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The Superior New Covenant 0:10 Good morning. Welcome to Stand on the Word as we continue our journey. We're in the book of Hebrews chapters 8 and 9 today, verse 10 of chapter 8. For this is the covenant that I will make0:22 with the house of Israel. After those days, says the lord, I will put my laws in their mind and write them on their hearts. And I will be their god, and they shall be my people. Now we have 2, I think, very significant0:33 chapters here that contrast the the better as it's often described or the new covenant with the old covenant. The old covenant was centered upon the temple, the sacrifices, all temporal,0:45 and the law that was written on stone, whereas the new covenant with Christ is eternal, and it is written on the hearts of man. First 1 of chapter 8. Now this is the main point0:57 of these things we are saying. We have such a high priest who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens. Now the contrast begins right here in verse 1. Jesus is our high1:09 priest in heaven seated at the right hand of the father. Now this exalted position is contrasted with the earthly priest who only went into the holy of holies1:21 once a year, and they were standing there while they were doing their work because their work was never done. Jesus has sat down by the right hand of the father because he has completed the sacrificial1:33 work that was needed to be done on the cross. Verse 2, a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord erected and not man. So he's1:45 in heaven made by God where they were on the earth in a building made by man. Verse 3. For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices.1:56 Therefore, it is necessary that this 1 also has something to offer. The high priest could only enter the holy place with an offering of blood. The2:09 earthly priest, the blood of animals. Jesus, he offered his own blood. Verse 4. For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest since there are priests who offer the gifts2:21 according to the law. He was not from the tribe of Levi Levi. Therefore, he could not have been an earthly priest, but they were just an illustration, a shadow of the real2:32 thing. Verse 5, who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, talking about the earthly priest, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, see that you2:44 make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain as a reflection, a shadow of the things in heaven. But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry in as much as he2:56 is also mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises. So this word better is frequently used in Hebrews. Jesus here,3:08 Jesus is the mediator of a better covenant. It's better because it's complete. It's an eternal covenant. Verse 7. For if the3:20 first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. Now is this stop you let's stop you for just a moment. Is this saying that the first3:32 covenant that the law that that there was a problem with it, that God somehow had messed up and he's trying, again? No. Not at all. There was no problem with the law, but the law3:44 could not save us. It could only reveal to us that we did not measure up to the holiness of God. Recall what Paul said in in Galatians about the law. Galatians 3 24, he said,3:56 therefore, the law, that is the Mosaic law, the law given by God at Mount Sinai. Therefore, the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ that we4:08 might be justified by faith. Remember we talked about what a tutor was. A tutor was 1 who brought a student to to school so that they can learn. They brought them there. Well, the law carried4:19 us to to Christ so that we might encounter knowledge, and that is the knowledge of our sin through the law that we might have by faith, salvation being justified. The The law of God,4:31 both that was written on stone and the moral law that was placed on the the heart of mankind, but effaced by sin. It was that's why we the moral law of God is written on4:43 man's heart. Paul talks about that in Romans. But because of sin and our fallen nature, it it it was kind of covered up. It began to erode, and therefore, God wrote the4:55 law, that moral law on stone. But it it revealed to us our sinful nature and that we needed a savior, could not save us. Verse 8, because finding fault with him, he says, behold,5:07 the days are coming, says the lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the5:17 hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt because they did not continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the5:29 Lord. I will put my laws in their mind and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. So about the Holy Spirit that came under the new covenant to put these things in5:41 our hearts. Now this is very important. What was just said here by the author of Hebrews, especially with this, debate that is raging among so called evangelicals.5:53 Who was this new covenant made with? The church? America? No. This new covenant is made with the house of Israel and Judah, the nation of6:05 Israel, the Jewish people. Now gentile believers are grafted in, but we do not replace Israel. And by the way, I've gotten a number of questions, about this6:17 topic with Israel, especially as there's a lot of debate going on right now. And so I put together a I've written a short book, should a Christian support Israel. And it's it's a a6:29 biblical and prophetic look at the topic. It's not a political look at it. It is a biblical look at it. And, it is about to be released if you would like more information about that. It's an ebook. I did it quickly.6:41 It's very short, but it will answer some of the fundamental questions. If you'd like more information, text the word Israel to 6 7 7 4 2. Israel to 6 7 76:53 4 2, and I'll send you a link. Alright. Verse 11. None of them shall teach his neighbor and none his brother saying, know the Lord, for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest7:05 of them. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their lawless deeds. I will remember no more. In that day, he says a new covenant he has7:17 made he has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. Chapter 9 compares the temporaryEternal Redemption Through Christ's Blood 7:29 atonement for sin through the blood sacrifices with the eternal redemption that is provided by the blood of Jesus. Verse 11 of chapter 9. Skip down to verse 11. But7:41 Christ came as high priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is not of this creation, not with the blood of goats and7:53 calves, but his own blood. He entered the most holy place once for all, obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of bulls and goats and8:04 the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself8:16 without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? I I I hope you grasp the freedom that we have in8:28 Christ Jesus if we trust him by faith, the redemptive work that he did for us on the cross. Now what makes this new covenant superior better to the old8:39 is in that in is we see it in this contrast of the annual shedding of blood, of animal blood that the priest did in which the the animal did not have the capacity or the8:51 ability to offer itself. Well, Jesus voluntarily offered himself through his divine eternal spirit, meaning as a part of the godhead,9:03 chose to suffer the penalty of sin for his own creation. And he made us. He made all of creation. He was a part of creation, but yet he chose he9:15 chose to die for our sin. Now we move to a portion of this passage that is debated among scholars, but the debate centers on the Greeks Greek9:27 word used and, their meanings. Look at verse 15. And for this reason, he is the mediator of the new covenant by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions under the first9:39 covenant that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. Now just note what it says here. Those under the old covenant are9:50 saved under the fulfillment of the new covenant. They were looking toward everything in the old testament. The old covenant was a shadow, was an illustration of what was to come under10:02 the fulfillment of the new covenant. Now, verse 16, for where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the, testator.10:15 Now here's where the the the discussion gets kinda rigorous. Alright? Notice the passage went from covenant to testament. The testament is a will that10:26 does not take effect until the person dies, the 1 who's making the the the testament, the the the 1 who has made the will. The death of Jesus10:38 inaugurated the new covenant with all of its blessings. The old covenant was just a faint shadow of the New Testament of God, which once enacted is10:50 here to stay. Verse 17. For a testament is enforced after men are dead since it has no power at all while the testator lives.11:02 The old covenant the old covenant was to prepare for the new testament as those temporal elements reflected the eternal. Verse11:14 23. Therefore, it was necessary that the copies of the things in in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better11:26 sacrifices than these. For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God11:38 for us. Not that he should should offer himself often, as the high priest enters the most holy place every year with the blood of another. He11:49 then would have to suffer often since the foundation of the world, but now once at the end of the ages. He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And12:01 as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this, the judgment. So Christ is offered once to bear the sin of many. To those who eagerly wait for him, he will appear a12:13 second time apart from sin for salvation. Unlike the priest on the earth who every year had to go into the holy place and bring the blood to make atonement for the12:25 people. Jesus did it 1 time. He doesn't do it over and over again. He did it 1 time, and it was finished. Chapter 10 continues this discussion. We're gonna look at that tomorrow. But before we close in prayer, I wanna12:37 wanna ask for your, your help as we prepare for this next journey through the Bible beginning in January. First, I wanna invite you to to sign up, and, then you'll be12:48 informed about some new resources that we'll have on this next journey through the Bible. And then second, I want you to consider who you can invite to enjoy to join you13:00 on this journey. If you've been encouraged and strengthened in your walk with the Lord, Don't hold that to yourself. Share it with others so that they too might be strengthened in their walk with the Lord. And13:12 so we have some resources that will enable you to invite your friends. Simply text the word bible to 6 7 7 4 2. That's bible to 6 7 7 4 2, and I'll send you a13:24 link. And there's a share button on that as well where you can invite your friends to join you on our next journey through the bible. Father, we thank you for your word, and we thank you for this better covenant, this13:36 eternal covenant that Jesus made as he offered himself on the cross. His blood was shed for our sins before without the the shedding of blood, there is no remission of13:48 sins. And I thank you, lord, that that was done once and for all. And as we, by faith, come to the lord Jesus Christ, come to you, father, through Jesus,14:00 that we can have that freedom and that confidence in knowing that we can boldly come before your throne of grace because of the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. For it's in his name, we pray14:12 this. Amen. Alright. Thanks for joining me this morning. And until next time, keep standing on the word.14:21 Today's study comes from the Stand on the Word Bible Reading Plan, available for free at f r c dot o r g slash bible. By following along in just a few minutes a day, you14:33 can read through the entire Bible in just 2 years. Learn more and request the free reading guide at frc dot org slash bible.In this video 0:00 The Superior New Covenant7:25 Eternal Redemption Through Christ's Blood54:03
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