Hebrews chapter 9, title of the message I took from
verse 14, how much more, how much more shall the blood of
Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without
spot to God. CALVARY WAS NOT AN OFFERING TO
US, IT WAS AN OFFERING TO GOD. THIS IS VERY CLEAR. HE OFFERED
HIMSELF WITHOUT SPOT TO GOD. PURGE YOUR CONSCIENCE. THAT WORD
WAS USED IN CHAPTER 1 WHERE IT SAYS HE PURGED US FROM OUR SINS. HERE HE PURGED YOUR CONSCIENCE
FROM DEAD WORKS TO SERVE THE LIVING GOD. That's
where I got my title. How much more? Can we not say
that in every situation? How much more is Christ? How
much more better? How much better? How much superior?
How much more superior is the Lord Jesus Christ to everything? To absolutely everything? There's
no comparison. There's none like Him. You know,
God said, to whom will you liken me? Well, the one saying that
is Jesus Christ. He's God. He's the one saying
that. There's none like Him. When He
calmed the waves and the wind, they said, what manner of man? And they'd been following Him
a while. They'd been following, they'd seen miracles before this.
But when He spoke, And the wind and the waves stopped
immediately and it calmed down like a lamb at his feet. They was like, what manner of
man is this? He's the God man. That's what
manner of man he is. He's God in human flesh. And that astounds me more and
more that God in all his greatness, God in all his glory, OF ALL
THAT HE COULD BE became a man. He became a man. Christ said, A WORM. He just
became a man. In Psalm 22, I AM A WORM. Why did He call Himself a worm?
Because Jacob. He said, Thou Worm Jacob. Now
I can apply that name to every one of us in here, Thou Worm
John. That name can be applied to every
believer in here. And we could say it even more
graphic, Thou MAGGOT! Thou MAGGOT! That's one of the reasons why
the gospel is so unpopular, is because it really does offend
man's thoughts of himself. We don't like to think of ourselves
as a maggot. We don't like to think of ourselves
in any way, shape, or form in a low manner. But God said that's
what you are, and that's what he became. And he not only became
a worm, he said, I'm a worm. And I know I'm off my subject
now, but I'll get back sooner or later. But he said that, well,
Scripture says in 2 Corinthians 5.21, he was made sin. And that
is exactly what I am. I am sin. The things I do that
I shouldn't do, I do because of what I am. Those things don't
make me a sinner. I was born one and that's why
I do what I do. That's why I rebel. That's why
I break God's law. That's why I do what I do. It's
because of what I am. Now, let's get to chapter 9. In chapter 8, back in chapter
8, it ended there in verse 13. It says, well let me read verse
12, For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their
sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. Speaking
of that new covenant He'll have with His people. And that He
saith the new covenant, He hath made the first old. Now that
which decayeth and waxes old is ready to vanish away. So chapter
8 ended with the old covenant being done away with. Vanishing,
He says, away. Now in chapter 9, He shows us
that the old priesthood and the ceremonies are ALSO done away
with, vanishing away. They are also gone with that
old covenant. If the old covenant is gone,
then the old way of serving God is gone also. All those ceremonies,
all those types, all of it is gone, it's over with. But I'll
tell you something else that jumped out at me when I was reading
this and when I was reading these first, especially these first
few verses in chapter 9, is the ORDER, the ORDER OF SERVICE that
God set up. There is an ORDER to WORSHIP.
There is an ORDER to WORSHIP. We worship God in Christ, that's
the ORDER. We worship God in Christ with
UNDERSTANDING. We worship God in Christ from
the heart, in spirit, and in truth. That's how we worship
God. And you'll notice here that God gives this order. He gives
a tabernacle, all the furniture. If you go back over to Exodus
25, I think it is, I mean right down to the size of the boards
and everything that's used, everything. God tells them to the inch of
course back then it was cubits but he tells them how long to
make everything with the size of everything he left nothing
up to Moses Moses did not design one thing in the tabernacle he
didn't design the tabernacle nor did he design anything in
the tabernacle Christ is of God Christ is of
God Christ said a body has to prepare me Joseph and Mary did
not prepare that body. God did. God did. And so we see there's an order
in the worship of God. God directed Moses concerning
the building of this tabernacle, and it was made exactly as God
said to make it. Listen to Hebrews 8.5, which
he's quoting Exodus 25.40. He says, These things who serve
unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, These represent
heavenly things. As Moses was admonished of God
when he was about to make the tabernacle, for see, saith he,
that thou make all things according to the pattern showed thee in
the mount. You make it EXACTLY, EXACTLY
like I showed it to you in the mount. And there was something
else that stood out to me when I was reading this. You see there
in verse 1, it says, Then verily, the first covenant had also ordinances
of divine service and a worldly sanctuary. There was a tabernacle. First of all, the key word there
was, WAS. There's not anymore. That's over with. There WAS a
tabernacle. There WAS an ark. There WAS the
priesthood. There WAS the showbread. There
WAS the candlestick. These things are no more. Christ
fulfilled them all. They're done. They're done. See,
the Hebrews, or at least some of these Hebrews, were wanting
to go back. And He's telling them these things are over with.
These were all fulfilled in Christ. They served their time and they
served their purpose. They were just examples of heavenly
things. There's nothing in them, in and
of themselves. You know, the blood of bulls
and goats, the blood of bulls and goats never cleansed anyone.
They said it never made the comers there unto perfect. Never did. Never did. It's the one they represented.
But here's what stood out to me. It's hard to say what the population
of the earth was at that time. And the Jews probably a few million.
Some say there was two to five million coming out of Egypt.
I don't know. But let's say there's two million.
There's one tabernacle. There's not a tabernacle. You
know, nowadays you got what they call a church on every corner,
which you don't. You got buildings filled with
a bunch of idolatry is what you got. But there's only one tabernacle
that was given to Israel. It was given to God's people,
wasn't given to anyone else. It wasn't given to Egypt. They
didn't have a tabernacle. They didn't have the showbread,
they didn't have the candlesticks, they had none of these things.
God gave that tabernacle and everything in that tabernacle
and that ark, and God's presence was the tabernacle represented
with the Shekinah glory over the ark. It was given to Israel,
God's elect, that's who it was given to. And it wasn't a bunch
of it, it wasn't a bunch of little tabernacles made because there
were so many people, no, there was just one. Just one. God has a people scattered all
over this world, doesn't He? He has a people out of every
tribe, kindred, tongue, and nation, but there's only one Savior.
There's only one Lord. There's only one true Tabernacle,
Jesus Christ. Only one. Though God's people
may be many, scattered over the world, there's only one. There's
only one Savior. There's only one High Priest.
There's only one High Priest, there's only one Savior, there's
only one Blood of Atonement, there's only one Sacrifice, there's
only one Righteousness, there's only one and that one is Jesus
Christ. It's the Lord Jesus Christ. This tabernacle was given to
God's people and only to God's people. Now I'll tell you something
else that's interesting before I get into it, these are thoughts,
things that jumped out at me and I jot them down. It's how
simple How simple God kept it. It wasn't cluttered up inside.
You can go in some people's houses, and it's so cluttered up you
can't walk through it. You go into a lot of these buildings,
how many big monstrosities that they build, you know, religious
facilities, and they're just full of stuff. How simple. How simple. and uncluttered was
the tabernacle. Just a few pieces of furniture
in the front and an ark in the back, and that's all. And when
I read that, it jumped out at me. Paul speaks of the simplicity
of Christ. Keep it simple. Keep it simple. Don't leave the simplicity of
the Lord Jesus Christ. He s God, He s our Savior, and
let s keep it that way. It s that simple. Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ, thou shalt be saved. Don t add anything
to that. Just keep it that simple. Let
s not leave the simplicity of Christ. It just jumped out at
me how simple this tabernacle was. We'll see here as we go
through here just what few, few pieces of furniture was in that
place, in this tabernacle. Now some of the things that will
stand out as we go through this, we will see that Christ has the
preeminence over that old tabernacle. They made a lot out of that.
Course when Solomon came along they built the temple, but the
tabernacles made more of really in the Old Testament than the
temples were. That tabernacle, it was there
in the wilderness with them, went everywhere they went. They
took it everywhere they went. The ark was in that tabernacle. After Babylonians came in and
took Israel captive, the ark disappears. We don't see it again.
We don't see it again. But they had it there in the
wilderness. Thank God we have Christ in this world. As we travel
through this world, we have Christ. He's our ark. And I'm going to
get into this in a minute about the law being kept in Him and
being the bread and being the light. So what God has provided,
God has provided everything we need in Christ. We don't have
to provide anything. This is not a potluck dinner
where you bring a dish. We don't bring anything, nothing. The table is spread and He's
the one who spread it. Thou hast prepared a table before
me in the presence of my enemy. Psalm 23. God prepared the table. God did that. So we'll see the preeminence
of Christ over that tabernacle and all the furniture in the
tabernacle. And the priesthood that went
about taking care of those things on a daily basis and the high
priest who went into the veil once a year or behind the veil
once a year to make the blood of atonement. He took the blood
of atonement in there and spread it on that ark. I was thinking
today, you know, he did that once a year, go in there and
sprinkle the blood and they did that for many years. You know
how red that had to be? The lid, I'm getting ahead of
myself, the lid of that ark was solid gold. No wood, solid gold. But it was red. It was red with
that blood that was just sprinkled on it over the years. You know
what it was? So our Lord, He has the preeminence. And this is what He is saying
to the Hebrews. You see, you have to try to put
yourself in their place. They were raised up on this.
They were raised on this. And now the preacher comes along
and he says, Let's do away with all of it. You don't do this
no more. This is the end of it. This is all of it. It takes God
to teach you that's the end. IT TAKES GOD TO TEACH YOU THAT
CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS TO EVERYONE
THAT BELIEVES. THAT YOU QUIT TRYING TO DO ANYTHING TO PLEASE
GOD OR TO QUIET YOUR OWN CONSCIENCE. YOU SEE, HIS BLOOD PURGED OUR
CONSCIENCE FROM DEAD WORKS. YOU THINK YOU DO THINGS TO PLEASE
GOD, THAT'S A DEAD WORK. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WON'T DO
THINGS ON SUNDAY. I just feel so guilty about it.
They're trying to keep a Sabbath and they feel so guilty about
it. I don't feel guilty about it because Christ is my Sabbath. Christ is my rest. He's my rest. I don't do anything in order
to please, appease God. Not for salvation. Not for salvation. And then we'll see that Levitical
covenant, that old covenant of works, that old law covenant,
and all the types and all the ceremonies that they performed
every day. You know, they slew a lamb morning
and evening, morning and evening, morning and evening. And those
priests would go into that tabernacle, or that tabernacle, they'd go
in there, and they would trim the lampstand, they'd keep things
clean, they'd put in the oil for the light to be, the light
was to never go out, and they'd put that new oil in. None of that had any power to
save, none of it. He said, Christ said this, Your
fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and they're dead. You know what the message is
in that statement? There was no life in the types
in any way, shape, or form. There was no life in the types.
Life has always been in Christ who is life. You see, life comes
from life. It doesn't come from material
things. It doesn't come from doing something. It comes from
God, who is life, giving you life. And Christ is life. And the way, the truth, and the
life. And the life. And then we find the end of all
these ceremonies and sacrifices and that first covenant have
finally come to an end. It's over with. It's over with. Because the real has come. And
He has accomplished what these things were pointing to. They
were pointing to Him. Now in verses 1 through 5, the
Old Covenant, He says, had a tabernacle. And it was made according to
divine instructions. And it was made, He calls it
a worldly sanctuary. It just means it was made from
the materials of this world, and it was in this world. Because
that sanctuary right now, that ministry right now is in heaven.
It's in heaven. Our Lord is in heaven fulfilling
the ministry as a high priest. He's in heaven. But it says here
that it was made of this earth, it was made from earthly materials,
it had rules and it had regulations, and it had a sacrifice and it
had an order of worship. This is why I said that God is
a God of order. God has never created anything
and then step back and see what's going to happen. He has ORDERED
ALL THINGS. David said, In His covenant of
grace, God has made with me a covenant ORDERED IN ALL THINGS, and SURE,
God said in the Scriptures that He has DETERMINED THE END FROM
THE BEGINNING. THAT I FIND COMFORTING. That
s comforting. I m not tore up about the things
that are going on now or ever will go on. WE ARE SAFE! WE ARE SAFE IN THE
SHEPHERD'S FOLD! IT IS GOING EXACTLY AS GOD PURPOSED
IT! EXACTLY AS HE PURPOSED IT! BUT
NOW HE GAVE THIS, GOD INSTITUTED THIS, NOT MOSES! SEE, THE ISRAELITES
GOT A LITTLE CONFUSED! THEY SAID TO THE LORD, MOSES
GAVE US MANNA FROM HEAVEN, WHAT CAN YOU DO? And the Lord straightened
him out. He said, Moses did not give you
that bread from heaven. My Father, which is in heaven,
giveth the true bread from heaven. Moses didn't have that kind of
power. He couldn't just bring bread down out of heaven. That's
God. That's a God. Now this tabernacle,
and it's so fitting of the humanity of Christ, the deity of Christ
or the humanity of Christ. It kind of reminds me like the
Ark. When you look at the Ark, Noah's Ark, look at all the species
of animals we have on this Earth right now. A lot, a lot. We have a lot of animals, insects
on this Earth. All of them came over on the
Ark. All of them were on that Ark.
Now, how big an ark do you think has to be built to hold all that?
You know, I know if you and I look at what is just, there's 8 billion
people right now on the earth. Only 8 got off the ark. And now
there's 8 billion, of course it's not counting the billions
that have already died. All of that was on the ark. Now
you look at that ark, And you're gonna say, that's just not possible.
Well, faith says it's possible. Faith said, God said it, I believe
it. I like what Donnie said. He said, if God said that Jonah
swallowed a whale, I'd believe it. If God said it, I believe
it. We can believe it if God said
it. Have I said, he said, and shall
I not do it? Well, I mean it's amazing to
me when you look at all the animals, all the people, all the insects,
all that was on that little ark. When you look at Jesus Christ
and one man, and when we finally, this is over with, and we see
the whole host of heaven saved by one man. Saved in one man. Now listen here, this tabernacle,
was 45 feet long, 15 feet wide, and 15 feet high. It had two
rooms in it, and it had a very heavy veil. I'm reading here
a couple of places. That veil was about four inches
thick. I think the Jews said it was
like four fingers thick. It was about four inches thick,
and it was double-stitched six times. And I thought today, now
you try to rip that veil. It was made, listen, it was made
out of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twine linen. All of
those colors represent the Lord Jesus Christ. All of them. But you know, whenever Christ
died, what happened? The veil, that four-inch thick
veil was rent right down the middle. and that and that holy
of holies where people were not allowed to go into only the high
priest once a year and you know that whenever he went in there
once a year god said that every priest everyone in that tabernacle
was to get out they couldn't even peek i mean they couldn't
even take a peek in there it had to be everybody had to empty
the building empty the tabernacle And the high priest alone went
into the tabernacle and did this service behind the veil. And this veil, when our Lord
died, was rent in two. And what it showed was that now
there is a way into the presence of God, and that way is Jesus
Christ. He's the way into the presence.
Nobody else was ever allowed in there. But now, look, A bunch
of wretched people like me and you can now go into God's presence
and call on His name just like Doug did here just a little bit
ago. Call on His name. We can call on God. Think about
that. We can call on God and be heard through our High
Priest, our Mediator. We can be heard. We can go in
there now. We can believe me there's no
common people everyone in there and if a priest went in there
it wasn't a high priest he's gonna be dead he's gonna be in
trouble and then listen now the first
part of the tabernacle which is called the holy place there
were three pieces of furniture as i as i had already noted It was uncluttered. It was uncluttered. We don't need to complicate Christ
and the worship of God in Christ. We need to keep it simple. But
then there was a list. There was a table of showbread,
or called the Bread of Presence, always present before God. And
this table was made of shidom wood overlaid with gold, which
is a picture of the humanity and deity of the Lord Jesus Christ.
There was always this shidom wood was always overlaid with
gold. Christ is truly God, and He's
truly a man. Jesus Christ is exactly what
this sinner needs. He's exactly what I need, and
God provided Him. And this bread, listen, this
bread represents Christ, the Bread of Life. Christ, the Bread
of Life. And this bread was to be made
and changed out every Sabbath day, but it was always to be
there on that table. That's what the priests would
see to it, that bread was always present. Christ is to always
be present in our preaching, in our worship, in everything
we do. He's present. He's present. I wish we would think about that
more often. I wish we'd keep that before us more often of
the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ. And not think of him,
not always think of him way off out there somewhere, wherever
heaven's at. No, he's, scripture says, where
there's two or three gatherers together in my name, there am
I in the midst. That's profound to think that
he's actually here tonight. And he knows every heart. He
knows every heart. Lord, get my attention. Arrest
my attention. Don't let me just, don't let
me sit through this and just be half here. Arrest my attention. And then there was, well this
bread, let me say this about this bread too, that it was always
to be fresh. It was always put there every
Sabbath. Christ is always fresh. Isn't He? Does He ever get stale
to you? I was telling a place one time
that I was going to preach, they asked me if I wanted to be a
pastor. I was 27 years old, I was young. They always wanted me
to be a pastor, but they always asked me if I preached on abortion,
if I preached against abortion, if I preached against rock and
roll, you know, and those things. And I don't know if I told you,
but I told him, and I said, well, I can preach. And I said, no,
I preach Christ every time. They said, we know that. Well,
I'm glad you know that, because I did preach there about five
or six times. They said, well, we know that. I said, and I told
him anyway, I said, well, I can preach against abortion. I can
preach against rock and roll and get your children not to
do that. They're still going to hell. I said, they're still
going to wind up in hell. And I didn't go back. That was
the last time they didn't invite me back after that. They want
somebody to straighten their children out, because they can't
do it. I guess they want the preacher
to do it. But they didn't want me back after that. But then
there's the golden candlestick, and you'll notice in the tabernacle
there was no windows. There's no windows in that tabernacle. Listen, there's no natural light
in the tabernacle. No natural light. What we call
natural light. It was the light God provided,
and Jesus Christ is the light. He said, I'm the light of the
world. I'm the light that lighteth every man that comes into the
world. I'm the light. Christ is the light. And this lamp, listen, it was
to stay lit. It was never go out. That candlestick and those
lights, the lights that were in there that God had commanded
was to never, ever go out. And I pray God that the light
never goes out here. You pray God never let the light
go out of here. Preaching of Christ and Him crucified. And His lampstand was made of
pure gold. That's the Deity of our Lord. And then there was the altar
of incense, the continual sweet burning incense before the veil,
before going into that Holy of Holies. This is the INTERCESSION
of the Lord Jesus Christ. You see, these things, Paul said,
REPRESENT HEAVENLY THINGS! How simple did God make this
for us? How simple! John 17, Father, I pray for them,
I pray not for the world. This sweet incense, THOSE ARE
THE PRAYERS OF CHRIST, SOME SAY IT'S THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS,
BUT THIS IS THE INTERCESSION OF CHRIST, BECAUSE OUR PRAYERS
DON'T MEAN, THEY'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE APART FROM CHRIST, HIS
INTERCESSION. But I like the way it spoke of
the sweet incense. God smells the prayer of His
Son, the intercession of His Son, smells so good. And then in the second compartment,
that measured 15 feet by 15 feet by 15 feet, there was only one
piece of furniture in that Holy of Holies, the Ark. The Ark. And on top of that Ark,
over that Ark, was called the Mercy Seat. This is where God
met men, and men met God in mercy. Thank God, I might have should
have titled it, Thank God There's a Mercy Seat. Thank God there
is a mercy seat. It was solid slab of pure gold. There's no wood in that mercy
seat. And it formed a cover for that
ark. And it covered that pure Golden
lead covered that arc and everything
that was, the stuff that was in the arc, which was the broken
law. I know it says here that the
man, the pot that had man and heirs rod that budded, but all
the ones that I read today, I read about three, four, five of them
today, and they said that only the law was in there. These were
in, I don't know, but just telling you what I read. But this MERCY
SEAT, listen, this MERCY SEAT has another name to it. PERPETUATION. That's what it means. The PERPETUATION
means MERCY SEAT. It has the same meaning as MERCY
SEAT. That's where it derives its name
from. And it was overshadowed by the CHERUBIMS OF GLORY. These
CHERUBIMS have wings that went out like this and they touched
each other. My thought, one of my first thoughts was the angels
desire to look into those things which you and I know. God has
revealed to us, it says the angels desire to look into them in earth
because they are like this. But the angels have also, I thought
of another scripture that came to me, I thought in the Psalms
it said the angels, He has given His angels charge over thee,
lest you dash your foot against a stone. We know the angels are
involved in the ministry of Christ of watching over His people.
We know that. We know that. And they are there to serve Him. That all the angels of God worship
Him. They worship Him and they serve
Him. And then there's a golden pot
that had manna and Aaron's rod that budded in the tables of
the covenant. This golden pot that had manna was God's provision
for his people, Israel, in the wilderness, wasn't it? God has
provided for us in Christ. Christ said, I'm the bread of
life. He that eats of me shall never die. He eats his
bread, drinks my blood. But that golden pot, Christ the
bread of life, And then Aaron's rod that budded, that's interesting.
Whenever you have time, go over and read Numbers 18 and Numbers
17. When Korah and his sons and the
250 prominent men rose up, when it came to Moses, they said,
You take too much on yourself. They wanted to be priests also. And then God swallowed him up,
you know, he parted the earth and swallowed up a bunch of them,
then he burnt the other ones up, the fire fell from heaven.
And then in chapter 17, Moses said, we'll settle this issue. This is how God's going to settle
this issue. You're going to take all the rods, you take, there's
12 tribes, you're going to take the head of every tribe, you're
going to bring a rod and you're going to write your name on it.
And you're going to put it, I think they put it in the tabernacle.
And then the next day Moses went in there and got the rods and
brought them out. And God had told them the rod
that budded, that's his man, that's his priest, and the only
one. And so when Moses goes in and
he gets those rods and he brings them out, Aaron's rod budded,
and you know what else it did? It brought forth almonds, fruit.
It brought forth, it didn't just bud, it brought forth fruit,
it brought forth almonds. Jesus Christ is God's appointed
priest. He's God's appointed priest.
God ordained Him and appointed Him to be the High Priest and
NO ONE ELSE! No one else, nobody in Rome or
any other place on this earth, only Christ and Christ alone. And then the tables of the covenant,
they were put in the ark, and that lid was over top of it.
What happened the first time that covenants were brought down
from the mountain? Moses threw them down and broke
them. Broke them. Broke the law before
they even got, didn't even get it read to them. They broke it.
Moses was so angry, he threw them down and he broke them.
Well, God made another tablet, or two tablets, put the law on
them, but this time, He put them in the ark. And Christ is that
ark, and God's law was kept in Christ on our behalf. That's how He's our righteousness.
That's how the law was satisfied with us, because that law was
kept not only by Jesus Christ by doing it outwardly, it was
kept in him, in his heart. Oh, he said, Oh, how I love thy
law. See, he kept it in his heart
as well as outwardly, he kept the law. Then in verses 6 and 7, Into this room is called the
Holy Place, and the common priest, they d go in there every day,
every morning, every evening, and accomplish the service of
God, do all those things. And then on the Day of Atonement,
the high priest, he d go in and he would take the blood and he
would SPRINKLE it. He would SPRINKLE it upon the
ark in verses 6 through 7. Let me read that. Now, When these
things were thus ordained, the priest went always to the first
tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. But unto the
second went the high priest alone once every year, not without
blood. God would kill him if he did, which he offered for
himself, because he was a sinner, just like the ones he represented.
Christ knew no sin. That's how that's one of the
reasons one of the many reasons He's so infinitely greater than
Aaron and that priesthood because he knew no sin Which he offered
for himself and for the heirs of the people The Holy Ghost
showing by this this signifying that the way to the holiest of
all where where's that? Heaven itself The Holy of Holies
where God is was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle
was yet standing. It was just a figure for the
time present, it was for us, it was for our education. If
you go over and read in Galatians where the law was our schoolmaster
to bring us to Christ, that s all it was, it was not to save. which was a figure for the time
present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that
could not make him that did the service perfect as pertaining
to the conscience." It couldn t cleanse the conscience. It
couldn t cleanse the heart. It couldn t touch the heart.
That s the work of Christ. Only the blood of Christ can
cleanse the heart. WHICH STOOD ONLY IN MEATS AND
DRINKS, AND DIFFERENT WASHINGS AND CARNAL ORDINANCES, IMPOSED
ON THEM BY THE AUTHORITY OF GOD UNTIL THE TIME OF REFORMATION.
BUT CHRIST BEING COME A HIGH PRIEST OF GOOD
THINGS TO COME, GOOD THINGS, JUSTIFICATION, RIGHTEOUSNESS,
FORGIVENESS, PARDON, REAL CLEANSING, REAL PARDON, REAL PURGE, A REAL
PURGING OF SIN, BY A GREATER AND MORE PERFECT TABERNACLE,
HIS, HIS BODY, NOT MADE WITH HANDS,
THAT IS TO SAY, NOT OF THIS BUILDING. CHRIST SAID, A BODY HAST THOU
PREPARED ME, NEITHER BY THE BLOOD OF GOATS AND CALVES, BUT BY HIS
OWN BLOOD, HIS OWN BLOOD. HE ENTERED HIM ONCE INTO THE
HOLY PLACE, HAVING OBTAINED ETERNAL REDEMPTION FOR US. We're at the
blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling
the unclean, sanctified to the purified flesh. How much more? I'm going to have to come back
to this next week. I'm hurrying over the good part. I spent so
much time on the first part, so I'm going to have to come
back next week and pick up... You might want to title that,
We Have a Mercy Seat. We'll get to much more next week.
How much more shall the blood of Christ WHO THROUGH THE ETERNAL
SPIRIT OFFERED HIMSELF WITHOUT SPOT TO GOD, PURGED YOUR CONSCIENCE
FROM DEAD WORKS, THE DEAD WORKS OF THIS OLD COVENANT, TO SERVE
THE LIVING GOD." This is powerful stuff, if you
really soak it up and listen and hear what the Lord is saying
here to the Hebrews, and you who believe, you re Hebrews,
you know that, you really are, you re Hebrews. ALL THOSE WHO BELIEVE MAKE UP
THE TRUE ISRAEL OF GOD, THEY ARE THE TRUE ISRAEL OF GOD. I
PREACH TO THE TRUE ISRAEL OF GOD EVERY WEEK, EVERY WEEK. All right.