| Teacher: Rusty Kennedy Series: Hebrews |
Rusty's Notes | |
- This is a summary of what has already been written.
- Wash, rinse & repeat!
HEBREWS 10
1 Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the reality itself of those things, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.
- Shadow – outlines an object.
- They all knew something better was to come.
- What was to come? Jesus
- Good things to come – Jesus’ life, fulfilling the Law, death and His resurrection.
- Colossians 2:17 - These are a shadow of what was to come; the substance is Christ.
- Colossians 2:20-23 - If you died with Christ to the elements of this world, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations: 21 “Don’t handle, don’t taste, don’t touch”? 22 All these regulations refer to what is destined to perish by being used up; they are human commands and doctrines. 23 Although these have a reputation for wisdom by promoting self-made religion, false humility, and severe treatment of the body, they are not of any value in curbing self(fleshly)-indulgence.[1]
- No one wants religion.
- They want the real person.
- Perfect – reach an end, finished or complete.
- What keeps us from God now? Our sin.
- Totally perfect in our person to access God.
- We have been made perfect and have access.
- It never happened in the Old Covenant.
- This is where the battle happens today.
- The evil one accuses us and reminds of our sin.
- He even prompts us to work on our sin… the devil.
- Christ said, “It is finished.”
- We are to live our lives consciously free of sin.
- What does repentance look like?
3 But in the sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year. 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
- Sins were not forgiven… only atoned… covered.
- Impossible!
- Bull blood for the High Priest (Lev 16:11)
- Goat blood for the people (Lev 16:15)
- Jeremiah 31:33 - “Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days”—the Lord’s declaration. “I will put my teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34 No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “For I will forgive their iniquity and never again remember their sin. [2]
- (Psalm 40:6-8)
but you prepared a body for me.
6 You did not delight in whole burnt offerings and sin offerings.
7 Then I said, “See-- it is written about me in the scroll-- I have come to do your will, God.”
8 After he says above, You did not desire or delight in sacrifices and offerings, whole burnt offerings and sin offerings (which are offered according to the law), 9 he then says, See, I have come to do your will.
- Sacrifices and offerings did not accomplish forgiveness.
- Prepared a body – Jesus, God’s son lived in the body.
- Jesus chose through faith to do His Father’s will and died for the sin of man.
- God did not take away the Law… for the unredeemed.
- But it is taken away from the redeemed.
- The Old Covenant animal sacrifices were done away with when Jesus died for the New Covenant to be ushered in.
- The Old Covenant is now null and void.
- Review the circumstances the Hebrew Christians are under in their choice.
- Persecution or going back to the Old Covenant.
- Legalism or freedom?
- Sanctified – to be made holy, set apart, made a saint.
- Not just declared to someday attain when we die.
- Not positional – we are holy but not holy.
- Sanctified in the Greek is in the perfect tense which communicates past completed action with a resulting state of being.
- We have been made forever holy.
- You can never be more holy than you are right now.
- It is not your behavior that makes you holy.
- It is only Jesus.
- This was a lot of daily work for the priests.
- Constantly on their feet.
- We are a forgiven people.
- We live in a state of forgiveness.
- All sin forever… all sin for mankind.
- It is through faith & repentance that one receives this forgiveness made available to all.
- Even though they have already been defeated at the cross… the footstool is yet to happen.
- Perfected – past tense, completed action with a resulting state of being. We are perfected.
- Sanctified – present tense… it is happening now. An ongoing process.
- NIV says “who are being made holy.”
- What is being sanctified now? Our behavior.
- What you do is not who you are.
- Who you are has a great impact on what you do.
- Your soul & spirit have been perfected.
- Your behavior is being sanctified.
- Sanctified is in the passive voice meaning that it is God who will sanctify our behavior, not us.
- Believers were made perfect forever.
- It is impossible to lose our righteousness.
- Can you complete the race? Done deal.
- Perseverance… is about intimacy with God.
- The Holy Spirit gets credit for speaking through Jeremiah.
17 and I will never again remember their sins and their lawless acts.
18 Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.[3]
- Forgiveness has occurred.
- Does God have a list of your sins? NO!
- Why would you continue with your sacrifices?
- Why do you keep asking for what you already have?
- This letter greatly impacted these Hebrew Christians.
- Not a single one of them perished in destruction of the Temple in 70 AD.
[1] Christian Standard Bible (Col 2:17–23). (2020). Holman Bible Publishers.
[2] Christian Standard Bible (Je 31:33–34). (2020). Holman Bible Publishers.
[3] Christian Standard Bible (Heb 10:1–18). (2020). Holman Bible Publishers.
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