Let's open our Bibles to Hebrews
10. Now, realistically, realistically, I'm going to get up here one
of these Sunday mornings or Sunday nights or Wednesday nights and
preach My last message to this congregation, there's no question
about that, that's being realistic. The days are passing by so quickly,
aren't they? The years go by so quickly. D'Arcy and I were reminiscing
last night. Forty years ago last night we
We were expecting our first son to be born. I took her down to
a woman's clinic in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I was a pastor down
there in a little country church in Chattanooga. I took her to
the hospital on Saturday afternoon. I took my Bible and my sermon
notes with me. I had to study. I had to preach
twice the next day. So I was sitting in the waiting
room waiting for them to get Doris ready. And so a preacher friend of mine,
he and his wife were visiting in the hospital. She came in
the waiting room. I was sitting there writing notes. She said,
what in the world are you doing down here studying? I said, I'm
waiting on my son to be born. And he was born Saturday night,
40 years ago last night. That seemed like yesterday. seemed like yesterday and a few
more yesterdays will pass by and that will be it for my ministry
on this earth. So I was thinking about that
and thinking about what I would say
to you this morning in introducing this message I
want so desperately, I feel like I've always felt this way, but
not nearly so much as I do now. I want so desperately to glorify
God, to exalt and magnify our Lord Jesus Christ in every message. And I want to be true to the
word, not to what we think or suppose or even believe, What
saith the Lord? What does God say? And then thirdly,
I want very much in my preaching, and I would urge all preachers
to seek to do this, I want to communicate with people's hearts. I want to answer your questions
if I can. I want to deal with the things
that you're dealing with. And so I've selected this passage
in Hebrews 10. Would you, let me ask you this,
would you, amid all the confusion of religion, and there's so much
confusion, amid all the conflict, ceremonialism, and customs of
religion, would you here this morning, would you be interested
in once again taking a good, firm, hard look at what God,
what God has to say about this business of salvation. Would
you like to take a good hard look at it this morning? To see
what God says about the salvation of a sinner. The salvation of
a sinner. Would you? Would you like to
take a good hard look? Just forget, I get so tired of
people saying, I listen to you on television, but you know I'm
a Methodist. I tell you, where those names
are concerned, we're nothing. That's what we are. You're not
a Methodist, you're a nothing. I'm not a Baptist, I'm a nothing.
Nothing. Nothing. I need God's mercy.
I need God's mercy and grace, and you do too. Quit telling
people what you are. Are you interested in taking
a good look at the putting away of sin? We're going to have to
do something about our sins. They're going to have to be put
away. Do you know anything that will put away sin? The ceremonies wouldn't do it.
Reformation won't do it. Repentance won't do it. Hell
won't do it. And I'm interested, would you
like to take a good look and come out of here and finish up
this morning from the Word? Did you bring a Bible? Having looked at this Word and
seeing what God says about how a sinner can approach a holy
God. Now going to church on Sunday is not approaching God. and bowing
your head and saying some words, I don't care how solemn or sincere,
that's not approaching God. I mean talking about how folks
like you and me can come right into the very holiest of holies,
into the very throne room of God, and commune with a holy
God, and Him commune with us. You want to know how that's done? Well, now, this Word will tell
us. It's a way to tell us, all right, let's look at it. And
I don't ask you to believe me. I've asked you to believe God.
Let not your faith stand in your own wisdom or anybody else's
but in the power of God. Hebrews 10, verse 1, for the
law. For the law. What law are we
talking about? We're talking about the ceremonial
law. This whole Old Testament contains a ceremonial law. God
gave it to Moses on Mount Sinai. He gave him all the descriptions
and the blueprints for the tabernacle, for the holy of holies and the
holy place and the furniture and the priesthood, and all the
sacrifices and washings and holy days and feast days, all this
law, all the ceremonies and washings and rules and regulations, this
law. This law having or being a shadow
of good things to come. What is a shadow? It's a picture. It's an image. It's a blueprint. And this law that God gave to
Moses is a blueprint of the real tabernacle, of the real mercy
seat, of the real priesthood. of the real atonement, of the
real sacrifice of Christ Jesus. It's a picture. All of it is
a shadow. It's a shadow of the mercy seat and all the sacrifices. I want you to turn just a moment
to the book of Colossians, and I ask you to turn because I want
you to see this yourself. Colossians 2, 16. Colossians
2, 16. This ceremonial law is an image
It's not the substance of the thing themselves, it's an image,
a picture, a shadow of good things to come. Colossians 2.16, let
no man therefore judge you in meat, eating certain meats, or
in drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new moon, ceremonies,
feast days, or Sabbath days. which are a shadow of things
to come, a picture of things to come, but the body is of Christ. In other words, when God gave
Moses this law, the ceremonial law, the temple, the sacrifices,
all these things, and God's not going to re-institute that. He
gave it for a purpose, the purpose fulfilled, he's taken it away.
It's not going to be any more temple or tabernacle or sacrifice
of priesthood. He gave it once and he gave it
as a picture. He gave it as a blueprint. He
gave it as a shadow of good things to come. What are these good
things to come? Redemption in Christ, the putting
away of sin in Christ, righteousness in Christ, life in Christ. All
of us being made kings and priests under God, every believer coming
into the presence of God, a full atonement, that's the good things
to come. Alright, read on. The law having a picture of good
things to come, and not the very image of those things, can never,
can never with those sacrifices which they offer year by year
continually make the comers down to perfect. I've heard people
say, well, today we're saved by grace. Those people in Old
Testament were saved by law. Well, Paul says, yeah, those
sacrifices could never put away sin. The law can't put away sin. The law can reveal sin. The law
can expose sin, but it can't put it away. Any more than a
mirror can wash your face. One of the apostles used that
as an example. He said a man goes to a mirror,
and the mirror says he needs washing, he needs shaving, he
needs cleansing. Well, that's all America can
do. It can't cleanse him. It sends him to the water. And
the law can't save, it can't cleanse, it can't present us
to God. It just drives us to Christ. It's the schoolmaster,
the teacher that points us to Christ who can. And these things
could never take away sin. Now, he gives some answers to
that. Verse 2. For then would there
not cease to be offering if the law, if the ceremonial law, If
these holy days and sacrifices and priesthood, if they could
put away sin, then would it cease to be offered? Because sin being
put away is finished. If my sins are forgiven, they
are forgiven. They are put away. So when Abel brought his sacrifice
and offered it on the altar, God accepted it. It was an excellent
sacrifice, more excellent than Cain. But then had he lived,
he would have had to offer another one the next year, another one
the next year. Always, one night after the other, because they
couldn't put away sin. Because the worshippers, once purged,
once forgiven, once sacrificed, would have no conscience of sin.
It'd be gone. Oh, here's the second thing.
But in those sacrifices, there's a remembrance again made of sin
every year. In other words, those sacrifices
offered on a yearly basis, the atonement every year. And the
sacrifices every day remind us that sin's still there. It's
still there. You keep taking the medicine
because you're still sick. If you take the medicine you
wear, you throw the medicine away. And when these people,
God kept telling them, keep the Passover every year, every year,
every year. It's saying this, you're still,
in God's sight, you're still chargeable under the curse, under
the judgment. Sin's not put away. See, he's
not put away. And then verse 4, it's not possible
that the blood of bulls and ghosts could put away sin. The blood
of an animal cannot put away a man's sin. It's not the same
blood. It's not the same blood. You
see, it's only a picture. Man's sin, man had to die. Man disobeyed God for a perfect
righteousness, man had to obey. So that's the reason the man
from heaven, the perfect man, the Lord Jesus Christ came as
our representative, and in the flesh, born of woman, made under
the law, he redeemed us. He perfectly obeyed God's law.
A man died on the cross, the man Christ Jesus. So there you
have the law. This is what he's saying, the
law, the ceremonies, the sacrifices, the priesthood were a picture. A shadow, an image of that which
is to come in Christ. And these things cannot make
the comers down to perfect. If so, they would have ceased
to be offered. But every year that those sacrifices are offered,
they're reminded, yes, sin's still there. It's still there,
still on the record, still against you, still under the curse. For
it's not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take
away sin. All right, now, here at verse 5, the true tabernacles
come. the true sacrifice, the true
priest, the true atonement on the true mercy seat. See, these
were all pictures. Yes, at that tabernacle, all
these tents, tents of tabernacles, all these tents were around.
And right in the middle was a tent, special tent. It looked like
the others on the outside, but not on the inside, full of the
glory of God. For there was the mercy seat.
covering the broken law and the very Shekinah glory of God over
that mercy seat between the cherubim. And once a year that high priest
would come into the holy place, get a censer, take the blood
under the veil into the holy presence of God and sprinkle
that blood over that mercy seat and then go out. That's a picture.
It's all a picture, it's an image, it's a shadow of something that's
coming. What's coming? The true tabernacle that's going
to stand on this earth among all us tents. He's going to look
like us. On the outside of the story,
he's a carpenter. That's Joseph's son. Why? How can he say before
Abraham was I am? He's not fifty years old. He
looks just like one of us. Or he did on the outside. But
on the inside today, glory. The glory of God was revealed
in the face of Christ Jesus. God was in Christ. Only those
with God-given eyes saw who he was. Peter said, I will know
who you are. You are the son of God. Only those with annoying
ears heard him as God speaking from the lips of a man. Only
those with an open heart saw that the glory of God is upon
this man. You see, the first Adam was of
the earth. The earth is the second of the Lord from heaven. And
he dwelt among us. All right, now read on. Wherefore,
when he came into the world, when he cometh into the world,
he did. The world was made flesh and dwelt among us. Do I have
to convince you of that? I don't do it. Jesus Christ,
Jesus Christ, is coming to the world to save sinners. In the
fullness of time, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman. You
see that? To redeem them born under the
law. He said when he came. He said, sacrifice an offering
thou wouldest not. In other words, he looked back
on all, when he came into the world, he looked back on all
of this from Moses to Malachi. And he saw all his rivers of
blood, altars, tabernacle, priesthood, all these sacrifices. And he
said, my father, none of these sacrifices have ever met the
demands of your love. None of these sacrifices, ceremonies,
and holy days have ever satisfied your justice. Never. All of them put together would
not satisfy your love. Then he says, look, but a body
hast thou prepared me, a tabernacle thou hast prepared me. God dwelt
in that body. He prepared it in Christ. Under us a child is born and
a son is given. Read on. In burnt offerings and
sacrifices for sin, thou hast no pleasure. There's no pleasure
in a picture. I know you carry pictures of
your children in your wallet when you're out of town. You
take them out and look at them. Does that satisfy you? No, you want
the warmth. of their embrace and feel their
lips on your cheek and hear them say, I love you, daddy. There's
no pleasure in a picture. A holy, sovereign, almighty,
immaculate God can receive no pleasure or satisfaction for
seeing from the blood of an animal or a picture. Christ has got
to come in the flesh. You see that? That's what he's
saying there. Thou hast had no pleasure. Then
said I, lo, I come. In the volume of the book, it's
written of me. Do you know that? In the volume
of this book, it's written of him. He said this, he said, these
are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you,
that all things must be fulfilled which are written in the law
of Moses, in the prophets, in the Psalms, concerning me. All
this is written of him. It's Christ. Christ is that ark. Christ is Abel's sacrifice. Christ
is the Passover. Christ is that seed of woman.
Christ is that brazen serpent lifted up. Christ is that high
priest going into the Holy of Holies. He's carrying the blood
of Christ in his hand. Christ is that mercy seed. It's
all Christ. It's written of me, and I'll
tell you something else. I don't have time to go into it this
morning, but it talks about over in Revelation. I saw him sitting
on the throne in his hand a book, having seven seals, sealed, written
within and without. And no man was found worthy to
open it. And I wept much. I wept because in heaven and
earth and under the earth, no man was found worthy to open
that book. And one of the elders said to me, don't weep. The Lion
of the tribe of Judah will open that book. And he said, I looked
and I saw one as a lamb that had been slain. And he stepped
up and literally took the book out of the hands of him that
sat on the throne and opened it. And all heaven rejoiced. Who is that? That's Christ. That's
Christ, and that book is what all of the purposes of God, the
providence of God, the redemption of God, the mediator kingdom
of God, the everlasting kingdom of God, everything known under
God are all his works from the beginning. He said, I've written
it, I've purposed it, I'll bring it to pass. But the only one
who could fulfill it, bring it to pass, was Christ. And he took
that book and opened it, and revealed it, and worked it out. And he said, I finished the work
you've given me to do. It's finished! And sat down at
the right hand of God. That's right, it's written in
the books. It's written in this book of him, and it's written
in that book of him. Read on. And he repeats it above. When he said above, Sacrifice
and offering, and burnt offerings, and offering for sin, thou wouldst
not neither have any pleasure therein which are offered by
the law. No, he's saying this, watch this. Then said I, Lo,
I come, I give my father pleasure. And when he stood in that water
beside John the Baptist, the father said, this is my son in
whom I have pleasure. I'm well pleased. And Isaiah
said, the pleasure of the Lord will what? Prosper in his hands. Lo, look at verse 9. Now watch,
this is so important. Lo, I come. O God, lo, I come
to do thy will, the will of God. Now I know, I want you to turn
to a few scriptures. First Isaiah 46. Now I know we're
living in a day when most all religionists and when most all
preachers and evangelists and writers and are emphasizing the
will of man, the will of man, the free will of man, the will
of man. That's all I hear. Will you, will you, will you?
Will you let God have his way? Will you open the door and let
Jesus in? Will you? And I'll tell you what I'm preaching.
And I believe what this word teaches. That Christ Jesus came into this
world to accomplish the will of his Father. the unchangeable,
eternal will of God. That's right. And here in Isaiah
46, I want you to listen to it, beginning with verse 9. Remember
the former things of old? I'm God, and there's none else. I'm God. There's none like me. I declare the end from the beginning,
and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying
my counsel shall stand. I will do all my pleasure. Calling a ravenous bird from
the east, the man that executed my counsel from a far country,
yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass, I purposed
it, I will do it. Lo, I come, my Father, in the
volume of the book that is written of me, Christ said, to do thy
will, to accomplish thy will, to fulfill thy will and purpose.
Turn to another scripture, Ephesians. Now listen to this, Ephesians
1. Ephesians 1, verse 11, listen
to it. In whom, talking about Christ,
in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated
according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after
the counsel of his own will. Whose will? His will. Our Lord
said in John 6, All that my Father giveth me will 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 my will, but the will of him that
sent me. And this is the Father's will
which is sent me, that of all which he hath given me I will
lose nothing, but raise it up at the last day. See that verse
9 in Hebrews 10? Then said he, Lo, I come to do
thy will, O God. Now what's this statement? He
taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. What
does that mean? It means just what we've been
talking about all along. The law, the ceremony, the feast
days, the tabernacle, the priesthood. Old Testament atonement, Sabbath
days, all these things, they fulfilled their purpose for which
they were given. They were pictures of Christ,
shadows and types of Christ. Now that Christ has come, he
taketh away the first. That Christ might be all in and
of, that he might have all the preeminence, that he might be
the center of our worship, our faith, our confidence, our hope,
our rest, all things. It's Christ now. It's Christ. That's the reason Paul said,
look, let no man judge you in meats and drinks. There's no
virtue or spiritual blessings in being circumcised or not being
circumcised. There's no spiritual blessings,
actually. And you have to be real careful
here, but in keeping a day or not keeping a day, or eating
certain meat or not eating certain meat, vegetarian or meat or whatever. It's not that which a man puts
in his mouth that defiles him, that's what comes out of his
heart. Our confidence is Christ. Our hope is Christ. Christ in
the heart regulates the life. Christ in the heart puts a man
in a direction of holiness under God. It makes him a new creature,
gives him a new heart, new nature, new motive, new spirit. But deeds
and works and rules and laws make no contribution to the redemption
of my soul. It's all in Christ. I worship
him. I worship him. Now, watch this.
As this patterns all the way through the scripture, he takes
away the first and establishes the second. Watch this. Took
away the first Adam. In Adam we die. In Christ we're
made alive. My identification with the first
Adam means nothing but flesh, sin, and death. My identification
with the Christ, the Lord from heaven, means spirit, holiness,
and life. Or he takes away the first covenant. I don't live by covenant of works.
I live by faith in Christ. I don't walk according to a covenant
of works. The law is not my rule of life. Christ is my rule of
life. He takes away the first covenant.
He takes away the first tabernacle. We have a building here that
is convenient and nice to meet in, but this is not a holy building.
This is just a building. We can meet out in the parking
lot and worship God. I don't come to a building to
meet God. The tabernacle, see that tabernacle stood, and they
came to the tabernacle, and the priest came to the tabernacle,
and the sacrifice could only be offered in the tabernacle,
for God dwelt in the tabernacle. You say, is that true today?
Yep. God dwells in the tabernacle. Christ's tabernacle among us.
And that's where God dwells. So where Christ is, is where
you worship, Charlie. You want to come to this building?
Somebody says, I'm going to church. How do you go to church? You
are the church. You don't go to church. We've
been saying, our whole vocabulary is in a mess. Did you know that?
You gonna go to church Sunday? No. No, I'm not. I'm going down there to that
building and meet with the church and worship God. Christ is all
things. That's right. He takes away the
first priesthood. And you say, well, don't say
anything about the Catholics. Well, what are you going to say
when one of your sons or daughters brings one home and says, I'm
going to marry this Catholic and that's where we're going
to go to church? Are you going to say anything then? They're wrong. The priesthood
is not down there in that building wearing skirts like a woman.
You say, women ought not dress like men. Well, men ought not
dress like women either. That's exactly right. That pope looks like a fool dressed
in a woman's garb. Why can't he dress like me? Well,
he's holy. He's the most unholy man that
ever walked on this earth. I'm holy in Christ, and so are
you. Now, that's just fact. That's
truth. Why don't we tell the truth? I'm a priest. He hath made us kings and priests
unto God. Every believer in here is a priest.
And every believer in here offers spiritual sacrifices to God. And you're a fool if you take
your sins down to a man and confess them. You're a fool if you go
down and pay that man some money to pray for you. You're a fool
if you commit the soul of yourself and your children to the hands
of some human being to sprinkle water on your face or go around
blowing smoke around. Christ is our high priest and
every believer is a priest. That's what this book says. That's
exactly right. He takes away the first priesthood
and sacrifice, the first mercy seat's gone, the first blood
atonement's gone. Christ is our atonement. The
first, our first nature is gone. We have a new nature. The first
heaven and first earth will pass away and there'll be a new heaven
and new earth. Christ said, behold, I make all things brand new.
Brand new. So don't go back to the seventh
day, the Sabbath. Seventh-day Adventist. Seventh-day
Baptist. We don't worship a day. Christ
is our Shabbat. All that's fulfilled. All that's
fulfilled. Everything in the Old Testament
is fulfilled in Christ. I tell you, that's what he says.
He takes away the first. Don't you resurrect it either.
He establishes the second. Now look at verse 10. By the witch will. Now, verse
9, let's go back here just a minute. Then said he, Lo, I come to do
thy will. Now, in doing the will of God,
he put away the first. He fulfilled it and established
himself. By the which will? Whose will
is that? Your will? By the which will? God's will. He said, I come to
do your will, and by that will, we're saved. We're sanctified. Is that what that's saying? Am
I stretching that, Bob? It says right there, Christ said,
Lo, it's written in the book about me, in the purpose of God
about me, I come to do your will, I take away the first, I fulfill
it, I establish Christ the second, and by that will, Paul says,
we're saved by the will of God. We're saved and sanctified means
to be saved means to be made holy, means to be set apart for
the glory of God. How do we say it? Through the
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. That's it. No more candle burning,
no more incense, no more sacrifices, no more holy of holies, no more
veils, no more tabernacles. We're sanctified, we're redeemed
once and for all by the will of God through the sacrifice
of Jesus Christ. Do you see that? There's no condemnation
in Christ. We are made righteous and holy
and accepted in Christ Jesus. And therefore there is no condemnation
to them who are in Christ Jesus. Now watch verse 11. Here is the
efficacy of his sacrifice, as opposed to these others. And
every priest, back in the Old Testament, and there were many
of them. There were many of them. There
are many. He is one. There were millions. Only men,
only flesh. He's the God-man. They lived
and died. He never dies. He ever liveth
to make intercession for us. I don't have a priest who's going
to lie down and die. I have one who ever liveth. These
Old Testament priests offered many sacrifices. He offered one.
Theirs was animal blood. His was his own blood. They offered
it in the tabernacle on the earth. He offered it in heaven before
the presence of God. Their sacrifices could never
put away sin. His, by one offering, perfected
us forever. And they always, look at this,
and every priest standeth. They always stood. They never
sat down. Why didn't the priest ever sat down? Never finished
what they came to do. Daily ministering, oftentimes
the same sacrifices, which could never, never, never take away
sin. Do you want back under that?
Do you want back under a day that can never get rest? You
want back under a tithe that can never buy blessings? You
want back under a system of service and priesthood that can never
put away sin? You want back under the sprinklings, under the law,
under the ceremony, under the rules? It can never put away
sin! That's the reason these countries
where Catholicism is dominant, Italy, And I've been to these
countries, whether Philippines, South America, Spain, France,
the people are oppressed, they're sad, they're troubled, there's
no joy, there's no assurance, there's no happiness, nothing. Because a person can't find happiness
under law. He can't find joy. You want that?
It can never put away sin. But listen, but this man, I wish I could bring each one
of you up here and read this yourself. But this man, after
he had offered one sacrifice for sin, this God man, forever,
forever sat down on the right hand of God. From henceforth
expecting, till all his rivals, his enemies, he said, you're
not farming against me. till all of them be made his
footstool. A man that won't preach his lordship now shall holler
it in hell, wherever. But he don't. For by one offering, his own
blood, he hath perfected forever. All right, you fathers in grace
folks, come on. What's that say? He hath perfected
forever. You folks that say, well, somebody's
better than I am. When you're in Christ, you're
as good as God. Perfected. God won't have any almost persuaded,
almost Christian, almost good, perfect in Christ. Not in this
place, in Christ. He hath perfected forever, damn
that whore. Sanctified. How's a man sanctified? The Word of God says we're sanctified
by God the Father. We're sanctified. through the
Spirit of God and sanctified by the Word of God. You know
what it says? That's how man is sanctified. By the Father,
by the blood of Christ, and by the Word of God. Well, the Holy Ghost also is
a witness to us, for after that, he had said before in Jeremiah
31, this is what he said before, this is a covenant that I'll
make with them after those days. There's going to be a new covenant.
Sayeth the Lord, I'll put my law in their hearts, not write
them on tablets of stone or write them on the wall of a building.
I'm going to write them on their hearts so they love them. I'm
going to write them in their minds so they think on my commandments
and my ways, God says. And their sins and iniquities
will I remember no more, no more, no more. Now, where remission
is, no more remembrance. Then there's no more offering
for sin, no more sacrifice. But isn't there something for
me to do? It's done. It's done. What are you going
to do? What are you going to have to do? You mean my sins are put
away? That's what he said. They're
forgiven? That's what he said. They remember
no more? That's what he said. And they
remain with no more sacrifice. No more duties and deeds and
doings? It's done. What am I to do? Believe on Christ. Receive Christ. Love Christ. Worship Christ. Give Him the glory. All right,
verse 19, the results. Watch this. Having therefore,
brethren, having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest. Now, this is something you wouldn't
have done in Old Testament days. Old Uzziah went in there and
they drove him out a leper. Another fellow went there and
drove him out dead. No man but the high priest, and that once
a year, not without blood, went into the holiest. But I can go
into the holiest. I can go into the holiest. You
know, when Christ died, that veil in the temple was torn in
two from top to bottom. There is no holy of holies anymore.
God ripped the veil open and exposed it. And His glory dwells
in Christ Jesus. He's our tabernacle. And when
I'm in Christ, I can come into the very Holy of Holies by the
blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, not that old law,
not that old special day and ceremonies and washings and feast
day. Don't eat pork. Somebody says,
I'll eat pork if I want to. It's got nothing to do with my
relationship with God. by a newly living way which he
hath consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, his
flesh. Now, brethren, do we have a priest? Oh, you bet your boots
we do, having a high priest over the house of God. Who is that? That's Christ. Let us draw near
in happy, full assurance, having our hearts sprinkled from an
evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us
hold fast the profession of our faith. without wavering. Trust
Christ, believe Christ, and don't move. Rest there, right there. He's your hope. He's faithful. He's faithful at promise. He'll
keep every promise. That's what Abraham believed.
And let's consider one another. No man's an island. We don't
live to ourselves. We live among people in a home
where we work, here in the church. to provoke one another unto love
and good works. And don't forsake the assembling
of yourselves together, as the manner of some is. But exhorting
one another, encouraging one another, and so much the more
as you see the day approaching. I'm not going to get into those
next verses because it would take a little while of what those
next verses are teaching when you read it yourself. If you
look at this gospel, take a good hard look at it, and then go
back to the beggarly elements. there remaineth no more sacrifice
for sin, but a certain fearful looking for judgment. Because
if those sacrifices can't save, and they never did, never did
put away sin, and Christ is not sufficient, then there is no
sacrifice. You're without a Savior. But
we're not of them that draw back, or turn back, or look back. We're
of them that believe unto the saving of the soul. Did I deal with it truthfully
and honestly? That's where it is. That's salvation. You want to know about salvation?
It's in Christ.