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Brothers and sisters. Let's turn to
God's word in the book of Hebrews,
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Hebrews Chapter eight versus, beginning at
verse six. Hebrews Chapter Eight, beginning
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at verse six. This morning I
reflected with you, preached to you from
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God's Word on health, from the
Promised Messiah of the Old Testament. WHO
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IS JESUS CHRIST? As we discover
in the new he is the last word.
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That was our focus this morning from
Hebrews Chapter One. Tonight we want
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to delve into that a little more
and understand who he is as the word,
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in particular his coming as the mediator
of a new and better covenant.
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That's our focus this evening, and
who he is as the Promised Messiah.
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So let's hear God's word now from
Hebrews Eight. I'm beginning at verse six
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and I'll read through chapter nine,
Verse Fifteen. But as it is,
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Christ has obtained a ministry that is
as much more excellent than the old as
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the covenant he mediates is better,
since it is enacted on better promises.
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For if that first covenant had been
faultless, there would have been no occasion
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to look for a second, for
he finds faults with them when he says,
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behold, the days are coming,
declares the Lord, when I will
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establish a new covenant with the House
of Israel and with the House of Judah,
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not like the covenant that I made
with their fathers on the day when
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I took them by the hand to
bring them out of the land of Egypt,
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for they did not continue in my
covenant, and so I showed no
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concern for them, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I
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will make with the House of Israel
after those days, declares the Lord.
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I will put my laws into their
minds and right them on their hearts,
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and I will be their God and
they shall be my people, and they
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shall not teach each one to his
neighbor and each one to his brothers,
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saying know the Lord, for they
shall all know me, from the least
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of them to the greatest, for
I will be merciful toward their iniquities and
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I will remember their sins no more. In speaking of a new covenant,
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he makes the first one obsolete,
and what is becoming obsolete and growing old
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is ready to vanish away now.
Even the First Covenant had regulations for worship
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and an earthly place of holiness,
for a tent was prepared the First Section,
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in which were the lamp stand and
the table and the bread of the
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presence. It is called the holy
place. Behind the second curtain was a
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second section, called the most holy
place, having the Golden Altar of incense
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and the Ark of the covenant covered
on all sides with gold, in which
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was a golden urn holding the manna
and Aaron staff that budded and the tablets
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of the covenant above it, where
the chair Bim of glory overshadowing the mercy
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seat. Of these things we cannot
now speak in detail. These preparations having
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thus been made, the priests go
regularly into the first section performing their ritual
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duties, but into the second only
the high priest goes, and he but
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once a year, and not without
taking blood, which he offers for himself
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and for the unintentional sins of the
people. By this, the Holy Spirit
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indicates that the way into the holy
places is not yet opened as long as
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the first section is still standing,
which is symbolic for the present age.
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According to this arrangement, gifts and
sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscious
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of the worshiper, but deal only
with food and drink and various washings regulations
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for the body imposed until the time
of reformation. But when Christ appeared as
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a high priest of the good things
that have come, then, through the
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greater and more perfect tent, not
made with hands that is not of this
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creation, he entered once for all
into the holy places, not by means
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of the blood of goats and calves, but by means of his own blood,
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thus securing an eternal redemption. For
if the blood of goats and Bulls
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and the sprinkling of defiled persons with
the ashes of a heifer sanctify for the
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purification of the flesh, how much
more will the blood of Christ, who,
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through the eternal spirit, offered himself
without blemish to God, purify our
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conscience from dead works to serve the
Living God? Therefore, he is the
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mediator of a new covenant so that
those who are called may receive the promised
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eternal inheritance, since a death that
has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions
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committed under the first covenant, since
the Reading of God's word, I mean
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he bless it to us. Well, if you're not very familiar with the
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Old Testament. It this, a
passage like this can be difficulty and to
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understand. It quotes the Old Testament, it relies on a lot of explanations
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that are drawn out of the Old
Testament. Now, this likely wasn't a
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problem for the of hearers, the
first hearers of this passage. They were
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very familiar with the Old Testament,
with its sacrifices, it's Tabernacle, its
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priesthood, it's holy places, because
the first hearers were very likely Jewish Christians
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who, until very recently had been
active and worshiping God under the Old Covenant.
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Perhaps they brought sacrifices, perhaps they
knew the names of particular priests.
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These Christians, then, are straddling
in a way to covenants. We have
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that sense on this mark of history. In verse thirteen, in speaking of
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a new covenant, the Word Says
He makes the first one obsolete, and
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what is becoming obsolete is growing old
and ready to vanish away. This is
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perhaps a remark, a mark,
that that points out that the temple was
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still standing at this point, which
eventually fell in seventy eighty. So the
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Lord had come, the Lord had
died, the Lord had risen from the
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dead. He was establishing his church. The new covenant had been established and
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yet the old covenant in a way
still remained a little bit. And so
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these Christians were they were. There
was a transition phase in which there was
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teaching and understanding. How do we
think of the New in light of the
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old? And these Christians in particular
seem, as we read the book as
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a whole, seem to have be
tempted to go back to to leave Christ
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to go back to the practices that
were so familiar to them. And one
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of the things that the author to
the Hebrews wants to emphasize is that that
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is a very, very bad idea, not because the old covenant was not
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from God, not because it wasn't
good and righteous, but because the new
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was better. The new was the
fulfillment of these things, and to go
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back to the old after the new
had come would be, in a way,
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to reject the old itself. I'm
getting into more of the book than
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is in our passage here. The
focus I want for us to have this
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evening is the explanation that he gives
of who Jesus is, this promised Messiah,
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this one that had been anticipated in
the old covenant. A new covenant
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had been promised, a new mediator, someone to come. Who is this
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Jesus? Who is he as he
fulfills the Covenant and fulfills the Covenant and
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Establishes the New Covenant? From our
passage, perhaps the clearest summary of that
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is in verse six, which we
began Christ, that anointed one, that
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Messiah. He is the one who
has obtained a ministry that is much more
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excellent than the old as the covenant
he mediates is better, since it is
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enacted on better promises. For anyone
attempted to return to the old covenant,
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towards to stay in the old covenant, this was a passage of warning.
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This is a passage of invitation.
It's a passage meant to gold believers into
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seeing Christ as he really is,
seeing the Messiah as he has come,
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and to continue to put their faith
in him. And though, as many
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of us here are gentiles who are
perhaps not tempted to go back to the
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old covenant, to go backwards,
to reconstruct the temple, the priesthood that
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that that provisional kingdom, it is
still important for us to hear these things.
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One because it reminds us who Christ
is. It explains who he is,
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what he has done. The new
covenant and his promises are very much
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in the context of the old.
So it's important for us to understand those
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things also, or I should say, and in addition to that or with
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greater explanation, it is the old
covenant that gives the language, in the
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categories for the life and the new
covenant that we have now in Christ.
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So we are right to pay attention
to it and understand it so that we
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might understand him. So let's begin. I'm looking at this passage and trying
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to understand that more of our savior, to know him better, by first
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just defining covenant. A covenant is
a solid promise that establishes a relationship.
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That's what a covenant is. It's
a solemn promise, a serious promise,
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I'm a promise that is full of
earnestness and wait, a promise made by
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one person to another and in which
in a relationship between those two people or
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those two parties are established. The
old covenant, therefore, was a promise
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that established a relationship. The new
covenant was a promise that established a relationship.
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What is the difference between these things. Why does it matter? Well,
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the old covenant was that Covenant that
God pronounced at Mount Sinai, after
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bringing the people out of Egypt.
He he met with them there at that
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mountain, that Holy Mountain, in
which he warned the people do not touch
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it, do not come near.
If you touch the mountain, you shall
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surely die. Moses, however,
was called to come up on the mountain.
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He does so with fear and trembling. He comes up to the mountain,
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is called by God to receive the
law, the law in which God
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would give to his people and command
their obedience. And at for were obedience
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to that law, God established a
relationship of blessing, massive blessing. If
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they obeyed the law. This people
would stay in the land, they would
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be blessed with fruitfulness in the womb, fruitfulness in the field, they would
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have a freedom from their enemies,
they would be prosperous in many ways.
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Indeed, the nations of the world
would come and marvel at this kingdom that
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God had established in the world,
a kingdom that was ruled by righteousness,
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ruled by love, concerned for neighbors. This was the kingdom that they established,
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or that God had established by this
this covenant. The flip side of
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this is that if they did not
obey, if they did not follow his
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laws, the curses would fall upon
the people of God and all the opposite
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of everything I just said is what
would happen. Instead of fruitfulness, there
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would be barrenness. Instead of production
in the fields, there would be famine.
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Instead of freedom from their enemies,
they would be a destroyed by their
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enemies. Instead of a kind of
earthly paradise, it would be in earthly
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hell. It would be terrible and
the people, and this is the this
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is the promise that God put on
his people. This is the thing,
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this is the relationship that he established
them. We get a sense of how
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this would go immediately as Moses descends
down the mountain and sees the people engaging
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in idolatry having made the golden calf. You remember what Moses does with the
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Covenant. He breaks it. The
tablets on which the Covenant, so to
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speak, was inscribed, tablets which
would be remade by the grace of God
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and then later placed into the arc, the the the Ten Commandments, as
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we read here in Hebrews Nine,
the Covenant was broken before they really even
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ever got going, and it would
be broken again and again and again,
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and God would send his profits again
and again and again, pleading with the
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people to come back to him.
And of course there are lots of ups
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and downs. Again, we have
to read the Old Testament to know better
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the the details of that story.
But in the end the curses of the
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Lord fell upon the people. There
were times of Great Blessing, like under
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Solomon and under David, but ultimately
the kingdom fell apart and everybody was left
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wondering, what about the promise,
not under Moses but under Abraham? What
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about the promise of an eternal kingdom
that God made to David? What about
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these promises which would establish us as
a people for where ever and ever and
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ever? Because we broken the Covenant, we've not obeyed. And that's where,
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in the mixed all up with accusations
and condemnation in the prophets, we
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also have these these glimmers of Grace, spotlights, lighthouses showing the way to
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a better future, a passage.
One example of that is quoted here in
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Hebrews A, where we have the
Prophet Jeremiah, Jeremiah Thirty One, speaking
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to the people under the old covenant. Behold, the days are coming,
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declares the Lord, when I will
establish a new covenant with the House of
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Israel and with the House of Judah, not like the covenant that I made
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with their fathers on the day when
I took them by the hand to bring
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them out of the land of Egypt, for they did not continue in my
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covenant, and so I showed no
concern for them. Is that that's my
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prepsites struck you as strange the first
time I read it. Why did the
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Lord show no concern for them?
Because that's what he said he would do
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if they did not continue in his
covenant, if they broke the covenant,
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if they separated themselves from him and
from his law, he would be separated
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from them, he would separate himself
from them. The curse instead of the
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blessings, would fall upon them.
But this new covenant, this New Covenant
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that he would make verse ten with
the House of Israel after those days,
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declares the Lord, would be different. Why? Because of instead of the
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tablets, just be written on tablets
of stone, he says, I will
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put my laws into their minds,
I will write them on their hearts and
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I will be their God and they
will be my people. The all know
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me verse eleven, and I will
be merciful toward their iniquities and I will
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remember their sins no more. This
covenant that would come would not be a
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covenant which primary note was a covenant
of Law, but the primary note of
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this covenant would be a covenant of
Grace. Not that there wasn't grace in
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the old covenant. The Old Covenant
in many ways pointed and anticipated and readied
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us for the new covenant. The
sacrifices, the purifications, the Washings,
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all of these things, the priesthood
right preparing us, but it was preparing
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us for something new, something better, something more excellent. This is who
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Jesus is. This is the Promised
Messiah, this is the anointed king,
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the son of David, that everybody's
been waiting for, one that will fulfill
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those promises and establish a kingdom that
will not fall apart, that is not
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dependent on the People's obedience, but
is instead dependent on the righteousness of the
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Messiah himself. Moses was great,
Moses was amazing. When Moses came down
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from Mount Sinai, his face was
shining with the glory of God. The
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people said, cover it up,
it's too much, it's too intense.
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The glory of God reflecting off the
face of the Servant of God was too
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much for them. And now we
have in the new covenant, this one
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that we spoke about this morning.
Let me read that to you again.
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The Sun not a servant in the
house, the sun of the House.
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Long ago, at many times and
in many ways, God spoke to our
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fathers by the prophets, but in
these last days he's spoken to us by
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his son, whom he appointed the
air of all things, through whom he
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also created the world. He is
the radiance of the glory of God,
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the radiance of the glory of God
into whose presence God invites us. Instead
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of saying stay away, do not
touch Jesus, says coming to me,
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all who are weary, and hey, they later, and I will give
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you rest. Coming to me and
ask for the forgiveness of your sins,
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and I'll wash them away wider than
the snow I will remember your sins no
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more. Instead of holding them against
you, I won't even remember them.
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You will receive the forgiveness of the
Lord. The New Covenant is a better
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covenant because God would because it would
be a covenant which would affect the internal
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the the internal parts of his people
more than the old covenant ever did.
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God would put his law in their
hearts and their minds. That would be
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forgiveness of sins, not only in
general, but, as we read in
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Verse Fifteen Sins Against. Here it
says he weredeems them from the transgressions committed
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under the first covenant. You want
to go back to the first covenant?
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No, how about faith in Christ
and being established in the new covenant,
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which forgives all the sins that you
committed in the first covenant, the sins
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in which you broke the covenant,
the sins which put you not under God's
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blessing but under his wrath. This
reminds us that through the new covenant there
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would be promises of grace which would
far outstrip that which came before. It's
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not just so that we be forgiven
too, but that we would be righteous,
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that we would be holy. In
other words, when God says he'll
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ride his law and his heart and
on our hearts, it means that all
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that obedience that is pictured for us
and taught in the old covenant, it's
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not something that he forgets and says, well, now I don't care about
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you living well anymore. Now I
don't care about righteousness, now I don't
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be care about love. No,
that's not what he says. He cares
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about it. He always cares about
he still cares about it, but now
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he's going to write it on our
hearts in such a way that we are
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enabled to do the things that he
calls us to do. His Holy Spirit
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would be poured out on his people
in a new way, in which they
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would know the Lord and follow him. This in the old covenant, much
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of the sanctification that occurred under the
terms of the old covenant, to be
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specific, was an outward one.
So, for example, in verse thirteen,
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for if the blood of goats and
bulls and of the sprinkling of defiled
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persons with the Asher ofs of a
heifer, ashes of a Heffer, sanctify
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for the purification of the flesh of
the outward man in making us wholly and
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allowing, for example, the people
to come into the temple to worship,
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to be pure, these kinds of
things that that ceremonial cleanliness and the like.
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Verse Fourteen, how much more will
the blood of Christ, who through
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the eternal spirit, offered himself without
blemish to God purify our conscience from dead
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works. To do what? To
serve the living God. This is why
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the commit new covenant is is established
not so that righteousness can be throughout the
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window, but so that righteousness can
actually happen. What the Old Covenant teaches
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us is that God can give us
his law with all kinds of clarity and
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were incapable of obeying it, apart
from his work in our lives, in
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changing our hearts and drawing us to
himself. So, if this is the
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new covenant that is established, who
is Jesus? He is the mediator of
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the new covenant. And to help
us understand that a little more, the
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the rider points us to the old, the old covenant. He says the
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priests, they used to go only
once a year and and buy themselves into
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the holy places. But we know
that, as that curtain that separated the
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most holy place from the holy place
was torn at the crucifixion of Christ,
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Christ enters into that holy place and
we enter with him. This makes him
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more effective, this makes him so
that we're not offering the this sacrifice is
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over and over and over again,
but we depend on the one in final
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sacrifice of God, notice to the
temple in which he enters to is the
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better one as well. Verse Eleven, when Christ appeared as a high priest
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of the good things that have come. That's that new age, that new
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creation breaking in. Then, through
the greater and more perfect tent, not
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made with hands that is not of
this creation, he entered once for all
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into the holy places. Jesus didn't
just go into the temple, into the
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holy place, the most holy place
where the High Priests Aly win. Jesus
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went in to the the the the
Heavenly Temple to which the earthly temple pointed.
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He went into the Throne Room of
God and he sat down, stationed
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himself there as the king. And
he brings all of us with him.
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The Psalms, Psalm twenty two for
exampless. Who can dwell on the Lord's
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Holy Hill? The one who does
this and does this and does this and
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does this? Who Can Dwell on
Mount Zion? The one who is obedient
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to God's law? Who can go
up on Mount Sinai only the one,
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the mediator between God and Man,
but in Christ he brings us all with
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him. He brings us into the
holy places, he brings us onto the
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Holy Mountain, he brings us into
the Holy Kingdom which he establishes forever.
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This, brothers and sisters, is
the new covenant. Don't leave it,
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don't walk away, don't turn away, don't seek anything else, even the
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good covenants that God has previously established, because everything was leading up to this
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point and to this person. This
is Jesus, this is the promise Messiah,
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this is the Covenant in which we
now stand. And so, if
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we're looking, if you're looking for
the forgiveness of your sins, for everlasting
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life, for freedom from dead works, so that you might serve the new,
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the the Living God, with new
works and alive works, Holy Works,
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Jesus is the one that you need
to pay attention to. Jesus is
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the one that you need to put
your faith in, and he will accomplish
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these things that he is set out
to do, for he is not a
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man only. He represents US man, but he is God himself, Emmanuel,
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who now dwells with his people.
Praise be to God.
