have watched and listened to
that message you preached on Hebrews 10 several times already. We just keep playing it over
and over. And so I went over and looked at Hebrews 10 and
Hebrews 9 and Hebrews 8. I got a blessing, too, reading
it again. I thought, well, I think for
this weekend, tonight, Sunday morning and Sunday night, we'll
look at those three chapters again. Hebrews 8 tonight, Hebrews
9 Sunday morning, the Lord willing, and Hebrews 10 Sunday night.
In Hebrews 8, look at verse 1, Paul said, Now the things which
we have spoken, this is the sum. I really appreciate a statement
like that. I'm going to sum it up in just
a few words. Paul says here, now of all the
things I've been saying in this letter, from the opening statement,
God who at sundry times and divers manners spake to our fathers
with the prophets, up until this word here, this is the sum. This
is a summary. I'm going to sum up in a few
words all that I've been saying to you. And here are those few
words. Listen. This is the sum. We. We have
a high priest. Who's we? It's we who believe
on Christ. It's we who have been called
of the Spirit of God and taught the gospel. It is we, Jews and
Gentiles, male and female, old and young, born and free. It is we who are not under the
Mosaic law. It is we who have no further
dealings with circumcision, sacrifice, ceremony, temples, priesthood,
Sabbath day, holy days, washings, baptisms, That's the we. We who are resting in Christ.
Well, he says, we have a high priest. Israel had a high priest. Aaron was the first one. And
then each time a high priest died, there was a new high priest
ordained of God. But we have a high priest. And
here's a little word, a little four-letter word. We have such
and a high priest. We have such a high priest. And that word such means he's
like what I've been telling you. Go back to the preceding chapter. Chapter 7. Chapter 7 verse 22. Verse 21.
Now here's our high priest. He's such, such a great Chief, wonderful, everlasting
high priest. Here he is, listen, verse 21. Those priests that Israel had,
the high priests, were made without an oath. But this priest, Jesus
Christ, with an oath by him that said, The Lord sweared will not
repent, thou art a priest forever. after the order of Melchizedek.
Now that's our priest. Such a high priest. He's a priest
after the order of Melchizedek. No beginning or end of days.
An everlasting priest. Verse 22, By so much was Jesus
made a surety, a guarantor of a better covenant. Now these
men were many priests because they were suffered, they were
not suffered to continue by reason of death. There were many of
them He won. Verse 24, This man, because he
continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood, an eternal priesthood,
forever unchangeable. Verse 25, Wherefore he is able
to save. They couldn't save anybody. Their
blood couldn't put away any sin. Their sacrifices couldn't atone
for anybody. But He's able, He's able, because
of who He is, what He's done, where He is, to save them to
the uttermost, all of them that come to God by Him, seeing how
they all died by reason of death, He ever living to make continual
intercession for them. Oh, we have such a high praise It would seem when these imposters
down at Holy Family Church, other Catholic organizations roam,
it seems they'd be embarrassed when they read that and then
take on themselves the name of a priest. We have such a high
priest. Such a high priest. He's able.
Verse 26. For such a high priest became
us who's holy. They're not holy. Abraham didn't
claim to be holy. They were men of infirmities
who offered sacrifices first for themselves and then for the
people. Our Lord never offered a sacrifice
for Himself. He's holy, harmless, undefiled. separate from sinners, as the
heavens are from the earth, made higher than the heavens." That's
our high priest, such a high priest. Higher than the heavens,
exalted above the heavens. Gracious. Verse 27, here he is
such a, who need it not daily? As those high priests offer up
sacrifices, morning, noon, and night, first for their own sins,
his own sins, he has none. Then for the people's, But this
sacrifice, this offering, this atonement, he did once. Once. About one offering. Once when he offered up himself. None of them ever offered up
anything but a lamb or a goat or a turtledove. He offered himself
once. For the law maketh men High priests
who have infirmities, that's all the law can do, make guilty
sinners to be high priests. But the word of the oath, where
is that? Hebrews 6 verse 17, Hebrews 6
verse 17, willing more abundantly to show
unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel,
confirmed it by an oath, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable
things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have
a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon
the hope set before us, which hope we have as an anchor of
the soul, both sure and steadfast, which endureth into that within
the veil where the forerunner is for us entered, who is it? Even Jesus made a high priest
forever after the order of Melchizedek." Verse 28, chapter 7, "...but
the word of the oath which was since the law maketh the Son
who is consecrated perfected forevermore." Now, brethren,
We have such a high priest. Such a high priest. Now look
at the next line. And he sat. S-E-T. I went down to Wal-Mart
the other day. Wal-Mart's a pretty big company.
I'm sure they've got some real educated people in charge down
there. If they had a sign on one of those four-wheelers, devices
and he said, don't set on this, S-E-T. I thought that's pretty
good Eastern Kentucky, but don't set on it. But now this here
says, our high priest is, you'll remember now what I'm saying
because of this. Our high priest is set, S-E-T. He is set on the right hand of
the throne of the majesty in the heavens. That means three
things. He's set, S-E-T, like concrete is set, permanently
established. He'll never be moved. He's set. But He is set, meaning this,
secondly, He's set, having finished His work. Having finished His
work. And thirdly, He is set, being
fully accepted by Him who put Him there. who said, Sit thou at my right
hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool." Well, let's look
at this. We have such a high priest who
is set permanently, accepted, having finished his work, on
the right hand of the throne of the majesty of heaven. Now,
we can't help it. The way we think, our minds try
to picture the Father on a throne and the Son over here on the
right. But that can't be that way at
all. The Lord our God is one God.
He's revealed as Father, Son, Holy Spirit. But what this is
saying, let me see if I can help you. I tried this out on Doris. Let me tell you what this means
here. When I got through, I said, do
you understand what it means now? Oh, I won't tell you what
she said, but all right. The right hand of the throne
of the majesty in the heaven, the majesty of God. All right,
that's true. The majesty of God. The Father
to whom all majesty and glory belongs, and who is clothed in
majesty. When Isaiah saw the Lord Jesus
in Isaiah 6, he said, he's high, lifted up his train, filled the
temple. His glory filled everything,
encompassed everything. Now his right hand is figurative. It has to be. It's a figurative
word, but it's a word with great meaning. The majesty of God. The right hand of the majesty
in the heavens means power, all power. That's what Christ said,
all power is given to me. It means greatness, exaltation. God hath exalted him and given
him a name above every name. It means glory. Our Lord prayed,
glorify me with the glory which I had with thee before the world
was. It means acceptance. So his right hand indicates the
place and position which he occupies in the majesty. Isn't that clear? That's what that's saying. He
is set permanently, having finished his work, accepted at the right
hand of the majesty in the heavens, meaning he's number one. Number one. All glory. and majesty and power is His. And that's our High Priest. That's our High Priest. Now,
look at verse 2. He's a minister. He's a minister. Our High Priest
ministers. He intercedes. He represents
us. He's a minister of the sanctuary.
Now, when you think of the sanctuary, And the tabernacle, here's what
we think of. There's the tabernacle out there
in the wilderness, as well as Solomon's temple. And there's
the courtyard, and then there's the holy place, and then there's
the veil, and then there's the holy of holies. That's the sanctuary,
the holy of holies. And there was the mercy seat.
And the law taken out of the hands of Moses and put in the
ark under the mercy seat. And there in that sanctuary,
in that Holy of Holies, the cherubims, and the Shekinah glory of God
between the cherubims, and once a year, the high priest would
go into the Holy of Holies, not without blood, and with a hyssop,
he'd sprinkle the blood on the mercy seat, making the atonement.
And that's where the high priest ministered, in that sanctuary,
with blood on that mercy seat. in the presence of the Shekinah
glory. But our high priest doesn't minister there. Not in that sanctuary. He ministers in heaven. In heaven
itself. Look at Hebrews 9, verse 24. But Christ is not entered into
the holy places made with hands. That sanctuary where the old
high priest ministered These are figures, pictures of the
truth, but in the heaven itself. See, the heaven itself. He ministers
in heaven itself, now to appear in the very presence of God for
us. Our high priest is in the heavens. And listen to verse 2, a minister
of the sanctuary of the true tabernacle, What's that? That's
His body. The true tabernacle. He dwelt
among us. He's the tabernacle. I picture
it this way. The tabernacle in the wilderness
was where God met me. The tabernacle in the wilderness
was where the glory of God was revealed. The tabernacle in the
wilderness was where the high priest put the blood on the mercy
seat before God. That's done away. Christ is our
tabernacle. A body has to have prepared me.
And in the body of Christ, the true tabernacle is where God
meets men and where we meet God. No man cometh to the Father but
by me. The tabernacle is where the glory
of God was revealed and the glory of God revealed in Christ, in
the face of Christ Jesus. And the tabernacle is where the
blood atonement was made, and the body of Christ is where the
blood atonement was made. That's the true tabernacle, which
the Lord pitched. Moses pitched that one, and all
his helpers. But this tabernacle, the hands
of man never touched it, which the Lord pitched. Not man. All right, verse 3, now every
high priest, every Old Testament high priest is ordained, ordained
of God, appointed of God. And he's ordained to offer gifts
and sacrifices, peace offerings, burnt offerings, sin offerings,
trespass offerings, and atonement. Every high priest, We have a
high priest. And every high priest is ordained
of God to offer sacrifices. Wherefore, it's necessary. If you're going to have a high
priest, you've got to have a sacrifice. You've got to have a sacrifice.
So it's necessary that this man have somewhat also to offer.
This man. Those two words are really the
key to the book of Hebrews. Look at chapter 3, verse 3. It
talked about Moses, the prophet, God's apostle, faithful to God. Verse 3, but this man was counted
worthy of more glory than Moses. Look at chapter 7, verse 24. But this man talked about the
priesthood, but this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable
priesthood. This verse I just read, every
high priest has a blood sacrifice, and this man, Hebrews 8, verse
3, necessary he hath somewhat to offer. Chapter 10, verse 12,
this man, Hebrews 10, 12, this man, after he'd offered one sacrifice
for sin forever, sat down at the right hand of God. All right,
we have a high priest. We're sinners. Got to be in atonement. All these priests had blood.
This man's got to have a sacrifice too. As God alone, he had nothing
to offer. You understand that, don't you?
God has nothing to offer God. for the remission of sin. As
God, he had nothing to offer. As man alone, if he's not God,
if he's only a man, he has nothing to offer. Because it's not possible
that the blood of animals put away sin. And as a man, he wouldn't
even have been a high priest. Look at verse 5, verse 4. For if he were on earth only
as a man, He would not be a priest. Jesus of Nazareth did not have
the credentials to be a priest after the order of Aaron. Wrong
tribe. He was of the tribe of Judah.
Nobody from the tribe of Judah ever served as a priest. The
Levites were the priests. Look at Hebrews 7, across the
page, verse 13. For he of whom these things were
spoken pertained it to another tribe. of which no man gave attendance
at their altar. It's evident that our Lord sprang
out of Judah, that's the kingly tribe, David's tribe, of which
tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning the priesthood. So as God alone,
he has nothing to offer. As a man alone, nothing to offer. He was not of the tribe of Levi.
He did not minister in the temple. He did not follow the pattern
of Moses. Let me show you another verse
here, verse 5. Talked about these priests. Verse
5 said, "...they serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly
things. As Moses was admonished of God
when he was about to make the tabernacle, he said, See, saith
he, that ye make all things according to the pattern shown you in the
mountain." Don't you change anything by what God said to Moses. And
Jesus Christ, if He's only God, has nothing to offer. If He's
only a man, He's not even a priest, because He didn't come in the
right tribe and didn't follow the pattern. But I tell you,
as the God-man, given a body prepared by the Father, He's
our priest. King-priest. Judah, kingship. Priest, king-priest. Hebrews
10, let me show you that. Hebrews 10, verse 9. Then said
he, Lo, I come." You wouldn't want a priest that
followed that ironic line anyway, would you? No, no, faulty, failures. Lo, I come to do thy will, O
God. He taketh away the first, the
first covenant, the first tabernacle, the first sacrifices, that he
may establish a second by the which will. was sanctified through
the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every
priest and the daily ministering, oftentimes the same sacrifices
which can never take away sin. But this man, after he had offered
one sacrifice for sin forever, sat down on the right hand of
God. Verse 14, for by one offering
he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. All right,
go back to Hebrews 8. But now, as he obtained a more
excellent ministry. There's another word that gives
you a key to the book of Hebrews, more excellent. More excellent. You see, these Old Testament
priests, their ministry was of the law. His is grace. Their
ministry was temporary. Everything they had was temporary.
His eternal. Their ministry was typical. His
was divine. Their ministry was one of many. His, one of God. Their ministry
was powerless to save. And His is effectual. And this
is the theme here, listen. But now hath He obtained. a more
excellent ministry by how much also he's a mediator of a better
covenant which was established upon better promises. Oh, how we ought to rejoice.
Paul said, that's the psalm. That's the sum of it. Our high
priest ministers in a better place It says in verse 1, he
sat on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the
heavens. Our high priest ministers in
a better tabernacle, verse 2, the true tabernacle which God
pitched, his body. Our high priest offers, verse
3, a better sacrifice. This man has somewhat also to
offer. Verse 4, our high priest, or
verse 6, our high priest has a better covenant upon better
promises. You see, the old Levitical covenant
under which Abel and these other priests ministered was temporary,
and it was typical, and not ceased. Christ's covenant is everlasting.
It's a better covenant. Listen, the Old Covenant reached
to the Jews. The Jews. They had the tabernacle
and the priesthood. The Covenant of Christ, the mercy
of God reaches to all nations. Includes us. The Old Covenant
was manifested in dim ceremonies. Wouldn't you hate to live under
that Old Covenant? Dim ceremonies. The tithes. and the shadows and
the pictures, the glory and majesty and mystery of the gospel was
hidden in these types and ceremonies. A few men understood, Moses,
Aaron, David, Isaiah, these men understood. But most of the people,
it was hid, it was hid in the types and ceremonies. But this
covenant, the mercy of God in Christ, is a full, clear revelation
that even our children mentally can lay hold of the glory of
God revealed in Christ Jesus. That old covenant was conditional. Listen. That old covenant was
conditional upon obedience. Do this. Do this. According to the pattern. Exactly. Sabbath days, walked just so
far. Sacrifices. So many different sacrifices.
If you didn't have enough money to buy a lamb, you bought a turtledove.
If you couldn't get a turtledove, get something else. But it's
always sacrifices. Ceremonies. Feast days. Holy
days. Obedience. But this eternal covenant
is grace. The grace of God through faith
in Christ freely bestowed upon His people. It says it's a better covenant,
with better promises. That old covenant, what did it
promise? Well, the promises of the old covenant had to do with
the earth, Canaan, land of milk and honey, land of plenty, peace
and prosperity, as long as they obeyed. But all of it material,
physical. fleshly. But the promises of
the everlasting covenant of God's grace in Christ Jesus, who is
our Great High Priest, is forgiveness of sin, righteousness, holiness,
accepted in the Beloved. For He of God is made unto us
wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. Now in closing,
Let me see if I can define these two covenants. The old covenant
under which the old priest ministered, delivered to the people by Moses,
given by God on the mount, having to do with this high priest,
tabernacle, holy of holies, holy place, showbread, candlesticks,
incense, Sabbath day, circumcision, sacrifices, holy days, all these
things. That first covenant was made
with Israel, delivered by Moses, and the people to whom it was
given were a earthly nation, a typical earthly nation, most
of whom perished. The laws of that covenant required
outward obedience at all times. The blessings of that covenant
were material blessings, prosperity, peace with their neighbors, plenty
as long as they obeyed. The prophets were mere men who
spoke for God as he was pleased to reveal himself to them. If
anybody wanted to know anything, he went to the prophets. Even
the king had to wait. Remember the message when David
counted Israel, numbered Israel, and the plague fell, and Gad
the prophet had to come tell him what to do. He didn't know
what to do. Gad had to tell him. He had to sit down and wait on
the prophet. The prophets were mere men, but they spoke for
God. The priests who offered the sacrifices were men of infirmities. The sacrifices were nothing but
plain animal blood. And the smell of the animal flesh
cooking on the altar filled the air, and the blood flowed on
the altars. That's the covenant. Well, how
did the people respond to that covenant? As all natural men
respond to God's holiness. It brought out their evil natures. The law and the covenant reveal
man's true nature. He hated authority. He hated
holiness. He hated righteousness. He hated
truth. His heart panted after and longed
for more flesh. The people despised the law and
broke it on every hand. The prophets prophesied falsely. The priests became corrupt and
made merchandise of the holy things. And their table became
a snare. And the fault was in the covenant
and in the people. Because it couldn't give life.
It couldn't give peace. It couldn't give holiness. And
it couldn't even give a man true incentive for doing what it required. Now listen as Paul tells about
it, having said that, verse 7, For if that first covenant had
been faultless, then should no place have been faultless for
the second. But finding fault with them,
with the people and the covenant and the sacrifice and everything
about it, he said, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when
I will make a new covenant. A new covenant. Now we'll pause
right there just a minute. It was already made in eternity. It's the everlasting covenant.
It's the covenant in Christ as our surety. Our eternal priest. But there has to be a need established
for it. There has to be the old covenant
revealed first. To show man that he can't keep
holiness, he can't keep laws, he can't please God. That the
flesh in the flesh dwelleth, no good thing. It's got to be
established, first of all, that there's a need for God's grace,
sovereign grace, sovereign power, redeeming regeneration in life. Man cannot do it, will not do
it, doesn't want to do it, refuses to do it. Isn't that right? So
that covenant's waiting in the wings. And God, when He says,
I'll make a new covenant, that word new means two or three things.
One, it's newly revealed. It's newly revealed. It's revealed
when there's a need for it. And every one of us are born
under an old covenant. We're trying to serve God and
make ourselves righteous And when we shut up and find out
we can't, we cry to God for a revelation of a new covenant in Christ Jesus. It's new not only because it's
newly revealed, born of need, but it makes all things new. It doesn't take anything of the
old covenant and mix it up. It's all new. He does away with
the first one. does away with the old priesthood,
does away with the old tabernacle, does away with the old holy day,
does away with the old ceremony, does away with the old sacrifice,
does away with the old, old completely, nothing added, nothing added
to this new, the whole I make everything new. Right, new. New grace, new life, everything
new. I'll make a new covenant with
the house of Israel, with the house of Judah. Who's this house
of Israel? Spiritual Israel. Believers,
we are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit. They're not
all Israel who are of Israel. Because a man has Jewish ancestors,
he's not Israel. Israel is sons of, true sons
of Jacob, true sons of God. Not according, listen to verse
9, not according to the covenant I made with their fathers in
the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt.
That's not the covenant. They continued not in my covenant,
and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. It's a new covenant. Did I make that clear and plain? It's a new covenant. Behold,
I make a new covenant, newly revealed. Been there all along,
but when you have no need for it, no desire for it, no helplessness
established, men aren't going to embrace it. But when the others
try it and fail, and does nothing but increase our condemnation,
increase our judgment, and increase our unrighteousness, that old
covenant even adds to our unrighteousness, because we do things and think
we have a righteousness. It just makes the foreign rapture.
So just discard it. And Christ makes everything new.
Now watch this. Here are about five things, and
I quit. This is the covenant, verse 10,
that I'll make for the house of Israel after those days, saith
the Lord. I'll put my law in their minds. The old covenant had them written
on stone, tape, tablets. I'll write it on their minds,
my word. The law, there's my word, my
precepts, my statutes, my commandments, my promises, my word. And I'm
going to write it not on tables of stone, but on their minds
so they'll think on my precepts, principles, commandments. And I'll put my law in their
minds and write my law on their hearts so they'll love my commandments. in my world. Think on it, and
love it. You see, that's a new nature. That's regeneration, born again. In order for God to write His
law on our minds, we have to have a new mind. A new mind. And for us to love God, we've
got to have a new heart, because this old heart doesn't love God.
It's deceitful, above all things, desperately wicked. So what God
says, I'm going to give my... My thoughts aren't pure thoughts.
The whole head is sick, the whole heart is faint, so I've got to
give you a new head, a new mind, and a new heart. That's new life. That's Christ comes in. That's
the first thing, or second. Verse 10, And I'll be to them
a God, and they'll be to their people. Well, He was a God to
Israel. But to Israel, He's a God of
creation. He's a God of government. He's a God of providence. He's
a God who reigns. But to us, He's our God and Father. He's called the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ. And our Lord Jesus said, I go
to my God, my Father, and your Father. That's different. Old Israel didn't say, Abba,
Father, like you and I do. Let me show you that in Romans
8. Romans 8. I'll be to them a God, and they'll
be to me a people. God and Father. Romans 8. Listen to this. Verse 15. Romans
8, 15. You've not received the spirit
of bondage, again, to fear. You receive the spirit of adoption,
whereby we cry, Father, Abba, Father. The Spirit Himself beareth
witness with our spirits, with children of God. That's definitely
it. That's this covenant. In verse
11, now watch this. And they shall not teach every
man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the
Lord. Like I said a while ago, if a fellow wanted to know anything
in the Old Testament, he went to the prophet. He wanted to
sacrifice, he went to the priest. But, and we still have pastors,
teachers, but every believer is a son. Every believer is a
saint. Every believer is a priest. We
are a royal priesthood, a holy nation. Every believer offers
sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving to God. Every believer has the
Spirit of Christ. If any man have not the Spirit
of Christ, he's none of you. Now, we're in the process of
learning and studying and growing in grace and the knowledge of
Christ, but we don't have to go to somebody to find this information. We can raise ourselves. Study
to show yourself approved unto God. Desire the sincere milk
of the Word that you may grow thereby. That's this covenant. Those people back there were
under a great bondage. And Catholicism puts men under
that same bondage. Keep the Word of God out of the
hands of the people. I was down in Spain preaching,
Carcajente, Spain. And one night, we had this service
there, Brother Griswold and I, Brother Strata, good crowd of
people, and the organist was exceptionally good organist.
And I asked Brother Strata about him. I said, he's gifted. He said, yeah, he was the organist
at the Catholic Cathedral here in town before the Lord saved
him. I said, well, how'd he hear the
gospel? He said he was down at the Catholic Cathedral practicing
the organ one afternoon. And he said the priest came in
the door, walking down the aisle, and he had in his arm some books. And the organist stopped playing,
and he said, Father, he said, what do you have there? He said,
oh, I've been going around to some of these homes of these
evangelicals, taking their Bibles. These missionaries are leaving
Bibles with these people, and I'll go around and collect them. And the organist told Brother
Stratus, said, I asked the priest, I said, I've never seen a Protestant
Bible. Could I see one? And the priest
just took one of the Bibles and threw it to him. Just threw him
the Word of God. What did he do, threw him salvation?
That fellow went home and took that Bible and started studying
it. He'd never studied the Bible.
They don't study the Bible. They do what they're told to
do. They do what they're interpreted. People can't understand the Bible.
Yes, they can. They shall not teach every man
saying, know the Lord. They shall all know me from the
least to the greatest. And that man studied the Word
and got in touch with the pastors there and Brother Strada and
came to knowledge of the gospel. God's Word. is the seed by which
the plants grow. And verse 12, listen, and I'll
be merciful to their unrighteousness. I'll give them a righteousness,
and I'll even be merciful to their own unrighteousness. I'll forgive their sins day by
day. We have a perfect righteousness before the Father. It's Christ's
righteousness. But we have so much unrighteousness about us.
And that daily is forgiven. Our Lord taught us to pray, forgive
us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. We have to
pray that every day. And He said, I'll be merciful.
And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. Their
iniquities, original sin, Adamic fall, before conversion, during
conversion, after conversion, the iniquities I remember no
more. No more. Now, in that he saith
a new covenant. When he said, I make a new covenant,
well, he discarded the old, didn't he? You know what he said? He
hath made the first of no use except upon us to Christ. except in it to see the fulfillment
in our Lord Jesus Christ. Now that which decayeth and waxeth
old is ready to vanish away. So don't go back to it. Don't
go back to it in any way. Rejoice in Christ and the new
covenant. Let me read a couple of verses
in Galatians chapter 5. Galatians chapter 5, look at
that just a moment, Galatians 5.1, Stand fast therefore in
the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not
entangled again with that yoke of bondage, that old covenant.