Let's turn into the book of Hebrews,
if you would. This is our 41st study. We've
been doing this for almost a year now. You know, each study kind
of represents a week. There's only 52 weeks in a year,
so we're getting close to a year in Hebrews. That's pretty good.
That's pretty good. That's taking it and looking
at it in the depth, and that's even though we looked We didn't
go past it, but we didn't spend a lot of time in chapters 7 and
8 because I felt the Lord needs to lead me a little further in
that before I can teach it. I don't want to be one who tries
to stand up and teach from God's Word things that I don't understand
yet. That would be wrong of me. That
would be a grievous error on my part, and harmful to you. It would be harmful to you. But
we did look at it and we went through it. And now here we are
in chapter 10. And in last week's study, we
considered the text of Hebrews 9-14. And in that text, we spend
our time looking at these points. Let me just bring forth the points.
And they're important. I don't go, I don't recap last
week's study very often, but it's important that we kind of
take what we looked at last week, that we might bring it with us
to keep the what we're going to look at today in context. So we consider the purchase of
the Son as complete. It's done. But God was brought
here to this world. What he was manifest in the flesh
to do was to purchase a people unto himself, and that purchase
is complete. I am His and He is mine. What Christ purchased with His
own blood is done. Brother Don Fortner wrote these
words. He says it is Christ's finished work of redemption as
the sinner's substitute which the Holy Spirit declares in Hebrews
chapter 10 verses 9-14. Next we consider the finished
work of the Father's will. The Son of God came into this
world in human flesh to offer himself as a sin-atoning sacrifice
to God at Calvary, and he came here to die as our substitute
by the will of God, and he came here specifically to die in the
room and place of God's elect. Them that are sanctified as we
read there in verse 14 as our great substitute and as his and
he has successfully and effectually Redeemed all of God's elect by
the sacrifice of himself. That's what we read in in Hebrews
10 11 through 14. I Expressed a great hope last
week. You'll recall I brought before
you a great hope that I have and that you should have as well
as As God's people, our hope is not in anything that we have
in this flesh. We know that. We know that we
can't look at anything. I can't even look at my feelings.
My feelings should mean nothing to me. I know they do, and I
know they do to you, too, as well. But that's our humanality,
as my wife loves to put it. And that's a good word for it.
That's the human flesh that we walk in day by day. Our spirit
crieth out. Turn over to Romans chapter 8
verse 1 for just a moment. Look at these words again with
me. Some of you know these words so well that you could Quote
them without even looking at scripture, but this is so good.
Romans 8 verse 1, there is therefore now no condemnation. Why? Why is there therefore now
no condemnation? Because our condemnation was
put upon our substitute. What we deserve to be condemned
for, our substitute was condemned for. There is therefore now no
condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not
after the flesh, but after the Spirit. That's what we walk in. That's where our hope is. Our
spirit is in the Lord Jesus Christ. It trusts in Him. It rests in
Him. It looks to Him for our all and
all. We look to Him as the serpent
was held up before the people. We look to the brazen serpent. We see our Savior risen up on
the cross before us, taking our condemnation upon Him. This flesh
wants to continue in the sin that it is, but we fight it,
don't we? Remember when we didn't fight
it? Remember when the day was where we just gave in to it?
It was OK. It didn't bother us. We talk
about this a little bit Friday night. You know, we don't ever
want to be deceitful to those who are coming to Christ. Coming
to Christ is not an easy thing. Our Lord is not promising you,
as some preachers promise you, that you're going to have it
easy in life, and that this world is going to get so much easier
for you if you'll just come down to the front and make a prayer.
Now, what a great hope we have, all the saints have. And that
hope is only in our Son, the Son of God, who came and stood
as our surety in the covenant of grace. And He was in that
covenant of grace before the world began by His own oath,
by His own promise from which He will not repent. The Lord
Jesus Christ was made a surety of a better testament, a better
covenant, a surety of a better covenant in the eternal counsels
of the Triune God. And lastly, we talked about faith.
We didn't spend a lot of time on that. But faith is important. The Word of the Lord says in
Ephesians chapter 2 that we are saved by grace. But what is it
we are saved through? He saves us by grace. Jesus Christ
is our Savior. He's the one who saved us. But
you've got to believe in Him. And that belief that we have
in Him is a gift of God. So if God has given you the gift
of faith, you will believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you
will call upon Him, as we read in Matthew 16, I think it is,
where the Lord, or no, I'm sorry, Romans, where the Lord says,
Whosoever calleth upon the Lord Jesus shall be saved. We call
upon Him. But we can only call upon Him
because the Spirit of God, the Spirit of truth, dwelleth in
us. We couldn't do that if it wasn't
for Him. We couldn't do anything. We're
dead in trespasses and sin as we walk this world. Oh, thank
God that he comes to his people in the day of his love, in the
day of his power. And he comes to us and he says,
live. He commands us to live. And as
God, his commandments shall come to pass. We're gonna look at
that a little deeper in our next message. So we talked a little
bit about faith. I told you I was confident that
Christ has done all this for me as my surety, as my representative,
as my substitute. And I told you that I know this
because I honestly acknowledge in my heart, in my heart, I honestly
acknowledge my sin before God and I trust him alone as my Lord
and Savior. My faith does not save me, only
Christ can save me, but my faith gives me a confident hope that
I have been saved by His grace, by His righteousness, by His
shed blood. And we close with 1 John 5, verses
10-13. So I'd like to pick up this morning,
if you would, at verse 14 of Hebrews 10. Look with me if you
would. once again for by one offering he hath perfected that
means completed that word perfected is not just uh you know my dad
was a perfectionist he he would meticulously get down on his
hands and knees and fine tooth, with a little teeny scraper,
get into the nooks and crannies of a chair. He loved to work
with his hands in wood. And he would refinish. He'd go
out, and he'd buy an antique dining room table chair and refinish
it. And I remember he always had
them in the garage with his tools. And he'd get out there, and he
would try to teach me. God bless the man. He tried.
You noticed I said try. He tried to teach me the importance
of doing the best job you can. And that's what he was doing.
He was down there. And he'd get into those little,
teeny crevices where the wood would go, where you drill a hole
and you stick the wood into the peg like that. And he would get
down in there, and he'd just scrape in there with a toothbrush.
to get it as perfect as he could, cleaned up. And then he'd get
his little paintbrush and he'd get that new, whatever it was
he was coating it with, whether paint or lacquer or whatever
those things are, stains, and he would get down in those crevices
and get it perfect. And then he'd look at my work
and he'd say, that's not good. I know that feeling now. I've been shown, just as you
have, how there's no goodness in mine
at all. By one offering, He, our Lord
Jesus Christ, because He offered up Himself, And because who He
is, God in the flesh, the Son of Man, the Son of God, it was
perfect. His offering did the job. It got the job done, as Henry
Mahan used to say. It got the job done. There's nothing left to do. It's
done. It's perfect. It's been perfected in Him. For
one offering, He hath perfected forever. That means that when
Christ did it, there's no reason to do it again. That means because
Christ is the one who accomplished it, it's been accomplished. There's
nothing left for you to do. That's good news to me. How about
you, Roger? You like that? Over here saying
amen. Paul and Mary, amen! I bet you
the folks online are doing the same thing. Amen! That's the gospel. You know what
the word gospel means? It means good news. It means
despite what we see in this flesh and the problems that we see
as we get up in the morning and look at ourselves in the mirror,
oh, I don't like that person. You know what? I don't like the
sin in me either. God helped me to turn away from
it. But that's not what saves us. Christ Jesus, our perfect
Redeemer, is who saved us. He who by one offering perfected
forever them, that, are sanctified, set apart. You know what it means
to be set apart? That means to be elected, chosen
of God, taken of God. That's what set apart means,
be taken out of and put over here. We've been taken out of
the world of death that we walk in. We've been taken out of the
curse of sin that this flesh dwells in. And we've been brought
into the light of the Holy Spirit, the Lord Jesus Christ. The light
of God. For by one offering, himself,
body, and soul, this is why the Lord sat down. This is why he
sat down afterwards. He sat down because there was
nothing left to do. You know, when my dad had finished
something and he had thought he had gotten it to perfection
as best as he could, he sat down. I remember a time when it had
all dried finally. He's over there and he's touching
it with his finger. Okay. Now it's time to sit down. Sit down on the chair. Then he'd
sell it. Make a pretty good penny for
Him, too. Make a pretty good penny for Him. That's why the Lord sat down
on the throne of God, the right hand of God. It's why He expects
His enemies to be destroyed. It's why He is at the right hand
of God. He has accomplished what He came
here to do. He has completely cleansed, perfected,
and made holy all who were given to Him by the Father. To be sanctified
is to be set apart by the Father. Look over at Jude. Mark your
spot. We'll come back to Hebrews in a moment. Turn to the right,
just before Revelation, the book of Jude. Let's look at verse
1, if you would. My statement is this. To be sanctified
is to be set apart by God the Father. Look at verse 1 of Jude. Jew, the servant of Jesus Christ,
the brother of James, to them that are sanctified. See that?
This is those who are set apart by God, who are sanctified by. You know, people want to talk
to us about progressive sanctification. You know what that means? That
in their minds, it used to mean that we would grow in the grace
and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus. That's how Henry Mahan
used it way, way back when, when he used that phrase in his first
messages. But the world grabbed ahold of
that, and they started using it to mean this, that we would
get better, that we would grow. Progressive sanctification means
you're not as bad as you were yesterday. Oh, yes, I am. Yes, I am. It amazes me that
people fall for that. And I know the reason why they
fall for that is because they think they truly think they are.
They truly think they do get better. They truly do think that
they do have some righteousness of their own. God's people know
we don't. We see and are reminded of the
sin that flows through this body to show us that we don't. And
we need a righteous Savior. I need a righteous Savior, do
you? Thank you, Lord, for showing
us. Thank you, Lord, for revealing to us. You know, He didn't have
to do that. He could have just destroyed
everything and created something else, but that's not the way
the Lord saw wisdom, is it? Everything He does is why. But notice what it says last
there in the book of Jude chapter, the book of Jude verse 1, preserved. We're sanctified, we're made
holy by God the Father. And preserved. Preserved how? In what he's done. We are kept
by the power of God as it says in 1 Peter 1 verse 5. Preserved
in Jesus Christ and called. Go back to our text if you would.
To be sanctified is to be set apart by God the Father as we
just read. To be declared holy by the Son of God. Listen to
these words I'll read for you over in 1 Corinthians. Let me
turn over there quickly for you. 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse
2. We read these words. unto the church of God, which
is accordant to them that are sanctified, here we see that
word again, sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with
all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ
our Lord, both theirs and ours. We are declared holy by the Son
of God, set apart to be made holy, and then it's to be made
holy also by His Spirit, as we can read over in 2 Thessalonians
chapter 2. 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 we
read these words, verse 13. But we are bound to give thanks
always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because
God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through what? Through sanctification, through
setting apart, through making us holy, through sanctification
of the spirit and belief of the truth. The word of God is one
both old and new. This is the sum and the substance
of the new covenant. After the days of tithes and
ceremonies and promises with the Messiah, when the Messiah
has come and fulfilled all things, he says, my laws, my gospel,
my commandments will be written on their minds to think on them
and on their hearts that we might love them. Not on tablets of
stone that can be broken, They shall all be priests to offer
up the sacrifices of faith, the sacrifices of praise, the sacrifices
of devotion to and because of the sufficient sacrifice of our
Redeemer, all sin shall be forgiven and remembered no more. That's
what we read over in 1 John 1 verse 7 where it says, but if we walk
in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one
with another. In the blood of Jesus Christ,
his Son, cleanseth us from all sin. In the Old Testament sacrifices,
there was remembrance of sin with every sacrifice. But now
he has put away sin and will remember it no more. In verse 18 of Hebrews 10, we
read, where remission of these is, there is no more offering
for sin. where there is absolute remission,
absolute forgiveness, absolute cancellation of all the penalty,
there is no longer any offering or sacrifice needed. Isn't that
what we just read a moment ago in Romans 8 verse 1? Didn't we
just read that a moment ago? There is therefore now no condemnation?
Well, that's what verse 18 is talking about there. Now we're
the remission of it. There is no more offering for
sin. We cannot be condemned again because we've already been condemned
in our Savior. In these verses, the Spirit of
God describes the remission of our sins by covenant grace. There are many other things spoken
of and promised in the covenant, but here are just three things,
and we'll close with this. I'll make these quick. Here are
three things that is mentioned in the covenant that is brought
out here in these verses. Now where remission of these
is, there is no more offering for sin. Where remission of these
is, that's in the regenerate. The unregenerate man has not
the remission of sins because he's not been regenerated. Christ
did not go to the cross for him. Oh, how this religious generation
offends me that they say God loves everybody. What a God is
that? Who is a God that loves everybody
and lets some go to hell? The love of God must mean something. It must mean that those that
He loves, He perfects. Isn't that what we just read?
The God of all grace has put his law, it says. He's put his
law, his gospel. You know, I want to go back to
verse 15 for just a moment and read 15, 16, and 17. Wherefore,
whereof, the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us, for after
that he had said before, this is the covenant that I will make
with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws
into their hearts. Now, has God put his laws into
the hearts of all men? And in their minds will I write
them, and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more." In
a sense, yes, God has put his laws into the hearts of all men,
hasn't he? For all men know right from wrong.
But he has not put the law of love, the law of the love of
Christ Jesus, in the hearts of all men. only those for whom
he died for. Listen to the words, our Lord's
commandments are no more grievous to his people when he's given
us the new light. Listen to 1st John chapter 5
verse 3, for this is the love of God that we keep his commandments
and are not grievous, not burdensome. Second, forgiveness. We see forgiveness. The glory of God says concerning
you and I, their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Brother
and sister, brother and sister, We can rejoice in this. There
is forgiveness with our God. His name declares it. His glory
demands it. His Son came to obtain it. All
the prophets, the apostles proclaim it. Multitudes in heaven and
earth are singing it under the experience of it. He who is our
God is God who delighteth in mercy. Turn over to Psalms 32.
Psalms 32. In Psalms 32, we read in verse 1, Blessed is he whose transgression
is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man into whom
the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is
no guile. When I kept silence, my bones
waxed old through my roaring all the day long, for the day
and night thy hand was heavy upon me. My moisture is turned
into the drought of summer, say law. I acknowledge my sin unto
thee, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my
transgressions unto the Lord, and thou forgave us the iniquity
of my sin. And then lastly, we see sanctification. Where there is remission of these,
there is no more offering for sin, is what we read there in
verse 18. Justice is satisfied, and it
demands no more. The blood of Christ is enough.
God requires no more offering for sin. My conscience requires
no more offering for sin. There is no more offering for
sin. Why? Because Christ has put away our sins. Therefore,
condemnation is not a possibility as we read in Romans 8.1. Where
there is absolute remission, forgiveness and cancellation
and penalty, there is no longer any offering or sacrifices to
be made. If we're in Christ and redeemed
by Christ, it is dishonoring to our Savior not to rest in
his grace and his atonement. Amen. That's a quote from Pastor
Henry Mayhem.