One Sacrifice
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One Sacrifice
One Sacrifice
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Introduce.
Introduce.
As we move away from Easter Sunday and into the Easter season I would like to explore more of the cross and the resurrection and what it means. I’d like to remind you that Easter is not just a day. If Christ is not risen then everything we say, do, and believe is worthless and we have no point in being here. So because Easter is an everyday thing, and for the sake of the liturgical season, we will be starting a series on Easter. Just to remind you, Easter is a fifty day season that goes from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday.
We begin this series by looking at the importance of Christ’s sacrifice and what that means for us in relation to the law and the sacrificial system of the law.
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8 When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), 9 then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. 10 And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13 waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. 15 And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying, 16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,” 17 then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.” 18 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
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Outline
Outline
I. Introduction
II. Exegete
III. The New Covenant
Introduction
Introduction
I had planned for some time to do a series on Easter because Easter and the importance of it cannot be understood in one Sunday. In fact, if we take the combined knowledge of every Christian for the past 2,000 years we still cannot understand the importance of Easter and our risen savior; it is a holy mystery. Last week on the evening of Easter I was looking at social media and paying attention to what people were saying about Easter. There are three things that I noticed. I would like to remind you that we can never fully understand the importance of Easter, however, there are some things that are just not right.
1.) Many use Easter as a stepping stone to something else.
I saw one that said that Easter shows us that nothing is impossible for God. There was another that Easter shows us how to use our imagination and be creative. Now these are just two that I saw. Nothing being impossible for God was shown to us when he created the world out of nothing, or when raised men from the dead in the Old Testament, or when he saved people from their sins before Christ died. We certainly had the ability to have an imagination before Christ came in to the world. The importance of Easter is that something happened that never happened before, and we’ll look more at that later. The ability to have an imagination and create has always been with man. We created many things before the Christ died.
2.) Easter as a contingency. What I mean by this is that some people believe that Christ dying on the tree was not the original plan. That God was up in heaven trying to do other things and was failing so he decided to send Jesus. They treat Easter as if it was this suspenseful event where life and death hung in the balance of Jesus rising. It was always God’s plan for Jesus to die and rise again.
3.) Easter is the new Palm Sunday
Exegete
Exegete
8 When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law),
9 then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second.
10 And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,
13 waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.
14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
15 And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying, 16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,”
17 then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.” 18 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
The New Covenant
The New Covenant
The fulfilling of the law
Christ dying since the foundation of the world.
The justice of God comes into affect when looking at the cross.
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