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you want to follow along, please turn to Hebrews chapter nine. Hebrews chapter nine. I want
to read verses 11 through 15. An endeavor to preach the gospel
from the book of Hebrews. It's in there, Mason. Hebrews
chapter nine, verse 11. But Christ, being come an high
priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building,
neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood,
he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and
of goats and of the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean
sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall
the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself
without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to
serve the living God. And for this cause, he is the
mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death, for the
redemption of the transgressions that were under the First Testament,
they which are called might receive the promise of eternal life. Inheritance I Love the book of Hebrews Now
I will warn you when I first read it Being pretty ignorant I Had a different view of it
than most Baptists and most Reformers that sort of thing because I
was born and raised Catholic. So I was infinitely and unfortunately
familiar with the priesthood. Now it's the Catholic priesthood.
But you understand what the Catholic church has done is they wanted
their priesthood to take the place of the Jewish priesthood.
And this book tells that the Jewish priesthood's done away
with. It's done. We're still a priest. The high
priest. And guess what? Every believer
is now a priest unto God. Not just, there is no clergy
and laity. And I saw that in this book.
And that spoke to me, being where I was, a former Catholic. Newly
released from that bondage. So I do love this book. This
chapter in particular, the writer of Hebrews, starts off the first
of the chapter talking about the old covenant. And then here
in verse 11, he moves into but Christ. Starts talking about
the new covenant. The new covenant. He's written
of the old, now he moves on to the new. He wrote of the tabernacle,
where the Old Testament high priest Well, where the regular
priest went into the first chamber of that Old Testament tabernacle
and performed the services of God, which was ordained at that
time. And then he moves to the high
priest, who went into the holiest of all, is what it says here.
But Christ, being come a high priest, we've gone from the Old
Testament, the old covenant, to the new covenant. It deals
with the Jewish prophecies fulfilled by Jesus Christ. It deals with
the Jewish sacrifices fulfilled in Jesus Christ. And it deals
with the superseding new covenant relegating the other covenant
to be now called old. That's what it says. That's what
the word says. It tells of doing away with the
old priesthood and the old high priest, plural. The writer of
Hebrews is clear. Jesus Christ is the reality of
the Old Testament. Jesus Christ, and I read this
and I stole it. I like to say, Jesus Christ is
the substance of the Levitical shadows. He's what made those
shadows. It was the light shining on Jesus
Christ that cast those shadows. Like that he's the substance
He's the reality Everything in the Old Testament tabernacle
pointed toward this work that the writers fix in the right
here Performed by Jesus Christ Says but Christ being come on
high priest of good things to come and by a greater and more
perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not
of this building. Now, let's be clear. There is no question as to who
is the high priest of the new covenant. It says right here
in two words, but Christ. But Christ. The anointed one. Messiah. He uses his title here, Christ.
The anointed one, the Messiah is the high priest. You know
where that's prophesied? All throughout this Old Testament.
We'll get to a little bit of it. It says the Messiah has come
up. A high priest, high priest, excuse
me. First thing I want to do point
out here is two negatives, okay? Jesus Christ was not made high
priest. Christ what? Being come. Secondly, Jesus Christ did not
become high priest. Now I am well aware, because
I actually did not know this, but I quoted this on television
this morning. Chapter six of Hebrews, verse 20, the last verse,
Says, whither the forerunner for us is entered, even Jesus
made an high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. That
word made there's talking about creation. Okay? I understand that, we'll get
to it here. But Jesus Christ did not become high priest as
to the fact of maybe at one time he wasn't high priest and now
he is. No, this is Christ being come.
When Christ came, It was in a manger. He was high priest. He was high
priest. Because he goes on in chapter
seven and verse 17, for he testifies forever, excuse me, for he testifies
thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. What? Thou art. Now the writer
of Hebrews is quoting David in Psalms 110. I'm gonna turn there
just for a second because this is Psalms 110 verse four and
five. Because this is important, I
think. The Lord has sworn and will not repent. Thou art a priest
forever after the order of Melchizedek. That's where the writer of Hebrews
quoted that from. Look at the verse before, just
for the fun of it. Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power. In the beauties of holiness from
the womb of the morning, thou hast the due of thy youth. Then
he says, thou art. The Lord has sworn, God swore. God swore thou art a priest forever
after the order of Melchizedek. This is a Psalm of David, but
it's not talking about David. This is a Messianic Psalm. God wasn't having David write
down that the people were gonna be willing in the day of David's
power. He was writing that they're gonna be willing in the day of
Christ's power, the Messiah's power, the anointed one's power,
the power of what? God. The power of the Lord. God is the only one who has the
power to make people willing. And God is the only one, what?
Who came in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning. Then he said that next verse,
the Lord has sworn. Now how true can that be? How
true must that be? If the Lord has sworn it, it's
a fact. And it doesn't matter whether
anyone believes it or not, it's still a fact. Again, this is
a Messianic psalm, a statement of the coming Messiah at the
time written, which was centuries before Jesus Christ came. The
Lord swore then, thou, what? Art. Thou art. You understand, in verse three,
he says, thy people shall be willing. Future. Then he says,
thou art. You mean Jesus Christ was high
priest in the Old Testament? Oh yeah. That's exactly what
I mean. Christ being come high priest. He was high priest when he came. He was high priest before he
came. He's high priest now. Melchizedek is either a type
of Christ in the Old Testament or a Christophany. I lean toward
Christophany. An appearance of Jesus Christ
in the Old Testament. Either way, Melchizedek shows
forth the high priest who came. Hebrews 7.3. Without father,
without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days
nor end of life, but made, what? What does that say? Like unto
the Son of God. What? Abideth. A priest continually. That sounds like a description
of Jesus Christ. I didn't need the guy from Hebrews to tell
me that, but he did. Because some people won't see
it. I wouldn't have seen it without
the eyes he gave me. Here's the thing. This is Biblical
Logic Lesson 102. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday,
and today, and forever. If Jesus Christ is high priest
now, he was high priest. He always
was high priest. If Jesus Christ is high priest
now, he always will be high priest because he is the same yesterday
and today and forever. I'm God, I change not. Paul read that this morning,
I thought, well, I'm gonna have to reemphasize that. Christ being come, what,
high priest. He is the only one, the only
one, declared to be prophet, priest, and king. And it's not
only that, it's prophet, high priest, and king. And he came,
high priest, what, of good things to come. Of good things to come. He is the high priest of a greater
and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is
to say, not of this building. And I looked at that word, and
that word building is the word, it's not of this creation. It's not of this creation. Now,
here's the first thing. He's a high priest of good things
and a greater and more perfect tabernacle is not made with hands. You understand what that means?
Man had nothing to do with this tabernacle. The tabernacle of
the Old Testament, man put it together. They made it. They made it under the instructions,
the express instructions of God to Moses But man made this tabernacle. Then Solomon had one built permanently. Not the tent in the wilderness
anymore. But man has absolutely nothing to do with Christ being
come and high priest of good things to come by a greater and
more perfect tabernacle because it's not made with hands. That
is to say it is not even of this creation. It's not here on earth. And Jesus Christ is the high
priest of this tabernacle. Man has absolutely nothing to
do with this place where the high priest, Christ, enters. Now I read some things and some
people think when it says that a greater and more perfect tabernacle
not made with hands, they think and they say that he's referring
to his body. destroy this temple in three
days, I'll build it up again. That's true. And his tabernacle
was not made with hands. His body was not made with hands.
But that's not what he, I don't think that's what he's referring
to here because in the next verse, it talks about him entering in.
And you enter into a place, he's not talking about entering into
his own body, I don't think. Because it says, neither by the
blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered
in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption. And the for us is interpolated,
so I'm gonna leave it off. He just obtained eternal redemption. He obtained it. I love that statement. Neither by the blood of goats
and calves, the blood of all, the blood of all the Old Testament
sacrifices was animals. Animals. I remember talking to
Earl about this one time. I said, you know, Earl, you see
these historical things on TV, you know, the Ten Commandments
and all this other stuff. You don't see nobody shedding
any blood. I said, this is not a pretty religion. You understand? Even in the Old Testament, there
was a price to be paid. to worship God in this manner.
This was ordained. God gave them these sacrifices
to keep and to perform the burnt offering twice a day, once in
the morning, once in the evening, every other offering. Blood shed. Blood was let out. And this is
literal, not like some rabbi tried to tell me, they didn't
really do that, that's all stories. It was not a pretty religion. Because we're talking about sacrifice for sin. And there's a price to be paid
for sin. And that price is death. Calves,
sheep, lambs, turtle doves, all of that blood now is over. All those sacrifices are over.
It was the accepted way at one time, and That time is now done. This is the new covenant, not
the old anymore. I like what you said, Walter,
the other day when you talk about it, that tabernacle that's gonna
be built over there. But if you think that they're
gonna, that God's gonna accept animal sacrifices and even in
a new tabernacle over there, it's not gonna happen. It's not
gonna happen. Because never again, no matter
what anyone says, the types and the shadows are gone because
the substance came. Those types and shadows are gone. The substance of Christ's blood
has been shed. Then it says, Jesus Christ, the
high priest, entered in once by his own precious blood. It's written up as a place, he
entered in. And then it says what? Into the holy place. It
says it's a place. It doesn't tell us where it's
at. But it does tell us it exists. So I mean, the writer of Hebrews
has wrote it here as a place, that's the way I'm gonna talk
about it. The tabernacle in the Old Testament
was a shadow of this tabernacle. It was a place. No other blood was to be shed.
He entered in once. Once. There is no more sacrifice
for sin. Christ's blood is enough. Christ's blood was enough. No other offering is to be offered.
No other blood is to be shed. He entered in once and there
is no more sacrifice for sin. There is no other offering to
be made. And I don't know if I can say
this strongly enough, none. Absolutely none. He entered in
once into the holy place, into the true holy place. Where did
he enter? A greater and more perfect tabernacle
not made with hands. That is to say what? Not of this
creation, not of the building they had, but not of this creation. And his blood was and is sufficient. This was typified in the Old
Testament day of atonement. You wanna know something weird
that I thought of? It's not weird, but it's the
way my mind works, okay? Because I look at Christ and
what he's done here, and then you look back at the Old Testament,
at that tabernacle. On the day of atonement, The
sacrifice where that goat's throat was cut. The scapegoat was let
loose, but the sacrificial goat was killed, and its blood was
to be sprinkled. That sacrifice, the shedding
of its blood, was done in public, in front of the congregation.
But that high priest took that blood into the holiest of halls.
You know who was in there? None of us. No man other than
the high priest. No man was in there. The ark
was in there. Inside the ark was what? That
pot of manna, Aaron's rod that budded. And what else? Oh, Ten
Commandments. Stone tablets with the Ten Commandments
on it. And on top of that ark was the mercy seat. And above
that ark was what? Well, they like to say the Shekinah
glory of God. What was there was God's presence
in a pillar of fire or a pillar of smoke was in that tent. That
day of atonement was entirely and completely between the high
priest representing the people, the congregation on his shoulders,
carry him on his shoulders and carry him against his heart and
God. That's the only ones who had
witness to that. And that's the Old Testament.
What do we have here? Jesus Christ entered into the
holy place. How did he enter in? He entered in with his blood.
With his precious blood. And it was done privately. We're told of it. We're told
of it. by apostolic doctrine, by his
words while he was here. He told us what he was gonna
do. Don't touch me, I have not ascended to my father. I believe
that has a lot to do with this, but be that as it may, the right
of Hebrews is clear. He entered in once into a greater
and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, not of this
creation, and none of us was there, why? Because this covenant
was not between us and God. This covenant was between the
high priest, Jesus Christ. Christ being come, high priest,
and the Father. This is the business of God. This is it. He entered in, by his own precious
blood into the holy place? Then what's it say? Having obtained eternal redemption. That is one of the greatest statements
in the world, I think. Because I can't speak of eternal
redemption without first speaking of the eternal redeemer. The title of redeemer, I looked
this up, Not physically, I use my computer. The title of Redeemer
is used 18 times in scripture. It's used once in Job, it's used
twice in Psalms, once in Proverbs, it's used 13 times in Isaiah,
and one in Jeremiah. Now 15 of these 18 verses have
one particular thing in common. They tell you exactly who the
Redeemer is. I think we should know that.
I think His people should know that. I'm just gonna give you
a couple here. This is Isaiah 44, verse six.
You don't have to turn there, because I'm just gonna read it.
Thus saith the Lord. I wonder who that is. the King of Israel, and his Redeemer. Who's that? The Lord of hosts. The Lord of hosts. I am the first
and I am the last, and beside me there is no God. Then Isaiah 44 and verse 24 says
this, thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer. And he that formed
thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things that
stretcheth forth the heavens alone, that spreadeth abroad
the earth by myself. The one who has obtained eternal
redemption is the Lord. What, you're saying Jesus Christ
is God? That's exactly what we're saying,
and that's exactly what the Jehovah Witnesses won't say. Jesus Christ is God. Jesus Christ
is the Lord of hosts, Jesus Christ is the Redeemer, and Jesus Christ
has obtained eternal redemption. This is the work of our living
High Priest. And this part, this part, Saul
said in the past tense, this part's done. He's obtained eternal
redemption. There's no more redemption to
be obtained. Because he's obtained it. This
is the work of the true and living High Priest, the Redeemer. A, Redemption is done. Eternal redemption is done. B,
that redemption is eternal. And C, this redemption is singular. He entered in once, once, once. Now if you go back to Hebrews
six, that becomes very important. Because there are people who
say that you can have salvation and you can lose salvation. Well,
if you're saying you lost salvation, you've lost eternal redemption.
You understand? And there is no more sacrifice
for sin and you are not going to, what? Sacrifice the son of
God afresh. You're not gonna shed his blood
again. It's not gonna happen. He entered in once into the holy
places. That's a lie. Because if you
say you have salvation, you have been redeemed, and then you say,
oh well, I've lost it. You're saying he didn't obtain
eternal redemption. And that's a lie. Because it is also, now I love
this word eternal here, redemption. The word is, by Strong's Concordance,
you're looking up, perpetual. I like that. Perpetual. Man has for centuries tried to
make a perpetual motion machine. A thing that wants going never
stops. Guess what? We can't do it. Matter of fact,
we've given up and wrote laws of physics about it. God can't. God knows eternal. We don't know
anything about eternal. God knows eternal. And when he
says it's perpetual redemption, he means that it's perpetual,
eternal redemption. We have been perpetually ransomed
by God, by the precious blood of his son. This is the price that was paid.
for the salvation of his people. Call his name Jesus, is what
the angel told Joseph before Jesus even came. Call his name
Jesus, Savior, why? For he shall save his people
from their sins. Now the question is, did he or
did he not? That was the prophecy. Here's
the fulfillment. He obtained eternal redemption. He eternally ransomed us. He
bought us with a price, and that price was his precious blood,
which he offered to the Father. For if the blood and bowls of
goats and ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctify
according to the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall
what the blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit offered
himself without spot to God. Purge your conscience from dead
works to serve the living God. The new covenant, what did he
say at the last supper? In his blood. The new covenant
in his blood. Hebrews chapter eight, verse
13, the last verse of Hebrews eight. In that he saith a new
covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth
and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. His new covenant in his
blood. No other offering would do. He
offered himself. All the other offerings point
to this one offering. And he offered himself without
spot to God. In that day of atonement, that
high priest in the old days, he had to offer some blood for
himself first. Why? Because he had spots. But Christ, being come high priest,
didn't have any spots. He was perfect, perfect, perfect
man and perfect God in one being. And he entered and offered himself
without spot to God. The offering was made to God,
not to man. The gospel is not the offer to
man. The gospel is the declaration of the work of our Lord Jesus
Christ that he has done for his people. And it's done, that redemption's
done. He's calling, he's bringing,
he's giving life, just as a father does. Why? Because he has obtained eternal
redemption. He entered once and he offered
once. There are no works for you to
do for eternal redemption. And stop it. If you're trying,
stop it. Stop it. If you don't know to
stop it, you're in trouble. You're in trouble. Because if
you don't know to stop your works for redemption, you don't know
redemption. And you don't know the redeemer.
That's the problem. See, if he don't put you in that
corner where you know you have nothing you can do, you don't
know him. You might. I didn't think I'd ever know
him, Neil. But he showed me. He put me in that corner. He
put me in that corner. Then he brought me out. He brought
me out of that corner. Deliver him from going down into
the pit. I have found a ransom. I didn't
find it, the ransom found me. For this cause he is the mediator
of the New Testament. That New Testament again. that
by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were
under the first testament, they which are called might receive
the promise of eternal inheritance. I love this, man. For this cause, entering into a greater and more
perfect tabernacle with his blood, offering himself without spot
to God, For this cause, he's the mediator. There is no other mediator between
God and man than the man Christ Jesus. He's it. You can forget
about everything else. You can forget about everyone
else. I know there's a lot of people running around thinking,
saying they're Christ on earth now. They're liars. Now they may be deluded, they
may be crazy, or they may just be liars. Either way, they're
liars, I guess. But we don't look to Muhammad.
We don't look to Hinduism. We don't look to Baptists. I'm not looking to Catholics.
We don't look to Episcopalians, Methodists, we look to Christ
being come our high priest. Or you're not looking at the
right person. He's the mediator of the New
Testament. He is a redemption of the transgressions. And the called also, also, them
which are called, they which are called. have eternal redemption
and eternal inheritance. And you know what, that's the
same word as eternal redemption. Perpetual inheritance. In Him, our inheritance is as
perpetual as our redemption. What's that mean? Our inheritance
has no end. Our redemption has no end. Our
inheritance has no end, why? Because our high priest has no
end. I can't end it, you can't end it. Shall I say it? God can't end it. You know why? Because God's the one that said
it's eternal. He's not gonna break his word. I might break
my word. Well, nevermind, we're not going
into that. You might break your word, but God has never broken
his word and he never will. If he says it's eternal, it's
eternal. Whether you know it or not, whether you believe it
or not, it's eternal to them which are called. To them which
are called. If you're not been called, You
got no reason to think you've got eternal redemption or eternal
inheritance. God's particular where he bestows
his grace. God's particular where he's bestowed
his love. Believers, they which are called,
have an eternal redemption. Believers, they which are called,
have an eternal inheritance. Let me ask you a question. How many jobs for the Old Testament
high priest, how many jobs did that man have according to the
scriptures? And I might be wrong, but as
far as I can tell, There's only one job described in here that
the Old Testament high priest had. It was once a day on the
Day of Atonement. There were some things he had
to bless at the beginning with the, Aaron blessed the utensils
and stuff for the tabernacle and that sort of thing, where
everything was purified with blood. But as far as his job,
once a year he was to go into that place and offer for the
Day of Atonement. He killed the sacrifice, and
he carried the blood in for himself and for the people. That's it,
as far as I can see. Well, as far as high priest goes,
our Lord has two jobs. The first one is eternal redemption,
okay? Second one is in Hebrews 7, verses
24 through 26. And this is a good job. But this man, because he continueth
ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore, he is able also to
save them to the other most that come to God by him, seeing he
ever liveth to make intercession for them. For such in the high
priest became us who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate
from sinners, and made higher than the heavens, who needeth
not daily as those high priests to offer up sacrifice, first
for his own sins, and then for the people's, for this he did
once when he offered up himself. Our high priest obtained Eternal
redemption and our high priest ever liveth to intercede for
us How can we have an eternal inheritance
he ever lives to intercede for us And he intercedes for all those
that come to God by him Have you come to God? Do you
want to come to God? There's only one way. The way,
the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father but
by him. And he being come, high priest,
has made eternal, obtained eternal redemption, and guaranteed for
us an eternal inheritance and eternally intercedes for us. Our Heavenly Father, we're thankful
again for this time and this place. Thank you. Thank you for
your son. Help us to believe more fully,
more truthfully. Your word, your son, your way,
Be with Walter as he comes to preach. Give us the words we
need to hear and give us the ears and the heart to hear and
understand. In Christ's name we pray, amen.