Hebrews 9-10: A Better Sacrifice

HEBREWS 9:13   -   10:37

Application: The student will differentiate between the many Old Testament animal sacrifices and the one superior sacrifice Jesus made for sin.

OUR SUNDAY SCHOOL WRITER, PASTOR CLEMENTS, PROVIDES SOME OF THE MOST POWERFUL THOUGHTS OF THE ENTIRE NEW TESTAMENT IN THIS STUDY STOP.

HE SHOWS US THAT IT IS THE INBORN PRIDEFULNESS OF EACH OF US AS FALLEN CREATURES THAT BRINGS DESIRE TO SECURE OUR OWN SALVATION.

WHAT MAN HAS CREATED THROUGHOUT HUMAN HISTORY IS A SERIES OF IDOLS TO WORSHIP WHICH FALSELY GIVE THE IDOL WORSHIPER A SENSE OF BEING MASTER OF HIS OWN FATE.

BECAUSE OF THAT KNOWN FACT, HE TEACHES US THAT ALL HUMANS FALL INTO ONE OF TWO CATEGORIES:

PEOPLE WHO TRUST IN THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS FOR SALVATION

OR

PEOPLE WHO TRUST IN THEIR OWN WORKS TO SAVE THEM.

GOD HAS DICTATED HOW WE ARE TO APPROACH HIM ON HIS TERMS.

AS WE HAVE MENTIONED SEVERAL TIMES IN OUR HEBREWS STUDY, NO EXPRESSION OF OUR FREE WILL IS ABLE TO BRING US INTO THE KINGDOM.

ONLY THOSE BORN AGAIN CAN SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

BORN AGAIN MEANS FULL SURRENDER AND TRUST IN THE ONE SENT FOR EXACTLY THIS PURPOSE.

ANYTHING LESS THAN THAT DEGREE OF FAITH BRINGS CONDEMNATION.

HEBREWS REVEALS SOME BELIEVERS SEEMED TO WISH TO WAVER IN FAITH AND REVERT TO THE OLD TESTAMENT SYSTEM OF SACRIFICE.

PAUL WROTE SO VERY CLEARLY ON THIS MATTER IN GALATIANS 2:21:

“… if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain…”

SALVATION COMES IN FULL FROM THE BETTER SACRIFICE MADE BY JESUS CHRIST OR IT DOES NOT EXIST BECAUSE THE LAW NEVER SAVED.

CHAPTER 10 VERSES 4-9 QUOTES KING DAVID IN PSALM 40:6-8 WHICH TAUGHT THAT GOD WAS MORE INTERESTED IN THE PENITENT HEART OF THE WORSHPER THAN IN THE ANIMAL SACRIFICES MADE BY HIM.

WE HAVE SEEN SUCH MISUNDERSTANDING IN BOTH THE SISTER OF LAZARUS & THE SAMARITAN WOMAN AT THE WELL BOTH OF WHOM TRIED TO EXPLAIN SALVATION IN THE LAW TO JESUS AS TAUGHT BY THE PHARISEES AND BOTH WERE CLEARLY TAUGHT BETTER BY JESUS HIMSELF A BETTER WAY HAD ARRIVED THAT DID BRING GOD’S KINGDOM TO EARTH IN HIMSELF.