I don't need to preach if you
really entered into that song. That's one of the most clearest
gospel songs in this book. Wonderful. All five verses are
just promise after promise after promise. No wonder it's John
Davis' favorite song. What a hymn. I think I just sang
that for the first time. Hebrews 10. Look at verses 16 and 17. Hebrews 10. This is the covenant that I will
make with them after those days after Christ was crucified, saith
the Lord. I will put my laws into their
hearts and in their minds will I write them and their sins And
iniquities will I remember no more. Is that good news or what? I
won't bring them up as a rip-off. There you go. I got a call from a man yesterday
and He left a message he called,
I don't know what time, from California. He left a message,
and it was kind of a jumbled message. I had a hard time receiving
it, but I heard this much. He said, I'm such a sinner. And he said, I have great, I'm
in great fear for my soul. And I wondered if you could help
me. I didn't hear too much of what he said. I didn't get the
number, gladly. Well, I called him back. He said
to call after he had to go to work and had to call after a
certain time. Well, I didn't know the man.
It sounded urgent to me, so I called him right away. It would have
been 8 o'clock in his time, 8 o'clock in the morning. Thought it was urgent, and he
didn't answer. I guess he was at work. And I
thought, I don't know what's happened to him. But I left him
a message. Now if you're going to tell somebody
something, and you had 30 seconds to do
it, what would you tell them? Huh? I have stood by dying
beds several times. What would you tell me? I'll
tell you what I'd tell you. This is a faithful saying, and
worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world
to save sinners. I said, look to Christ. Call
on Christ. Christ came to save sinners. Whatever you do, look to the
Lord Jesus Christ. He called me back. Well, he did. Thankfully. He called me back. And I spoke
to him. And I remember what the Lord
said. The Lord said, you tell men what
great things the Lord has done for your son. This man struggled
with sin. That's his problem. He said to
me, he said, I feel like I know the Lord. I love the gospel.
And he told me where he went. And I know the man who preaches
the gospel. And he said, I just fall into
sin. And he said, I just feel like
I'm lost. But I love the truth. And he said, but I fear that
I'm not one of God's people. I said, brother. I called him
brother. I said, I feel the same way. And I went to Romans 7. A sinner, all sinners feel this
way. What we would not, that's what
we do. What we would, that's what we do not. Oh, wretched
man that I am. Who shall deliver me from this
body of death? I said, Brother, the next verse
says, I thank God through Jesus Christ, my Lord. And I quoted
that verse again in 1 Timothy. Christ came to save sinners.
And it was fresh on my mind that Matthew 8, where it said, a leper
came to Christ and said, Lord, If thy wills, thou can make me
clean." I said, that's what we all come to the Lord for. And I thought of those demon-possessed
people in Matthew 8. That was fresh on my mind. And you know, as I was talking
to him, trying to console him, the very things I was telling
him was giving me peace. Giving me comfort. I was thinking,
And I told him that. I said, I'm no better than you.
In fact, I said, I'm the prodigal son. I left home when I was 17. The Lord graciously brought me
back later on. But I said, I still struggle
with the exact same things I did when I was a teenager. But this is a faithful Savior.
Christ came to save sinners. Look to Christ. And He was rejoicing. I left him rejoicing. I hung
up with him rejoicing. I said, did that help you? He
said, oh, greatly. I said, well, stay in touch. And as I said, it helped me. I meant to help him, but it helped
me. Here in Hebrews, Hebrews is a
summary of the whole Old Testament, the law. And what the law says
says to everyone under it that every mouth may be stopped and
all the world become guilty. That's all the law says. That's
why the Lord wrote the law. The law was added because of
transgression. That sin might appear to be sin.
That's what the law says. The moral law. Guilty. The ceremonial
law, the Levitical law, the Mosaic law, all those ordinances and
all that are pictures and types and symbols of the one who came
to fulfill the law. The one who came to satisfy the
law. The whole of the Hebrews sums
up all of the Old Testament and chapters 8 through 10 sum up
Hebrew. Sin is the issue. Sin is the
issue. It entered this world in chapter
3 of Genesis. And then from there on, it talks
about the awful consequences of sin until it, in chapter 6,
the Lord destroyed the world because of sin. Well, sin's still
here. And it goes on until Revelation,
until it says again, God's going to wipe it out completely sometime.
Sin is the issue. Look how many times it talks
about sin. Look at verse 2, just quickly. Verse 2 talks about the last
line, conscience of sin. Verse 3, the last line, the remembrance
of sin. Verse 4, it's not possible bulls
and goats put away sin. Verse 6, burn offering and sacrifice
for sin. That's, that's the issue. Sin has separated us from God.
Sin brought the anger and wrath of God. Sin is the problem within
us. Sin is a problem without us.
It's an ongoing problem, and there's nothing we can do about
it. Nothing we can do about it. But now look at verse 7 here
at Hebrews 10. Then said I. This is Jesus Christ speaking.
Lo, I come. There's nothing anybody can do
about it. So God sent Jesus Christ. He said, no, I come in the volume
of the book. From Genesis three, well, just
one, but especially when God, when Christ preached the woman's
seed from Genesis three, 15 to the volume of the book, it's
written of Christ, the one who has come to put away sin. Look at chapter nine, verse 26. It says now wants. Now once,
in the middle of that verse, now once in the end of the world
hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. This whole book starts out this
way. In verse 5 it says, when He had by Himself purged our
sins. That's verse 3. By Himself. That's what this book is all
about. In the volume of the book, Christ said, it's written of
Me. Look at verse 27 and 8 of chapter 9. It's appointed unto
men once to die, and that's back to judgment, sin. Death by sin,
all right? The soul that sins must surely
die and be judged and sent to hell. So, verse 28, Christ was
once offered to bear the sins of many, not all, but many. And
unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time for
the second without sin. Push away, there will be no more
sin, no more sorrow, no more tear, no more death. Second time
sin has been completely eradicated. Goodbye. Jesus Christ. If that sounds like good news,
let's go on, okay? That's what this is, this message.
I thought I'm just going to bring the simplest gospel message.
Try to. Here in chapter 10, it talks
about the law, and it talks about conscience, verse 2. It says
that they keep offering sacrifices for sins, but if they'd put sin
away, there'd be no more conscience of sins. You see that? Scripture
talks a lot about the conscience. Conscience. A good conscience. Talks about an evil conscience.
Talks about a defiled conscience. Talks about a pure conscience.
Talks about a seared conscience. A good conscience. And go with
me to Romans 2. I didn't write it down, but I
want you to look at it. Romans chapter 2. What is conscience? Well, everyone has one. But everyone
doesn't have a good one. Look at Romans 2 verse 14. When the Gentiles that don't
have the law, that's the savage in the jungle or whoever, when
they do by nature the thing contained in the law, that is, do not kill,
do not lie, do not steal, how do they know that? It's written
on the heart. They are law unto themselves.
Verse 15, it shows the work of the law written in their hearts,
their conscience bearing witness, their thoughts, the meanwhile,
accusing as excusing one another. I go back to Hebrew. A conscience
is the law of God written on the heart that convicts us. A good conscience will convict
you. That's what it's supposed to
do. A good conscience is the law. What's the law say? I already
quoted it. Guilty. A good conscience never
excuses you. A good conscience never justifies
you. A good conscience will never
say, I'm righteous. No, the scripture says none righteous. None good. A good conscience
says you've broken the law. An evil conscience, now, An evil
conscience will say, I'm OK. I talked to a man on the phone
one time, found out real quickly he was religious. And so I said
to him, what do you think about yourself? Tell me what you think
about yourself. And he said, well, I'm a pretty
good fellow. Right there I knew. He doesn't know anything about
God, about the law, about the gospel. He doesn't have any need
for Christ. That's a bad conscience. An evil
conscience. A defiled conscience. You know,
sin. A person can just sin, sin, sin,
sin. Then finally they just quiet
their conscience and they don't ever listen to it anymore. Or
religion can salve the conscience. That's what religion does. It
salves the conscience. John Bundy. Maybe Well, Pilgrim's
Progress is a wonderful, wonderful book. But another one he wrote
while in prison was The Holy War. And that, I don't know which
is my favorite. But if you've read it, if not,
it's a story of the taking of the town of Mansoul. How that
Satan took captive Mansoul. at his will. They willingly let
him in. And he took it captive. And there
was a man in that town called Mr. Reporter. That's the concept. And he said that man all before
would be hollering and screaming at the people and the people
would hear him and the people would be warned and people would,
he'd scare them. Mr. Reporter would scare them.
And it says Satan hated that man's conscience. So what he did was try to quieten
him so the people couldn't hear him. What he did was make the
people think he's crazy. Don't listen to him. He's crazy. Oh, what wisdom Brother Bunyan
had. And the Scriptures talks about people that have a conscience
that's been seared with a hot iron. Sears, Jenny's a nurse,
you know when you cauterize something, you take away the feeling of
it. You try to, nerves and all, you try to take away the pain. Religion does that. Sears the
conscience. A good conscience convicts us.
If the word of God convicts you, good, good, your conscience is
working. The Holy Spirit is leading you.
He convinces of sin. That's what the Holy Spirit does.
Anybody led by the Spirit is convinced of sin. And then He
takes the things of Christ and shows them unto you. Everybody
convinced of sin, the Holy Spirit says, now look, there's your
sin bearer. You're guilty, aren't you? Yes,
I am. Look, there's peace for the guilty. It's an ongoing thing. A pure conscience, a purged conscience,
one that's been freed from guilt is one way. Look at Hebrews 9,
verse 14. Hebrews 9, verse 14. Here's how the conscience, and
I'm just going to sum it all up right here. A purged conscience,
a way of freedom from guilt. Verse 14 says, 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. Dead works means trying to do
something to atone for your sin, trying to keep the law, or trying
to turn over a new leaf, or trying to make a pen, or do this and
that, no, no, no. Blood. There's only one way to give you peace for a guilty conscience.
That's the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. What am I trying to say? This
is why Jesus Christ came into the world. It was to save sinners. He came to be made a peace offering
to God. He came to be made sin for his
people. The blood of Jesus Christ. That's
the testimony of this book. If you'll listen carefully, this
will be the best message you've ever heard. The content of it
anyway. Look at verses 3 through 5 of
Hebrews 10. It says in those sacrifices,
there's remembrance of sin every year. In verse 5, he said in
verse 4, it's not possible for blood of bulls and goats to take
away sin. And so Christ came, not to offer
lambs blood, but his own precious blood. God said in verse 6, offerings
of sacrifice, he had no pleasure in, but he prepared Christ a
body. That's why Christ said, this
is my body broken for you. This do, in remembrance of me,
the remission of sin. I did it. Trust me. Verse 9, go down there. I'm not
going to keep you long, but this is wonderful. He said, Lo, I
come to do thy will, O God. He takes away the first. What's
that? The law. There's so many people that get
mad at hearing that, don't they? We're not under the law. Thank
God. Those that want to be under it don't hear it. And if a preacher rightly preaches
it, it'll do nothing but make you guilty. And the law then
becomes a schoolmaster to point you to Christ. Look! There's
the law keeper. The law of fulfillment. He takes
away the purse. Is that what it says? Christ said, I didn't
come to destroy the law, but to what? Fulfillment. Keep it. We can't. We never will be able to. We
never will be able to. And what's the establishment?
The second. The new covenant. Covenant of grace. Establish
the second. Here it is. I wish John Davis
was here to hear this. He loves this verse. This is
one of his favorite verses. Romans 4, 16. It's of faith and
that by grace to the end that the promise might be sure to
all to see. By the law, nobody's going to
be saved. By Jesus Christ, everybody's going to be saved. Everybody
looks to Christ. I mean, everybody looks to Jesus
Christ to be saved. Nobody tries to do anything to
be saved, but everybody that does nothing but look to Christ
is going to be saved. Now, buddy, that's good news. Good news. And that's God's will. He said
to the preacher, he said, comfort ye, comfort ye my people. Tell
them the warfare's been accomplished, iniquity's been pardoned. Tell
them they've received of the Lord's hand double for all their
sins. That's what you go tell them.
Tell them the battle's over. They're not fighting for their
soul. Jesus Christ did it, and He won't. Tell them. That'll
comfort them. If they have trouble with their
conscience, if they have trouble with sin. See, our conscience
is not working. If we ever quit feeling some
guilt, they won't think it's coming. They will probably leave
and not come back. So good conscience, he said.
It's a good thing. Good thing. Well, he said, and
I want to just paraphrase a little bit. You remember, look at verse
10. I can't just pass over that.
By the witch will, God's will, we are sanctified, made holy
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once brought.
Made holy, accepted by God. made holy, declared holy, unblamable,
unreprovable in God's sight, happy through the offering of
the body of Jesus Christ once for all, once for all these people. Now, in verses 11 and 12, it
says that the Old Testament priests would keep offering sacrifice
and sacrifice and sacrifice, but they couldn't put away sin.
Do you remember when Brother Dan Parks preached from this?
I asked him to. He preached it somewhere, and
then I heard it in Tortola at a conference. I said, Dan, would
you preach that at Rocky Mountain? He said, yes, I will, Brother. And he did. And he's a calculated
man, as you know. Very calculated. And he calculated
how many sacrifices that the priest would offer daily. Anybody
had any problem, if you read, with anything, they had to come
and make a sacrifice. The priest would do it for them.
Whatever they had, whatever uncleanness they had, they'd bring a dud
or a bullock or a lamb or something to the priest and he'd offer
a sacrifice. There were a bunch of priests. The high priest, you know, would
go in once a year with blood for everybody. But there were
thousands of sacrifices, and hundreds of thousands. And Dan
calculated it, I don't know how many millions it was. And in
the tabernacle, there was no furniture, no chair. There was
no chair. Because he could never sit down.
His work was never finished. He kept offering sacrifice and
sacrifice and sacrifice. Here it says in verse 12, this
man, Jesus Christ, after he offered one sacrifice for sin forever, sat down. That means it's finished. It's
finished. Where'd he sit? Where did he
sit at? Look at it. On the right hand
of God. That means God accepted him. One sacrifice. all of God's people. That's it. And it goes on to
say there's no more sacrifice. You don't need any. Read on down. This is a covenant
and the Holy Spirit witnesses this. Verse 14, my one offering. He perfected forever. Holy Ghost
witnesses to us. That is, if we, you know, if
he blesses us to hear the gospel, he's witnessing to us. This is
a covenant. covenant with Christ to share
mercies of David in Christ. I'll put it in their minds, their
hearts, and their sins and iniquities. I'll remember no more. Now, where
remission of these is, there's no more offerings for sin. You
don't need to. You don't need an offering. You don't need an
offering. It's already been made. And God
accepted it. Now rest. You know, people try to appease
their gods in every society. Pagan, savage countries still
trying to appease their gods. They feel like they, you know,
they're sinners. And they're trying to appease their gods
by their various sacrifices. Those cenotes down in Mexico,
those deep pools, the Mayan Indians used to take virgins and bind
their hands behind their backs and throw them into that cenote
to appease the wrath and anger of God. They do it all the time. And all society, and even in
our modern society, people are trying to appease God by doing
this, by doing that. Catholicism keeps offering, trying
to, that is, thinking they do, offering the body of Jesus Christ
over and over and over. That's the mass. Once after that, forever. This man is no more up for it.
Don't need to bring him on. And look at verse 19 and 20.
Therefore, we have boldness to enter into the holiest by the
power, by the blood of Jesus. By a new and living way. He's
consecrated. That is to say, His flesh. We
have a high priest over the house of God. We don't need a Catholic
priest. We've got a great high priest.
After the order of Melchizedek. Whoever lives. And everybody
that comes to God by Him. Come one, come all. Boldness.
Freedom. Free access. He says, so let us draw near
with a true heart and full assurance of faith. Faith in what? Faith in Him. Faith in what He's
done. Full assurance of faith. You
can have full assurance if you trust Christ alone. You hear
that? You can have full assurance if
you look to Christ alone. If you look to yourself, you
can't find any cause for assurance. As a matter of fact, the older
you get, you think, I'm getting worse. That's the reason the gospel
ought to get better. Draw near with a full heart,
with full assurance, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
conscience. Sprinkled with what? Almost all things, he said back
in Hebrews 9, almost all things are purged with blood. Moses,
when he'd take that blood, he'd say he'd sprinkle the book and
the people and the altar and just throw that blood everywhere.
So that everywhere you look, you see blood. Have your heart
sprinkled with blood. Whatever your conscience smites
you, the blood. Only the blood can give you peace. The only thing that will satisfy
a guilty conscience is a gun. The only thing that will satisfy
God is a gun. And if God satisfies us, then we're at peace with
God. Be still, my soul. Be still. Five bleeding wounds
He bears. And the scripture says every,
what about repentance? Well, yes, every repentant sinner,
you know, when we, our conscience smites us, our hearts. To this
man when I look, he that is poor and of a contrite heart, I tremble
at that, my Lord. Oh, I'm guilty, Lord. Have mercy
upon me. Okay, there's the blood. And
repentance is an ongoing thing. It's a state of mind, a state
of heart. It's a way of life. It's a humble
heart and a humble person before the Lord, never proud, but ever
presumptuous, never presumptuous, but humble. Lord, would you receive me? Every
time, yes. Every time. Will you have mercy
on me? Yes, I will. Only one thing to satisfy the
guilty conscience is the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now,
you hear me now. You hear me now. That's good news. Good news. It says we have free
access. And I want to go on. Verse 23
says, So let us hold fast to the profession of our faith.
What's your profession of faith? I ask people that all the time.
What's your hope of salvation? What's your hope of eternal life?
What is your hope? If you're going to get to heaven,
you feel like God is at peace with you. Why? That's something I want to answer.
There's only one answer. Christ died. Jesus Christ. That's the profession of our
faith. He is our profession. Without wavering, he's faithful. You're not faithful. He's faithful. That promise. Promise what? There
are sins and iniquities. I remember them all. He that
believeth on my Son shall never perish. All the promises of God
in Him are yea and amen. He's faithful. You're not faithful. You're Hosea. You're Gomer. But
he's the faithful Hosea. He's faithful. Hold fast right
there. Him. Hold fast to him. And read
on. It says, Let us consider one
another to provoke unto love and to good work. Consider one
another's frame that we're sinners. Consider one another to pray
for one another and provoke unto love and good work. Oh my, we
provoke unto anger too much, don't we? Let's provoke unto
love. Not us, but God, the gospel. And to good works, gospel works. Be about the things of God. And
not forsaking, that's what he's saying. Not forsaking the assembly
of ourselves together. Because if you do, you forsake
your own mercy. Remember Jonah 2.8? He that observeth
lying vanities. Forsaken is our mercy. This is
our mercy. This is our help. Not forsaking
the assembly of ourselves together as a matter of some ill, but
exhorting one another. Come on, brother. Come on. I
know you're tired. I ain't too. Why are we having
one service Sunday and none Wednesday? Because I'm tired. I don't want
a break. Then I know, come around Wednesday,
I'll think, well, I wish we'd have met. But we're all tired, aren't we?
But exhort one another so much more as you see the day approaching.
Time is short. Now look at this. If we sin willfully
after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth
no more sacrifice for sin but a certain fearful looking of
judgment and fiery indignation. Does that verse bother you? Let me tell you what it's saying
in the context here. If we sin willfully, would you
mind telling me what sin you do that's not pretty much willful? Huh? There are presumptuous sin. There
are secret sin, I know that. But quite often we do what we
do out of anger and wrath and malice and spite, and we see
something we want, and covets as we go after it. It's willful,
isn't it? If you're honest. What he's talking about here
is forsaking the gospel in the context, not forsaking the assembly
of ourselves, but together as a matter of some is. If we sin
willfully, unbelief sin, and if we leave the gospel after
we receive the knowledge of the truth, there's no more sacrifice
for sin. You're not going to find it.
You're not under the blood. You're not under the blood. You
don't have a sacrifice. And all that waits for you is
fire and indignation and wrath of God. You get out from under,
like God told, like Joshua told Rahab and the family, the spies. The spies are the preachers.
The spies said, you stay in this house, and you get your parents
and your friends under this house, where that scarlet line is. Don't
you leave the house. If you leave the house, the blood's
on your head. But you stay in that house, and if we see that
blood, When we see that scarlet line, Joshua's coming through,
going to tear this place up. But everybody in that house,
being the greatest sinner on earth, if he's under that blood,
we're going to spare him. You have Joshua's word on it.
Don't leave. That's what he's saying. There's no more sacrifice. You
have no hope. No blood to plead for your sin.
And you'll stand before God someday, and he'll say, guilty. But everybody that just pleads
Christ, not guilty. I think I'll just stay right
here. How about you? to stay where it's safe, under
the shadow of his wings. Down in verse 31, it's a fearful
thing to fall into the hands of the living God. And he goes
on to say, remember the former days when you were first illuminated,
you had a great fight of affliction. Remember, you were so zealous
for the truth and fought everybody over it. But you had these inward
struggles with sin, but you still came to hear the gospel and kept
coming. Verse 33, you were made a gazing
stock by reproaches and afflictions. You became a companion of them
that are so used, your true friends. You had compassion. Paul said
you had compassion of me and my bonds, and you helped support
me. You didn't think anything about
supporting me. You thought that's the best way
I can spend my money, the support of the gospel, because that's
what I'm looking for. Enduring suffering. So don't cast away.
You see that? Cast not away your confidence.
What's your confidence? Huh? Not in yourself. I have
no confidence in my flesh, do you? In my flesh does no good
thing. It never will. My confidence
is Jesus Christ. There's nobody who's trusting
Jesus Christ that shall be ashamed. Don't cast away your confidence.
You have great recompense. Oh, I hadn't seen, you hadn't
heard. If you have need of patience, after you've done the will of
God, that is, lived your life here and done what He has for
you, that you might receive the promise, go through trials and
afflictions, a little while, a little while, and He that shall
come will come. Won't be long now. Now, the just
have to live by faith. You're going to live with God.
You're going to be with God. How? By faith. Not words. Faith. What's faith? Looking to cry. Looking to cry. If any man draw back, you see
that? He leave, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But,
and I believe this about you, we are not of them. We are not
of them who draw back under perdition. Fall back. One step forward and two steps
back. Backslide. There's some men going to take
issue with me on that, but I don't care. I do it all the time, don't
you? One step forward. Ten steps back. Fall back. Go back. Thank God
He brings me back. He says, come, and I'll come.
We're not of them that draw back under perdition. We're of them
that believe to the Savior of the soul. Believe what? In what? That's a good name. All right. Dad, I'm done. I preach the gospel. The blood. The blood. Stand with
me. Thank you, thank you, thank you
for the blood that maketh atonement for the soul. Thank you, Lord,
for shedding your precious blood, pouring it out on the mercy seat.
Thank you for putting away our sin by the sacrifice of yourself,
purging our sin. Lord, ever cause us to look to
Thee, to trust in Thee, when we feel guilt, of sin, let us
look to thee, Lord. Let us ask your forgiveness,
and we'll know we'll have it. As you said, he that believeth
on the Son shall never perish. Make it so, Lord. Bless your
Word. Give peace to your people's heart. Comfort them. It's in Christ's
name we pray and ask these things. Amen. Questioner 2 has a question.