Jesus invites us to the new and living way to approach God! Hold on to the confession of your faith!
Hebrews 10:1 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.
Hebrews continues to build on comparing and contrasting the law of Moses to the grace and truth found in Jesus Christ. By showing what the law could not do it prepares us to receive the fullness of the truth of what the new covenant can and has done. In chapter 9 we have already learned that by the blood of Jesus we can be free from the consciousness of sin. The blood of bulls and goats was a reminder what a sinner the worshipper was; the blood could never take away the sin. Jesus took our sin away by the sacrifice of Himself! We no longer have a reminder of sin; our High Priest looks good on us!
Hebrews 10:5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me. 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. 7 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come; In the volume of the book it is written of Me; To do Your will, O God.'“8 Previously saying, "Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them" (which are offered according to the law),
Here is intimacy between Jesus and the Father. “A body you have prepared for Me.” Jesus was rehearsing the Word of God to the Father! What a beautiful picture! Jesus declared that He came exclusively to do the will of the Father. God had no pleasure in the sacrifices and offering that were offered under the law. However the sacrifice of Jesus Christ appeased God!
Hebrews 10:9 then He said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Jesus declaring the word of God is declaring His own purpose. We would be wise to follow in our Savior’s example! Jesus takes away the first (Moses law) that the new covenant might be established. What the covenant of the law of Moses could not accomplish, Jesus Christ did! It is by the very will of God we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews 10:11 And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. 14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
Jesus came to take away sin! Repeated sacrifices have a reminder of sin. A once for all sacrifice takes away sin consciousness! Jesus offered the perfect sacrifice in heaven taking away our sin! Jesus' sacrifice is so great He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified! Will you believe in the grace message that says Jesus has perfected forever those who are being sanctified!
Hebrews 10:15 But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before, 16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LOR D : I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,“ 17 then He adds, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.“ 18 Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
This covenant is between the individual believer and God! This covenant invites you into the Most Holy Place . It is a supernatural experience! God makes you a newly created being; and because of the perfected spirit there is power to walk the abundant life every day! We are the perfected ones to whom God is not accounting sins and lawless deed!
Romans 4:7 "Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, And whose sins are covered; 8 Blessed is the man to whom the LOR D shall not impute sin."
This covenant is between the individual believer and God! This covenant invites you into the Most Holy Place . It is a supernatural experience! God makes you a newly created being; and because of the perfected spirit there is power to walk the abundant life every day! We are the perfected ones to whom God is not accounting sins and lawless deed!
Romans 4:7 "Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, And whose sins are covered; 8 Blessed is the man to whom the LOR D shall not impute sin."
We are the blessed ones to whom the LOR D shall not impute sin!
Hebrews 10:19 Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, 21 and having a High Priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Because of the truths shared we can have boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus. The blood of Jesus is still speaking if you are in covenant with Him! God has called us to approach by the new and living way! And there It is this new and living way that brings us a confident expectation in the goodness of God! It is this new and living way to approach God with boldness.
Romans 6:10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Jesus died to sin once for all and now He lives unto God! Likewise, reckon yourself dead indeed unto sin and alive unto God! Present your members as instruments of righteousness!
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