REVIEW:
THE
WORD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
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A better promise
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A better priest/priesthood
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A better covenant
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A better tabernacle/temple
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A better sacrifice.
Jesus’
sacrifice is better because it reaches to the depths of the personality. Jesus
has gone into the very heart of the presence of God, into the place where God
lives in light and holiness.
So,
the effects of His sacrifice shouldn’t just be felt on the outside and a bodily
sense for us. But, it’s felt in the inward depths of who we are… in our holy of
holies at our core… where we are who we really are.
We
will lots about the “conscience” in 9:14, 10:22, 10:22 and 13:18. Each time
stressing the fact that under the new covenant there is purification which goes
to the very center of things. Your “guilty
conscience” is a tool of the enemy and not a work of the Holy Spirit!
Now,
God’s people can serve Him gladly and joyfully without even the slightest
shadow or blemish on our consciences.
We
are free from fear and guilt. We can love, serve, encourage and work with joy!
Jesus is the WORD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS: He’s
a better sacrifice! (9:9-10, 9:14, 9:26, and 10:1)
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Read 10:1-18
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The idea is, that under the ancient sacrifices
there was an imperfect representation: a dim outline of the blessings which the
Gospel would impart to people.
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Mirror
10:17 “This is final: I have deleted the record of your sins and misdeeds.
I no longer recall them.”
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(STEDMAN)
To put it simply, we must see what we already ARE by God's grace, in order to
manifest that fact by godly behavior.
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Sacrifices
o Christ’s
sacrifice takes away sin
o Christ’s
sacrifice needs to happen only once
o Sacrifices
under the old covenant could not deal with the problem of sin and guilt in the
consciences of the worshipper.
o In
fact, God doesn’t really want our sacrifices (1Samuel 15:22, Isaiah 1:10-17,
Hosea 6:6, Mathew 9:13 and 12:7). They point to something better… something God
himself will accomplish. (Hebrews 10:5-10)
o The
law cannot be regarded as the final word. What Jesus has done is.
o Everything
keeps coming back to Jesus. He is as we humans were intended, he is the high
priest, he is the perfect sacrifice, and he is the new covenant. All these
things belong together.
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(NTW)
The result of discovering, with the help of the OT, what Jesus has achieved is
to realize that he has fulfilled God’s purposes as set out in Scripture, so
that the only wise place is to be with Him, rather than with those who cling to
the signposts instead of the reality.
Leviticus
1-7
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Burnt, Peace, Guilt, Sin and other offerings.
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Walked through these particularly chapter 4.
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Conclusion in 7:37-38
(STEDMAN 105) The writer also declares
the death of Jesus, by fulfilling the will of the Father, completely replaces
the provision of animal deaths, which had provided some degree of forgiveness
before. Finally, he announces the only possible conclusion: it is by the fulfillment
of the will of God in the once-for-all sacrifice of Jesus Christ that we have
been made holy. The Greek expression for MADE HOLY indicates action with a
lasting effect. We have been made holy by the death of Jesus, and we remain
holy even though we struggle with the daily weakness and sin. It is a holiness
obtained by faith, not by self-righteous effort, and it is not lost by
momentary failure. “There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ
Jesus!” (Romans 8:1)
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Looked at Romans 8:1-11
FINAL ACT: WORD OF FAITH - Hebrews
finishes with faith!
Notes
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Read 10:19-11:3
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Provisions of Faith
o We
have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place since everything rests on the
blood of Jesus.
o We
have a competent high priest who advocates for us.
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Privileges of Faith
o Drawing
near to God – nothing separates (Romans 8)
o Sharing
in hope
o Spurring
one another on
§ Love
§ Good
deeds
§ Meeting
together
§ Encouragement
§ Mirror
10:24 “Good actions give voice and volume to the love of God.”
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Another warning against those who deliberately
keep on “deliberately” sinning even after they fully understand the truth of
the gospel.
o There
is no other sacrifice than Jesus who will take away their sin.
o They
have trampled Jesus under foot.
o They
have treated the blood of Jesus as less than it is.
o They
have insulted the Spirit of grace.
o Galatians
2:18-21 – Law practice spits in the eyes of grace.
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(NTW)
This passage, then, is a warning about a more specific danger: that someone who
has come close to Christian faith, and perhaps shared in the life of Christian
worship, will then turn around and publicly deny it all. As we noted when
looking at 6:1-8, this seems to relate to a quite specific situation of
persecution, coming from the direction of non-Christian Judaism, directed (as
that of Saul of Tarsus had been) against fellow Jews who were embracing Jesus
as Messiah. …WE should be all the more eager that there will never come a time
when we might give in to the temptation to declare the whole thing was
worthless.
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Internal
and external persecution can cause us to focus on that which is familiar
instead of our actual freedom in grace.
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SIDE NOTE: these verses give clear indication of
terrible persecution like in Acts 8 or 1 Thessalonians 2… this also gives
indication that an author like Silas is probable as part of the Jerusalem
church and an author of the letters to Thessalonica.
Parallel
Passages:
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Habakkuk 2:4, Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11
o The
righteous shall live by faith
o Romans
emphasizes righteous/ness.
o Galatians
emphasizes shall live or our new life
o Hebrews
is centered on by faith.
(WW) True faith is confident obedience
in spite of circumstances and consequences. God speaks and we hear his Word. We
trust his Word and act on it no matter what. The world fails to realize that
faith is only as good as its object. And the object of our faith is God
himself. This is not a feeling it is our total response to His revelation. As a
result, faith enables us to do what others cannot do!
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Faith in HIS power
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