Well, open your Bibles with me
this morning to Hebrews chapter 7. We've been looking at this chapter,
and the purpose of this chapter is the Spirit of God here is
declaring the excellency of our great High Priest, Christ Jesus
the Lord. And we saw in the first few verses
of the chapter how that Melchizedek, king of Salem, meaning king of
righteousness and king of peace, is a type of our Lord Jesus Christ. He came before the law. Ever
was. Before the law was ever given.
He had neither father nor mother, no pedigree, neither beginning
of days nor end of days. His priesthood is not limited
to the fleshly constraints that the earthly priesthood was limited
to. He's a priest forever. Scriptures
say that seven times in Scripture. It says he is a priest forever
after the order of Melchizedek. So we come now to verse 11. And
I want to read down to Read down to verse 19. It says here, If therefore perfection
were by the Levitical priesthood, for under it the people received
the law, what further need was there that another priest should
rise after the order of Melchizedek and not be called after the order
of Aaron? For the priesthood being changed,
there's made of necessity a change also of the law. For he of whom
these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe. That is, these
things speak of Christ, our Lord, and His priesthood pertains to
another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah, of which
tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. And it's far more
evident for that after the similitude of Melchizedek, there ariseth
another priest. There's far more evidence. After
the similitude of Melchizedek, there ariseth another priest
who is made not after the law of a carnal commandment, but
after the power of an endless life. For he testifies. Thou art a priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek. There it is again. For there
is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for
the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For the law made nothing
perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did, by the
which we draw nigh unto God. Let's go back to verse 11. We
begin there. And I want to say a word first
about this word perfection. Perfection. The word there means
everything that God requires. It means everything that God
requires to glorify His name, to make His people righteous,
and to reconcile His people unto Himself. You could say salvation. Salvation. So you can read this. If salvation were by the Levitical
priesthood, what further need was there that another priest
should rise after the order of Melchizedek and not be called
after the order of Aaron? The reason is simple. It's very
simple. Nothing about the ceremonial
law could satisfy God or reconcile His people to Himself. Nothing
about the Levitical priesthood could do that. Christ can, Christ
does, and Christ has. He has perfected forever them
that God sanctified, them that He separated in the eternal election
of grace and put in Christ for His own holy use. Christ perfected
them forever. You can't get more perfect than
perfect. That's it. Now notice the phrase
that's in parentheses. It says, for under the Levitical
priesthood, for under it, the Levitical priesthood, the people
received the law. Now, under the whole economy
of Moses, the people were put into legal bondage. They were
brought under bondage. First of all, God gave the law
of Mount Sinai, what we call the Ten Commandments. And He
gave that law to give us the knowledge and understanding of
sin, of what sin is, and how depraved we are being born in
Adam. That's why He gave that law.
And then he gave a ceremonial law. And that ceremonial law
was ordained, the Levitical priesthood, to show a shadow of how perfection
from sin, how salvation from sin, how God would be pleased
and how his people would be reconciled to himself. Carnal religion. And that's what every man is
in religion. I don't care how sincere he is
about it. As Scott was pointing out this
morning, it's not how sincere we are. It's who it is we're
trusting. That's what matters. So carnal
religion thinks that God gave the law. He gave the law. The
commandments and the ceremony, he gave them. And when that didn't
work, he went to plan B. And he sent his son into the
world to redeem his people. And then after a man makes a
profession of faith and says he believes Christ, then carnal
religion will take you back to the law and say now you're bound
under the law to obey it. And so what happens is Christ
and the work of redemption is put into the parentheses right
here by carnal religion. The point of this chapter is
the excellency of Christ Jesus in His priesthood. He is the
only High Priest. What is it, the Latin phrase,
I don't know, that the Pope calls himself the highest High Priest?
Yeah, the highest High Priest. Well, He's not only not the highest
High Priest, He's not even a priest according to Scripture. Christ
Jesus alone is the great High Priest. He's the Priest of the
Most High God. He came, He is before the law. They said,
you're not 50 years old. How do you speak of Abraham?
And he said, before Abraham was, I am. He's before the law. The law was given to cast forward
a shadow of the good things, the excellency of his priesthood,
of what he would accomplish in his person, himself, for his
people, in honoring God and reconciling the people to him. And he came
and he perfected forever the people whom God sanctified And
so therefore, brethren, the opposite to what the natural mind thinks,
totally opposite to what the natural man thinks, God himself
put the whole law of Moses in the parentheses. It's in the
parentheses. You see that? Not Christ in his
work. Christ was before and he came
after the law and fulfilled it. And the law was given just simply
to show what he was going to do. It showed us our need of
salvation, our need of perfection. And then the ceremony showed
how it was going to be accomplished. A great high priest is going
to enter into the holiest of holies and he's going to enter
in with blood and he's going to sprinkle the mercy seat where
God said, I'll meet with my people over the broken law. That's where
I'm going to meet with my people. Everything about it pictured
Christ. The tabernacle, the altar, the sacrifices, the high priest,
the mercy seat. It's all summed up in the person
and work of Christ Jesus the Lord. Every bit of it. And then the law was done away
with. It was done away with. So you see, the law is in the
parentheses. Not the Gospel. Not Christ. You could take the law You know
what, something that's in parentheses, you could take it out and it
doesn't change the sentence. You can take the law that God
gave out. If it could be lifted out of
history totally, it wouldn't change the salvation of God.
It's always been in Christ, always was predetermined before the
foundation of the world to be in Christ and in Christ alone.
But if you take Christ and His work and lift it out, and you're
left with nothing but the law, we have no salvation. Period. Do you understand what I'm getting
at there? So why did God give the law? I want you to turn to
Galatians 3.17. And I want you to hold your place
there and hold your place here in Hebrews 7 because we'll go
back there and look at it again. This I say, this is sort of just
repeating what I just said. The covenant that was confirmed
before of God in Christ, how long before? It was confirmed
to Abraham 430 years before the law was given. The law, which was 430 years
after, cannot disannul. That it should make the promise
of none effect. The law couldn't change the promise.
Salvation's by promise. Salvation's in Christ by promise. It's promised His people. The
law couldn't change that. You're going to see here in a
minute, back in our text, it says there is a disannulling
of the commandment. You see, the law couldn't disannul
the promise that God gave, but Christ could disannul the law
completely. Because it all was given to glorify
Him. And once He's come, we don't
keep holding on to the picture. We don't keep holding on to the
shadow. We hold on to the substance. But here's what this law did.
It can't make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance
be of the law, it's no more of promise. But God gave it to Abraham
by promise. Wherefore then serveth the law?
It was added because of transgressions. Till the seed should come to
whom the promise was made. And it was ordained by angels
in the hand of a mediator. A mediator is not one, but God
is one. This one who we're speaking about
here in Hebrews chapter 7, He is the Son of God. He is the
mediator, but he's also God. He's God with us. He's God that
came down and dwelt among us. The Word that was made flesh
and dwelt among us. Now, so here's one thing the
law does. The unregenerate religious man
is constrained to some degree, his fleshly appetites to some
degree by this law. It goes like this. It's always
worked the same way. A man that is lost, a man that
does not have spiritual life, that cannot worship God in spirit,
it only has the outward form. Here's what his religion consists
of. Everything opposite of what God gave the law for. He looks at the Ten Commandments,
and instead of looking at the Ten Commandments and seeing his
total, utter depravity, he looks at the Ten Commandments and uses
it as some kind of measuring tool to determine how far he's
come along, how far he's measured up. He looks at it and says,
well, I've done this, this, and this. I just need to go this
much further. So to make up the difference,
He comes and makes a profession of faith and says, I believe
on Jesus. He joins a church. He observes church ordinances.
He goes to some phony priest in a booth somewhere and makes
a confession. And all of these different things that he thinks
is going to make him right with God and make up the deficiency
that he has in not being able to fulfill the law. But he won't
ever tell you I'm totally helpless to help myself. The natural man
can't receive the things of God. They're spiritually discerned.
And he cannot. He's at enmity with God. And
if he says that, that means he's got to bow to God and own God
as being the sovereign Savior. And a natural man can't do that. I've got two twin nieces. They're
about two years old. And the other day, Their mother told them to do
something. And this is depravity, but this is just honest depravity
right here. She said, I can't make myself
want to. That's right. In our flesh, we
can't make ourselves want to serve God, to own Him as God,
and confess Him to be the Savior. We can't make ourselves want
to do it. And the same holds true today. It's the same way.
It never has. But for the regenerated believer,
for the one that God comes to and quickens in the Spirit and
makes a new creation, when Christ enters in and there's light. You know, I thought of this when
I was looking at this. Christ came before the law. Here you
got the law and here you got Christ before the law. In order
for there to be a shadow, what does there have to be? There
has to be light. Only light can create a shadow.
Now the law is given as a shadow, and a believer sees it. But you
know why he sees it? Because of the light. Christ,
who was before the law, of whom the law was given. And Christ
shines His light, and you see then everything the law says.
When you look at the Ten Commandments, you see how depraved you are. And as you stand in awe of your
total inability to obey the law, you stand in awe of His righteousness,
of His very character of being holy and righteous, in that He
didn't have to strive to obey it. It was His nature. He gave it. It was easy. It wasn't a thing to be, to be,
uh, like, like, like we strive to mortify the flesh. He didn't
have anything to mortify. No, no sin in him. No guile found
in him. And we see that in the commandments. If you look at the commandments,
I hope you're not looking at them to see what you've done.
I hope you look at them to examine how holy your savior is. That's the right use of the law.
A man that goes to him and looks at him to try to measure up,
see how he's measured up, he's not using the law properly. He's
not using it for the purpose for which it was given. And then
it shines on the ceremony and then in the ceremony we see the
shadows and the types. We see that those things all
along pointed to Christ. Everything about it. And then,
you know, it's amazing. This ought to tell us something
about our nature. This ought to tell us about how
we will not turn to God except He create a new spirit within
us. You know, when the veil rent, when they were in the temple
and Christ laid down His life and that veil split in two, you
know what was in that temple? You know what was inside that
Holy of Holies? There was a priest in there in his garment, in his
robe, kicked back, smoking his pipe and staring at the ceiling
and jingling the bells every now and then. There was no ark
in there. The ark was gone. Nothing was
in there. It was a show. It was a vain
show that had been ever since the temple had been destroyed
before and those things taken away. What did God say? After they
built the temple back, He said, you can't eat of the holy things
until a priest stands up with Urim and Thummim. They never
had it. Never had it. Christ is that
priest. And when He stands up, when He
comes to you like He did that Samaritan woman, then you can
eat of the holy things. You can partake of the holy things
then. But not until then. Not until then. And that ought
to show us depravity because even after that happened, can
you imagine if you'd have been standing there and you saw this
veil? I mean, first of all, seeing
the veil split in two would have just, you probably would have
fallen backwards by it. But then to look inside there
and see, you mean to tell me this whole time this thing's
been a sham? You mean to tell me this whole time I've been
bringing these sacrifices and that priest has been, he's not
doing anything? but making himself fat off of
me, that's religion. And there's still priests, and
there's still every form of religion. I'm not just picking on the Catholics
this morning. There's Baptists that are going
through just the same form, vain form, as Catholicism is. In Mexico this week, we passed
through a village, and we kept seeing these runners running,
all dressed the same. And there'd be a vehicle behind
them, you know, full of people. And when somebody got tired,
then somebody would get out and replace them, you know, and the
other one would run. And what they're doing is, they're
running from city to city, carrying a torch, and they're on their
way to the capital. They're on their way to the main
city where they're going to celebrate December the 12th, the supposed
birth of Mary. That's why they're doing it.
So what happens is right before they get there to the city where
everybody's gathered and having a big festival to celebrate the
birth of Mary, they all get out of the truck. And they all come
running in as if they were all made to trip the whole time.
And they sound trumpets and shoot off fireworks so everybody will
look at them. And everybody starts singing Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
And I made the comment that it's a wonder they don't lay down
palm branches in front of them, like they did Christ when He
entered into Jerusalem. And Brother Cody said, that's
what the sirens and the fireworks are, is to look at us now. You see, without the Spirit of
God, I need to move on here, but these things, we can't serve
God. We can't serve God without Christ
revealing Himself in us. But the believer doesn't. The
believer, when he sees Christ, and he sees that he's put an
end to the ceremonies, and the reason that he has, and here's
why we don't go back to the Ten Commandments either. Listen to
me now. Listen to me. If there wouldn't have been a
law to show that we needed to be perfected, there would have
been no need for a priesthood. Now that the priesthood, we see
the great high priest made perfection, that he is perfection, that he
is our holiness and our righteousness, that he fulfilled the whole law
of God. And the ceremonies have been
ended. They're put away. They're totally put away. We
don't come to God that way. We come to God in Christ, our
high priest. If you're made righteous and
you're made complete and you're whole, You look to that One who is your
holiness, who is your wisdom, who is your righteousness, who
is your redemption. You look to Him. If I go back
to bondage, I'm going back to myself. I'm going back to look
at myself. And people say, well, if you
don't use the Ten Commandments, how then are you going to rule
people? I'm not, and neither are you. You can't rule yourself
under the law. Do you not, have we not learned
that from scripture? That we, the law, made nothing
perfect. Not the commandments. What happened
when they saw that mountain on fire? They ran back and feared
and said, we need a mediator to represent us to God. If we
ever see and hear what the law says, that's what we'll say.
And we won't turn back from it. We won't go back in glory and
anything else but Christ and Him crucified. And that's where
we'll be seated. And He's the one. The law comes
out of Mount Zion. And it's in here. It's in here. And if you turn to the left,
to the right, you'll hear a still small voice in the back of you
turning you saying, this is the way, walk ye in it. What did
Christ say? When the Spirit of God comes, he'll guide you into
all truth. He will. He will. The law has served its purpose.
Now we have the substance. Now we have the one who is holy
and righteous and just. The law is holy and good and
it shows me when I'm covetous. But if I go back to that law,
if I take the Ten Commandments and I put them up on my wall
and I start looking at those every day, I've made a graven
image and I'm looking at something now and saying that's my righteousness. I've broken the first commandment.
I've got another God now, and it's me. I've coveted the glory
that belongs to God alone. In my heart, I've murdered Christ,
crucified Him all over again. You go all the way. I've committed
adultery. I've left my husband, the husband of the church, and
gone back to the law and to myself. Played the harlot. And you go
through the whole law. And if you look at it spiritually
in that regard, you'll see that to go back to the law and try
to look at that law and at yourself in any regard to make yourself
any more accepted with God is blasphemy. It's idolatry. It's
breaking all of them. It's breaking every one of them.
Because salvation's in Christ. If you're righteous, look to
the righteous. If you're complete, look to Him
who made you complete. If you need wisdom, look to Him
who is our wisdom. You need to know what you should
do in a situation, look to Him who is our wisdom. He's king,
He's ruler, and He's ruling His kingdom. And His kingdom is not
some mystical thing. It's His people. A nation, this
nation, America, you take the people out of it. Is it still
a nation? If all the people are removed
from it, It's just a spot of land. It's the people who make
it. And so it is with God's kingdom,
with His church. It's the people. And He's the
head. He's the King. Now, let's move along. So, it
binds men, unregenerate men, and it points the regenerated
man to Christ. Now, look here. You're still
there in Galatians 3. Look at verse 21. Is the law then against
the promises of God? God forbid. For if there had
been a law given, which could have given life, verily righteousness
should have been by the law. But the scripture hath concluded
all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might
be given to them that believe. But before faith came, we were
kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards
be revealed. Wherefore, the law was our schoolmaster to bring
us unto Christ that we might be justified by faith. But after
that faith has come, we're no longer under a schoolmaster.
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus."
Do you see that? I know that this speaks to two
things. One, it speaks to the fact that
ceremonies are done away with. That old covenant, it's served
its purpose. It's done away with. But a man
who's not been regenerated, he's still under the law. He's still
under the law till Christ comes and gives that light and he sees
the law and hears what the law says and that law becomes the
schoolmaster that drives him to Christ and says, he says,
I must have Christ. And when faith comes, he no more
under that law. It's done away with just like
it was done away with in what our Scripture is teaching us
here this morning in Hebrews 7. It's come to its end. It's
reached the purpose for which it was given. It's reached its
end. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone
that believes. Is that too complicated? That's
it. That's it. Now, back in our text. For the priesthood being changed,
there's made of necessity a change also of the law. The ceremony
ceased when Christ made satisfaction, and our conscience is purged
from the conviction of the law of Sinai when Christ sprinkles
His blood on our conscience, creating that new spirit, and
we don't have that guilty conscience anymore. We have these times
when we see ourselves for what we are and we understand that
old man still strives against us and we're sinning, but we
say with Paul, if I sin, it's no longer I that do it. It's
that old man that does it. It's the old man that's still
with me that still wants to sin, that wants to have the preeminence.
The I that doesn't sin, that Paul's talking about that does
not sin, is the new man that's created in righteousness and
true holiness by the incorruptible seed. It's Christ, the Word of
God. It's incorruptible. It can't
be corrupted. It's perfect. When we die, when
we put off this body of death, we're going to go be with Christ
immediately. There's nothing else that needs to be done to
it. It doesn't need any more perfecting. It's perfect. Do
you see that? And this flesh is not going to
get more perfect. If you look at your flesh thinking
it's going to become somehow more perfect, look at it. Does
it look more perfect than it did 15 years ago? Just look at
the outward appearance of it. That ought to tell us something
about what we are in the flesh. We just look to Christ, and then
I want to show you here, Paul's looking at two things. He's talking
about the priesthood being changed, and he's talking about the law
being changed. Now the priesthood's changed. First, the difference
between Christ and the Levitical priesthood is that Christ wasn't
a Levite. He was of the tribe of Judah.
The proof that the apostle gives here, verse 13-14, For he of
whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe of
which no man gave attendance at the altar. For it is evident
that our Lord sprang out of Judah, of which tribe Moses spake nothing
concerning priests to it. Can you imagine some strong,
strict Baptist? If a man said he believed God
and he wasn't a Baptist? They would go, you can't believe
God not be a Baptist. He came of another tribe. The
law said a man had to be born of the tribe of Levi to be a
high priest. And he said, this one don't. This one don't. He's of another
tribe altogether, completely. And then the Levitical priesthood
had to end when the priest, Christ, after the order of Melchizedek
from the tribe of Judah put an end to it. It had to end. He's
made of the seed of David. He's out of the stem of Jesse.
He's the Lion of the tribe of Judah. And when He came, He put
an end to it. Now the second distinction here,
and I'm going pretty quick because I'm running short on time here.
But let me give you the second distinction that's being made
here. Between the old priesthood and the new is the way in which
they became a high priest. Look here in verse 15. And it
is yet far more evident For after the similitude of Melchizedek,
there ariseth another priest, who is made not after the law
of a carnal commandment." He wasn't made a priest according
to the law that God gave. He wasn't made a priest according
to that. Guess what? Believers are made kings and
priests unto God. You aren't made a priest after
a carnal commandment either. That's not how His people are
made priests. Read on. But after the power
of an endless life, that's how he was made the high priest,
and that's how he makes his people priests. It's after the power
of an endless life. He said, I have the power to
lay my life down, I have the power to take it up again. Scripture
says he offered himself through the eternal Spirit. He's a priest
that ever lives. Look here in verse 17. For he testified, God testified
of his Son, God the Father. Thou art a priest forever after
the order of Melchizedek. Look down at verse 20. And inasmuch
as not without an oath he was made priest. For those priests
were made without an oath, but this with an oath by him that
said unto him, The Lord swear and will not repent thou art
a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. That was his
swearing in. He is being brought into the
office officially before the whole world as the high priest.
And David said it way back there in Psalm 110. David said it even
in the midst of the ceremonial law being in place. David, speaking
by the inspiration of God, quotes this very Scripture. And those in that day that were
born of the Spirit of God, they knew who the high priest was.
They knew it wasn't that man walking in there. They came there,
and when they sacrificed the lamb, they saw Christ in the
blood of that lamb, their substitute. And when that high priest went
in, they saw Christ in that high priest representing them to God,
going into the holiest of holies. When he sprinkled that blood
on the mercy seat, they saw Christ, our mercy seat, wherein God said,
I'll have mercy on you. That's what the true believers
saw even then. God doesn't save His people different
today than He did then. He saves them in Christ, always
has, always will, till the last one's redeemed. Now, second thing
here, we see it's necessary therefore that the ceremonial law come
to an end. There's a change of law. It had
to be done away with. Verse 18, for there is verily
a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness
and unprofitableness thereof. It's done away with. It's fulfilled
in Christ. What the law could not do, and
that it was weak through the flesh, because the sinfulness
and depravity of our flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness
of sinful flesh and laying down His life with the sin of His
people on Him, condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteousness
of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit. How do you know anything about
the righteousness of the law? How do you know anything about
it? You know about it when you see what the law at Sinai says
concerning yourself. You see how depraved you are,
and you see what God requires, and you realize, I'm undone.
I'm unclean. I can't do those things. And
so when perfection is brought in, when perfection is brought
in, when the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in you, you're not under the law anymore.
Is that simple? You're not under it. You're under
Christ. You're under grace. And so you
walk, and you know what you do by faith, by trusting Him who
obeyed the law and fulfilled it and who is righteousness?
You know what you do? In Him. God says, you fulfilled the whole
law. God says, you've obeyed all the commandments. When you
start going back to Mount Sinai and going, oh, I've broken this
one and this one and this one. If God wanted to, He could say,
you've broken all of them. But He doesn't. He says, what
sin? What sin? Why are you digging
up the dead? I've cast your sins behind my
back. I put them away as far as the
east is from the west. What sin! You're righteous. You're holy. If you die now,
you're coming into my presence to be with me. There's nothing
else that you need to do. When that thief on the cross
died, he said, you'll be with me today. There wasn't anything else for
him to do. He believed on Christ. And believing
on Christ, hanging on a cross, not able to move a muscle, do
one thing, he fulfilled the whole law of God. That's why God gave
it. He gave the book. He gave the
law. He created the earth. He gave
you pastors. He keeps you bound to hear Christ
and protects you, even in your rebellion, to bring you to the
place where you hear Christ. And He does it all for one reason. To exalt His holy name. And He
exalts His holy name in the person of His dear Son. He said, in
Him is the fullness of the Godhead in a body. When we get ready
to look at a body, that's the one we want to look at. And if
you don't like it, I'll tell you something. Why go through
the charade down here? Because when you get to heaven,
when He comes, everything around us is the product of Adam. He's
going to destroy this earth and create it anew just like He creates
a new spirit within. He's going to raise the body
anew just like He's created a new spirit within. He's going to
make a new heavens and a new earth. He bought it all when
He laid down His life at Calvary. He's going to make it all new.
And there's going to be a new heaven and a new earth wherein
dwelleth righteousness. Everybody there is going to be
righteous. And you know what's going to be done there? There
are not going to be palaces of gold and all these temporal things
that people talk about that they want to get there and just continue
to fulfill the lust of their ignorant flesh. That's not going
to be it. Everything that's worth anything
is going to be used to the exalting of Christ's Son. They said they
take their golden crowns and they cast them at His feet. The
streets are paved with gold because that's the only thing that's
good enough for the Savior to walk on. And that's what we're going to
do. We're going to bow and we're going to confess Him to be Lord
and we're going to praise His name and we're going to honor
Him and worship Him and glory in Him for eternity. If we don't
want to bow to Him here and we don't want to own Him as God
here, why do we want to go there? That's all it's going to be forever.
But for the believer, that's heaven. To be with Him, to not
have this sin, to not have this dim glass that I'm looking through
and can't see Him fully, but to be conformed to His image
and to see Him as He knows me and to know Him fully and be
able to worship Him for the first time, truly. That's what the
believer wants. I'm going to just read the rest
of this out that I was going to preach to you. Look there
in verse 9. For the law made nothing perfect,
but the bringing in of a better hope did. Christ did. By the witch, by that hope, by
Christ, we draw nigh unto God. Ephesians 3.12 says, In Christ
we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of Him. Hebrews 4.16 says, Let us therefore
come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy
and find grace to help in time of need. That's where we go.
That's where we go. If you fall, if you're overtaken
in a fault, you know how I'm going to restore you? By taking
you to the throne of grace. By taking you to Christ. I'm
not going to take you to Mount Sinai. I'm going to do everything
I can to encourage you and comfort you and take you to Christ. Hebrews 10.19 says, Having therefore,
brethren, boldness to enter the holiest by the blood of Jesus.
I had a friend of mine, Gabe Stoniker, make this comment on
that word boldness. And I like it. I think it's really
good. He said he and I were working together. And we would go to
these offices. And we'd get there and you'd
walk in sometimes and there wouldn't be anybody at the front desk.
And you'd walk in and you'd kind of peek around the corner, you
know, and you don't know if you should walk to the first office
and knock on the door or just stand there and you just, you're
uncomfortable because you don't feel like you can go in. That's
how, that's how we were. outside of Christ. We couldn't
go into the holiest of holies. But now that our forerunner has
entered in for us, we have boldness. We can walk in, not cocky, not
presumptuous, but we can enter in. We have freedom to walk in,
just like you'd walk into your own house and sit down. You fellas, you young people,
when you have a problem and you need help from your father, You're
not scared to walk in when you truly need Him and you've got
to have Him and you know you need His help. You're not hesitant
to walk in and ask Him for help because He's your Father and
He abides in your house. It's His house. It's your house.
You're His son. You just walk in and talk to
Him. That's how it is with God's children. In Christ, you have
boldness. The laws you complete and you've
got boldness. Now you can enter in through
prayer and speak to them. And one day you're going to enter
in body and spirit. All right.