
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Speaker 1: sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me,
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Speaker 1: And so that's where it differs slightly from Psalm forty
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Speaker 1: verse six, which says sacrifice an offering you didn't desire.
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Speaker 1: So that's the difference. Now the author says that this
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Speaker 1: is Jesus speaking, and it's true. I mean, David, who
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Speaker 1: wrote Psalm chapter forty is considered to be a prophet.
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Speaker 1: But the main point here is that God doesn't desire
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Speaker 1: sacrifice and offering. Verse six of Hebrews ten, you had
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Speaker 1: no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
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Speaker 1: Then I said, behold, I have come in the scroll
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Speaker 1: of the book that has written of me to do
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Speaker 1: your will, Oh God. And that's pretty much word for
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Speaker 1: word of what you'll read in Psalm forty seven and eight.
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Speaker 1: The point is God doesn't desire sacrifices and offerings, and
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Speaker 1: the Old Testament Jews they believed that that is what
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Speaker 1: God wanted. They were like checking off boxes. They said, Oh, okay,
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Speaker 1: I brought my dove into the temple today, so I'm
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Speaker 1: all good, see you God. I'll go do whatever I
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Speaker 1: want to do now, and then bring my dove again
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Speaker 1: tomorrow and we'll be all good again. Knowing now what
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Speaker 1: the word atonement means, you can see now why God
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Speaker 1: got so disgusted with the practice of animal sacrifices later on,
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Speaker 1: because the people were doing it the wrong way, not
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Speaker 1: understanding that it was a covering over sins, and that
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Speaker 1: eventually their sins were getting so bad that the animal
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Speaker 1: sacrifices weren't even working anymore because they were done with
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Speaker 1: the wrong heart. They were becoming needlessly done. The animals
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Speaker 1: were losing their lives for no reason. It was just
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Speaker 1: so corrupt. After a while. In the Book of Malachi
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Speaker 1: and the Old Testament, God talks about how much he
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Speaker 1: hated the animal sacrifices. After a while, and all the
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Speaker 1: festivals that the people were celebrating, these religious festivals, acting
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Speaker 1: like they were so holy. God was sick of the religiosity.
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Speaker 1: He wanted the heart to turn toward him. He wanted
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Speaker 1: the people to have faith in the Messiah, even before
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Speaker 1: the Messiah came to earth. He wanted the people to
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Speaker 1: have faith. And there were Old Testament people that had
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Speaker 1: faith in Jesus before Jesus even came to earth, because
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Speaker 1: they believed in the Messiah, and they understood how God
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Speaker 1: didn't desire sacrifices and offerings. They understood that it had
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Speaker 1: to do with the heart more so than anything else.
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Speaker 1: But going back to Hebrews ten eight through ten, it's
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Speaker 1: kind of funny because the author starts explaining what these
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Speaker 1: verses in Psalm forty means, kind of like what I do,
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Speaker 1: I guess on the podcast. No, I'm not trying to
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Speaker 1: compare myself to the author of Hebrews, not comparing myself
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Speaker 1: to this man at all, because he is much more
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Speaker 1: intelligent than I am, but he starts explaining what Psalm
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Speaker 1: chapter forty actually means. Here he says, sacrifices and offerings
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Speaker 1: and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't
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Speaker 1: desire neither did you have pleasure in them those which
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Speaker 1: are offered according to the law. Then he has said, behold,
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Speaker 1: I have come to do your will. So that's all
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Speaker 1: talking about Jesus. Jesus did not like the animal sacrifices,
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Speaker 1: you know, because Jesus is God. Obviously, if God the
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Speaker 1: Father does not desire animal sacrifices, then Jesus was not
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Speaker 1: going to desire them as well. Jesus did not like
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Speaker 1: the animal sacrifices. So Jesus came to do the will
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Speaker 1: of the Father, which was also his will because he
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Speaker 1: is God. He willingly came down to offer himself as
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Speaker 1: the perfect sacrifices, so that animal sacrifice was no longer
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Speaker 1: needed anymore. And isn't it interesting that a mere approximate
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Speaker 1: fifty years after Jesus died, that animal sacrifices in Israel
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Speaker 1: ended like they just ended. To this day, animal sacrifices
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Speaker 1: aren't really done in any major capacity, maybe in a
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Speaker 1: minor kind of sense, but in a major capacity, they
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Speaker 1: are not done. God just ended them because historically the
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Speaker 1: Romans came in and destroyed the temple, so the Israelite
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Speaker 1: people didn't really have a place to do the animal
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Speaker 1: sacrifices anymore, and they just kind of fizzled out over time.
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Speaker 1: God ended the animal sacrifices pretty significantly. But that's beside
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Speaker 1: the point. God did not desire the sacrifices, so Jesus
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Speaker 1: did away with them by sacrificing himself as the perfect
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Speaker 1: sacrifice for all time. And that is what the author
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Speaker 1: goes into right here in verse eleven. Every priest, indeed,
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Speaker 1: so like normal earthly priests, stands day by day, serving
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Speaker 1: and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take
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Speaker 1: away sins. But he or Jesus, when he had offered
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Speaker 1: one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right
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Speaker 1: hand of God from that time, waiting until his enemies
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Speaker 1: are made the footstool of his feet. So all of
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Speaker 1: that to say, instead of animals being slaughtered to cover
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Speaker 1: the sins, not even take them away, Jesus took it away.
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Speaker 1: He made things clean. That's why if you go to
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Speaker 1: church sometimes you'll hear this Christianese statement that says, I
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Speaker 1: have been washed to clean from the blood of Jesus.
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Speaker 1: You know, it probably sounds really weird to non Christians.
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Speaker 1: Quite honestly, it kind of sounds weird to Christians too,
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Speaker 1: But that is to say that Jesus, through his sacrifice
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Speaker 1: literally took away the filth of the sins. He took
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Speaker 1: it away, he made it clean instead from that time
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Speaker 1: waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.
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Speaker 1: So Jesus right now, as of the time that I
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Speaker 1: record this episode, Jesus is sitting at the right hand
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Speaker 1: of God the Father, waiting for a specific time when
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Speaker 1: he is going to come back again. He is going
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Speaker 1: to come back again. That is what scripture says. That
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Speaker 1: is what Jesus said to his disciples. I will come
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Speaker 1: back again, and that's going to be a very exciting
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Speaker 1: day for everybody who believes in Jesus. But he's waiting
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Speaker 1: and he will come again. For by one offering he
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Speaker 1: has perfected forever. Those who are being sanctified, he has
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Speaker 1: perfected forever. So there is another verse right there in
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Speaker 1: Hebrews about how you cannot lose salvation once you gain salvation.
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Speaker 1: It says right here that his sacrifice has perfected forever
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Speaker 1: those who are being sanctified. The Holy Spirit also testifies
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Speaker 1: to us. And then the author quotes Jeremiah thirty one
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Speaker 1: thirty one through thirty four here, which is the same
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Speaker 1: thing that he quoted a couple chapters ago in Hebrews eight.
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Speaker 1: Here's what this says. This is the covenant that I
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Speaker 1: will make with them. After those days, says the Lord,
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Speaker 1: I will put my laws on their heart, and I
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Speaker 1: will write them on their mind. Then he says, I
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Speaker 1: will remember their sins and their iniquities no more. Remember
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Speaker 1: what it said at the beginning of Hebrews here that
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Speaker 1: all of the Old Testament animal sacrifices that were being
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Speaker 1: done reminded people of their sins year after year, day
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Speaker 1: by day. It was like a constant reminder of sins.
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Speaker 1: Who was it reminding? What was reminding the people, I'm
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Speaker 1: sure and the priests, But it was also reminding God
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Speaker 1: of the sins of the people. But now that Jesus
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Speaker 1: offered himself as the sacrifice that takes away sins, God
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Speaker 1: is not going to remember those sins anymore, because we
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Speaker 1: have been made clean and to conclude in verse eighteen.
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Speaker 1: Here it says, now where a remission of these is,
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Speaker 1: there is no more offering for sin. That verse is
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Speaker 1: so important for anybody who believes that you have to
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Speaker 1: do like a daily ritual in order to get close
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Speaker 1: to God. Where remission of sins is, there is no
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Speaker 1: more offering for sin. We don't have to keep doing
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Speaker 1: a daily ritual every single day to get close to God.
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Speaker 1: It's been done. Jesus took care of it. It is
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Speaker 1: over with. And if we are doing some sort of
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Speaker 1: ritual to gain remission from sins, then that means we
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Speaker 1: don't trust in Jesus's power to save us. And it's
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Speaker 1: also useless. Now that to say, I've talked a million
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Speaker 1: times on this podcast about how if you feel a
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Speaker 1: certain conviction to do something good like keeping the Sabbath
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Speaker 1: day or you know, doing the kosher food laws in
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Speaker 1: the Old Testament, or giving tithes or any of those things,
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Speaker 1: those are good things to do, but again, they do
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Speaker 1: not gain for us remission of sins. Instead, they just
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Speaker 1: help ourselves or they help other people. So what this
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Speaker 1: portion of Scripture comes down to is that we have
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Speaker 1: grace from Jesus. We have our sin. When we believe
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Speaker 1: in Jesus, we have our sins taken away from us completely.
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Speaker 1: We are made clean even when we sin, which we
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Speaker 1: are still going to sin, because we live here in
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Speaker 1: a fallen world. We are fallen individuals. Just because we
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Speaker 1: believe in Jesus does not mean that we are going
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Speaker 1: to stop sinning completely. We might get better at not sinning,
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Speaker 1: but we're never going to be fully freed from sin
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Speaker 1: until Jesus comes back or until we die. Still, even
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Speaker 1: when we sin, Jesus's blood takes it away, it is gone.
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Speaker 1: When we confess that sin, it is clean in the
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Speaker 1: eyes of Jesus. And someday when we stand before God,
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Speaker 1: the Father, Jesus is going to be there with us.
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Speaker 1: And when God tells us well done, good and faithful servant,
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Speaker 1: it's not going to be because we did anything grand
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Speaker 1: here on earth. It's going to be because we trusted
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Speaker 1: and obeyed Jesus. That is how we're going to hear
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Speaker 1: that phrase, well done, good and faithful servant. So unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: I can't keep going forever on these podcast episodes, because
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Speaker 1: on some of these episodes. But fortunately, I've actually covered
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Speaker 1: a lot of the topics already on the podcast, so
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Speaker 1: that you guys can learn about these truths even deeper
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Speaker 1: and taken even deep dive into scripture if that's something
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