Rest in Jesus’ Sacrifice

Just don't say anything about the... Oh, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions. This morning we are at Hebrews chapter 10. Hebrews chapter 10 verses 11 through 18. Hebrews 10, 11 through 18. More about Jesus and the sacrifices. So, Hebrews 10, 11 through 18. Let's have some coffee, we'll pray, and we'll get into God's Word. Let's pray. You want to pray or do you want me to pray? Okay, Lord, thank you so much for this day. Thank you for the blessing it is to get to read your word.
Father, we confess to you that we by ourselves don't have the power to give ourselves understanding, insight, or wisdom. Father, we can't give ourselves life. That's only what your Spirit can do. So Father, we pray that you would please help us, teach us, Lord, give us light, give us understanding. In Jesus' name, amen. All right. Oh, you got to grab your microphone. Hebrews chapter 10, verses 11 through 18. Why don't you read 11 through 14 and I'll read 15 through 18. Sound good? All right, go for it.
And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, forever sat down at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. But the Holy Spirit also writes to us, For after he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them. Then he adds, Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember No more. Now, therefore, there is remission of these. There is no longer an offering for sin.
Well, we got three questions we need to ask ourselves. A. What is this about?
B. What's the best verse to summarize? And C. What are we called to do? All right. So what do you think this is about? Jesus's death. Okay, good. Jesus is death. Good. Yeah. So we've been sanctified, right? Look at verse 10. By that will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus once for all. And compared to all the other high priests, they have to offer sacrifices. How often? Verse 11. Every day. And what's the conclusion of verse 11 with all their daily offering and sacrifices? which can never take away sins. But, okay, so the priest with their daily sacrifice, their sacrifice can never take away sin.
But this man, who's this man is talking about? This man is Jesus. Jesus, good. And after Jesus had offered, notice what this says. But this man, after he had Verse 12, after the comma. What about Jesus? Offered one sacrifice for sins forever. Whoa, do you see that? How many sacrifices did he offer?
One. Not infinity. Yeah, not again and again and again, not Jesus being sacrificed repeatedly, but one time. After he had offered one sacrifice for sins for that particular moment, those particular people and nobody else. Is that what it says? For everybody. Well, forever, forever. That one sacrifice was good enough forever. Right. It's it's into the ages.
After he had made that sacrifice, what did he do? He sat down at the right hand of God. Now, if a priest went into the Holy of Holies, In the Holy of Holies is the Ark of the Covenant. Was a priest ever allowed to sit down in there? Just kind of hang out with God and be like, whoa, man, this is a good throne. I'm going to sit down just right next to you, God. No, no, never, ever, ever would Aaron or his sons, any high priest ever think about going into the Holy of Holies with his sacrifice and sitting down. And yet Jesus, when he finishes his sacrifice, sits down, he sits down.
It makes himself comfy, right? No, no. The point is it's done and he's got authority. From that time. Waiting till his enemies are made his footstool, what's he doing sitting down? Well, he's King. Make no doubt about it. That's what it means to sit down. He's sitting down on the throne and. The enemies someday are going to be subdued. For by how many offerings? One. He's made us just OK. Perfect.
Perfect, perfect forever those who, notice, are being sanctified. Now this is interesting in verse 10, by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus once for all. So we have been sanctified, we have been declared holy, but notice we are also, right up here, By that will we have been sanctified, perfect passive participle. Here, now it's he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. And so we're perfect, as declared holy, but now we're being conformed, made more and more holy. And so this is the whole point of the new covenant. He's pointing back to Jeremiah chapter 31 now in verses 16 and 17. And I love verse 17. Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.
Let me ask you a fun question. Can God forget anything? So how can he remember our sins no more? Can the omniscient God go, Oh, I just forgot Deborah sinned. She hit her brother that one time. No, he forgets about it purposefully. Isn't that amazing? He remembers it no more. It's almost like he, you know, if, well, if it was a human, it would be like a little cartoon, somebody like taking out their brain and like taking away all the bad memories, putting it back in or something. Yeah. Right. So he purposely, volitionally, willfully decides I'm not going to remember. Forget it. Yeah. Right. That's that's his love for us shown in Christ Jesus. Now, therefore, now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin. Right, because the sin's been dealt with. We don't need another offering. The sin's been dealt with.
When was it dealt with? 10,000 years ago. No, don't be silly here. When was it? When was it dealt with? When Jesus died. 2,000 years ago. It was dealt with perfectly, finally. Forever. 2,000 years ago. That should give us a bunch of hope, huh? Yeah. All right. So tell me right here, what do you think you would underline as the best verse to summarize this? I'll give you a hint. I cheated. I underlined a bunch of stuff. Twelve. Okay, yeah. I have twelve, fourteen, and eighteen underlined in my Bible. Okay, so let's go ahead and go to application. C, calling.
What are we called to do? How does this encourage you about Jesus Christ? Or how does this teach you about the covenant? We don't have to make any more sacrifices. Yeah, we can rest in the perfect sacrifice of Jesus. That's a wonderful application Do you want to pray? Okay, Lord, please let us Love you let us let us know that you are the lord of hosts and thank you for forgetting all our sins in jesus's name amen amen well may the lord bless you may the holy spirit come for your heart that if you are in christ you have been declared holy is making you holy and Jesus is holy enough to protect you for all eternity. We'll see you next time. Bye. Bye.