Hebrews 10:19-25: Because of Christ's Sacrifice Let us...
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19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Outline
Outline
Hebrews 1-2 - Jesus is Greater Than the Angels
Hebrews 1-2 - Jesus is Greater Than the Angels
Hebrews 1:1-4 - God has Spoken
Hebrews 1:5-14 - The Son is Superior to the Angels
Hebrews 2:1-4 - A Warning
Hebrews 2:5-9 - Lowliness to Crowning Glory
Hebrews 2:10-18 - Jesus has Delivered His Brothers
Hebrews 3:1-4:13 - Jesus is a Greater Rest
Hebrews 3:1-4:13 - Jesus is a Greater Rest
Hebrews 3:1-6 - Jesus is Worthy of More Glory Than Moses
Hebrews 3:7-19 - Disobedience After the Exodus
Hebrews 4:1-13 - A Sabbath Rest for God’s People
Hebrews 4:14-7:26 - Jesus is Greater than Melchizedek
Hebrews 4:14-7:26 - Jesus is Greater than Melchizedek
Hebrews 4:14-16 - Jesus is the Great High Priest
Hebrews 5:1-10 - Jesus is the High Priest After the Order of Melchizedek
Hebrews 5:11-6:20 - Warning and Exhortation
Hebrews 5:11-14 - Failure to Mature
Hebrews 6:1-8 - Pursue Maturity
Hebrews 6:9-12 - Loving Motivation
Hebrews 6:13-20 - The Promise of God’s Word and God’s Oath
Hebrews 7:1-10 - The Greatness of Melchizedek
Hebrews 7:11-19 - Jesus’ Priesthood is Needed
Hebrews 7:20-28 - Jesus Guarantees a Better Covenant
Hebrews 8:1-10:18 - Jesus is the Greater Covenant
Hebrews 8:1-10:18 - Jesus is the Greater Covenant
Hebrews 8:1-6 - Jesus Mediates a Better Covenant
Hebrews 8:7-13 - The Promise of the New Covenant
Hebrews 9:1-10 - The Earthly Tabernacle Points to What Would Come
Hebrews 9:11-14 - Christ is The Mercy Seat
Hebrews 9:15-22 - Blood is Necessary for Forgiveness
Hebrews 9:23-28 - Christ’s Sacrifice Permanently Removes Sin
Hebrews 10:1-10 - Christ’s Sacrifice Replaces the Law
Hebrews 10:11-18 - Christ's Sacrifice Fully Forgives Sin
Hebrews 10:19-12:29 - Assurance of Faith
Hebrews 10:19-12:29 - Assurance of Faith
Hebrews 10:19-25 - Because of Christ's Sacrifice Let us...
Hebrews 10:19-22 - Exhortation to Draw Near
Hebrews 10:23 - Exhortation to Persevere
Hebrews 10:24-25 - Exhortation to Encourage One Another
Purpose of Book
Purpose of Book
Christ, who has accomplished salvation through His atoning sacrifice, is greater than all things; therefore, persevere in true faith and encourage others to do likewise
Christ, who has accomplished salvation through His atoning sacrifice, is greater than all things; therefore, persevere in true faith and encourage others to do likewise
Main Point
Main Point
As a result of Christ’s high priestly work, we are exhorted to draw near to God, persevere in true faith, and encourage one another
As a result of Christ’s high priestly work, we are exhorted to draw near to God, persevere in true faith, and encourage one another
Hebrews 10:19-22 - Exhortation to Draw Near
Hebrews 10:19-22 - Exhortation to Draw Near
19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
***Close connection to Hebrews 4:14-16***
***Close connection to Hebrews 4:14-16***
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence
Therefore - Hebrews 4:14-16-now
Confidence
Unimpeded behavior before both God and humanity
Enter the holy places
By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing (which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper, but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.
For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own,
God’s presence
Why is entrance possible? Obedience to the Father’s will
Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,
“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
but a body have you prepared for me;
in burnt offerings and sin offerings
you have taken no pleasure.
Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’ ”
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), then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
By the blood of Jesus
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.
By the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,
By the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,
New and living way that he opened for us through the curtain
And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split.
Access to God is available to everyone, not simply the high priest, through the death of Christ
Opened
Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.
New
The death of Christ inaugurates the new covenant
Living
Christ is not dead, but LIVING
This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek, who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life.
Through his flesh
Access to God is granted through the flesh of Christ
And since we have a great priest over the house of God,
And since we have a great priest over the house of God,
We have a great high priest
Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
Over the house of God
Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for forty years.
Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.’
As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest.’ ”
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith
Exhortation
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience
Internal purification
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
An entirely changed heart, unlike the Mosaic covenant
Our bodies washed with pure water
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Also referring to baptism - Outward sign of the cleansing that has happened internally
Hebrews 10:23 - Exhortation to Persevere
Hebrews 10:23 - Exhortation to Persevere
23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering,
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering,
Let us hold fast the confession
Exhortation
but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.
For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
Of our hope
An eschatological joy for those who persevere in true faith until the end
For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.
And they sang a new song, saying,
“Worthy are you to take the scroll
and to open its seals,
for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation,
and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God,
and they shall reign on the earth.”
Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice,
“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain,
to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might
and honor and glory and blessing!”
And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying,
“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”
And the four living creatures said, “Amen!” and the elders fell down and worshiped.
Without wavering
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.
Not sinless, but perseverance
For he who promised is faithful.
For he who promised is faithful.
Promised
Promised the eternal rest
Faithful
The reason we can hold fast to the confession is because God is the one who is faithful
The promises of God secure the hope of His children
Past promises have been attained and we await the promises of the eternal rest
Hebrews 10:24-25 - Exhortation to Encourage One Another
Hebrews 10:24-25 - Exhortation to Encourage One Another
24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
And let us
Exhortation
Moves from two vertical exhortations to a horizontal exhortation
Consider how to stir up one another to love and good works
Careful reflection on the needs of other believers
Love goes beyond mere emotions
Good works reveal the transformative power of the gospel within
Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another,
Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another,
Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some
Persecution from the Jews was very real
Individuals had wrongfully abandoned the gathering of the saints which may result in no Christ-centered relationships at all
Failure to meet, as a habit, reveals that a person may truly not be saved because the gathering looks forward to the eschatological gathering
But encouraging one another
Christians are to be together in fellowship to both give and receive ministry from one another
Furthermore it meant to exhort one another to persevere in true faith remember that God is faithful
And all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
And all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
And all the more
Exhortation and encouragement was needed because the author wanted them to persevere until the Day
The Day drawing near
This Day, eschatological, involves both salvation for those in Christ and judgement for those who do not repent
so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
Application
Application
Draw near to God because Christ’s work makes you clean
Draw near to God because Christ’s work makes you clean
Persevere in true faith knowing that our God is faithful
Persevere in true faith knowing that our God is faithful
Do not neglect the gathering, but encourage and exhort one another to persevere in true faith
Do not neglect the gathering, but encourage and exhort one another to persevere in true faith
Main Point
Main Point
As a result of Christ’s high priestly work, we are exhorted to draw near to God, persevere in true faith, and encourage one another
As a result of Christ’s high priestly work, we are exhorted to draw near to God, persevere in true faith, and encourage one another