I'm going to be in Hebrews chapter
10. Hebrews chapter 10. And I'm going
to begin reading in verse 8 to verse 14. Above, when he said, sacrifice
and offering, and burnt offerings, and offering for sin, 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 taketh away
the first, that he may establish the second. By the witch will
we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus
Christ once. And every priest standeth daily,
ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can
never take away sins. But this man, after he had offered
one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of
God. from henceforth expecting till
his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified. And I'm gonna stop right there,
because that is one fine place to stop. My title, Paul, is He Established
the Second. That's my title. On my way here
today, I passed a person on the road. It was a foreigner, I think
from South Carolina or somewhere. Nothing against foreigners from
New Jersey or anything. But it had a sticker on the back
window. And it had three words on it.
It said, devoted to God. And I'm passing this person,
I'm thinking, that's not bad. If it's true, if it's true, that
is actually a glorious thing, a gracious thing, if it's true. But I'm here, I'm gonna try today
to tell you something even more glorious than that. Here's the
thing, if that's true, if you are in Christ, God is devoted
to you. That's grace. That's grace. That's a miracle of grace. That just hit me as I was watching
that sign as I passed him. But see if you put a stick like
that on the wind that God's devoted to me people think you're uppity
you know think you're boasting No, it's it's in Christ It's
only in Christ But it's also true Beloved now are ye the sons of
God? now in this world That's great. That's great Anyhow
here in Hebrews 10 We have the words of Christ actually quoted
from Psalms 40 I'm gonna just look at that for just a second Psalms chapter 40 verse 7 this
is a psalm of David and these are some of the words of David
and these are a this is a Messianic song These are the words of Christ. Verse seven. Then said I, lo,
I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me. I delight
to do thy will, O my God. Yea, thy law is in my heart. I have preached righteousness
in the great congregation. Lo, I have not refrained my lips,
O Lord, thou knowest. I have not hid thy righteousness
within my heart. I have declared thy faithfulness
and thy salvation and not concealed thy loving kindness and thy truth
from the great congregation. Have you ever noticed when you
read the Psalms or read anywhere else in the scripture and it
talks about salvation, it talks about God's salvation. It talks
about thy salvation. talks about thy righteousness,
not mine, thine. David was a prophet as well as
a king. And David prophesied, I come
to do thy will. I delight to do thy will. And in these words, the words
of Christ, yea, thy law is in my heart. And I preached righteousness
in the great congregation. And yes, Jesus Christ came to
preach righteousness. And here's the thing. He did
preach righteousness. And they received him not. They received him not. His own
received him not. Even though he preached righteousness,
even though he preached the absolute truth with absolutely no mistakes,
and I cannot claim to do that. He did. And yet, the result is
exactly the same as preached in the gospel today. Some believed
and some didn't. That's the truth. That's the
truth. Some believed and some didn't.
His own did not receive him or his word. Jesus Christ is the light and
the light always shines. But men love darkness rather
than light. Why? Because their deeds are
evil. It's what the scripture says. Men, it's not the fact
that they just reject the light. They love darkness. They love
darkness. Remember what Jesus Christ told
the disciples of John the Baptist. He told them to go. John sent
them to him. He said, go and tell John what
you see. He said, the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are
cleansed, the dead are raised, the deaf hear. And he had one
more thing on there. Into the poor the gospel is preached
right with that list of miracles Right with that list of miracles.
It's the port to the poor the gospel is preached The gospel the true gospel being
preached is not a natural act And the gospel being heard with
hearing ears, seen with seeing eyes, and understood by a living
heart is not a natural thing. By nature, we're just like those
others that Stephen spoke to. He says, you uncircumcised in
heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost, just like
your fathers did. So do you. So do you. But the
gospel is preached. Right here, the miracle of the
gospel has been preached by Jesus Christ, by God manifest in the
flesh. And they didn't receive it. They
didn't receive it. You will not come to me that
you might have life. Same as it ever was, and it's
still the exact same today. I know a lot of people like to
think that we're a lot more advanced. Well, scientifically, maybe we
are. I got here in a truck, going 70 miles an hour, maybe a little
more than that, but I didn't tell anybody, up at Interstate,
and drove 35 miles, whatever, to get here. When you had to walk from wherever
to wherever back then, you walked usually not by yourself. You
tried to join yourself to a caravan or to a group. We are more advanced
scientifically, but up here in this head, in these ears, in
these eyes, and in this heart, we are just as dead as anybody
else, as everyone else has been. Some believed and some did not.
But here's the words in Hebrews 10. Then said he, lo, I come
to do thy will, O God, thy will, O God. Then he tells us what
that will was, what he's talking about here. He taketh away the
first that he may establish the second. Now, the word taketh
away, is one greek word and it means this abolished he abolished
the first the first what's that mean this is exactly what that
means the first is no more no more it's abolished he took it
away it's not there it's abolished and i want to tell you this the
first to be abolished. I'll repeat that. The first had
to be abolished. Now why do I say that? Well first
of all, because he took it away. He abolished it. If he did it,
it's because it had to be done. If he did it, it was foreknown
to be done. Because known unto God are all
of his works from the beginning. He came in order to take away
the first. He did it. The second is this. You look in verse 1 of chapter
10. For the law having a shadow of good things to come and not
the very image of the thing. The first was not the very image.
The first was a shadow. It was a shadow. It's not the
substance. Why? For the law having a shadow of
good things to come and not the very image of the things, what?
Can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year
continually make the comers thereunto perfect. First was a shadow. and it never made anyone perfect. And God, God demands perfection. God demands holiness. Be holy. Why? For I am holy. The first
had to be abolished. The law of the first had a shadow
of good things to come, but not the substance. Not the substance. Now, yes, it was to be done in
those times, in the Old Testament times. Those sacrifices were
to be made. God ordered them. But they never
made those that offered them perfect. Why? Because you had
to come back and do another one. You had to come back the next
day and do another one. The priesthood never stopped. It never stopped. I have two words for the first
being abolished. Two words. Thank God the first
was abolished. Thank God. Because what was abolished,
I didn't say it, but it's the first covenant. That's what he's
talking about here. The first covenant. And the first
covenant was explained in these words. This do and live. That wasn't all, folks. Lots
of people think, oh, that's good, let's do it, I'll do it, I'll
do it. That's what the Jews said. That's what the Hebrews said.
But here's the other part. Disobey and die. And now Walter had gone through
the book of Deuteronomy and the book of Leviticus before that
and the others. And you heard him read and preach
and talk about those laws. Some of them things are awfully
complicated. and awfully if you want to use that word and i don't
really want their particular that's it not be a good predictor
taxes do it this way or else and that's what god says about
everything but most people don't know that most people don't want
to know that but here's the thing where it says this is doing a
live uh... and worse of all, I will not. And don't lay yourselves off
the hook, because you wouldn't either. You wouldn't either. You wouldn't
either. And here's the other part. Scripture
tells us very plainly to fail in one part of the law. One part is to be guilty of all. Oh my. Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, all thy soul, and all thy strength. And
you have to do that all the time. Every day, every minute of the
day, every second of every minute of the day. And we can't do it. You're also supposed to love
your neighbor as yourself, but you can't get past the first
one to get to the second one. And neither can I. To fail in one part is to be
guilty of the whole law, everything written in Leviticus and Numbers
and Deuteronomy. We could not, we cannot, and
we will not even keep that first commandment, much less all the
rest. But right here in Hebrews, we
read it. He took it away. He taketh away the first. Ah, I like that. I like that.
Understand, in Adam all die. Here's the point of that. And
they stay dead. In Christ shall all be made alive. He took it away. He took it all
away. Because he did keep it. He's the only one who has kept
the law. In Psalms 4 he says, thy law
is in my heart. And it was in the heart of Jesus
Christ. Complete and perfect. And he
kept the law from first to the last. He loved the Lord God with
all his heart, mind, soul, and strength all the time. And he
loved his neighbor as himself. And we don't. But he takes it
away. He kept it. He took it away the
first. That, that one little word there,
that. This is the reason he took away
the first. That. What? He may establish the second. Oh, the second. What does it
say about the second covenant? Well, it calls it the new covenant.
But here's even something I like more. It's called the better
covenant. The better covenant. I like that.
Because this better covenant is established on what? Better
promises. What's a better promise than
this do and live? Oh, he's done and you live. I like that. the second is better
than the first stop right there it's established on better promises
the promises of god the promises of christ he established a second
he bruce i think a thirteen that written down here yes excuse
me is that he says a new covenant he have made the first old. Now that which decays and waxes
old is ready to vanish away. He took it away. He abolished
it. Understand, this is not what
we say. This is what the book says. He
made the first old. We didn't. We didn't outgrow
the law we didn't we didn't get so much better that we don't
well we don't need the law now no he took it away he took it
away he made it old and what it says it says he said it and
he made it I like that but in that he saith a new covenant
he hath made the first I like that. I didn't say it. You didn't say it. Theologians
didn't say it. Jesus Christ said it. And what's
that mean? That means it's so. If Christ
said it, that means it's so. And he did say a new covenant.
What? I give you. I give you. He didn't earn it. Really, when it came down to
it, at one time, I didn't want it. Didn't know anything about
it. Didn't care anything about it.
I don't know. I'm going to give it to you. And if he gives you
something, bless God, you're going to have it. You're going
to have it. Better promises established with
a what? A better covenant established
on better promises. What? With a better sacrifice. This is the book of Hebrews.
Sacrifice and offerings you didn't want. but a body hast thou prepared
me Hebrews 9 26 he put away sin by the sacrifice what? of himself of himself for then
must he often suffer from the foundation of the world but now
once at the end of the world he hath appeared to put away
the put away sin the sacrifice of himself a better
covenant established on better promises with a better sacrifice
the better sacrifice he established the second verse 10 says this by the which
will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus
Christ once For all out once once By the which will Which
will the one he was just talking about in verse 9 of Hebrews 10
I What? Then said he, lo, I come to do
thy will, O God. He taketh away the first to establish
the second. By that will, the will of God
that Christ came to perform, the abolishing of the first and
the establishing of the second. Everything in this Bible is related
to and concerning the person and the work of Jesus Christ. He came to do the will of the
father. That's what he said while he's
here. That's what they're writing up here here And it was the will of the father
that he takes away that first and establishes the second By that will by the very will
of God we are sanctified understand Believers are not
trying to get sanctified Believers are not struggling
to get sanctified Believers are sanctified by Jesus Christ himself. I We are sanctified, set apart
unto God the Father in His Son, Jesus Christ. Set apart in the
Son of God. I said earlier, beloved, now are
you the sons of God. Now, right now, purified, made
holy, not in ourselves, But in Son. In the Son. In His Son. In Christ Jesus. What? In the Lord Christ Jesus. Sons of God. Heirs of God. And joint heirs with Jesus Christ. We are sanctified in Him. What? Through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ. Once. Once. Once. There's only one offering. There's
only one offering. His sacrifice and his offering
sanctified us. Period. It's not that we did anything
with it. No. It's what he did. It's what he did. And understand
this. The sacrifice and the offering
were not made to us. He made them to God. He made
them to God. Walter, you said it this morning
on the TV. He's the one who could touch us and lay hold of us and
not be defiled. And not be defiled by us. And he could lay a hold of God
and not be destroyed. And bring us together. in himself. His sacrifice and his offering
was complete and to the Father and the Father's justice is completely
satisfied. I understand. Yes, I sinned. Yes, I have sinned. Yes, I will sin. But in Christ who took my sins
in his body on the tree, who took your sins in his body on
the tree before God, you have no sin. They've been punished. Justice has been served, as they
say. Justice is satisfied. Why? By the sacrifice and offering
of our Lord Jesus Christ. Not by you, not by me, and not
by any man. or woman through the offering
of the body of Jesus Christ you understand Jesus Christ did not
make a partial offering Jesus Christ did not make a conditional
offering that offering was to God and that offering was accepted
two thousand years ago or thereabouts oh my He made himself an offering
for sin For us for us those who believe
And it does say this word and I like this word Once Once once
once the Old Testament sacrifice you did again and again and again
every year the festivals came around and Every year, the Passover
came around. Every year, the Day of Atonement
came around. And they did it again and again,
and every day in between. People would come and offer a
sin offering. People would come and offer a burn offering. People
would come and offer a wave offering, a peace offering, or whatever.
No. No. Not anymore. Through the
offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once. Once. That offering, that sacrifice,
that offering to the Father was only done once. Once. You know why? Because it was
perfect. It was perfect. You understand? What does it
say in Isaiah? And I'm going to apply these
words here. Nothing can be put to it. Nothing can be taken from
it. God does it. God does it. Why? Then men should fear before
him. God does it! Christ did it! It's done. Once. Now, y'all don't know. I was born and raised Catholic.
And for whoever's listening that doesn't know it, everybody here
does. there is no sacrifice in the catholic mass and i don't
care what they say i don't care what to say it doesn't matter
what they say it doesn't matter what they think jesus christ
offered his sacrifice once and we are complete in him oh i like
that by the witch will we are sanctified through the offering
of the body of jesus christ Once. Oh, I like that. You know what
he's doing there, right? He's establishing the second.
Right there. That's that. There's going to
be, there was going to be a sacrifice. It was prophesied all through
the Old Testament. Read Isaiah, those sacrifices
that were offered, those sin offerings, the burn offerings,
the wave offering, the peace offering, they all pointed to
this man right here, Jesus Christ. And that offering to the Father. One offering, one time, once. Oh, I like that, I do, I do. His sacrifice for sin is never
to be repeated. You know why? Doesn't need to
be. It doesn't need to be. There's
no need. His one offering was sufficient,
is sufficient, and shall always be sufficient. I like that. I do. One sacrifice for sin forever. Forever. He established the second. Ah, I like that. And it doesn't
matter about the traditions of men, it doesn't matter about
the traditions of the fathers, as they call them. If they disagree
with this book, they're wrong. one sacrifice for sin forever. And it was offered once by this
man, Jesus Christ, who's now what? Seated at the right hand
of the majesty on high. So what did he establish? And every priest standeth daily
ministering, this is verse 11, and offering oftentimes the same
sacrifices, which can never take away sins. How depraved are we? We're so
depraved we can't stop trying to make ourselves holy before
God. We can't stop going about to establish our own righteousness.
and ignoring the righteousness of God, which is in Christ. That's how depraved we are. What
did he establish, though? But this man, after he had offered
one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of
God, from henceforth expecting until his enemies be made his
footstool. Walter, I like what you said
about this a while back. Jesus Christ is not done. He's got
work he's doing, but this part This sacrifice, this offering,
him sitting down at the right hand of the... Redemption is
done. Redemption is done. Now he is
still the good shepherd. What? Other sheep I have. Them, well they gotta get to
me. They better come on up here.
No, them I must bring. Understand Jesus Christ is not
sitting on the edge of the pasture Whistling and calling for sheep
to come to him. He's going out to get them And
he's picking them up and putting them on his shoulders and he's
bringing them in and there is going to be one flock and one
shepherd That's all there is there's one flock and one shepherd
and he's bringing them in and he's bringing them in on the
basis of this one offering This one sacrifice for sin forever. And then this verse 14. For by one offering he has perfected
forever them that are sanctified. And I still remember this day
the first time I read this, because I had just read, what is it? Verse 10. What's it say in verse
10? By the which will we are sanctified,
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Then you come down to verse 14 and you read this, for by one
offering he's perfected forever them that are sanctified. That's the same people, folks. By his one offering, not only
are we sanctified, and I remember when Jim stood up here, I can't
think of his last name now, my memory's going to folks, but
here it is. By that same offering, we are
perfected. Here's a word, forever. Perfected
forever. How? By His offering. By His
work. And people wonder why we want
to call it His salvation. I'm worried about my salvation.
Understand that because if my salvation is not his salvation.
I don't have salvation This is it By his offering by
his sacrifice to the father not to me Not to you He is both sanctified
and perfected forever those that are sanctified. Oh I like that I got a quote here, I think it's
John Warburton is the one that wrote this. It says, the longer
I live, the more I feel that if there were one thing left
undone, If the devil were not completely conquered, sin not
completely expiated, justice not satisfied, the law not honored
and magnified, death not overcome and every burden carried, I should
not have a ray of hope. I see and feel that if one hair
breath is left for me to do to merit heaven or bring as a plea
before god i am undone forever and ever i agree i agree i'll
tell you this the writer of hebrew agrees with that all the scriptures
agree with that the longer i live and the more i grow in the grace
and the knowledge of jesus christ our lord jesus christ I realize,
if it's not the Lord Jesus Christ and His free and sovereign grace,
I am undone. Don't let anybody tell you that
you need to keep the law to be saved. Ever. Ever. My Lord kept the law for
me. kept it for himself, but I get
the benefit. God's satisfied. What do I worry
about man being satisfied with me? I'm not satisfied with me.
Why should you be? Now that don't mean to do as
you will. It means do as your Lord will. There's a walk for the child
of God. Why? Because of the work of our
Lord Jesus Christ. Galatians 2 and 19 put it this
way. For I, through the law, am dead
to the law. Why? That I might live unto God. We are sanctified by his first
offering. his own we are perfected forever
by his first off his only offer what's because here it is jesus christ
yes the end of the law for righteousness everyone who believe it's not
that he was the end of the law for rights he is He is 2,000
years ago, he is now, and he always shall be. The end of the
law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. I like that. He took away the first. That,
he would establish the second. A better covenant, based on better
promises, and secured and given by a better
sacrifice. Our Heavenly Father, we are thankful
again for this time. Lord, help us to know your will. You've given everything to us
in your Son. You've given us life, and love,
and peace, and hope, and help us just to take it to our hearts
and not let this world circumstances and our own circumstances drive
us to distraction. Help us to hold Christ in our
hearts first and foremost. In his name we pray.