Hebrews Ten

Q: What does the Bible say about the sacrifices in Hebrews 10?

Hebrews 10 explains that the sacrifices of the Law are merely a shadow, unable to take away sins, ultimately pointing to the perfect sacrifice of Christ. In Hebrews 10, the author emphasizes that the sacrifices of the ceremonial law cannot perfect those who draw near to God. These offerings were only a shadow of good things to come, serving as a blueprint leading to the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ. As the text states, if these sacrifices were efficacious, they would have ceased to be offered. Instead, they serve as continual reminders of sin, indicating their insufficiency. The blood of animals couldn't atone for sin because sin breaches God's moral law, while Christ, who was made human, fulfilled the law and became the true sacrifice for our sins.

Q: How do we know that Jesus' sacrifice is sufficient for sin?

Jesus' one sacrifice is sufficient because it fulfilled God's justice and established a new covenant that provides total forgiveness. The sufficiency of Jesus' sacrifice is grounded in the fulfillment of God's will as articulated in Hebrews 10. Unlike the repetitive sacrifices of the Old Covenant, which could never take away sins, Jesus offered Himself once for all, leading to a perfect sanctification of believers. His blood has the real power to forgive and cleanse from all unrighteousness—a complete and final atonement for sin. This new covenant replaces the old and grants believers the assurance that their sins are remembered no more. The efficacy of His sacrifice demonstrates that His offering was sufficient for the redemption of all who believe.

Q: Why is the concept of Christ's High Priesthood important for Christians?

Christ's High Priesthood is vital because He intercedes for believers, granting us direct access to God and ensuring our eternal security. The significance of Christ's High Priesthood lies in His unique role as mediator who has no beginning or end, contrasting with the earthly priests who were many and mortal. As articulated in Hebrews 10, Christ's offering completed once for all the work of atonement and enabled Him to sit down at the right hand of God, symbolizing that His sacrificial work was finished. This established a new priesthood that every believer is part of, allowing us to come boldly into God's presence. Christ’s role as our High Priest reassures us of our standing before God, enabling us to approach Him with confidence, knowing that we are accepted because of Christ's righteousness.

Q: How does Hebrews 10 define the relationship between faith and assurance?

Hebrews 10 teaches that believers can approach God with full assurance of faith because of Christ's completed work. In Hebrews 10, believers are encouraged to draw near to God with a true heart in full assurance of faith. This assurance is rooted in the work of Christ, who has provided a new and living way to the Father through His sacrifice. Our hearts are cleansed and our conscience free from guilt because of His redemptive work. Therefore, faith in Christ not only grants us access but also instills a deep-seated confidence that we are accepted by God. This assurance is a hallmark of true faith, recognizing that our standing before God hinges on Christ's righteousness rather than our works.

While you're turning in your
Bibles to Hebrews 10, I'll tell you the main reason
why it's good to prepare notes for a message. There was a preacher who was
approached by a certain man, and the man said, we would like
for you to speak to our group. And the preacher replied, well,
how long will I be speaking? How long will I have to speak?
And the man said, what difference does that make, how long you
have to speak? He said, well, if you want me
to speak for 15 minutes, you'll have to give me a week to prepare. But if you want me to speak for
half an hour, you'll have to give me at least three days to
prepare. But if you want me to speak two
hours, I'm ready right now. And that's the way it is, without
preparation. All right, Hebrews 10. For the
law, we're talking here of the ceremonial law. Sometimes when
the Bible uses the word law, It means the moral law, the Ten
Commandments. Sometimes it means the Levitical,
Mosaic, ceremonial law. Sometimes it's talking about
all the word of God, the word of God, the law and the prophets.
Here, it's the law we were speaking about this morning, the ceremonial
law of sacrifices, priesthood and tabernacle. And that law,
he says, having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very
image of the things. can never, never, with those
sacrifices which they offered year by year, continually, make
the comers down to perfect. In other words, the ceremonial
law is a blueprint. When a man is going to build
a building, a house, or a commercial building, the first thing he
does is draw a blueprint. And the keen eye and the The
taught mind can look at the blueprint and tell what that building's
going to look like, but it's still a blueprint. It's not the
building. And this ceremonial law given through Moses and carried
on by Aaron and the sons of Levi, the priesthood, the animal sacrifices,
these, this law and these sacrifices are not the very image of these
good things or the image of Christ's divine work, but a blueprint,
a picture. And the blueprint is not the
building. And these sacrifices could never take away sin. They
were never given to take away sin. Even the Day of Atonement,
that awesome Day of Atonement, when the high priest went under
the veil, into the Holy of Holies, into the very presence of God's
manifested glory, sprinkled the blood on the mercy seat, he never
put away sin. Never removed one stain. Never
made anybody perfect. never pleased God as far as his
justice and righteousness is concerned. It was a blueprint.
It was a picture. It was a pattern. It was a blueprint
of the real building of Christ Jesus. Bar, look at verse 2. Would, for then, would they not
have ceased to be offered, in other words, if any or all of
these sacrifices could take away sin? Even the Passover Even the
sacrifice on the Day of Atonement, any of these sacrifices, if they
could take away sin, they would have ceased to be offered. If
sin is put away, there's no further reason for sacrifice. You see
that? That's what the writer is saying here. If these sacrifices
could put away sin, then when sin was put away, you stopped
the sacrifice. Because, watch this, the worshipers
once purged Their sin, having been put away, would have no
more conscience of sin. They would be discharged from
guilt and condemnation and would bring no more sacrifice. Like,
through the blood of Christ, I can say there's therefore now
no condemnation to them who are in Christ, who can lay anything
to the charge of God's elect. Our sins are put away. We have
no more conscience of sin. Oh, we know we're sinners. But
we have no conscience of the wrath and judgment of God against
us because our debts paid. It's like a man who goes to jail.
He's been sentenced to six months for some petty robbery or something
like that. He goes in, serves his time,
and comes out. Well, he's not worried anymore
about policemen. He's not worried about the judge.
He can pass the judge on the street and say, howdy, judge.
He can pass the prosecuting attorney on the street and say, howdy
to him. Because the law is satisfied, you see, he has no more conscience
of those sins and of that criminal act. But so if these sacrifices
could put away sin, then they would have stopped and the people
for whom they were offered would have no more conscience of sin.
But verse 3, but in those sacrifices, in those sacrifices there is
a remembrance again made of sin every year. In other words, in
those sacrifices offered every year, especially on the Day of
Atonement, the sins of the past year are remembered. In other
words, when they come on that certain Day of Atonement, kill
the bullock, kill the heifer, kill the goat, bring it into
the Holy of Holies, sprinkle the blood, you're saying, yes,
sins, we're guilty of sins. The next year, guilty of sins.
Every year, sins are remembered. Remembered. Confessed and forgiveness
sought. The people remember the sins,
the high priest remembers the sins, God remembers the sins,
and the very sacrifices themselves are a reminder of sin. That's
what he said. The very sacrifice, the very
fact that it's required again this year proves that it didn't
do the job last year. And the very fact we've got to
do it again next year proves it didn't get the job done this
year. Now watch this. It is not, this is very important
here, it is not possible, it is not possible that the blood
of goats, of bulls and goats should take away sin. That's
what these sacrifices were, they offered bulls and goats, animals,
lamb. And you know why the blood of
bulls and goats cannot take away a man's sin? Well, first of all,
sin is a breach of the moral law. Sin is a breach of God's
moral law, and these animal sacrifices belong to the ceremonial law.
But Jesus Christ the Lord was born under God's moral law as
a man, and he is a sacrifice that obeyed that law and died
under the condemnation of the moral law of God. That's a very
important thing. Sin is a breach of God's moral
law. And all of these sacrifices were
sacrificed belonging to a Levitical, Mosaic, ceremonial law. And they
couldn't touch moral offense. But Christ can, because he bore
our sins in his body. Oh, and another reason. This
blood of animals is not the same blood of the person who sinned. It doesn't belong to the same
nature. It's not the same blood. It's a representative blood.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, flowing through his veins, had the same
identical blood that flows through your veins. That's right. He
is made of one blood, all nations. There's only one kind of human
blood. Whether your skin's black or whether it's red or whether
it's yellow, wherever you come from, we all have the same blood.
The same blood. And that blood which flowed through
his veins, and that blood which he shed, was the blood of a man.
That's right. It's the blood of a man. The
blood of a man. Our Lord Jesus Christ was made
bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. Now verse 4 again,
let's give one more reason. It says in verse 4, it's not
possible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sin.
Why? Because sin deals with the mind and the soul and the conscience
to which an animal can never associate. Animal has no soul,
it has no conscience. It has no mind. But when our
Lord Jesus Christ was in that garden, our sins and the consciousness
of sin and the awareness of sin and the identification with sin,
our sins, our blasphemy, our lust, our pride, our arrogance,
our haughtiness, our self-righteousness, all these sins of mind and heart
and soul and imagination were so heavy upon Him, He said, I'm
going to die right here if I don't get some relief. An animal can't
feel that. Here's a sheep running around.
They take the sheep and put it up for the Passover. But that
sheep's just as comfortable put up in the pen as it is out yonder
on the hillside. It has no awareness. It has no
conscience. It has no mind. It has no soul.
It's just a dumb animal that's brought to the slaughter in its
bloodshed. What identification can that have with our sin? See
what I'm saying? But our Lord Jesus Christ made
his soul an offering for sin. So it's not possible. And whenever
anyone, when anyone seems to insinuate or imply that back
in Old Testament days, under the priesthood, under the Levitical
priesthood, under the Levitical ceremonies, Sabbath days, sacrifices,
whatever, that there was any satisfaction for sin, or any
payment for sin, or any recognition on the part of God toward any
or all of those sacrifices, just doesn't understand what sin is,
or what the holiness of God is, or what's required for the salvation
of a man's soul. It's not possible. You say, well,
why were these things given? As a blueprint, as a pattern,
as a figure, as a type, so that when our Lord Jesus Christ was
typified in all those things. And actually, the people who
were saved in those days were saved because, like Abel of old,
he brought a lamb looking to the lamb. And Abraham brought
a sacrifice looking to the sacrifice. Abraham saw my day. Moses instituted
the Levitical covenant looking forward to him food for the family.
We'll see that. Let's go on. Verse 5-8 is a quotation
from Psalm 40, which Brother Allen just read. And
David said, Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, the Lord
Jesus Christ, our Savior, our High Priest, our Prophet, Priest
and King, when he was made in the likeness of human flesh,
when he tabernacled among us, he said, Sacrifice and offering
thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me. What our
Lord Jesus is saying is this. God would have the sacrifice
continue only till Christ comes. And he would not accept these
sacrifices as a term of righteousness. He didn't then, and he doesn't
now, and he never has accepted any of these sacrifices as a
term of righteousness. Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest
not accept. But a body, thou hast clothed
me with a body formed by the Holy Ghost. in the womb of the
virgin, that he might, in the body of man, obey the law, suffer
for sin, offer a perfect sacrifice, redeem his people through a sacrifice
that God will accept." Verse 6, in burnt offerings and sacrifices
for sin, thou hast had no pleasure. They never satisfied God's justice. All the blood of bulls and goats
on Jewish altars slain could never take away one spot or remove
one guilty stain. God's justice was never satisfied. His law was never honored. His
anger was never appeased. And sin was never put away. There's no pleasure and satisfaction
in a picture. All right, verse 7, Then said
I, Then said I," who's speaking? The Lord Jesus. Then said I,
"'Lo, I come! Lo, I come! In the volume of
the book it is written of me.'" What is that book? It's this
book right here before us. This has a twofold meaning. First
of all, it's this book right here. Our Lord Jesus Christ,
as Alan said, walking with the apostles on the road to Emmaus
with the disciples, opened their eyes that they might understand
the Scriptures. And he began at Moses, and the
major prophets, and the minor prophets, and the Psalms, and
taught them those things concerning himself. All of this is written
of Christ. But there's another book. John
on the Isle of Patmos, in Revelation 5, said he saw one sitting on
a throne, and in his hand was a book, written on the inside
and the outside and all around, but it was sealed. And it was
found no one worthy to open that book. That book contains all
the purpose of God, all the decrees of God, the kingdom of God, all
that God will do, all that God would do, everything's contained
in that book. God's loving kindness, God's
mercy, God's grace, God's salvation, God's kingdom, God's family,
everything's in that book. Who's going to open it? Who's
going to bring it to pass? Who's going to make it to live?
Who's going to reveal it? There was found no one in heaven,
earth, or hell who could open that book. And he said, I began
to weep. And one of the elders said to me, weep not. For out
of the midst of the elders came forth one as a lamb that had
been slain. And he went right up to the one
on the throne and took the book and opened the pages thereof.
Who was that one? The lamb that was slain, the
Lord Jesus Christ. you see everything that god's
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things purposes all things he said my will shall be done he
grew up according to his will in the armies of heaven and among
the inhabitants of this earth but in a way in a way In keeping
with his honor and his holiness and his justice, his purposes
are fulfilled and revealed, and only Christ can do it. And that's
what he's saying here. In all of these types and pictures
and patterns, God's never had any pleasure or satisfaction. His justice has never been satisfied. His law's never been honored.
And then I come. I come because in that book it's
written of me. And in this book it's written
of me. I come to do what? Your will, O God." That's His
will He came to do, His Father's will. He said, "...all that my
Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me
I will in no wise cast out, for I came down from heaven not to
do mine own will, even as the Mediator." And that's how He's
speaking. He's speaking as the Mediator. Yes, He is God. He is the second person of the
Divine Trinity, and the Trinity cannot be divided. And what is
the will of the Father is the will of the Son and the will
of the Spirit. But as the representative person, John, that's what he's
saying, as the mediator, as the representative person, he submits
to the Father's will. His words are not his words.
The will he does is not his will. The works are not his works.
They're the will and words and works of his Father. He speaks
as our representative. And he said, Lo, I come to do
God's will. I come to do God's will. God's
will, all right? Verse 8, "...above when he said,
Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt offerings, and offering
for sin, thou wouldst not, neither had pleasure therein which are
offered by the law." The Apostle keeps repeating this, all sacrifices,
all sacrifices, so that when they are replaced by Christ,
It was clearly stated that none of these sacrifices ever gave
any pleasure to the Father and ever satisfied His justice except
as they fulfilled in Christ. Now look, here's a Bible in one
verse, in the next two verses, verse 9 and verse 10. Then said
He, Lo, I come. This is the Lord Jesus Christ.
This is our representative. This is the one of whom the Father
spake in the Garden of Eden. This is Christ, of which all
is a picture and a type. He said, I come, I come to do
thy will, O God. And when he comes, he takes away
the first. He takes away the first. First
what? First Adam? And Adam would die,
and Christ would be made alive. He takes away the first covenant.
This do and live. I do and you live. He takes away
the first tabernacle. Just burn it up, tear it up and
throw it away. He takes away the first tabernacle.
He's the tabernacle. That tabernacle was where God
met men and men met God. No more. Christ is where men
meet God and God meets men. He takes away the first priesthood.
And don't you, let me tell you something. Don't you blush and
flinch and become intimidated. by these imposters walking around
here calling themselves priests. Don't you be intimidated. And
don't you father them, or serve them, or anything else. They're
imposters. They're lowlife. Now, I'm telling
the truth. And don't you be intimidated
by these, the Pope, or any of this. If you believe on Christ,
those men are imposters. The Pope calls himself the vicar
of Christ. You know what a vicar is? It's
a substitute. You know what vicarious is? Substitution. And that's the reason his word
to Catholics is law, because he's the vicar. He's Christ on
earth, whom he blesses, God blesses. Whom he forgives, God forgives. Whom he absolves from sin, that's
a lie. Now that he takes away the first
priesthood, you know who the priests of God are now? They're
everyone sitting right here in front of me. You say, me, I'm
a priest. If you're saved, you are. He
hath made us kings and priests unto God. Be careful, by the
way, I'm not going to be careful. I'm reading what God says. He
takes away the first. That sort of thing today with
their inner sanctums and their so-called mysteries and all of
it, that is an abomination to a holy God. When our Lord died
on the cross, that veil was rent into. And every son of God, every
daughter of God, every child of God is a priest to come right
into the presence of the Almighty God in the Holy of Holies because
we have a Don't you believe in the priesthood? Yes, sir, I do.
A new priesthood. An effectual priesthood. I believe
in the Lord Jesus Christ. He is our priest. That's why
He takes away the first priesthood and establishes a second. His
high priestly office and we are priests ourselves to offer sacrifices
under God. He takes away the first sacrifice.
Don't ever attend the Mass. Don't you ever do it. You know
what a mass is? It's a sacrifice. We have no
sacraments. You say, is that bread and wine
a sacrament? No, sir, it has no saving power. That bread and
wine represents the body and blood of Christ. Baptism is no
sacrament. We have no sacraments. We have
a Savior. I'm telling you the truth now.
It's like you told those folks out there, sit down, shut up,
I know the truth. He takes away the first sacrifice.
He takes away the first mercy seat. He's now the mercy seat. He takes away this first nature
and gives us a new nature. He's going to take away the first
heaven and make a new heaven. He's going to take away the first
earth and make a new earth. He takes away the first. He makes
all things new. That's right. We're free from
the law. Oh, happy condition. Jesus has
bled and there's remission. Cursed by the law, bruised by
the fall, but Christ hath redeemed us once for all. You see, that's
so very, very, very important. Don't reach back and pick up
any of that touch not, taste not, handle not. Don't you reach
back and pick up any of that do's and denials and duties.
Don't you reach back and pick up any of that Old Testament
law and ceremony and ritual Jesus Christ fulfilled it and took
it away. Am I telling the truth, Adam?
That's the truth. Now watch this next verse. By
the which will? Now whose will are we talking
about? And the biggest joke in town is that sign out here on
13th Street, Free Will Baptist. There ain't no such animal. That's
like great nuts. Neither great nor nuts. That's right, it's not. Buy a
box of great nuts. They're not great, are they?
There's no nuts in that. What about Christian scientists?
They're neither Christian nor scientists. Little boy came running
in, lady next door was a Christian scientist. His mother was a Christian
scientist. And he came running in and said,
Miss, so-and-so's sick. His mother said, she just thinks
she's sick. She's not sick. He said, she's awful sick. She said, no, she's not sick.
There's no such thing as sickness. She just thinks she's sick. Next
day, the little boy came running and said, Mom, did you know that
lady thought she's sick? She thinks she's dead. All right. He takes away the
first, takes it away, and establishes the second. Now, he said, why
is our Lord called second? He's revealed secondly. Why is
this covenant called a new covenant? It's newly revealed. See, he
was before that covenant. He is before those sacrifices.
He is before that priesthood. He was before that tabernacle.
All right? By the which will? Now, this
is God's will. It's not my will, your will,
free will, or anybody's will. The Lord Jesus said, I come to
do thy will. Watch verse 10. By the which
will? By the will and purpose and design
of the Father. We are sanctified. Now, all over this country tonight,
there are people down at a wooden bench trying to get sanctified.
That's right. They're praying, they're hollering,
they're crying, they're selling their TVs and throwing their
cigarettes out the window, wiping off their makeup, and they're
doing all these things trying to get sanctified. Isn't that
right? That's right. This is reality, and that's especially
in eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. They're all down at
the altar, down at the morning's bench trying to get sanctified,
seeking the baptism of the Holy Ghost, seeking the eradication
of their old nature. This says By the will of God,
I'm sanctified. I'm a saint. Sanctified. Perfectly holy. It's like when
that high priest killed that lamb, came walking across that
courtyard, and washed in that water, that pure water, sanctified
him. And our Lord Jesus Christ, by
God's will, we are sanctified through the offering of the body
of Jesus Christ once for all. Is that pretty clear? What are
we going to do with it? I'm going to believe it. By the
will and purpose of God, sin is put away, we're justified
in the sight of God, we're made pure, righteous, and holy, and
accepted by God through the offering of his human body, through his
blood that was shed, and through the sacrifice of his soul. And that, my friend, is once
for all. One offering. One offering. The old hymn writer said, it's
done. The great transaction's done. I am my Lord, and He is mine. I'm sanctified. I'm righteous. I'm redeemed. Now, we grow in
grace, and we grow in love, and we grow in faith, and we grow
in the fruit of the Spirit, and we grow in the knowledge of Christ,
but we're accepted in the Beloved. We're righteous in Christ. We're
sanctified in Christ Jesus once for all, and that by His blood,
by His sacrifice. All right, watch this now. The
next few verses have a comparison between these Old Testament priests
under that ceremonial law and Christ our High Priest. Now watch
this. And every priest, there were many of them, many of them. You know why there were many
of them? Because they had a limited priesthood. They were men. They
were born of a woman and they died. Christ is one. And Christ has no beginning of
days or end of days. He has no beginning of his priesthood. He's a priest forever. There
were many of them, one of him. It says they stand. The priest
never sat down. Their work was never through.
Like I said, they've got another sacrifice in the morning, another
tomorrow night. They stand. Christ sat down. And they stand daily ministering
and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take
away sin. But this man, this God-man, after
he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on
the right hand of God. My friends, I don't know how
the gospel can be put more clearly. I don't know how it can be stated
more clearly. From henceforth, expecting till
his enemies be made his footstool, for by one offering, one sacrifice,
one death, he hath perfected, he hath perfected forever them
who are sanctified. Who are the sanctified? It is
those who are sanctified by the will of God through the body
of Christ, Forever. I hear people arguing all the
time about this, whether once saved, always saved. You know,
whether man once in grace, always in grace. That's a fool's discussion
and debate, if you read the Bible. Everybody that says, Lord, Lord's
not saved. Everybody that joins the church's
not saved. Everybody who makes a profession's not saved. Everybody
who's a Baptist is not saved. Because everybody in the church
is not in grace. But I'm telling you this, if
God chose you before this world, and that's what he says in the
Bible, he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the
world. If he gave you to his son, if you're in true Israel,
and if the great high priest Jesus Christ who came to this
earth in the flesh bore your name on his breastplate and went
to that cross and died for your sin and was buried and rose again
and ascended to the right hand of God as your mediator, And
in time, He called you by His Spirit and gave you a new heart
and a new nature and a new life and revealed Himself to you and
came in to dwell. You're going to be glorified.
That's just so. That's so. For whom He foreknew, He predestinated
to be conformed to the image of His Son. And whom He predestinated,
He called. And whom He called, He justified.
Whom He justified, He glorified. Yes, once in grace by God's purpose,
you'll be in glory by God's mercy. That's right. For by one offering
he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. Whereof
the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us. For after that he had
said before, where did he say this before? He said it in Jeremiah
31. This is the covenant I will make with them after those days,
the days of the Messiah, the days of the Redeemer. I'll put
my law in their hearts, not on tables of stone. I'll write my
law, my word, my commandments, which are not grievous to the
believer because it's written on his heart. He loves them.
He loves God's law. He loves God's word. He loves
God's commandments. They're written on his heart.
It's not something he's reading over there that's grievous to
him Opposed to him, and he despises. They're written on his heart,
and he said, I'll write them on their minds so they'll think
of them. The believer sins, but he doesn't love sin. He hates
sin. When he thinks sin, or speaks
sin, or does sin, he despises that. He loves holiness. He loves
God's law. He loves God's truth. He thinks
on these things. He wants to be like Christ. Verse
17, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no
more. No more. No more. You see that? No more. God said,
I'll remember them no more. That's the efficacy, that's the
power of the blood of the Son of God that can effectually and
eternally put away all our sins. Now watch it. Hold on. All our
sins, past, present, and future. That's right, all of our sins,
past, present, and future. Now, dear, where forgiveness,
that is remission. You remember I read this morning,
without the shedding of blood, there's no remission? Well, remission
is forgiveness. Remission is to blot them out.
Remission is to put them away. Now, where remission of sin is,
there's no more offering. There's no more reason for this
sprinkling and no more reason for the funny There's no more
reason for the indulgences. There's no more reason for the
masses. There's no more reason for these things, because sin
forgiven is forgiven. There's no more offering. There's
no more sacrifice. So therefore, watch this, having
therefore brethren, and this word brethren means believers,
true believers, boldness, liberty, confidence. to enter where? Into
the holiest. Oh, you remember back yonder
under that law we read this morning? The people were out there, the
priests were in here, the priests were in the holy place, but behind
the veil no one dared enter, no one, for no reason. He dared enter except the high
priest once a year, and that was not without blood. You know
what happened? My Lord, our high priest, our
sacrifice, our lamb slain, our sin offering, our sacrifice,
our one offering on that cross of Calvary died under the judgment
and wrath of God for all the sins of all believers of all
generations. And when he said, It's finished! temple down there. God took that
veil, where the high priest used to call under and bring the offering
and put it on, and tore it in two, from the top to the bottom,
and threw that Holy of Holies right out in front of the people. Don't you see them sewing that
thing back up? They got out, they went over there, you know,
and started sewing that veil back, going to put it back. And
that's what denominations are doing now, they're putting the
veil back. They're putting the veil back. God tore it apart
and threw it away, and he said, ever believer, come on! Ever
believer, cause you're washed. That high priest didn't come
into the Holy of Holies without blood, don't you either. He didn't
come into the Holy of Holies without washing, don't you either.
He didn't come into the Holy of Holies without the censer,
the prayers of Christ, don't you either. But if you have the
blood, if you have the sanctification by pure water, if you have the
intercession of Christ, come on! See what I mean? Come on! Let us come boldly into the holiest. Not that old way now. Not that
old way, not those old sacrifices, sir. By a new and living way. Christ is a living Lord. It's
not a death, it's not a crucifix. A new and living way which He
hath made, which He hath consecrated. Through that veil, that is by
his own, the renting of his own flesh, and having a high priest
over the house of God. We do have a high priest. I'm
not being blasphemous at all. Not at all. When Brother Art
Young, the Lord called him home up there at St. Mary's Hospital,
his son Mike was standing there in one of these You know how
these religious people are, the nuns. And I know they're just
blind people, and I feel sorry for blind people, but I'm not
going to be led by them. Y'all ought not to take
off on people. Y'all ought to pity them. I do,
but I'm not going to let them hold my hand and take me over a cliff.
She came in and said, Y'all want to see a priest? Mike said, No,
we got a high priest. Thanks anyway. And we do, believe
me. We have a high priest. Therefore,
verse 22, let's draw near. Let's draw near with a true heart.
Now, don't you come with a phony hypocritical heart. You come
with a true heart in full assurance of Haiti, in Christ alone. Don't
you drag anything else in there now. You come with a full assurance. Don't you do it. Well, brother
man, just in case, I'm going to be baptized. No, don't do
anything just in case. The just in case is settled,
the case is closed, the dead is paid. Full assurance. Having your heart sprinkled from
an evil conscience and your bodies washed with pure water and hold
fast to the profession of your faith. Don't waver. He's faithful. He's faithful. And let us consider
one another and not forsake the assembling of ourselves together.
All right. That's a blessing, isn't it?
That's so clear, so very clear, the gospel's there. I tell you, you can't tell the truth about
God's redemption without condemning error as you're telling the truth.
You just have to do it. I know that this idea of live
and let live and be ecumenical and all this sort of thing, but
when there's gross error and open denial of what Scripture
plainly says, you gotta deal with it. You just have to deal
with it. That's not our ministry. We don't
have a negative ministry. We have a positive ministry.
We have a ministry pointing to Christ. But I don't hesitate
for one minute. Just like, especially my children. That's what Paul called people
that sat under his ministry, his children. But if I know,
just like drugs with our young people, we warn Alcohol, we warn
them. All these pitfalls, we warn them.
The little boys and girls, strangers at school, we warn them. Well,
I warn my children about these strangers out there calling themselves
just apostles of Christ. Stay away from them. Don't take
candy from them. Because they promise what they
can't produce. And they condemn what they don't understand. So
you stay away from them. What do you want us to do? Read
the book. That's what I want you to do.
Don't you want us following you? No, sir. I want you to follow
Him. That's exactly it. You follow Him. I don't want
to be responsible for any man's soul. Not even my own. Christ is responsible for my
soul. All right. Mike, come lead us
in a song, please, sir.

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How do we know that Jesus' sacrifice is sufficient for sin?

Why is the concept of Christ's High Priesthood important for Christians?

How does Hebrews 10 define the relationship between faith and assurance?

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Why is the concept of Christ's High Priesthood important for Christians?

How does Hebrews 10 define the relationship between faith and assurance?

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