Sermon Tone Analysis

Temporal Cleansing Vs Eternal Redemption

Daily

Sabbath

Monthly

Passover

Offerings for the feast days

Annual Day of Atonement

What do these offerings teach us?

The cleansing was temporal.

Christ entered in once because His sacrifice was eternal.

Having obtained eternal redemption for us, that is without end.

What is redemption?

To redeem is to purchase or buy back as in a ransom.

The Idea is that of payment that Christ has made in order to purchase us.

The concept of redemption was first seen in the old covenant.

Later God said that he would take all the Levites instead of the first born sons as the payment for the first born sons.

So why did God need to buy us back?

We are sold under sin and the debt of out sin is beyond our ability to pay.

We might ask ourselves why doesn’t God simply cancel the debt?

But that would be inconsistent with the righteousness of God and would take away His own glory.

And so God has chosen to save us not by His power, not by His example or moral influence nor but He has satisfied His own divine justice by redemption, purchasing us with His own blood and thereby saving us and revealing his glory the beauty of His holiness for all eternity.

So when we read that if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness, let us take in the full meaning of that statement.

Not only is He faithful He is Just.

Righteous and holy form from everlasting to everlasting.

The glory of God made manifest that we might praise His name forever.

And let us live as those who are bought with a price for our life is not our own.

Render unto God what belongs to God offer yourself as a living sacrifice.

This is what is meant by redemption and it is an eternal redemption vs the daily sacrifices of the old covenant.

Purifying of the Flesh Vs Purging of the Conscience

first we have the effect of the old covenant sacrifices they “sanctified to the purification of the flesh” the word translated flesh here is the greek word “sarx” and it means the body flesh and bone.

The sacrifices of the old covenant were not without benefit it’s just that the benefit was only skin deep.

SO the argument here is that if those old covenant sacrifices of bulls and goats were able to purify the flesh then how much more is the blood of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God able to purge or purify your conscience.

Now this is a different greek word here which is “soon·i·day·sis” which means consciousness or soul as that which is able to distinguish from right and wrong and prompts us to do what is right.

So we can see the contrast here.

The old covenant sacrifices purify the flesh the outer man temporarily where in the new covenant the sacrifice of Christ purifies the heart the soul the inner man so that we pure through and through for eternity.

Also we notice that the purging of the blood of Christ purifies our soul from something and to something.

we are purged from our dead works that is the fruit of unrighteousness, and we are purged to serve the living God that is the fruit of the Spirit.

You see the salvation of Christ is not only skin deep.

This idea that seems popular among the churched that I can receive this free gift of salvation and it will cost me nothing, the idea that I can be saved and continue to live a life for myself to pursue my own interest and desires, that is not a biblical understanding of salvation.

The salvation of the Bible will cost you everything.

The salvation of the Bible will change everything

It will cost you everything but it is worth infinitely more.

As the great missionary Jim Elliot said “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Earthly Inheritance Vs Eternal Inheritance

Under the old covenant the Israelites received the promise of an earthly inheritance.

The promised land given to Abraham as an inheritance for his children.

They received promises of blessings, promises that they would prosper and be fruitful, that they would be strong in battle.

But they were all earthly promises.

But Christ became the mediator of this new covenant that by His death on the cross He might redeem us and those who were under the first covenant that all of us who are called might receive a greater promise of an eternal inheritance.