Heb 10:1 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.
Heb 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be
offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more
conscience of sins.
Heb 10:3 But in those sacrifices
there is a remembrance again made
of sins every year.
Heb 10:4 For it is
not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
This refers to Old Testament worship. To the plan in place where there were
offerings for sin made, but they were never able to get an experience where
they could live holy. Instead they
always made a remembrance of sin and then they went back to sin.
The scene changes:
Heb 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he
saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared
me:
Heb 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
We see the offering of the blood of bulls and goats was not
the fulfilled plan that God had for man.
Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the
book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Isn’t it wonderful that the one that has preeminence, the
chief cornerstone, and all of the things we have been being taught about in
Sunday school, He came to do the will of the Father.
The will of the Father, was not that they were pleasing
themselves, but that a plan would be made whereby men, women, boys, and girls
could be saved and live a victorious Christian life.
This God and His plan never changes. This Jesus, His attitude, His sacrifice, and His
will remains intact from that day on Mt Calvary and all through time. That is the plan.
These precious children and all the rest of us will be
exposed to many new gods, many new thoughts, and many new theories. There are many descriptions of God that are
not true descriptions of God.
The thought of “God doesn’t care how you live” is wrong. There are people that are believing that
everyone will go to heaven. You and I
know that isn’t true.
There is the plague of heresy that you cannot live above sin
and are always sinning. That doctrine
deceives and does nothing for the conscience.
It does nothing to give a new heart and a new spirit.
Jesus had the thought, “I come to do thy will Oh God.” We are blessed to have the privilege of
having the mind of Christ, “I want to do the will of God.” We all have decisions to make; we say, “this
is what I would like and what I will do.”
For a lot of those things, God doesn’t have the thought that it is
sin.
Brother Bill has the makings of a trailer. At one season Brother Bill had the thought of
building a teardrop trailer. I then
wondered as I saw teardrop trailers, I wondered how Brother Bill was going to
build it. I am shocked at how many of
them I see. This desire could change as
Brother Bill and Sister Teri go through the aging process.
It is fine to want to have a teardrop trailer. But when it comes to what God wants for our
life, “What is His will?”
There are some things spelled out in His Word. It is the will of God that we study and obey
the Word of God. It is the will of God that
we measure to all the teachings of the Word of God. It is the will of God that we be saved and
sanctified and present our bodies a living sacrifice.
It is the will of God that we have Jesus Christ as our chief
cornerstone. I could tell you have been
processing this and measuring out from the cornerstone. However many rows are on your building, every
time we come to a corner, we want to get the right stone on that corner. You don’t have to get off very much until the
wall begins to tilt one way or tilt the other.
God has a plan in our lives.
Wherever you are in the building of your spiritual walls, as you come to
the corner in your life you must have the right stone.
Jack and Julie have reached the corner of one of their
children going to college. We talked to
some after church about what the plan was for Heather’s room when she moved
out. She said that they already had a
plan for it. We were having a good time
in jest. We mentioned to Aaron, “You
probably will walk into the superintendent’s office and say, “I’m just going to
college right now so I can protect my sister.”
When she pulls out of the driveway tonight their lives will
change and never be the same. We must
have the right stone when we come to the corner.
We stopped and talked to that man that painted the
door. And I asked him about rock. I told him that the sisters in the church
were good at working with rock. I
noticed that it wasn’t just any rock that was placed; they are always looking
for the right stone for the right place.
In our spiritual building, God help me to build right in
every place.
Heb 10:8 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;
Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O
God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Heb 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through
the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for
all.
Isn’t it wonderful that Jesus made a plan that not only
could we be saved but also sanctified.
We can be cleansed from that thing that drew us back to sin and first
led us into sin.
“We are not of them that draw back to perdition.” This
means, “I’m not going to go back to destruction.”
Jesus paid the full price to do the will of God that we
could be cleansed from sin and set apart.
We don’t ever want to lose that or lower the standard of that. In our lives and experience keep Bible
salvation and sanctification real.
Heb 10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering
and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
They did what was the plan then. It never changed the hearts and lives of those
individuals.
Heb 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one
sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
Isn’t it wonderful that there is something so sure as Jesus
Christ. I thought of that scripture,
“All the foundations of this world are out of course.”
All of us know that when anything gets out of course, it is
just a matter of time until there is a very destructive wreck.
Isn’t it wonderful that this man made one sacrifice for sin
and sat on the right hand of God?
Heb 10:13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be
made his footstool.
This opens the door to all of mankind, all of His
enemies. I was one of them.
Whenever there is alcohol involved I am tender to the
situation. Alcohol was a very big part
of my family. My brother went into
eternity at 25 because of alcohol. My
father started hauling alcohol at 13 or 14 years old. The 10,000 dollars that my grandpa had sewed
into his underwear was probably all cursed money.
Not only did he haul alcohol but alcohol got him. As you go toward Plains on the highway you
will see a set of three crosses. It is
my uncle, Brother Gyme’s uncle and another.
One night they left the bar at Paradise and headed toward Plains. One that was with them survived but they did
not. Their caskets were lined up in the
church of God in Plains.
When someone speaks of alcohol I realize that it could have
been me. I learned that it is not just
alcohol that sin takes you to. Sin takes
people where they don’t want to go. There
is the ‘joy ride’ of getting there to wake up, “I’m bound, my heart is hard, my
mind is in a stupor.”
Church I want to tell you, when Jesus chose to give His
life, expecting all his enemies, I was one of them.
I was lost in sin. He
made a way that it could be totally changed.
This is like the song, “His yoke is easy, and His burden is light.” There is a place where now he can rest. Once there was no rest because of sin and
rebellion in our hearts and lives. Now
He can rest in His love.
Heb 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for
ever them that are sanctified.
Isn’t it a wonderful thing that you and I have the open door
to come before Him and say, “God I am so glad for the fire.” I have felt the heat in my life. I needed every bit of it. I have felt a ladle with which they skim the
dross off. I have felt the dross coming
off; that master silversmith skimming off the dross.
Everyone in this audience that has been saved very long has
found that in the secret place of the steep climb, there we found, “God there
is perfection that I need. I am here and
I want to get to the next place. I want
to learn whatever lesson that you want to teach me.”
In the secret of the steep climb He comes and says, “My
child I want to perfect you here and there.
I want help in this place and in that place.” It is so easy for Him to perfect us when we
say, “Thy will be done. I am sorry that
I didn’t see it sooner.”
This climb has helped me to realize that I am weighted down
with some things. I am packing some
things and sometimes it is from the present, sometimes from the past, and sometimes
from the future.
He says, “I want you to cast all your cares and burdens over
on me so that you can climb a little higher.”
Heb 10:15 Whereof
the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
Heb 10:16 This is
the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I
will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
It is so marvelous.
As far as I have been able to study this is the only place that it said
it together, “I will write my law in their heart and I will write it in their
mind.” Isn’t it wonderful that God has a
plan to take care of our mind as well as our heart?
God has a plan for us to have a tender heart. The heart has two sides. David said, “Unite my heart.” I want both sides of my heart sold out to
God. Don’t you? The brain has two sides too.
Isn’t it wonderful that that heart can be tender towards God? God himself will write His law on our
hearts. There is nothing like God
convicting us and dealing with us. We
say, “God I am convicted of that and I will measure to that and never let it
become old and outdated.”
Then to have God write upon our minds: Every one of us comes to Jesus Christ with a
conscience and a mind that needs to be purged.
Isn’t it wonderful that we can present ourselves to Him and say, “God I
want my mind to be purged in such a way that indeed I forget all the things of
the past and you to write your message on my mind?”
Dealing with the thought of the conscience: It has been so real to me to keep my
conscience very keen, to not allow the sin, the evil, and the corruption of our
time to cause our conscience to become hard or defiled but to keep it pure and
holy before God.
Heb 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember
no more.
Heb 10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Isn’t it wonderful that Jesus paid the price for our
sin? “Jesus paid it all, all to Him I
owe.”
Heb 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter
into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
There is some awesome manna.
Isn’t it wonderful that in tabernacle worship, we can work through the
brazen altar, the laver, the door, the candlesticks, the bread, and go to that
golden altar? There present ourselves a
living sacrifice to God.
I believe there is an aroma from that living sacrifice
presented to God that heaven alone recognizes.
We are in a beautiful season in Montana, it is a nice
season. There are so many good things to
eat. You smell the odor of people
cooking outside. Karen asked me to get a
zucchini because she wanted to make me a chocolate zucchini cake. My mouth started watering before I even
smelled the cake.
When she got it out it literally filled the 9X13 Pan so full
that when she went to put the chocolate chips on she couldn’t get them to stay
on top of the cake. Then she puts it
back in the oven. I went down stairs to
do some studying and prayer down there.
Smells don’t always go up.
She called to me to see if I thought she should spread the
chocolate chips around because the cake was a mound that had chocolate in the
middle. When I came up stairs there was
this cake and she had taken some tool and leveled the chocolate all over that
cake. I didn’t take a piece, I practiced
self discipline.
God doesn’t need to smell cake. Oh how He responds to you and I, how
thrilling it is when you totally sell out to God. That aroma comes up before Him: “Here is this
life that I rescued, it was headed down the broad road of sin, I called, they
came confessing and repenting and they became a new creature.”
Then He called again and said, “Present your body a living
sacrifice.” That portion of myself that
led me into sin, that kept me in sin, and that worked to cause me to want my
way, I want it removed by the blood of Christ.
We say, “There is only one thing that I can give you, my entire being a
living sacrifice. My sins are forgiven
so I am holy. I want to be acceptable to
thee.”
How heaven must rejoice when that aroma ascends to the throne. It is not just once in a lifetime. Every time that we feel ourselves come to a
corner, we feel God drawing on our heart, we feel the inward conviction, “I
have a longing in my heart for Jesus, to feel His presence, to give myself to Him
in a greater way than I ever have before.”
We come back and say, “God I did my best before and I
believe that you sanctified me but I want to give my all to you.” That is maintenance and it comes up as a
sweet smell.
Heb 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath
consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
Heb 10:21 And having
an high priest over the house of God;
Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full
assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and
our bodies washed with pure water.
Among the things that are very sure is “Let us draw near
with a true heart in full assurance of faith.”
I have been saved a while, not too long. There are mornings that I wake up and hear
God speak to me, “Son I want you to draw near to me.”
We can rest assured in full assurance of faith. He is God.
He always honors faith in God.
Heb 11:6 But without faith it
is impossible to please him:
for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently
seek him.
That causes my faith to say, “I know that God is going to
help me.”
Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full
assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and
our bodies washed with pure water.
Aren’t you glad that there is nothing in there that wants to
draw back to sin or wants to live for the pleasures of sin?
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