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<h2><a onclick="return mV('Hbr',10,'all');">Hbr 10</a> - Holding Fast With A Perfect Sacrifice</h2>
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<p>A. The once for all sacrifice of Jesus.</p>
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<p class="c1">1. (<a onclick="return mV('Hbr',10,'1-4');">1-4</a>) Sacrifice under the Old Covenant could not truly take away sin.</p>
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<p class="c2"><span>For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, <i>and</i> 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. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. But in those <i>sacrifices there is</i> a reminder of sins every year. For <i>it is</i> not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.</span></p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">Having a shadow of the good things to come</span></b>: The idea that the Old Covenant (<b><span class="c3">the law</span></b>) is a mere <b><span class="c3">shadow</span></b> of the substance that is the New Covenant is also communicated in <a onclick="return mV('Col',2,17);">Col 2:17</a> and <a onclick="return mV('Hbr',8,5);">Hbr 8:5</a>. <b><span class="c3">Shadow</span></b> means that the law communicated the outline and the figure of the fulfillment in Jesus, but was <b><span class="c3">not the very image of the things</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. <b><span class="c3">Shadow</span></b> isn't a bad thing. Sometimes a <b><span class="c3">shadow</span></b> can tell you a lot. But the <b><span class="c3">shadow</span></b> is not the substance. The Old Covenant and its law were not themselves bad or evil, they are only <i>incomplete</i> and <i>insufficient</i> to bring total cleansing from sin, and to save. The <b><span class="c3">shadow...can never...make those who approach perfect</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">Would they not have ceased to be offered?</span></b> The writer to the Hebrews repeats a familiar argument: the <i>repetition</i> of sacrifice shows its inherent <i>weakness</i>. If animal sacrifice had "fixed" the sin problem, then they could <b><span class="c3">have ceased to be offered</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. <b><span class="c3">For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year</span></b>: Every repeated sacrifice was a <b><span class="c3">reminder of sins</span></b>. It brought the <b><span class="c3">consciousness of sins</span></b> to the people again and again. But the work of Jesus on the cross <i>takes away sin</i>!</p>
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<p class="c4">c. <b><span class="c3">For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins</span></b>: Animal sacrifice under the Old Covenant could <i>cover</i> sin. The Hebrew word for <i>atonement</i> is <i>kophar</i>, which literally means "to cover." But animal sacrifice could never <b><span class="c3">take away sins</span></b>. Only Jesus, the Perfect Sacrifice of the New Covenant, takes sins <b><span class="c3">away</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c1">2. (<a onclick="return mV('Hbr',10,'5-10');">5-10</a>) A prophetic foundation for Jesus' perfect sacrifice under the New Covenant.</p>
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<p class="c2"><span>Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me. In burnt offerings and <i>sacrifices</i> for sin You had no pleasure. Then I said, 'Behold, I have come; in the volume of the book it is written of Me; to do Your will, O God.'" Previously saying, "Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and <i>offerings</i> for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure <i>in them"</i> (which are offered according to the law), then He said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first that He may establish the second. By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once <i>for all.</i></span></p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">He said</span></b>: This quotation is taken from the Septuagint version of <a onclick="return mV('Psa',40,'6-8');">Psa 40:6-8</a> (the Septuagint is the Greek translation of the Old Testament that was the most commonly used Bible in the first century). It shows that prophetically Jesus declared the insufficient character of Old Covenant sacrifice and declared His willingness to offer a perfect sacrifice under the New Covenant.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. <b><span class="c3">Sacrifice and offering You did not desire</span></b>: More animal sacrifices, made under the law, would not please God.</p>
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<p class="c5">ii. <b><span class="c3">But a body You have prepared for Me</span></b>: Instead, what pleased God could only come through Jesus, the incarnate Son of God.</p>
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<p class="c5">iii. <b><span class="c3">Behold, I have come...to do Your will, O God</span></b>: Jesus' submission to God's the Father's will had its ultimate fulfillment in His obedience to the cross. This desire to do God's will was shown in the Garden of Gethsemane (<a onclick="return mV('Luk',22,'39-44');">Luk 22:39-44</a>).</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God</span></b><span>: </span>The sacrifice of Jesus was determined before the foundation of the world (<a onclick="return mV('1Pe',1,20);">1Pe 1:20</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',13,8);">Rev 13:8</a>). But it was still an act of His will to submit to the cross at the appointed time and <b><span class="c3">by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. Our sanctification - our being set apart to God - is founded on the <b><span class="c3">will</span></b> of Jesus, not our own will. It is founded on the <b><span class="c3">offering</span></b> of Jesus, not on our own offering or sacrifices for God.</p>
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<p class="c4">c. <b><span class="c3">Once for all</span></b>: These are the important words of this passage, and the writer to the Hebrews repeats the theme over and over again: <b><span class="c3">once for all</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c1">3. (<a onclick="return mV('Hbr',10,'11-18');">11-18</a>) The finished work of Jesus Christ.</p>
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<p class="c2"><span>And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before, "This <i>is</i> the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the <span class="c6">Lord</span>: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them," <i>then He adds,</i> "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more." Now where there is remission of these, <i>there is</i> no longer an offering for sin.</span></p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">Every priest stands ministering daily</span></b>: The priests had to <i>stand</i> continually in their work. Their work continued <b><span class="c3">daily</span></b> and sacrifices had to be <b><span class="c3">repeatedly</span></b> offered. The priests could never sit down! But Jesus <b><span class="c3">sat down at the right hand of God</span></b>, having finished His work of sacrificing for sin.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. The seated posture of Jesus is important. It shows that His work is finished. He doesn't need to stand <b><span class="c3">ministering daily <span>and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices</span></span></b> as priests under the Old Covenant had to. Jesus still ministers in heaven - He has a ministry of intercession for His people. But that ministry flows from His completed work, so He can adopt a posture of <i>rest</i> - He <b><span class="c3">sat down at the right hand of God</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified</span></b>: This makes it plain that the work of Jesus is effective only for <b><span class="c3">those who are being sanctified</span></b>. The work of Jesus is <i>capable</i> of saving every human being, but it is only <i>effective</i> in saving <b><span class="c3">those who are being sanctified</span></b> (set apart to God).</p>
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<p class="c4">c. <b><span class="c3">The Holy Spirit also witnesses to us...says the <span class="c6">Lord</span></span></b>: In this passage, the writer to the Hebrews clearly identifies the <b><span class="c3">Holy Spirit</span></b> is equated as <b><span class="c3">the <span class="c6">Lord</span></span></b>, <i>Yahweh</i> of the Old Testament. When the <b><span class="c3">Holy Spirit</span></b> speaks, the <b><span class="cmscap">Lord</span></b> speaks.</p>
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<p class="c4">d. <b><span class="c3">This is the covenant</span></b><span>: In the passage quoted from Jeremiah, the writer to the Hebrews makes note of the promises of the new <b><span class="c3">covenant</span></b></span>, instituted by the Messiah.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. <b><span class="c3">I will make with them after those days</span></b><span>:</span> The new covenant is <i>new</i>. It comes <b><span class="c3">after those days</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c5"><span>ii. <b><span class="c3">I will put My laws into their hearts</span></b>: The new covenant has to do with an <i>inner transformation</i></span>. God changes the heart of man, and writes His law <b><span class="c3">into their hearts</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c5"><span>iii. <b><span class="c3">Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more</span></b>: The new covenant offers <i>complete forgiveness</i></span>. The forgiveness is so complete that God can say that doesn't even <b><span class="c3">remember</span></b> our sins in light of the new covenant!</p>
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<p class="c5">iv. The Christian must endeavor to do with their sin exactly what God has done: forget about it. As well, this reminds us that the believer is <i>in no way</i> on probation. Before God, his past sin has no bearing on God's present dealing.</p>
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<p class="c4">e. <b><span class="c3">Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin</span></b><span>:</span> Where sins are really forgiven and forgotten (<b><span class="c3">remission of these</span></b>), there no longer must be an offering for sin.</p>
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<p>B. Encouraging the discouraged in light of Jesus' perfect sacrifice.</p>
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<p class="c1">1. (<a onclick="return mV('Hbr',10,'19-22');">19-22</a>) Knowing Jesus has opened the way, let us draw near to God.</p>
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<p class="c2"><span>Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and <i>having</i> a High Priest over the house of God, 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.</span></p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">Having boldness</span></b>: Access has been given to us for a bold approach to God. The point is simple: we must take advantage of this access, and take it with <b><span class="c3">boldness</span></b>. On the Day of Atonement, the high priest entered the holiest place of all with fear and trembling, but we can <b><span class="c3">enter the Holiest</span></b> with <b><span class="c3">boldness</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. We can have <b><span class="c3">boldness</span></b> because we <b><span class="c3">enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus</span></b>. If we entered as the Old Testament high priest did, with the blood of animals, we wouldn't have <b><span class="c3">boldness</span></b>. But with the <b><span class="c3">blood of Jesus</span></b> providing <b><span class="c3">a new and living way which He consecrated with us</span></b>, we really can come into the presence of God with <b><span class="c3">boldness</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">Through the veil</span></b>: The <b><span class="c3">veil</span></b> separated <b><span class="c3">the Holiest</span></b> from the <i>holy place</i>. To enter into <b><span class="c3">the Holiest</span></b>, you had to pass <b><span class="c3">through the veil</span></b>. But this veil separating man from God's intimate presence is forever opened wide, being torn into two from top to bottom. (<a onclick="return mV('Mat',27,51);">Mat 27:51</a>)</p>
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<p class="c5">i. <b><span class="c3">That is, His flesh</span></b>: The writer to the Hebrews makes an analogy between the veil that stood between God and man and the body of Jesus. Jesus' body was "torn," and so was the veil, each indicating that now, we can come to God boldly.</p>
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<p class="c4">c. <b><span class="c3">Having a High Priest over the house of God</span></b>: We have a High Priest who presides over the heavenly courts to make certain the believer has total access.</p>
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<p class="c4">d. <b><span class="c3">Let us draw near</span></b>: With the perfect cleansing available to us, cleansing both the inner man (<b><span class="c3">hearts sprinkled</span></b>) and the outer man (<b><span class="c3">bodies washed</span></b>) we can <b><span class="c3">draw near</span></b> to God in a way never available to someone under the Old Covenant. The work of Jesus makes us able to draw near in a <b><span class="c3">full assurance of faith</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c4">e. So, several issues have been settled. The problem of access to God has been settled. The problem of a perfect High Priest has been settled. The problem of moral and spiritual pollution has been settled. So now, <b><span class="c3">let us draw near</span></b>!</p>
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<p class="c5">i. The encouragement to <b><span class="c3">draw near</span></b> wouldn't be given unless it was necessary. These discouraged Christians had a problem in drawing near. This was their <i>real</i> problem: they lost their intimate relationship with Jesus, and nothing else is going right.</p>
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<p class="c5">ii. They may have thought that they had many, many problems - persecution, difficult relationships, hard times with culture or economy. But the real problem was their relationship with God wasn't on track. They didn't draw near to God on the basis of what Jesus had done.</p>
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<p class="c5">iii. Are you in a tough time? Many people have gone through worse times and have had a better attitude, and more joy, than you do now. What is the difference? They knew how to <b><span class="c3">draw near</span></b>!</p>
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<p class="c5">iv. Just as importantly, they are reminded that they will never regain that intimacy coming through the institutions of the Old Covenant.</p>
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<p class="c1">2. (<a onclick="return mV('Hbr',10,23);">23</a>) Let us hold fast to the truth.</p>
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<p class="c2"><span>Let us hold fast the confession of <i>our</i> hope without wavering, for He who promised <i>is</i> faithful.</span></p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering</span></b>: Discouragement made them waver from the truth. A renewed confidence in the greatness of Jesus and in the New Covenant will make them stand strong in the faith.</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">For He who promised is faithful</span></b>: The reason we can stand strong is because <b><span class="c3">He who promised is faithful</span></b>. It is far better to trust in His faithfulness instead of ours!</p>
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<p class="c1">3. (<a onclick="return mV('Hbr',10,'24-25');">24-25</a>) Let us pursue the community of God's people.</p>
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<p class="c2"><span>And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as <i>is</i> the manner of some, but exhorting <i>one another,</i> and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.</span></p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">Let us consider one another</span></b>: Discouragement has made them avoid community at the very time they needed it most. Jesus meets us in one another to <b><span class="c3">stir up love and good works</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">Forsaking the assembling of ourselves together</span></b>: Forsaking fellowship is a sure way to give place to discouragement. This discouragement festers where God's people are not <b><span class="c3">exhorting one another</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. Many people go to church if they feel they "need it" at the time. But our motivation for fellowship must be to obey God and <i>to give to others</i>. We can go to church looking to encourage someone who needs to hang in there against a tide of discouragement.</p>
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<p class="c4">c. <b><span class="c3">So much the more as you see the Day approaching</span></b>: As <b><span class="c3">the Day</span></b> of Jesus' return draws nearer, we should be <i>more</i> committed to the fellowship of God's people, the <b><span class="c3">assembling of ourselves together</span></b>.</p>
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<p>C. Another warning to endure.</p>
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<p class="c1">1. (<a onclick="return mV('Hbr',10,'26-31');">26-31</a>) The danger of a willful rejection of Jesus' perfect sacrifice for us.</p>
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<p class="c2"><span>For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord. And again, "The <span class="c6">Lord</span> will judge His people." It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.</span></p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">For if we sin willfully</span></b>: To <b><span class="c3">sin willfully</span></b> is defined in <a onclick="return mV('Hbr',10,29);">Hbr 10:29</a>. It speaks of someone who has <b><span class="c3">trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace</span></b><span>. I</span>t is a knowing, deliberate rejection of Jesus' great work for us on the cross.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. <b><span class="c3">Sin willfully</span></b>: In a sense, <i>every</i> sin is a "willful sin." But here, the writer to the Hebrews speaks of something much more severe and relevant to these discouraged Jewish Christians who contemplated a retreat from a distinctive Christianity and a return to Judaism with its sacrificial system. This is turning your back on Jesus.</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">There no longer remains a sacrifice for sins</span></b>: If <i>Jesus'</i> sacrifice for sin is rejected, there remains <i>no other</i> sacrifice that can cleanse.</p>
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<p class="c4">c. <b><span class="c3">How much worse punishment</span></b>: If someone <i>does</i> reject Jesus' sacrifice, fearful judgment is <b><span class="c3">certain</span></b>, even more certain than it was under the Old Covenant.</p>
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<p class="c4">d. When we <b><span class="c3">sin willfully</span></b> by rejecting Jesus' work on the cross as sufficient, we have:</p>
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<p class="c5">i. <b><span class="c3">Trampled the Son of God underfoot</span></b>: We have disgraced Him by rejecting His greatest work. We devalue Him by devaluing what He did.</p>
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<p class="c5">ii. <b><span class="c3">Counted the blood of the covenant...a common thing</span></b>: We have considered that Jesus' blood was of no greater importance than the countless animals that had been sacrificed under the Old Covenant.</p>
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<p class="c5">iii. <b><span class="c3">Insulted the Spirit of grace</span></b>: We offend the Holy Spirit, whose purpose it is to present Jesus and His work to us (<a onclick="return mV('Jhn',16,'8-15');">Jhn 16:8-15</a>) when we reject Jesus and His finished work on our behalf. When we reject God's free gift of <b><span class="c3">grace</span></b> and seek to be justified by law.</p>
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<p class="c4">e. <b><span class="c3">It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God</span></b>: It is <b><span class="c3">fearful</span></b> indeed to one-day face the God you have rejected and offended so greatly!</p>
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<p class="c1">2. (<a onclick="return mV('Hbr',10,'32-34');">32-34</a>) Take heart in your discouragement, and remember how you have stood for God in tough times before.</p>
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<p class="c2"><span>But recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: partly while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you became companions of those who were so treated; for you had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods, knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven.</span></p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">But recall the former days</span></b>: These Christians had suffered for Jesus, being rejected from their Jewish community, and perhaps being counted as dead. This came after they trusted in Jesus (<b><span class="c3">after you were illuminated</span></b>).</p>
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<p class="c4">b. The persecution came in many different ways, but it was <b><span class="c3">a great struggle with sufferings</span></b>. They were <b><span class="c3">made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations</span></b>. They were <b><span class="c3">companions of those who were so treated</span></b> - including the writer to the Hebrews himself (<b><span class="c3">you had compassion on me in chains</span></b>). They also had faced economic persecution (<b><span class="c3">the plundering of your goods</span></b>). But the point is that they had faced these things, and had <b><span class="c3">endured</span></b> them. They could take a look at their past endurance, and be encouraged to keep standing strong in the future.</p>
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<p class="c4">c. <b><span class="c3">Knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven</span></b>: They made it through the time of persecution by keeping a heavenly perspective. The writer to the Hebrews' point is clear: you can make it through this present time of discouragement as well.</p>
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<p class="c1">3. (<a onclick="return mV('Hbr',10,'35-39');">35-39</a>) Draw on your past experience to gain strength to endure for the future.</p>
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<p class="c2"><span>Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise: "For yet a little while, <i>and</i> He who is coming will come and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith; but if <i>anyone</i> draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him." But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.</span></p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">Therefore do not cast away your confidence</span></b>: These discouraged Christians were in danger of casting <b><span class="c3">away their confidence</span></b> in Jesus, and relapsing into an Old Covenant relationship with God.</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">You have need of endurance</span></b>: They, and we, <b><span class="c3">have need of endurance</span></b> to receive the promise of God after we <b><span class="c3">have done the will of God</span></b>. The toughest and most discouraging trials are when we are called to obey God's will when the fulfillment of His promise seems so far away. This is why we need <b><span class="c3">endurance</span></b>. Faithfulness during the time when the promise seems unfulfilled is the measure of your obedience and spiritual maturity.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. This <b><span class="c3">endurance</span></b> is built through trials, the testing of our faith (<a onclick="return mV('Jam',1,'2-4');">Jam 1:2-4</a>).</p>
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<p class="c4">c. <b><span class="c3">Now the just shall live by faith</span></b>: We need to follow in the footsteps of the <b><span class="c3">just</span></b> who will <b><span class="c3">live by faith</span></b>, and endure to see the promise fulfilled.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. Every word in <a onclick="return mV('Hab',2,4);">Hab 2:4</a> is important, and the Lord quotes it three times in the New Testament just to bring out the fullness of the meaning!</p>
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<p class="c5">ii. In <a onclick="return mV('Rom',1,17);">Rom 1:17</a>, when Paul quotes this same passage from <a onclick="return mV('Hab',2,4);">Hab 2:4</a>, the emphasis is on <i>faith</i>: "The just shall live by <b><span class="c3">faith</span></b>."</p>
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<p class="c5">iii. In <a onclick="return mV('Gal',3,11);">Gal 3:11</a>, when Paul quotes this passage from <a onclick="return mV('Hab',2,4);">Hab 2:4</a>, the emphasis is on <i>just</i>: "The <b><span class="c3">just</span></b> shall live by faith."</p>
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<p class="c5">iv. Here in <a onclick="return mV('Hbr',10,38);">Hbr 10:38</a>, when the writer to the Hebrews quotes this same passage from <a onclick="return mV('Hab',2,4);">Hab 2:4</a>, the emphasis is on <i>live</i>: "The just shall <b><span class="c3">live</span></b> by faith."</p>
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<p class="c4">d. <b><span class="c3">But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul</span></b><span>: This is a</span> confident conclusion. We <i>will</i> be those who endure on and gain the promise of God. We will not <b><span class="c3">draw back</span></b> into old traditions or into an Old Covenant relationship with God - or any other replacement for Jesus!</p>
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