A Better Sacrifice

Q: What does the Bible say about the importance of sacrifice?

The Bible emphasizes that without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins (Hebrews 9:22). The Bible teaches that the concept of sacrifice is foundational, particularly in the Old Testament where blood was required for the atonement of sins. Under the Mosaic Law, sacrifices were a means of purification, and without the shedding of blood, there could be no forgiveness. This principle reinforces that all acts of worship required blood as the cleansing agent, pointing towards the ultimate sacrifice of Christ. Hebrews 10:9-10 highlights that Christ, through His one sacrifice, fulfilled the law’s requirements and established a new covenant, making previous sacrifices unnecessary.

Q: How do we know that Christ's sacrifice is superior?

Christ's sacrifice is superior because He offered Himself once for all, while Old Testament sacrifices had to be repeated (Hebrews 10:10). Christ's sacrifice is superior in that it is both a complete and final atonement for sin. Unlike the animal sacrifices of the Old Testament, which had to be repeated annually, Christ offered Himself once and achieved perfection for those who are sanctified. Hebrews 10:14 states, 'For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.' This indicates that Christ's sacrifice satisfies God's justice permanently and does not require continual offerings, thus establishing a new way into God's presence.

Q: Why is the shedding of blood necessary for forgiveness?

The shedding of blood is necessary because it signifies the cost of sin and God's justice requires a perfect sacrifice (Hebrews 9:22). The necessity of bloodshed for forgiveness is rooted in the principle of substitutionary atonement, where the life of the substitute, symbolized by blood, must be given to atone for sin. Old Testament law clearly states that without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins. This demonstrates the gravity of sin and God's holiness. The sacrifices provided a temporary covering, but they pointed to the ultimate sacrifice of Christ, who is the perfect Lamb, fulfilling and surpassing the requirements of the law by His own precious blood.

Q: What does 'a new and living way' refer to in the context of Christ's sacrifice?

The 'new and living way' refers to the access believers have to God through Christ's sacrifice, which opened the way to the heavenly Holy of Holies (Hebrews 10:20). 'The new and living way' signifies the completely new covenant established by Christ's sacrifice, which allows believers direct access to God. In Hebrews 10:20, it is stated that this new way is consecrated through Christ's flesh, symbolizing the tearing of the veil that separated humanity from God's presence. Unlike the previous system, which was built on rituals and the law, this new way is characterized by living faith and a direct relationship with God, as believers can approach with confidence and boldness.

worship of God. And that would be the shedding
of blood, sacrifice and blood. We read in verse 18 of Hebrews 9, whereupon neither
the first testament, and we're talking here about the first
covenant The covenant made with Abraham, with Moses, Levitical
law, the tabernacle, the priesthood, atonement, the mercy seat, the
worship of God. Neither the first testament was
dedicated without blood. For when Moses had spoken every
precept, given the people the ceremonies and the feast days
and the ceremonies for worship, the priesthood,
all of these things, according to the law, the Levitical law.
He took the blood of calves and of goats with water, scarlet
wool and hyssop, and he sprinkled both the book and all the people
saying, This is the blood of the testament, the covenant,
which God hath enjoined unto you. Israel shall be my people,
and they shall have a mercy seat, and they shall have a holy of
holies, and they shall have an atonement, and they shall have
a priest to pray for them. Verse 21, Moreover he spake with
blood both the tabernacle Here we have the book, the people,
the tabernacle, verse 21, and all the vessels of the ministry.
And almost all things by the law was purged and purified with
blood. Now, some things were purified
with fire, and some things with water. But anything having to
do with the expiation of sin was always purified with blood,
always. Almost all things under this
Mosaic law, under this Levitical law, purge with blood. And listen, and without the shedding
of blood, there is no remission. There is no expiation. There is no reconciliation. No forgiveness without the blood. Everywhere under the first covenant,
everywhere under that testament, under that Levitical law, it
was blood. The blood was shed. Verse 23. Now it was therefore necessary
that the pattern of things in the heavens should be purified
with these blood sacrifices. But the heavenly things themselves
with better sacrifices. Now we have two things here.
We have the heavenly things and we have the pattern of the heavenly
things. We have the heavenly things.
Let's look at that first. That's God's people. the redeemed of all ages, of
all nations, of all tribes, kindred, nation, tongue unto heaven, starting
with the first one that God saves to the last one, that's the people
of God, things in heaven, justification, sanctification, eternal mercy,
citizenship and glory, anything having to do with our relationship
with God, that's things in heaven. Scripture says in Ephesians 1,
it said, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies. Now, these are the heavenly things.
Well, what are the patterns of the heavenly things? Well, that's
national Israel. That's the people of Israel.
That's the tabernacle. That's the book. That's the ark. That's the mercy seat. That's
everything down here. patterns of the heavenly things. There's national Israel, and
there's spiritual Israel. There's the tabernacle, and there's
Christ who tabernacled among us. There's the priesthood of
Aaron, and there's the priesthood of Christ. And there's people
who are owned generally under common grace to be the people
of God, and they're the people who really have the grace of
God and are really forgiven and justified. So all of these things
were done for a pattern. And so verse 23, you understand
that, then you understand verse 23. It was therefore necessary
that the patterns of things in the heavens, the pictures of
things in the heavens, and see these were pictures, these were
types. When the Old Testament priest
would put on his garment with the names of Israel on the breastplate
and so forth, the miter and go into the Holy of Holies with
an atonement for the waiting people. That's pictures. That's
patterns. Well, it was necessary that the
patterns and pictures be purified with blood. But the heavenly
things are going to have to have better sacrifices than these.
They're going to have to have better blood than animal blood.
They're going to have to have better prayers than what that
incense represented, you know, the incense itself. You've got
to have a better priest than this fallible man. So you've
got to have better sacrifices. Verse 24, For Christ is not entered
into the holy places. Now remember that word right
there, the holy places. Christ is not entered into the
holy places made with hands. which are figures, the figures
are pictures of patterns of the true holy place. But in the heaven
itself, that's the holy place, that's the holy of holies, that's
the holiest of all, heaven itself. That is the holiest. Now, Aaron
went into the holy of holies, the cubicle, 15 by 15 by 15,
where the mercy seat covered the ark and the broken log. He
took the animal sacrifices. He sprinkled the blood on the
mercy seat. He burned the incense, which represents the prayers
of Christ. But Christ didn't go into this place. He went into
heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.
Not yet that he should offer himself often. Oh, no. As the high priest entered into
the holy place every year, every year with the blood of others,
with the blood of animals. For then, if he did this once
a year, often as the high priest, then he must often have suffered
since the foundation of the world. See, this, what we call first
testament or first covenant, is not really the first one.
It's the first one revealed. It's the first one put into effect
as far as our senses are concerned. But the first covenant is the
new covenant. That's the everlasting covenant
of which Christ is a surety. But now, once in the end of the
world, in the last days, hath he appeared to put away sin,
to put it away, not typically, not as a pattern, but actually
in reality to put it away by the sacrifice of himself. And
as it is appointed unto men, it wants to die. And after this,
the judgment. So Christ Jesus was once offered
to bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for him shall
he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. Now, there
is a holy place, typically. But it typifies a holy place
in the presence of the Father. There is a high priest in Israel,
typically a picture, a pattern, and he represents that great
high priest, the Lord Jesus Christ. And there is a sacrifice, typically
a pattern. The blood was shed of the bulls
and the bullocks and the goats and the sheep and the lambs and
so forth. Many sacrifices, the shedding
of much blood. You would have been acquainted
with blood had you been around that tabernacle. But this blood
is typical and a pattern and a picture of blood that was shed
one time, once for all, one sacrifice, one sacrifice, one time. And
all of these sacrifices could never put away sin, but by one
offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. And
John Brown said this, if you become acquainted with verses
20 or verse 26, 24 through 28, you'll see the three appearances
of Christ for us as our high priest, as our sacrifice, as
our intercessor. Look first at verse 26. For then
must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world,
but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared. hath
he appeared, he appeared in the likeness of sinful flesh, he
appeared in the habit of a servant, he appeared on this earth God
incarnate, he appeared to put away sin, once and for all, by
the sacrifice of himself. Now, look at verse 24, Christ
is not entered into the holy place, and I told you, remember
what that name there, made with hands, which are figures of the
truth, but into heaven itself, now to appear, right now, in
the presence of God for us. He ever liveth to make intercession. He appears in the holy of holies. None of us have ever been into
the holiest. But Christ is a man, flesh and
blood. took his own blood in his own
flesh and went into the Holy of Holies. And there he appears
for us. And he doesn't have to, I hear
people say, well, the Lord prays for us. I know he does. And he
makes intercession for us, but he doesn't have to say a word.
Just his presence is sufficient because he is our representative
and he's accepted and we are in him. Now, when John Brown
went on to say verse 27, you have two things. You have two
things to be concerned about. And yes, there's a part of them
to me and wants to die, and after that, the judgment. That's two
things you've got to be concerned about. I don't know anything
else that we've got to really be concerned about, but the end
of life and the meeting God. Well, now, if he appeared to
put away sin with a sacrifice of himself for you and me, If
he appears now in the presence of God for us, look at verse
28. So Christ was once offered to bear the sin of many, and
unto them that believe him and look for him, he shall appear
again without sin unto salvation. So I don't have to fear death.
I don't have to fear the judgment. Let me tell you something. No
child of God will ever be brought into the judgment. I promise
you. I'm certain of it as I'm standing
here. It's an impossibility. Because Christ, our surety and
substitute, has already been brought into the judgment. And
he's been judged for our sins, and it says here he put them
away. He put them away. They're gone.
They're remembered no more. They don't even exist, not any
of them. Past, present, and future. What
am I to be judged for? I have nothing to be judged for.
There's never many tears in heaven on the part of God's people.
I hear preachers and folks talking about, well, we're going to be
in heaven, we're going to miss a lot of folks that we would
like to see there, and we're going to mourn over our failures
and mourn over our etc., etc., etc. I don't believe that. I
don't believe that at all. Our sins are put away. And he's
going to appear without sin for us. That's right. Now look at
chapter 10, verse 1. For the law, and the word law
means several things in the scriptures. Sometimes it means all the word
of God, talking about the law and the prophets, the law and
the prophets, all the word of God. Sometimes it means the Ten
Commandments. Sometimes it means the will of
God. But here it means the Levitical law. It means just what we've
been talking about in chapter 9. It means just exactly what
Ronnie read about, the Passover. Our Lord met with the disciples
to observe the Passover. It means all these things that
were purged by blood, the book and the tabernacle and the people
and the mercy seat and all these things. And the law, having a
shadow of good things to come, not even the very image, it's
just a shadow, typical but not even a good type. That's right,
all of these types are imperfect types. That's right, you can't
ride them too long because the law having just a shadow, not
the image of those things, just a shadow of those things, just
a shadow. These ceremonies and feast days
and sacrifices are just a shadow of the things that are to come.
And they can never, with those sacrifices which they're offered
year by year, continually, make the comers there and do perfect.
I remember when I was just a very young person, and somebody came
through preaching in our church down in Alabama, that there were
several dispensations in the matter of salvation, and God
tried to save Adam. by when he was in innocence,
and that didn't work. And then he tried to save Adam
under conscience. That didn't work. And then he
tried with judges, and every man doing that which was right
in his own eyes, and that didn't work. And then he tried by law.
And then he gave Moses some sacrifices, and those people were saved by
keeping those sacrifices. And it's all kind of fled there,
and then he sent Christ. Did you ever hear that when you
were coming along, you know? Well, you see, if these sacrifices,
look at verse 2, if these sacrifices could have done anything for
them, they would cease to have offered them. In other words,
when a fellow brought a lamb and sacrificed it, if that blood
had any efficacy, if it had any power, he wouldn't have brought
another one, would he? And that's what he says here,
for then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because
if the worshiper, once he brought a sacrifice and once bought blood,
and once his sins were purged, he'd have no more conscience
of sin. I paid for them. There's the blood. But verse
3 says in those sacrifices there's a remembrance made of sin year
after year. All these sacrifices and the
required sacrifices kept one thing constantly before these
people. Sins were not put away. They're still there. Now what
we're doing tonight says that sins are put away. There's no
blood up here. There's no lamb being killed
here tonight. There's no blood being shed.
We don't have any blood sacrifices. There's been one once and for
all. And so we don't bring any more. But their sacrifice kept
bringing blood. Every year is blood. Every day
it was blood. Every month it was blood. Every sacrifice was
blood. And this is why it says he couldn't put away the sins.
It just kept saying, you still got sins. You still got sins.
You're still under the burden of sin or the curse of the law.
But this says it's gone. There's no blood. Without shedding
of blood, there's no remission. But where's the blood? It's the
blood of Christ. This represents the blood of
Christ, because his blood is there. Verse 4 says it's not
possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin. The
bulls and the goats don't even have the same nature as a man. It's not possible that the death
of an animal could put away the sins of a man. The blood of bulls
and goats should take away sin? It's impossible. We need a better
sacrifice. Now, you can take the blood of
an animal and you can purify a shadow and a type, and a picture
of the heavenly thing, but the heavenly things themselves got
to have better sacrifices. Got to have the blood of the
God-man. Wherefore we burst fire? Now
watch this. Here it is. Here's our better sacrifice.
Wherefore, when he, the Lord Jesus Christ, the God-man, second
person of the blessed trinity, God in human flesh, when he cometh
into this world, he saith, All this sacrifice and offering thou
wouldst not. Now, he's not saying God didn't
command it. God did command it. It's typical. It's a shadow.
It's a picture. But he's saying that God was
never pleased. God was never satisfied. The
law was never magnified and justice was never honored. So in these
sacrifices and in these offerings, God was never satisfied. He never
accepted anybody on the basis of their obedience in sacrificing
an animal. Never, never, never. But a body
thou hast prepared me. Now in burnt offerings and sacrifices
for sin, God has had no pleasure. But when Christ stood on this
earth, he said, this is my beloved Son, in whom I have pleasure,
I'm well pleased. He had pleasure in here, not
only in his life, but in his death. It pleased God to bruise
him. It pleased God to bruise him.
God was pleased with his sacrifice. Then said our verse 7, Lo, I
come, in the volume of the book that's written of me, to do thy
will. Well, I always thought that was
the Old Testament there, in the volume of the book. It's written
of me. Well, I'm sure that'd be all
right to refer to, because in the volume of the book, it's
written of him. It's all about him. It's concerning
him. But this quotation here is back
in the volume of the book, and what I really believe here This
book, is that book in the right hand of him that sat on the throne?
Of the purposes of God, of the will of God. He said, over in
Revelation 5, he said, I saw him who sat on the throne, in
his hand was a book. written inside and out, and sealed
with seven seals. And the book was in his right
hand. And I wept much, because there was no one found in heaven,
earth, or under the earth that was worthy to open that book."
Isn't that what he said? And that book stayed closed until
one of the elders said, Weep not, for the Lion of Judah, the
root and offspring of David, is worthy. And he said, I looked,
and behold, a lamb as it was slain. in the midst of the throne,
a lamb slain in the center sitting on the throne, he stepped forward. He's worthy to open the book.
And he walked up and took the book out of the hand of him that
sat on the throne. What creature could ever approach
the throne, let alone take something out of the hand of the father?
This is symbolic, of course, I'm sure. But he took it out
of the hand and he opened the book. And then the whole crowd
broke out and sang it and said, Blessing and honor and glory
unto the Lamb forever and ever, for he was slain and has washed
us from our sin in his own blood. And the book was opened to reveal
God's mercy and God's grace and God's salvation and God's forgiveness
and God's life. And he opened the book. But he
had to die to open the book. And that's what it's, it's all
written of him anyway. Verse 8, above, when he said,
Sacrifice and offering, and burnt offerings, and offering for sin,
thy wouldest not neither have pleasure therein which are offered
by the law. Then said I, then said he, Lo,
I come, O God, I come to do thy will, to do thy will. And he takes away the first,
that he may establish the second. What's the first primarily? It's
everything having to do with that Old Testament economy, that
Mosaic economy, that Levitical law. We don't have that temple. We don't have that priesthood.
We don't have those Sabbath days. We don't have those holy days.
We don't have those sacrifices. We don't have the Passover. We
don't have those things. They're all fulfilled in Christ.
He takes them all away. And he establishes a second. That's Christ. Christ is our
altar. Christ is our Mercy Seeker, Christ
is our High Priest, Christ is our Atonement, Christ is our
Sabbath, Christ is all and in all, that's right. But more than
that, he takes away the first Adam, we're in the second Adam. He takes away the first covenant,
we're in the new covenant. He takes away the first tabernacle,
Christ's tabernacle among us. He takes away the first priesthood,
we have a great High Priest. He takes away the first Sabbath,
our rest is in him. He takes away the first mercy
seat, Christ is our mercy seat. He takes away our first nature,
it's going to go to the dust from whence it came, we have
a new nature. He takes away the first heaven
and earth, and makes a new heaven and earth. He said, behold, I
make all things new. He takes away the first. You
find that principle throughout the world, throughout the world. Second Adam. The first son, King. Abel. Esau. Jacob. National Israel. True Israel. You see, that's principles all
the way through the word. God will not go by man's pattern
or man's chain of authority. He makes everything new. You
don't have anything by nature that will recommend you to God.
Not one thing in this world got to be his. Takes away the first,
and establishes the second. And you just go through the Word
of God, and you're the first king Saul? David. That's right. See, so we'd go
on all night with that, couldn't we? You've seen it, it's there.
Takes away the first, and establishes the second. And he said, verse
9, he said, I come to do your will, God's will. By which will? Now, that's the will of God.
By the will of God, we are sanctified. We are justified. You see, the
will of God was completely fulfilled in Christ's coming, in Christ's
offering, in Christ's obedience, in Christ's death, by Christ's
blood. God's will was, he said, He said,
I finished the work you gave me to do. What was that work? John 6, he said, I come to do
the will of him that sent me. That's right. And so by that
will, your salvation, not because you willed it, because he willed
it. He gave you to the Son. He said, I have prayed for them
which thou hast given me. I manifested your word to them
that you gave me. I manifested your name to them
you gave me. And by that will, by the will
of God, Christ accomplished the will of God. Justification of
all his people, all their sins put away when he suffered on
the tree and God was glorified and his will accomplished. Listen,
by the rich will we are sanctified through the offering, through
the sacrifice of the body, the body and blood of Jesus Christ
once for all. once for all. And every priest back in that
old covenant, there were so many of them, every priest, there
were many of them, there's only one of him. They were but men. He's the God-man. They lived
and died. He's a priest forever. They daily
ministered, offering sacrifices. He only won sacrifices. They
offered the same sacrifice which can never take away sin. He offered
an effectual sacrifice that took away all the sins for whom it
was offered. But this man, but this man, after
he had offered one sacrifice for sin forever, forever, sat
down on the right hand of God. I've told you so often, when
you read that, he sat down, remember, that when you go over the tabernacle,
there's not a chair, a bench, or a place to sit anywhere in
that tabernacle or courtyard. No furniture, all the different
pieces of furniture, but those priests never sat down because
their work was never through. Our Lord Jesus Christ offered
one sacrifice and sat down, and sat down. Verse 13, from henceforth
expecting Till his enemies be made his footstool, for by one
offering, one sacrifice, his body, his blood, he hath perfected. What's lacking? What need I supply? Nothing. He has perfected. We're
perfect in Christ. We're holy, unblameable, unreprovable. Our sins are pardoned. We're
perfected. And we're perfected not for a
time limit, but forever. By one offering, he hath done
it. Not he and I, and he and you,
and he and the preacher. He hath perfected for ever them
that are set apart, them that are chosen, them that are sanctified.
Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us. For he said
this a long time ago, after he had said this before. Jeremiah,
Ezekiel, this is the covenant. See, we're talking about this
new covenant, this covenant of grace. this everlasting covenant
that I'll make with them after those days of the first covenant,
after those typical days, pattern days and so forth, sayeth the
Lord. I'll put my law in their hearts. I'm not going to give
it to them on two tables of stone. I'm going to write my law on
their hearts so they'll love it. And I'll put my law in their
minds so they'll think on it, my law, my will, my way. my commandments, and this is
the beauty of it, and their sins and iniquities will I remember
no more. No more. No more. I tell you,
when a man begins to understand something of the character of
God, he will begin to understand a
little bit of the price that Christ paid for our redemption. and the necessity of that price
being paid. When a man knows something of
the character of God, the holiness of God, he's not even going to
think about works and his own righteousness and his own doings
because he knows they're worthless. Just worthless. The best of them
are worthless. It takes this to save a sinner.
It takes Christ and Christ alone. Now, verse 18. We talked about
remission a while ago. Without the shedding of blood,
there's no remission. Without the shedding of blood,
there's no remission. Now what's this? Now, where remission
of these is. These what? Verse 17, their sins
and their iniquities. That's what we're talking about.
We're talking about our sins and our iniquities. Now, where
remission, where forgiveness of these is, where they've been
pardoned, where they've been put away, where they've been
forgiven, there's no more offering for sin. I'll bring an offering to the
Lord. We'll bring it on, but not for sin. You see what I'm
saying? There's no more offering. It's
done. The great transaction's done.
I'm my Lord's and he's mine. Verse 19, now watch this. You
remember I said I wanted you to remember about that holy place.
Having therefore brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by
the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which he hath
consecrated for us through the David, that is to say his flesh. And having a high priest over
the house of God, let us draw near." Now, I want you to listen
to me carefully here. The common interpretation of
these verses, and there's not a thing wrong with it, it's good,
I've used it many, many times, many of my brethren have, some
of you have, is that we brethren, we believers, we who have trusted
Christ and believed on Christ, that we have boldness to come
into God's presence. implying that the holiest here
is the presence of God in thought, and in prayer, and in devotion.
That we have boldness to call him our Father because Christ
died, shed his blood, and ripped the veil in two. That we have
the privilege of, like we've done tonight, as Ronnie led us
in prayer, we called him Father. We came into his presence in
thought. in acceptance. But my friends,
the true holy of holies is heaven itself, and ain't none of us
been there. Isn't that right? Let me see if I can show you
that. Hebrews 9, turn back there a minute, verse 12. Verse 12, Hebrews 9, verse 11
and 12. Now listen to this. A high priest of good things
to come by 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 once into the holy
place." Where is this he entered? The holy place. Where is that? That's heaven. Christ actually
in the flesh, a man with his blood. in heaven itself, the
holy place, the holiest. See, this holy of holies here
is a pattern. That's what we've been talking
about. It's a shadow. It's an imperfect one, too. And that
high priest went through the veil, under the veil, and put
that blood on the mercy seat. That's the holy place. Christ
didn't go into that place. He went into the holiest with
his blood and his flesh. Now, look at Hebrews. Hebrews
9, verse 24. Christ is not entered into the
holy place made with hands, which are figures of the true beware,
into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.
So let's read verse 19 this way. Let's see if there's, let's see,
maybe there's something here like this. boldness, confidence toward God,
a good hope of acceptance, right here on this earth while we're
still here. Why can we have that confidence? Why can we have that
boldness, that liberty, the word is said? How can I call him my
father? I'll tell you why. It's all in
reference to the entrance of Jesus Christ into the Holiest.
That's who's already gone. I've never been in the holiest.
Someday I will. And high in the world can I even
not only call him my father, but someday enter into heaven,
enter into the holiest, because my forerunner in the flesh with
his blood has already entered into the holiest. That's right. And sat down. He's within the
veil. Where's the holiest? Behind that
veil. Where is he now? Within the veil. So in reference to the entrance
of Jesus Christ by his own blood into the holiest heaven itself,
by a new way, what's this new way? Well, it has nothing to
do with the covenant of works, it has nothing to do with the
priest and animal blood, it has nothing to do with the tabernacle
on this earth, but this new way is newly revealed in Christ,
and newly proclaimed in Christ, and newly accomplished by Christ,
and it is a living way. And it's through the veil. That
is to say, his flesh. Is his flesh the veil? No. No, his flesh is not the veil.
When the priest went into the Holy of Holies, he left the veil
behind him. He went past the veil. See, the
blood let him come past the veil. And that veil, I tell you that
veil is symbolic of it. It represents our sins. It separates
us from God. That veil keeps us out. That
veil says no admittance. That veil says don't you enter.
That veil says enter only on the threat of death. But a man went in that veil and
behind it. A man who bore my sins in his
body. And he not only went behind that
particular veil, but he went not that way, but a new way. You follow the priest and you're
a dead man. You follow him, you're a living man. It's a new way. It's a living way. You see what
I'm saying? And therefore, verse 21, having
a high priest over the house of God, who has consecrated and
opened up for us past the veil, past the veil into the presence
of God. He's opened up heaven for us.
We have our great high priest. Now let us draw near." You see what I'm saying? That's
what this represents. His flesh, broken, bruised, suffered,
his blood shed. And he, Jesus Christ, the man,
came down here fulfilling all of these types and pictures.
They went through all these years. He came down by the sacrifice
of himself. He stretched forth his hands
and died on that tree. His body was broken and bruised
and bled for us. And no more going in behind that
bay on that holy place. He actually in the flesh Passed
the veil, through the veil, by a new way, not that way. You
take it the way of the person. It's a new covenant, it's a new
way. It's not a dead way. That priest died, that animal
died, speaks of death, death, death, death. Living way. He entered once into the holy
place and sat down, the man Christ Jesus. Now, having a high priest
there, let us draw near. Let us come. Prayer, whatever
you want to call it, worship, contemplation, meditation, planning
on going to glory. You plan on going to glory? I
tell you there's just one basis on which those plans can be laid,
and that is he went to glory for you in his flesh with his
blood. Because without the shedding
of blood, there's no remission. Without the shedding of blood,
there's no admittance. And that was true down here.
And our priest, not without blood, not without blood, entered once
into the holy place, not without blood. But our Lord Jesus Christ
came with his own precious blood, one offering, because of who
he is. In the flesh, the man Christ
Jesus went into the presence of God and sat down. And that's
what this is all about. And it says over there in 1 Corinthians
11, let a man examine himself and so let him eat. What are
we examining for? I've done the best I can this
week. No. Well, I haven't made many
mistakes. It's been a better week than
most. No. Well, I'm worthy. No. We have a high priest whose
blood was shed, whose body was broken. He said, this is my body
broken for you. This is my blood. You show my
death till I come, this doing remembrance of me. And that's
why I take it. That's discerning the Lord's
body. It's just don't complicate it. Don't make it have any saving
benefit. The saving's done by Him. The
remembering's done by us. But you can't remember what you
don't know. If nothing's happened, you sure can't remember it, can
you? All right, you all serve us there, if you would.

A Better Sacrifice

What does the Bible say about the importance of sacrifice?

How do we know that Christ's sacrifice is superior?

Why is the shedding of blood necessary for forgiveness?

What does 'a new and living way' refer to in the context of Christ's sacrifice?

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What does the Bible say about the importance of sacrifice?

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Why is the shedding of blood necessary for forgiveness?

What does 'a new and living way' refer to in the context of Christ's sacrifice?

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