Hebrews 10:1-14

December 23, 2012 Recently I had a discussion about First Corinthians 3:12-15: Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13Every mans work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every mans work of what sort it is. 14If any mans work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15If any mans work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. The question really was whether well feel shame on that day for not being all were called to befor not always abiding in Christ. And I dont think its too out of line to ask it this way:

Is there such a thing as a Baptist sort of purgatory?

Not the kind where we suffer in fire for 1,000 years, but maybe were ashamed for 10 minutes. At its core, the question is whether or not were as pure and holy and blameless as Christ Himself. Did He impute His righteousness to us? Can we be presented without spot or wrinkle? Did He bear all our sin? Are our sins cast as far as the east is from the west? Are we truly and eternally saved from the wrath of God or is there yet some work that needs to be done? Lets turn to Hebrews chapter 10 with this in mind. Weve seen so far that Jesus is better than all things and that He has done away with all the laws and rituals of the Old Testament: For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. Heres the heart of our question: what makes a man perfect, and what does it mean to be made perfect? The Greek word is (teleio) and its used in several ways. For instance, when a prophecy is fulfilled, its . A lawyer or a judge could make a legal document valid and then it is considered . When a boy reaches maturity; that is . Christ has finished our work in pleasing God. The old tabernacle

with all its furniture and blood cant do it because its merely a shadow or a blueprint of the real thing.
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For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. This word for conscience means joint knowledge.1 It shows the conflict between right and wrong in the mind; its between the things you ought to do and the things you ought not to do. If those things in the old tabernacle worked, then the people wouldnt have kept offering sacrifices. There would have been one sacrifice for sins and the conscience would have been clear:
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But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. In actuality, the annual sacrifices only reminded everyone of their guilt. This word for remembrance is only used three other times in the New Testament, and all three are in reference to the Lords supper where Jesus said, Do this in remembrance of Me (Lk. 22:19, I Cor. 11:24, 25)! The Lords Supper is a regular reminder that Christ paid our sin debt; its very purpose is to keep it fresh in our minds, and here in Hebrews we find that the animal sacrifices were reminders of sin. Nothing was removed by the blood of an animal:
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For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. No one has ever been forgiven for sacrificing an animal:
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Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.[2]

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=suneidhsis&la=greek#lexicon Originally it says, mine ears thou hast opened (or you have dug, pierced, bored my ears) which brings to mind the servant from Exodus 21:5-6.
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This is a loose quote from Psalm 40:6-8. God wasnt satisfied with the blood of animals, so Christ was sent to do Gods will and offer Himself as the spotless sacrifice!
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Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; In that Scripture (which was written by David) he declares that God took no pleasure in the things required by the Law! How could God not find pleasure in something Hes demanded?.
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Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God.

This is the most important part of this Psalm. Its not just that God wasnt pleased with their sacrifices; much more importantly, it was that God made a way to perfect us and make us truly holy! He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. If that law had been good enough then there would have been no reason for something else, but the fact is that David saw a need for a better sacrifice, and he wrote about it even back then. He knew there was no forgiveness in animal blood and he watched for the real Messiah through types and shadows.
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By the which will we are sanctified

It wasnt Gods will that we should be set apart as His holy people by animal blood; rather we are sanctified, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Now look at those words once for all. In Greek its only one word, and it can also be translated as all at once. The bulls and goats were offered every year because they couldnt take the sin away (they were reminders), but the blood of Christ removes every sin at the same time!
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And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; This is the contrast: the priests have to do their work every day, over and over, and they never actually get it done. But Christ did His work, finished it the first time,

and now He sits at the place of authority as the Name above all names, and the King above all kings. There are two things which come from this. The first is that Hes already triumphant over His enemies, and the second is that His work in sanctifying His people is finished:
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From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

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His enemies are those that hate Him or profess Him falsely, or that deny He is GodMan, or that deny He is Messiah; His enemies are Antichrist, Death, Satan, and every other power or being set up against Him. But Hes not now working to defeat them: And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it (Col. 2:15). His work in defeating His enemies is finished, and theres a great comfort for us in that. We dont fear the sting of death because were dead to that old law and we live in Christ! We dont fear Satan or any man because our Lord will make us stand and no accusation can be brought against us! Thats why it says by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. We have no guilty conscience any more at all. Eternal security isnt wishful thinking that lets us do whatever we wantit is salvation based upon nothing more or less than the perfect blood of Christ! What He did is done and theres nothing to add or take away from it! Do we still sin? Yes. Do we confess our sin to God? Yes. Are we still disciplined for our sin? Yes. Will we have even a spot of guilt or remorse when we stand before God? There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9But ye are not in the flesh, but in the

Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 12Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. 14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 24For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. 26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. 28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect? It is God that justifieth. 34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh

intercession for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom. 8:1-39). newgracebaptistchurch.wordpress.com