Lord willing, in just a little bit, I want to bring a message out of Hebrews chapter 10. But to lay some foundation for it, let's turn and read Hebrews chapter 9. Hebrews chapter 9. He's going to start out talking about the covenants, the two covenants. One is a covenant of grace. One is the covenant of the law or of works.

Then, verily, the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service and a worldly sanctuary, for there was a tabernacle. The first wherein was a candlestick, and the table and the showbread, which is called the sanctuary. Remember in the word I read to you in Joshua 24 a while ago, it talks about that great stone being set up near the sanctuary. That's the tabernacle, the first area inside the tabernacle. And then afterward, and after the second veil, the tabernacle, which is called the holiest of all, which had the golden censer, and the Ark of the Covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the Covenant. And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercy seat, of which we cannot now speak particularly.

And when these things were thus ordained, the priest went in always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. That bread had to be replaced. The oil in the lamp had to be filled. There was things to do inside that first. And all the common priest, whose ever job it was, I guess fell to them by lot. And they would go in and accomplish that service.

But into the second went the high priest alone. One time every year. It's the only time anybody was ever permitted to go beyond that veil. One time a year on the Day of Atonement, the high priest would take the blood. He couldn't even go in without the blood. Once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself. This was an atonement for the sins of the high priest and the people. The Holy Ghost thus signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest while as the first tabernacle was yet standing, which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him that did the service perfect as pertaining to the conscience, stood only in meats and drinks and divers washings and carnal ordinances imposed on them until the time of reformation.

Now, this is not talking about a religious reformation. This is talking about the reformation of the covenant, which is Christ, the coming of Christ. He's the reformation. Say, well, I want to study the reformation. Study Christ. He's the reformation.

But Christ being come, a high priest of good things to come, By a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building, neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctify to the purifying of the flesh, How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

And for this cause, he's the mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the First Testament or covenant, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.

In other words, if I leave a will, that will's of no count as long as I'm living. But if I die, now it's written. It's written. Whoever I appointed as heirs can get the inheritance. But as long as I live, it's still mine. For a testament is a force after men are dead. Otherwise, it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. For when Moses had spoken every precept to the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet and with hyssop and wool, and sprinkled both the book and all the people, saying, This is the blood of the testament, which God hath enjoined unto you. Moreover, he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and the vessels of the ministry. And almost all things by the law are purged with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.

It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true, but into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for us. Nor yet that he should offer himself often as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others, for then must he have often suffered since the foundation of the world. But now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment, so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many. And unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

I invite you to turn with me this morning to Hebrews chapter 10. I quote from this chapter often and have brought many messages on it. It should be, to those of you who've been here a while, it should be familiar passage. My desire and my intention this morning is to answer a question I was once asked and to my shame could not answer. I wonder if it might be the same with you this morning.

What is the gospel? What is the gospel? I see this plastered on church signs and church buses and church listings and church bulletins everywhere I go. Did you know that categorizing music, rock and roll, country, on and on it goes, do you know that there's an entire range of music called gospel music. And there is an undeniable commission, which most churches boast of. It's given to the church by our Lord to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.

He that believeth not shall be damned. But I'd wager that most folks who are going about doing all these things under the guise of the gospel ministry could not tell you what the gospel is. And I might not be able to. But I'm going to take a stab at it this morning and try to answer that question that I could not answer to this man who asked it. What is the gospel?

Now, I grew up in natural religion, false religion, anti-Christ religion. And though they would never truly define the gospel, their goals seemed to be to reform society to a higher standard of morality. and to insist on certain precepts of the law to gain favor with God. That's what it seemed like to me. That's what they were doing. Almost every message I ever heard had to do with raising your standard of morality, quitting this and starting that. And they used a lot of biblical words like salvation and born again, conversion, sanctification and faith, but I never saw any of these things exhibited, not ever, not the whole time I was in religion. The gospel seemed to be left to the hearer's imagination. What's he preach? Oh, he preaches the gospel. Well, what is it? Now, you may not believe it, But if you hear it enough, you ought to be able to say this is the gospel, shouldn't you?

There was a record book. It was a piece of wood made to look like a scroll. And it was hung on the side wall up front where everybody in the congregation could see it. What it had on there was what was the attendance last week and what's the attendance this week, how much the offering was last week and how much the offering is this week, how many church members and how many church members after today. All of this was on that scroll, that sign.

And almost every service was followed up with what they called an altar call, where folks come to the front and were just pressed to make a profession of faith. They'd just go on and on and on until you made some kind of profession. They'd even tell you what to say and what to pray. Pray after me, or pray with me. Repeat these words. And then I got a little older, I joined a church, just figured I was too stupid to understand what they were saying, and I needed just to go on, you know. And the Lord would reveal it to me in time.

And so I played a guitar a little bit and sang, and so I'd go from this church to that church, and I went to the Church of Christ, I went to Methodist churches, I went to Baptist churches, Nazarene churches, all kinds of churches. And I'd play and sing.

And all their services were amazingly alike. They really were. The only differences I could see was in their church government and whether or not they were real loose in their gathering or whether they was made to sit in order. Just church government and the way they conducted their service, that's the only thing I could see.

And then one day this guy asked me, I asked him to come to our meeting we were having, that was common back then to have revivals. They still have revivals, I have not seen a sign out here. And we had an evangelist there and I asked this man to come and he said, why? Why would I want to go down there? And I said, well, we've got an evangelist down here. Well, what's he do? I said, he preaches the gospel.

I didn't know what to say. Nobody ever asked me that before. And he said, you wouldn't know the gospel if you met it in the middle of the road. And I said, well, what do you mean I don't know the gospel? Well, if you do, what is it? Huh? And you may be sitting there in your pew this morning thinking, what do you mean I don't know the gospel? Well, let me ask you this. What is it? What is it? Well, that's what I'm going to try to answer. I was just like untold millions in our day who found himself religious and lost. Did you know that's the way most people are in the world? They're religious and lost.

Whatever the gospel is, it is the key to faith the means of regeneration, and a summation of the whole of the book of God, whatever this gospel is. Paul said he preached the gospel to them in Ephesus, and he did it publicly and house to house, and he said, I have not failed to teach you and declare to you the whole counsel of God. Whatever this gospel is, it sums up the whole book. Oh, that guy's off on a tangent. Well, then this book is about a tangent. The tangent is Christ.

Peter said this, this is the word by whom the gospel is preached unto you. this word whereby you're born. This is the word of the gospel, which I preached unto you. So whatever the gospel is, it contains a necessary element of truth without which men and women cannot be saved. And there's a lot of gospel cliches. And I don't care how good they sound, they're still cliches. The gospel's a person. Well, that's true enough, but I still don't define the gospel unless you know who the person is, and why he came, and what he did, and where he's at.

Everybody confesses Jesus. I've never met anybody that didn't believe in Jesus. Have you? Never have. I've never met anybody that didn't believe Jesus died on the cross. My soul, every time a car crashes, they nail up a cross and put it down in the ditch or up on the side of the hill. They all believe that he died on a cross. Or what don't they believe? They don't believe in who he is, why he came, what he did, and where he's at.

The gospel is about substitution. The gospel is about an eternal union with Christ. The gospel is reconciliation, propitiation. And while all these constitute the gospel message, they do not truly define the gospel. The gospel is the good news that the Son of God has come to save sinners for the glory of his name. This is God's purpose in everything, in creation, providence, and salvation.

Everything is arranged around this. I'm absolutely convinced that the order of this universe, all these planets rotating, and the whole order of this universe is arranged to picture that. And David said, night unto night uttereth speech. What's it telling us? They're telling us there's a purpose, there's an order to these things.

And the Bible, beginning in the book of Genesis and following through to Malachi, is filled with prophecies, pictures, and promises of the coming Messiah or Christ, and his work is to save his people from their sins. How? I've always been told that my sins were put away by Christ, but how did he do it? What would cause God to put away my sins? I'll tell you what would cause it.

Satisfaction. Satisfaction. Well, how was he satisfied? He looked upon the travail of his son's soul, made an offering for sin, and he was satisfied. He was satisfied. Look it up, Isaiah 53. The Son of God being made flesh, accomplishing the redemptive will of God is the story of this book. Listen to this, Acts 10,

43. Everybody knows this verse. To him give all the prophets witness. Well, what about him? What did they witness? that through his name, whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sin. Acts 10.43. In Acts 13.38, Paul gave them a short history of Israel, and then he said this. Be it known unto you, therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins. Well, you say, well, the gospel is a person. It's Jesus Christ. Yes. Yes, but not until I understand who this man is. I've heard Jesus preach since I was old enough to stand up. He didn't do a thing for me until I learned who he was.

Verse 39, for by him all that believe are justified. from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. God put you on trial, and he brings forth the witnesses. And nobody going to be justified by that law. That law will condemn you. That law will expose you for what you are. That law cries one thing to the sinner, guilty. Whatever the law saith, it saith to them that are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world become guilty before God. You're not going to approach God on the basis of the law. It's not going to happen.

Turn with me to Galatians chapter 3. So why did God give the law then? He gave the law. He commanded them to keep it. Why did he give it? What's this law all about? Galatians chapter 3, verse 19. Now religion's fascinated by the law because their understanding of it fits their concept of self-righteousness. But here's why God gave the law, Galatians 3,

19. Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions till the seed should come to whom the promise was made. And it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Who's that? Well, just one mediator, Christ. The law, 1 Timothy chapter 1 and verse 9, listen to this, is not made for a righteous man. But reform religion is teaching that it is. They're teaching that the law leads us. It don't save us, but after we're saved, it leads us. Now listen, the law is not made for a righteous man. You can't be saved without being righteous. You can't be righteous apart from Christ. The law's not made for a righteous man.

Well, who's it made for? The lawless, disobedient, for ungodly and for sinners, for unholy, profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers and whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, queers. for men-stealers, for liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that's contrary to sound doctrine.

That's what the law. You want to preach the law, preach it to them. That's who it's for. It's given and maintained for the punishment of evildoers. It's given to manifest our guilt, take away our denial of sin, expose us for what we are and shut us up to Christ. That's what the law's all about. And it's given to restrain men and women from being as evil as they could be. Boy, what a world we live in without the law. Huh? You can't, you're afraid sometimes to go out the front yard the way it is. Can you imagine if there was no law?

The only part the law plays in the gospel is to shut us up to the grace of God in Christ. Now listen, and foreshadow the person and work of Christ. I used to go to Mississippi and preach, Marigold, Mississippi. I'd leave after church here on Sunday and drive over there and preach to them and then drive back home. And there's a church just on the other side of El Dorado. I forget the name of the little city, but you go into it. I know it's still there. There's a great big billboard-sized sign out in the churchyard.

And it, too, made like a scroll and has the Ten Commandments on it. And down at the bottom, in great big letters, it says, the Ten Commandments is enough for us. And the very first time I read it, this was my, They're too much for me. One commandment in the Ten Commandments is too much for me. Too much for me. Do you do everything that you do strictly 100% out of love for God? Then you broke the whole law. You don't need to go to another precept. And here's the second one that he says that law is hinged to. Love your neighbor as yourself. Not always, not any. Oh, they're too much for me.

Now let's look here in Hebrews 10 and see if we can see our Lord's gospel set forth to those whose hope was in the law and their obedience to it. That's what I'm talking about every religion on earth now. Do this and the Lord will save you. That's their message. Now watch this, verse 1. Paul's writing this book to a people, and here's what he said about them over in Romans chapter 10. He's praying for them that they might be saved. What do you mean they might be saved? This is the elect of God. This is Israel.

These people, boy, if anybody kept the law, they did. Paul said he was perfect in outward obedience. You talk about religious, we couldn't hold a light to them. And now he's going to use them and show us some things. And he said, here's their problem. And this is the problem with every religion on Earth.

They, being ignorant of the righteousness of God and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law. It's the utmost expectation of the law, the highest goal of the law. Christ is the end of the law to everyone that believes.

Now watch this. For the law, this is Hebrews 10 verse 1, having a shadow of good things to come and not that very image of those things can never, with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually, make the comers thereunto perfect. And here's his argument. For then would they not have ceased to be an offer Huh? If that ram, that bullet, that calf, that heifer, that turtle dove was effectual to put away sin, then after the first offering, it ought to have been over. But it wasn't. And you can substitute in there any of your good works. You just put it in there. My giving, my church membership, my this, my that.

But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. How come? Verse 4, for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. The whole reason for the sacrifice is to put away sins. It's the day of atonement. It's the day when God's going to forgive sins. And they bring the sacrifice, they bring the substitute, and they offer it. The reason for the sacrifice is to put away sin. Sin must be paid for by death. The law of God declares that from beginning to end. The soul that sinneth shall surely die. God's infinite holy justice must be satisfied, and the blood of bulls and goats can't do it.

So why were they commanded to be offered? To teach us by type and figure that somebody has to die in the place of sinners. That's what that law declared, that very first sacrifice there in Egypt. Let's go back further than that, that very first sacrifice in the garden. Somebody has to die in the place of the sinners.

He can't be reconciled to God apart from that. He can't be saved. Now either the sacrifice has to die or we have to die, one or the other. In Romans chapter 10, the apostle Paul describes his concern for the Hebrews that they were ignorant. Oh, my soul. Ignorant of God's righteousness.

Going about. Doing what? Doing all the stuff that we do. All the stuff that we do. Yeah, we'll find some kind of sacrifice, won't we? We'll make a deal with God. You do this and I'll do that. Going about to establish their own righteousness and have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. What's that mean? That means that God has wrought out a righteousness for chosen sinners. And by faith, that sinner says, this is enough. This is the righteousness that God will accept. And he quits doing all this other nonsense. That's what that means. He folds his hands. I've got no righteousness before God except that righteousness of Christ. And it's not imparted, I'm sorry, to those preachers who gonna say it was imparted. It's not imparted, it's imputed. It's charged to my account. I didn't do it, he did.

But the way he did it, by the purpose of God, I am actually made righteous. Abraham believed God, now listen, and it was counted to him for righteousness. You know what kind of a man Lott was. You know his story. You know what it says? That righteous man. Lott? Yeah, Lott.

That righteous man, dwelling down there among them. His conversation was, oh, it was awful. His behavior was awful. And he ain't the only one. Man, look at David. Look at Samson. Samson, on a regular basis, visited houses of ill refute, was drunken at parties. Oh, my soul. But you know what? God testifies of people. He testifies the truth, don't he? We write an autobiography. We leave out everything that might take this man down. We leave it out. We don't even put it in there. Boy, God don't. He tells you everything. He tells you everything.

Oh, that was the Jews' problem in that day, and that's the problem with fundamental religion today. Being ignorant of the righteousness of God and going about to establish their own righteousness will not, have not, and will not submit themselves under the righteousness of God.

God's righteousness, though typified, prophesied, and pictured all through the scriptures, was only manifested one time. All the men and women in this world, how many billions do you reckon the total would be? Almost innumerable. Righteousness was only manifested one time. One time. And I'm talking about in the believer's head and in his heart. It's only manifested one time. Where's that?

In the person of Jesus Christ. He was a righteous man. He came through the womb of a virgin. He wasn't subject to the fall of man, but he was made flesh. He had every weakness we do, and he can be touched with the feelings of our infirmities because of it. He was made the perfect Savior. And that man never, never transgressed against God. Not even the thought of sin entered into his head.

That's righteousness. And that's the kind of righteousness that God demands. Paul tells us in Romans 10, for Christ is the end of the law. His obedience, his submission, his commitment, his loyalty, his love, his heart and soul, even unto the death of the cross.

And I can't imagine what all that entails. He alone honored and exalted the law, and oh, the honor and exaltation of the law to which God himself would submit to, even in the flesh, and honor its precept perfectly. Why would I want anything else? Now, you're going to take your getting up on Sunday morning, coming to church, and you're going to put that in the same place as his?

Ain't no way. We're going to take that little bit of money we give and say, well, this is righteousness. No, it ain't. No, it ain't. Paul said in Galatians 3.21, if there had been a law given which could have given life, barely righteousness should have been by the law. But the scripture has concluded all under sin, not all the precepts of the law, not all of its commandments, but all those to whom the law was given. They're under sin. The problem's not with the law.

The problem's with us. And it's going to be that way. Because the promise by faith of Jesus Christ should be given to them that believe. That's why. It shuts us up to Christ. And the problem with the law is not the law. It's to us to whom the law is given. But we have in the law, this is my point here in Hebrews. I'm sorry I went off on a tangent. We have in the law a shadow.

A shadow. Whose shadow? Christ's shadow. There can't be a shadow where there is no light and there can't be a shadow where there is no body. It takes light to make a shadow, doesn't it? How come men don't see the shadow of good things in the law? They ain't got any light. It takes light to make the shadow.

The very first thing God said about creation was let there be light. There's no point to creation without the light. Where's the light coming from? John said in him is light and there is no darkness at all. None. God's light comes to us through the gospel and via the Holy Ghost and leaves a shadow in the law.

Let me show you something over here in Colossians 2 real quick. You and I need to get this thing of the law straight in our minds and hearts because this is Satan's favorite target in men. Self-righteousness. Colossians 2.13. Watch this. Now he's already told us that in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily were complete in him. And now he's going to tell us something.

Colossians 2.13. And you being dead in your sins and uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, that is with Christ, having forgiven you all trespasses, blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way. How? By fulfilling all of its demands and all of its promises, nailing it to his cross, and having spoiled principalities and powers and made a show of them, openly triumphing over them in it.

To the man who knows this, to the man who actually hears the gospel and believes on Christ, listen to this. Let no man therefore judge you, that is, condemn you in meat or drink. You shouldn't drink that. How many times have I heard that in my life? I grew up in a holiness church. Let no man condemn you, judge you, in meat or drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of a new moon, or of Sabbath days.

Now listen, which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is Christ. What's his shadow in the law? It's the shadow of Christ. Can only be seen by the light of Christ, or the light of the Spirit shining down shows us that shadow. There was a shadow there, a figure. Now a shadow don't have no details. Huh? Now sometimes you can look at the outward shadow, and if you know the person well enough, you say, well, I know who that is. I know who that is. And we know Christ, and we can look at the shadow, and I can give you the details, because I know it. All right, verse five.

Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith. Now this is not talking about something Christ said to his disciples or that God said to men out of the clouds or even to the Jews. This is talking about an overall statement of God without words. It's talking about what he did. When he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice an offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me. A sacrificial body, a representative body, a substitutionary body, purposed of God. Jesus Christ didn't come into this world in some kind of hope that vile sinners would reform their ways. That's not why he came. Or that men would learn compassion by his example. Or make men feel sorry for God the way religion does. Make you feel sorry for God so you'll let God save you. How ridiculous.

Then why did he come? Verse 7. Then said I, that is Christ, Lo, I come, in the volume of the book it's written of me, to do thy will, O God. What will? His redemptive will. That's the will of God. That's why he created the planet. That's why he created man and put him on here. going to manifest His glory through the redemption of chosen sinners. I come to do Thy will, O God, God's redemptive will, His will to save sinners for the glory of His name.

And with man it's impossible. He has a nature of sin, a carnal mind, a stony heart, and a corrupt will. How can a man do anything to please God? He can't. But here's a man that's both God and man, a man untouched by the fall, except for the sins of his people, which he was willing to bear. And his whole reason for being here is to save chosen sinners from their sins. Now watch this, Hebrews 10,

8. Above when he said sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sins, thou wouldest not Neither hath pleasure therein which are offered by the law. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He takes away the first. The first what? The first covenant, that covenant of words. He took it out of the way completely. He took away that law, that law that demands what we can't produce. He took it out of the way. He taketh away the first. The law, the shadows, the types and figures, the ordinances, holy days, new moon, solemn feast, and so on. He took it all out of the way. He took away the first that he might establish the second.

By the witch will, that is the doing of it, the accomplishing of it, we are sanctified. Who's we? Those for whom he died. Well, how do you know who that is? They're all going to come to Christ. It's the only way you can know. By the witch will, we are sanctified, declared holy, made righteous through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, now watch this, once for all. He made us acceptable to God. Yeah, that's what it is. We are accepted in the blood.

And every priest standeth daily ministering, offering oft times the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins, It just pictures what has to be done. That's their whole life, their whole work. It was never done. They're just constantly sending forth the pictures.

But this man, after he offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God. Well, what was his expectation for what he did? He just hoped that some of them would be saved? No, it was his. He sat down at the right hand of God, expecting till his enemies would be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected forever, made us just like God. Huh? He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. Think about that. A perfect sanctification.

I went to visit a church one time and they didn't know me, and I went down to the men's meeting. It was in the basement of the church. And the man said, I trust that you're saved and sanctified. And I said, is there any other way to be saved? If you're saved, you're sanctified. If you're not sanctified, you're not saved. If He saves you, you're a saint. Ain't it that short for sanctification?

Think about that. I have a perfect sanctification. Unblameable. And listen to this. The scripture uses this word. Unreprovable. Can't find any fault in me. He'd find plenty in me, but he can't in my substitution. And that's in the presence of God's glory. And now we see. Nothing left to fear from condemnation. Nothing left to fear from the law. Nothing left to fear from my old nature. Nothing left to fear from the wrath of God. Nothing left to fear from death and hell. Fear not. Ain't that what the Lord said?

What are you afraid of? I tell you, I'm getting closer to death than I've ever been. Every day. A little closer, a little closer, a little closer. And I tell you, I'm so sorry, folks, that I can't rejoice in the expectation of what lies ahead. I ought to be jumping up and down happy. Whoo, I died. Now what? Forever glory.

I ought to be sad about that and run around in fear about that. Paul said, if I had my way, I'd go ahead and die. Can I get that kind of expectation and excitement? I need to if I believe these things. My problem is it's not these things that's in my head, it's all this carryover luggage from religion. That's what makes me fear.

Accepted in the beloved, a heavenly intercessor, A living testator, a divine mediator, covenant surety, and God's eternal love for us secured in Christ. Now watch this, verse 15, whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us. Not only did Christ come and accomplish these things, but he sent his spirit to make it possible for us to hear it and believe it.

For after that he said, before this is the covenant that I make with them after these days, saith the Lord, I put my laws in their hearts and in their minds will I write them. How are these laws written? As honored and exalted. Better not have it in your mind any other way. When the Holy Ghost Witnesses to you concerning the law, it's always as exalted and honored in Christ. Actually, that law stands as much a testimony for your salvation as it does for the damnation of this world. And then watch this. And their sins and iniquities I will remember no more. Our sins will never be recalled by God. How come? He put them away. They don't exist. They're gone. They're gone. And even if he did, he would have to totally discount the death of his son and punish him again, because our sins were charged to him.

You ever think about that? And then let me read just a few more verses and I'll wrap this up. Now, where remission of these is, there's no more offering for sin. We can offer our gratitude and praise, but even that, Peter said, has to be washed in his blood. But there is no more offering for sin.

Having therefore, brethren, those who believe, Boldness. What's that got to do with it? Well, you're coming in the presence of a perfect God, a holy God, a just God. And I don't care why you're coming, you've got to be bold with any knowledge of who God is to come into his presence. Having boldness to enter into the holiest Let me tell you something. Let's just go back to the type for a second.

Here's this priest. He's got the blood. He's doing what God commanded him to do. And now he comes up to that veil. And he's got bells down there on the bottom of his robe. And if they quit hearing those bells rattle, they know this man's dead. God killed him. And they pull him back out. They can't go beyond that veil. And he goes in there beyond that veil. You think he didn't think? with some confidence before he raised that veil and went under it. I tell you, that man searched his soul before he went under that veil with that blood.

He's gone into the presence of God. And we have boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus by a new and living way. Our God's not dead, he's living. Jesus Christ is living. We have a living hope, a lively hope. He's seated at the right hand of God. And he's consecrated this way for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh, through his body. Oh, may the Lord teach us these things. Show us the great privileges of salvation, the privilege to gather, and the privilege to hear, and the privilege to believe, the privilege to call on Him, the privilege to enter into the holiest of all. Oh, my soul, what privileges the Lord's granted us, and how little we even think about them.

Get up, and I start thinking about the electric fence that don't work. All these other things, huh? I don't even know why those things even enter in my head. I'm blessed beyond my wildest imagination with the grace of God. And I ought to, every minute of the day, have a mind of gratitude and thanksgiving to God. And look forward to when we can gather here on Earth, and hopefully we'll all be gathered there. If we don't gather here, we ain't going to gather there. I can tell you that right now. Because we're one. His people are one.