Please turn with me this afternoon to Hebrews chapter 10 today, and we are going to read the first 18 verses of Hebrews 10. And so the writer is writing, and he says, in verse 1, For the law, having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the thing, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Because that the worshippers once purged should have no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices, there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith, sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not. But a body has thou prepared me in burnt offering and sacrifice for sin thou has had no pleasure then said I lo I come in the volume of the book it is written of me to do thy will O God above where he said sacrifice and offering and burnt offering and offering for sin thou wouldst not neither hadst thou pleasure therein which are offered by the law then saith he lo I come to do thy will O God he taketh away the first that he may establish the second by the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Yeshua the Messiah once for all and every priest standing daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which could never take away sins but this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever sat down on the right hand of God from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool for by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified where of the Holy Spirit is also witness to us for after that 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 in their hearts and in their minds will I write them and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more now well remission of this is there is no more offering for sin and I stop here in this verse very interesting chapter and of course I'm just touching right now the first half of the chapter because when we're going to continue you will see that in the next half of Hebrews chapter 10 the apostle give them the fourth warning that he gives to them in the book of Hebrews.

There are five warnings that he is giving. The next one after chapter 10 found in chapter 12. But in chapter 10, the first part of the chapter, we are really dealing with the fact that the sacrifice of Yeshua, the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, is greater than the sacrifices that have been given in the past. But let's remember, beloved brothers, again, and I'm doing it every time to refresh our minds, that we will remember that we are studying a book that was written to Evreim, to Hebrews. We are studying a book that was written to Jewish people of first century who believed in the Messiah and always had the danger to go back to the rituals, to go back to the sacrifices, to go back to the God-ordained system, but had been fulfilled in the Messiah and it was not necessary anymore to do what they have been given by God.

But when Yeshua have come, they should have been continuing following after Yeshua the Messiah. So, up till now, up till the end of chapter 9, we had a superior priesthood, chapter 7. We have the fact that he is functioning under a superior covenant. This is chapter 8. And that he is serving in a superior sanctuary. This is chapter 9. And now we are going to talk about a superior sacrifice and you see beloved look at this there are three facts in this chapter which is going to show us that Yeshua's sacrifice is greater than all the others that's what the apostle is trying to show us here in this chapter Three proofs to the fact that Yeshua's sacrifice is superior than the sacrifices that have been given before.

And the first fact is found in verses 1 to 10. What is the first fact? The first fact is simply this. That the Messiah Yeshua's sacrifice not only atone or cover sin, but the Messiah's sacrifice removes sin completely. That's the first fact that we need to learn. And those Hebrew believers needed to learn. That his sacrifice, when Yeshua the Messiah died for us on the tree, his sacrifice not only covered our sin and our sins, but completely removed sin away from the presence of the Lord. And you know, we need to learn that, because sometimes even Christians, even believers in Yeshua, have a sense of guilt of sin.

What I mean by that, they don't understand that once and for all sin and the guilt of sin have been removed away from the child of God, from the believer. The guilt of sin have been removed away by the work of Christ, by the work of the Messiah, and there is no more the need of fearing God and saying, well, maybe God has not completely dealt with my sins. And then there is a fear of being in the presence of the Lord because we think that our sins haven't been dealt with because we do not understand what the Bible is teaching us. And so look what he is telling us.

And he does here in verses 1 to 10, he shows us three things. Number one, there was a need of a better sacrifice, verses 1 to 4. Number two there is a provision of a better sacrifice verses five to nine and number three there is an effectiveness of the better sacrifice verse 10 that's what he does in the first 10 verses there was a need of a better sacrifice there was a need of it and therefore it came in a person in the work of the Messiah look verses one two three and four of chapter 10 for the law having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things can never with those sacrifices plural which they this is the Hebrews of old have offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect look what he says first of all in verse 1 the law has been a shadow of good things to come a shadow is not the reality a shadow is that which is a picture of that which is real so he's saying to them the law and all the sacrificial system which God have established having a shadow of good things to come that's what was the law.

And what the sacrifices which Israel have offered historically it was a shadow of good things that were going to come but only a shadow and he continued in the same verse and he said not the very image of the thing can never with those sacrifices which they offer year by year continually make those that came unto God perfect you see he's saying by the way you notice that he's using the word year by year here in verse 1 because he's specifically talking of the yearly sacrifices which have been brought by Aaron ultimately Aaron to the holy of holies the blood that Aaron had brought into the holy of holies, Kodesh HaKodeshim, it is the blood that made God satisfied and God had been pleased with the nation which once a year he allowed the high priest to come into his presence and that yearly sacrifice to speak about the day of atonement where atonement had been made for the nation of Israel, for the totality of the nation.

But you see what he says? Every year when. They came every year when they offered notice he used the word they the they of course it's not every individual in Israel it is the high priest himself who would come into the holy of holies and there were many high priests that followed Aaron after Aaron died another one rose after he died another one rose and they were offering sacrifices daily and weekly and monthly but also yearly and here he's speaking about Yom Kippur Yom HaKippurim but you see what it says that they were offering every year and they were offering continually but it says here it could never make those that came unto the presence of the Lord perfect it never gave them a sense of complete removal of sin it always reminded them of sin again and again you see what he's saying in verse two for then in other words if it would have made them perfect would they not have ceased to be offered you see what he said if they were come into the presence of God and offer the sacrifice.

Of course the sacrifice was killed earlier in the brazen altar but ultimately the blood have come all the way into the immediate presence of God and have been sprinkled before the ark of the covenant and God have been pleased with this because he spoke of the blood that deal with the question of sin but you see the very fact that they needed to do it every year again prove that they never had a perfect conscience they never had the freedom in understanding that their sin had been removed otherwise they would not have to bring it again that's what he says in verse 2 for then would they have not stopped or ceased to be offered you see the very fact that you need to bring sacrifice again only proved that what you have done before only covered your sin and sins temporarily for a season it's only atoned for sin for a season but never removed it and that's why he says in verse 2 for would they not have ceased to be offered why because.

That the worshipers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins you see he's saying that if that was sufficient the one sacrifice then the worshipers will have no more conscience of sins but the problem that they did have a conscience of sins when they brought the sacrifices the animal sacrifices those animal sacrifices animals who died never removed sins only atoned so it says in the next verse, in those sacrifice, verse 3, verse 3 says, those sacrifice, the animal sacrifices reminded the approaches of sins. But in those sacrifice, there is a remembrance again made of sins and again every year. You see, those sacrifices have been brought in the day of atonement in Yom HaKippurim, instead of putting the conscience or giving the conscience freedom from guilt, you know what they have done?

They have reminded the approachers of sins again and again. They're reminded of them that, oh, oh, oh, oh, I need to offer this again next year, and I need to do it again the following year, because it reminded them the necessity of bringing. The sacrifice again and that's what he's telling them there was a need of a better sacrifice there was definitely a need and that's what he says in verse 4 for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins you know today beloved brothers and sisters today we don't even have sacrifices in the land of Israel today we don't even have a temple in the land of Israel we don't even have a high priest in the land of Israel we don't have an altar in the land of Israel we don't have the bloodshed on the altar we don't have even the holy of holies but two thousand years ago when the writer wrote to this first century Hebrew believers Jewish believers israeli believers they have had the temple in existence they have had the sacrifices going and so they were inclining to go back to offer those sacrifices with the high priest or with the rest of the nation and the writer telling them no no no he says to them you.

Are believers in the Messiah you have to understand that it is not possible that the blood of bulls and the blood of goats should take away sins it's not possible therefore it's not necessary to go back to the temple to offer those sacrifices because the Messiah have come and you have trusted in him and therefore when you trusted in Yeshua you ought not to go to offer those sacrifices now we have to understand that those animal sacrifices that had been given by God they were God ordained it was not bad to offer them in fact it was important to offer them but all those particular sacrifices pointed to the future day as we have read in verse 1 they were a shadow of good things to come they were not the essence they were not the reality they were a picture they were shadow They were temporarily given by God.

But they were given by God. And so if Israel in the past would decide not to offer sacrifice, God would have to deal with them. But in what kind of condition he or she would have come if they would offer sacrifice? Do you think that Aaron could barge in into the immediate presence of God, into the Holy of Holies with the blood, without a proper attitude? You see, it's not sufficient, of course, to bring sacrifice. God wanted them to have the right attitude and so they brought the sacrifices which were right which were pointed to the Messiah but they should have also offered those sacrifices with the right condition of heart and we're going to get to it in a moment and so that's why he's saying that those sacrifices which they offer could not remove sin, they forgave sin temporarily, but never removed them.

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. But I want you to understand that their sins were forgiven, but only temporary until the next sacrifices were offered, and then the sins were forgiven temporarily until the next one, and the next year, and the next year, and the next year. But forgiveness they have had, but never complete removal of sin. Always the remembrance of sin. There is a verse or two that we need to read in the book of Leviticus. If you please turn to the book of Leviticus. I want to just read these verses in Leviticus chapter 4.

Look what we read in Leviticus chapter 4. Four times in the book of Leviticus, in Hebrew, Vayikra. For time we read that their sin will be forgiven to them when they would bring the sacrifices first of all in the first two verses of Leviticus chapter 4 first two or three verses and the Lord said unto Moses saying speaking to the children of Israel saying if a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which ought not to be done and shall do against any of them if the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people then let them bring for his sin which he had sinned a young bullock without blemish unto the Lord for a sin offering and then he continued to bring also a bullock unto the door and how to bring the sin offering unto the door but notice what he says later on in verse 20 and he shall do with the bullocks as he did with the bullock for the sin offering so shall he do with this and the priest shall make an atonement for them and listen and it shall be forgiven him.

Verse 26 and he shall burn all his fat upon the altar as the fat of the sacrifice of the peace offering and the priest shall make atonement for him as concerning his sin and it shall be forgiven him verse 31 and he shall take away all the fat thereof and the fat is taken away from of the sacrifice of the peace offering and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet Savior unto the Lord and the priest shall make an atonement for him and it shall be forgiven him verse 35 and he shall take away all the fetter of and the fet of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offering and the priest shall burn them upon the altar according to the offerings made by fire unto the Lord and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he has committed and it shall be forgiven him.

You know, the fourth time we find out that sin and sins will. Be forgiven when the sacrifices, whether it is a peace offering or a sin offering or trespasses offering, the sin will be forgiven. But you never read that it will be removed. You see, it's one thing for me to forgive you it's another thing for me to remove the wrong that you have done for me or I to you let's say we have done something wrong to each other and I'm coming to you or you coming to me and you says brother Gideon could you please forgive me the wrong that I have done for you and I say you know what I forgive you but you see always before my mind I remember what that person have done for me i remember that you see it's kept in my mind but i forgive and it's a good thing to do to forgive sin to forgive wrong but it's one thing to forgive wrong it's another thing to reckon the wrong as if it had never happened this is a different thing and we know very well.

That God in the person of the son not only that he forgave our sin but he removed sin completely from his presence and that's where we are going back now to Hebrews chapter 10 and you notice that in verses 1 to 4 where we just read we saw that there was a need for a better sacrifice but now in verses 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, we see that there was a provision of a better sacrifice. There was a way where God had provided a better sacrifice, and that's what he does in verses 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Notice that. First of all, verse 5. Wherefore? In verse 5, he is now taking us to an Old Testament passage.

Now remember, beloved brothers and sisters, because the one who wrote is Jewish, and the ones who read were Jewish, or the one who wrote was Hebrew, and the ones who read were Hebrews he could only quote to them the Hebrew Scriptures he could only quote to them. What he had in his hands even the book of Hebrews itself was not yet ready he was just enacting it writing it to those Hebrews so what does he do he go back to the Tanakh he go back to the Psalms and you look what he says wherefore when he cometh into the world speaking about Yeshua the Messiah the Lord Jesus Christ the Lord Jesus the Messiah when he cometh into the world this is he Yeshua he said sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not but a body thou has prepared me In burnt offering and sacrifices for sin, thou hast had no pleasure.

Then said I, Lo, I come in the volume of the book it is written of me to do thy will, O God. Now you see, the Hebrew writer is pointing to another Hebrew writer in the book of Psalms, namely David and what David wrote historically in the book of tehilim in the book of Psalm became a messianic Psalm a Psalm in Psalm 40 that had pointed to the Messiah of Israel the Savior of this world and so he's saying now he shows us in those verses verses 5 6 and 7 he's actually quoting in verses 5 6 and 7 Psalm 40 verses 6 7 and 8 and in that Psalm it says like this and i think i'm going to turn to the Psalm Psalm 40 and look what it says in Psalm 40 sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire mine ears has thou opened burnt offering and sin offering thou has not required then said i lo i come in the volume of the book it is written of me i delight to do thy will oh my God yet thy law is within my heart the writer the Hebrew writer to the Hebrew.

Believers quoting for them Psalm 40 verses 6 7 and 8 but it's very interesting you notice that all of a sudden he takes the Psalm that David wrote and he gives us David's speech as it was Mashiach speech what David said prophetically in Psalm 40 is actually what Yeshua the Messiah said when he came here to this world to give his life a ransom for many and you notice he quoting but he make a little change here that you and i might say and many people do say wait a minute what he wrote in Psalm 40 verse 6 is a little bit different in what the writer writes in Hebrews chapter 10 and verses 5 6 and 7 it seems like he writes something a little bit different because it says in verse 6 of Psalm 40 sacrifice and offering thou did not want or did not desire mine ears has thou opened burnt offering and sin offering thou has not required.

Now look what it says in Hebrews chapter 10 and the verse in which we have began in verse 5. It says wherefore he says when he come into the world he said sacrifice and offering thou would not but a body has thou prepared for me you see in Psalm 40 verse 6 he says my ears you have opened and in Hebrews 10 verse 5 he says a body you have prepared for me now of course immediately the people who do not want to acknowledge the word of God they are many times as you see there is a problem here you see what the psalmist says in Psalm 46 the Hebrew writer quoted completely different you see there is some kind of contradictions in your Bible you see and that's why i do not want to accept the Lord Yeshua as my Messiah as my Lord well listen beloved brothers and sisters the writer did not make any mistake at all What he was quoting in the book of Hebrews is the Septuagint.

The Septuagint is a translation of the Hebrew Tanakh from Hebrew to Greek. And it was translated, by the way, by 70 rabbis who knew Hebrew very, very well. So they took the passage that is mentioned here in the Hebrew original Hebrew text and they have translated from mine ears has now opened and they have taken this word of course the writer took it and he have applied it to the word ears simply it takes a body you have prepared for me now why he take from the ears you have opened to a body you have prepared why does he do this shift from the ears to the body.

And I tell you why. And at least most Bible scholars teach that and understand it. See, the ear, we all have two ears, but sometimes the Bible uses the singular word ear. The ear speaks of obedience. When we listen to the Word of God and submit to the Word of God, it's really the ear is the avenue where God would come in and we are subjecting the whole body for the Lord in obedience. You see, God does not want us to listen from one ear and to get it. Out from the other ear and not be obedient to his will. God is expecting from the believer to be obedient to him but you see what happened when the writer when the psalmist says you know God really sacrificed and offering you did not desire what he meant by that the psalmist meant by that is that you know you did not only want sacrifices externally without the condition of heart to only offer sacrifice without to have a heart condition become ritualism you see this is exactly what we read in the book of Isaiah chapter 1 where God says I'm already tired from your sacrifices you're bringing the sacrifices and your heart condition is so far away from me and God was not pleased with Israel when they have only brought the sacrifice and there was not the heart condition comes along with this if you can read in verse 11 of Isaiah 1 to what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me says the Lord i am full of the burnt offerings of rain.

And of the fat of the beast and i delight not in the blood of bullags and of the lambs and of the goats he's saying to them to what purpose you're bringing the sacrifices when your hearts is so far away from me when your bodies is not in subjection to me that's what he's saying to the people of Israel so when the psalmist says in Psalm 40 sacrifice and offering you did not desire he does not mean that God did not institute the sacrificial system what he means is when you bring a sacrifice eyes you bring your heart condition with it i don't need your ritualism and you and i know it very well we can go to a church meeting today and we can come to the meeting we can go through the motion when our hearts is not at all in the things of the Lord our mind is somewhere else our thoughts is in another place the Lord is just seeing our heart and he knows by the way he knows.

Our hearts even right now he knows that oftentimes we are not here we're only in body here but our mind is elsewhere he says i don't want that you see we do exactly oftentimes what Israel have done historically Israel brought the sacrifices went through the routine and said to God God i'll talk to you later God does not desire that God wants sincerity he wants the sacrifices because in order to receive forgiveness of sins you need the blood to be poured but he wants our hearts to come along with it so the psalmist says sacrifice an offering you did not desire and then he said but my ears you have dugged you have opened in Hebrew it says osnaim karitali my ears you actually dug and you have opened and what he mean by that that my ears have been so much dug through that every message of God sunk into my heart and there was a life that is devoted for the Lord that's what he's really saying here and so he says sacrifice and offering you really didn't want but you have.

Prepare mine ears you have opened mine ears so i can be suitable as a true servant as a true priest as a true sacrifice for you my God that's what Yeshua is saying so the Hebrew writer he takes it and instead of using the word mine ears you have opened he take it and he used this expression a body you have prepared for me and you see how true beloved when you think of Yeshua the Messiah his body was totally devoted to God you know like the sacrifices that had been offered historically by Israel by the Hebrew people by the people of Israel the animals had to be without blemish the animals had to be without any defect in their bodies there was no defect in the sacrifices because they typified the Messiah they pointed to the Messiah that's why they could not offer any sacrifices with the broken bones anything that had blemish in it could never be offered and so here we see the Messiah saying and how beautiful he says a body you have prepared for me.

And what does he mean by that that every step he took in his life everything that he have done with his body was pleasing to the father was pleasing to God may he prove in his life as a body was prepared for him his body was a body that was used totally for God in every area of his life he pleased God and he became a suitable sacrifice for God a fulfillment that had been pointed out of him by the old sacrifices he continued he says in Psalm 40 verse 6b it says burnt offering and sin offering thou has not desired then said i lo i come in the volume of the book, it is written of me.

I delight to do thy will. O my God, yea, thy law is within my heart. You see, Yeshua, the law of God was placed in his heart. It was his life to do the will of the Father, to do the will of God. Even at the moment, the last moment of his life here on earth, if you remember the Garden of Gatshmanim and the Garden of Gethsemane, when you remember that he anticipated the crucifixion, the death on the cross, and his sweat was as if great big drops of blood that fell to the ground. You know why they were so large? His sweat was because he had a perfect body, a perfect soul, a perfect human spirit, never was seen in his life, and now he was anticipating to become a sacrifice, and as he was anticipating to become the sacrifice, he began to understand and to realize now the sin question is going to be laid upon him, and he says, Father, Father, you remember that?

Take this cup away from me. This is the cup of God indignation against sin. If it is possible, Father, take this cup away from me, but he didn't stop there. He says, nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done. He subjected himself to God's. The Father's requirement. And that's why it says here, lo, I come in the volume of the book. It is written of me to do not my will, but thy will of God. I didn't come to do my thing and to do my will i came to do the will of the father the God who has sent me into this world and by that he fulfilled to the letter Psalm 40 verses 6 7 and 8 because he did come to do the will of the father and you notice it says in the volume of the book it is written of me do you want to find Jesus you find him in a Scripture everything in the Bible speaks of him from Genesis to Revelation from Genesis to Malachi from bereshit to Malachi every book whether it is old testament Tanakh or whether it is the brit hadashah the new testament everything is pointing to the Messiah Yeshua in the volume of the book it is written of me and it is amazing how people cannot find the Lord and.

You know why they cannot find the Lord because they reject the book and they reject the author of the book and they reject the fact that God says about them that they have sinned before him and they reject the things of God and no wonder they cannot find the person of Yeshua the Messiah in the Scripture in the volume of the book it is written of me i come to do thy will oh God verses five six and seven of our chapter Hebrew chapter 10 and then now quickly notice not only that his body had been prepared this is the tabtuagian translation of the Hebrew Tanakh then we read in verses 8 and 9 God had no pleasure in sacrifices without obedience without obedience all sacrifices of all without obedience of the one who came God had not pleasure look what it says in verse 8 above namely in the book of Psalm when he said Psalm 40 sacrifices and offering and burnt offering and offering for sin thou would not neither hence pleasure therein which are offered.

By the law you see he says God had no pleasure therein because those who had brought them when they some of them when they have offered them they came without proper obedience to God then it says in verse 9 then said he this is Yeshua the Messiah lo I come to do thy will O God he taketh away the first this is the old covenant the law that he may establish the second establishing the new covenant the Brit HaChadasha that we know from the book of Jeremiah chapter 31 you see what he did here he by virtue of his work on the tree by virtue of doing the will of God he noticed he took away notice it says very clearly he taketh away the first that's the law mentioned already in verse 8 at the end but he established the second and the second beloved is the covenant the new covenant which he established the Messiah Yeshua have established in his blood and that teaches us beloved brothers and sisters of the provision of the better sacrifice of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah so.

Messiah sacrifice not only atone for sins but remove sins and we see it now here is the effectiveness of this is found in verse 10 and look what it says in verse 10 by the which will we this is the Hebrew believers of first century and you and i we are notice that we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Yeshua the Messiah how many times it says here once and for all you notice this verse had to be sunk into the brain and heart of every believer in Yeshua the Messiah i'm repeating this verse by the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Yeshua the Messiah once for all we are the word sanctified means set apart the word sanctified is reckoned as holy and righteous before God the word sanctified simply means that God had been satisfied with the work of the Messiah and he set us apart he cleansed our sin and sin and he removed them forever from before his eyes and before his face by the which.

Will the will of God that is we are sanctified by the offering of the body of Yeshua the Messiah once and for all you see here we have the effectiveness what is the effectiveness is that we don't have to offer this again and again and again and again once for all time that's it it's done it is finished we don't need to offer sacrifices anymore and Hebrews he's saying to them don't go back to the temple don't go back to the temple in Jerusalem to offer sacrifices again because you have been sanctified forever it's been dealt with finish you see what happened if a person go back into the sacrificial system he was really saying that the blood and the body of Yeshua the Messiah was really not sufficient to remove sin forever it is only temporary that's wrong to say that and that's why God says the effectiveness of the better sacrifice is completely sanctified the believer once and for all and so now after he said in verses 1 to 10 that the Messiah.

Sacrifice take away sin now from verse 11 to 18 he shows us that we do not need to repeat again and again and again this sacrifice look at this verse 11 it says now and every priest standing daily now you notice he moved from yearly to daily every priest standing daily ministering offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take away sins but this man namely Yeshua after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever sat down on the right hand of God you see in verse 11 we see that the priest used to bring not only now sacrifice yearly but daily every day they would come and they will offer all the time they will offer the same sacrifices and they will do it often again and again and every day but it says that they could never take away sins dear beloved brothers and sisters you see of course today we don't have the sacrifices anymore in Jerusalem and that's why no one their sins can never be taken away unless they come to the Scriptures.

And realize it in the person of the Messiah many religions that we have today could never give satisfaction to the soul of an individual you know why because it doesn't matter how much you go through a routine of religious activity the most important thing in any religion is the question of sin the question of sin troubling mankind all over wherever they are from beginning from Jerusalem all over the world whether you are a secular individual whether you claim to be an atheist or hindu or muslim or Jewish or whatever group of religious individual that you are you have the issue of sin to deal with and if you don't have it removed and dealt with you will always have this heaviness in your heart and here we see here every priest standing daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take away sin but here is this man this man after he offered one sacrifice for sins forever he sat down on the right hand of God it is finished he has dealt with it he offered once and he sat down.

We always have to see it in the context of the Hebrew situation the high priest never sat down this man sat down the high priest offered often time he offered once the high priest had to come with sin sacrifice for himself this one has offered his own self as a sacrifice Look at the contrast. One was pointing to him, one is the reality. One is the shadow, one is the real thing. Everything is pointing to Yeshua, our Messiah, who in verse 12 we read, Messiah's offering and sacrifice has been completely finished. And then he says he sat down on the right hand of God. It takes us back to Psalm 110.

Psalm 110, God says, sit down on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. Sit down. And he sat down on his right hand. And he's still right now. He's seated at the right hand of God the Father, waiting to come in a second coming to deal with the world and to restore Israel back to himself. And so he continues now in verse 13 and 14. It says there, from henceforth, listen up, precious we are in chapter 10 and verse 13 from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool you know one day is those enemies of our blessed Lord that are still enemies of him one day they are going to be judged by him it says here that he gonna make his enemies his footstool where his foot will rest and oh I don't envy an individual who rejected the work of the Messiah for them he will have to come the second time to judge this world in righteousness but for us he reminded those Hebrews and for you and I in verse 14 Messiah's work perfected us the believers it says here look for by one offering he has perfected forever beloved listen to this if you Mark this underline this in your Bible for by one offering he perfected he has perfected made us perfect forever them that are set apart you know when we look at each other we should look imperfect when we see how we conduct ourselves we see definitely that we are.

Imperfect here in this world but this is here and now but our positional standing with God that's what he's saying to the believer says your positional standing your relationship your eternal relationship with the Lord you have been perfected you are recognized by God as a perfect individual why because of the sacrifice of the Messiah because of the offering of the Messiah and you see that gives peace to the soul you and i need not to think of ourself less than what God think of you and I? You know, God look at us and he says, I know you are a sinner. I know you are deserve to be punished.

I know I could have cast you to the eternal separation from me, but I love you. I love you, Hebrews, he would say to them in first century. I've sent the Messiah for you. So you don't need to have a sense of being imperfect, a sense of being never satisfied. I have done this for you. I have perfected for you, not only for one year, two years, or maybe for a season until you're going to send your next sin. I have perfected you forever. Forever. I perfected you forever because of the offering of my son, the Messiah, Yeshua, when he died for you on the cross.

Don't you know, don't you feel that peace, Even in your mind, in your heart, to recognize that, you know, some individuals don't think that their sin has been dealt with. Another verse that the Apostle Paul wrote in Colossians, I want to read that verse, in Colossians chapter 2, verse 9 and 10. For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and you, Colossians, are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power. This is Colossians 2 and verse 10. You are complete in him. You are complete. You are not lacking anything. Because you are in Mashiach, in Christ, in Christos, in Messiah, you are complete.

You have been perfected. You are lacking nothing. And that's why we can have this confidence in our own hearts Because the one offering of the Messiah, we have been perfected forever. Those of us that had been sanctified. And so we continue now in verse 15 to 18 of this chapter, Hebrews chapter 10. He tells us that the believer have a perfect standing before God. And you know how we know that? Because the Holy Spirit of God is working in our hearts to tell us this. Verse 14 and 15, it says, in verse 15, Whereof the Holy Spirit also is a witness to us. Now, how do we know that we have this conscience free from guilt, conscience free before God?

Because not only the Word tells us, but the Holy Spirit is telling us. You see, we cannot believe in Jesus, the Son, and believe in God as the Father without believing in the Holy Spirit of God. See, the Holy Spirit of God's ministry to us is that his ministry to us is to impress upon our hearts what the Messiah has done. And look what he says. Here he says in verse 15, The Holy Spirit of God bear witness in us and to us. You see, he bear a testimony. When you feel sometimes, God, you know, I fail you. And God now, oh, look what's going to happen.

God, now you don't love me anymore. And God, you know, the Messiah's sacrifice is not sufficient for me. And the Bible tells us, listen, you want to take what God says, take him and his word? Well, look what he says. He said that he had been perfected for you forever. But on top of it, the Spirit of God, beloved, he is impressing us upon the heart of the individual. He is the one that's witnessing to us. You see, the same Holy Spirit of God that is speaking to the unregenerated individual, to the unbeliever, to convict him, to convict her to become a believer, is the same Spirit of God who convicts us.

And giving us, the believer, the assurance that our sins have been dealt with. That the one offering of the Messiah perfected us forever. And we have the liberty in our relationship with the Lord because of the work of the Messiah. So the Holy Spirit of God has a great and important ministry to do in the life of the believer. But not only the witness of the Holy Spirit of God. We have also the witness of the word of God in verses 16, 17, and 18. Look, the witness of the word of God. It says in verse 16, as he said, this is the end of verse 15, as he said before, and now he's quoting to us, again, the prophet Jeremiah.

Remember, he's writing to Hebrews. They only had the Tanakh in their hands. The New Testament was not written yet. And therefore, what they have is the Tanakh. And he gives them the written word of God. He says, listen, this is the covenant, verse 16, that I will make with them after those days, sayeth the law. I will put my laws in their hearts. And in their minds will I write them. And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where there is forgiveness of this, there is no more offering for sin. He takes us back to the Hebrew Scriptures, to the prophet Yirmiyahu in chapter 31, where Jeremiah the prophet prophesied concerning the coming of the new covenant.

And the new covenant did come when the Messiah had died. And God says, when the new covenant is going to come, when the Messiah is going to give his life, and he's going to shed his blood, he says, that's it. Things are going to be different. I will put my laws in their hearts, and on their mind will I write them, and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now look at this. Of course, remember, he's writing now to those Hebrews. They became believers. The Messiah had already died on the cross, and the covenant had been established. But Israel as a nation have not come into this covenant because at the nation they were still rejecting the Messiahship of Yeshua.

But the Hebrew believers and you and I, Jews and Gentiles alike in this present day, we come under the blessing of this covenant and we can today have the assurance that our sins and our iniquities God will remember no more. And brothers and sisters, listen to this for a moment. It's not only the sins that you have committed last year or many years ago. It's the sins that you commit today and the sins that you will commit tomorrow. Remember when he wrote this verse, you and I were not here. When he wrote those verses in Hebrews chapter 10 or even further in Jeremiah chapter 31, we were not even born into this world.

The Lord haven't died as yet. What he's telling us, that on the basis of the new covenant, the blood of the Lord Jesus the Messiah dealt with all sin and sins. Past, present, future. And that's why when you and I sin today, and we do, we don't in a sense even have to ask for forgiveness because it already has been forgiven us. But you know what we need to do? We need to confess it. If we confess our sins, 1 John 1, he is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. He doesn't say, ask for forgiveness because they have already been forgiven the moment we have sinned.

But what happened when you and I sinned today? We haven't lost our salvation, but we lost the enjoyment of it. All of a sudden, the relationship with Yeshua had been, the enjoyment of the relationship had been broken, there's a cloud coming, I cannot enjoy the Lord I don't want to be in his presence anymore because I have sinned, you see what I need to do is to turn around and say to him, Lord I have sinned before you I know you forgave my sin and my sin, but I want to confess this before you to admit that I fail and I have sinned, and I want you to restore the joy that i had before and a believer that sin never lose his or her salvation but they lose the enjoyment of that salvation that's why many times you and i don't enjoy our salvation because we haven't dealt with our sins we haven't honestly went on our knees before him and told him Lord Jesus i am wrong in my action and i pray that you will restore me and i want you to restore me back to yourself.

And that's why he says their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. And he closed that section and I'm going to close with that. Now where there is forgiveness of sins there is no more offering for sin. If we have been forgiven already and we have, there is no more need to bring offering again and again and again anymore. There is no need for that. It's done with. It's finished. There is one sacrifice that perfected us forever and we do not need another sacrifice anymore. And those that think they do, they never understood what happened when the Lord Yeshua died for them and finished the work.

And if you don't understand that, you got to go back to the Scripture, see what he teaches us in the Scripture and find release, find freedom and liberty as you have this in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. And only he can provide it as we turn to the Scriptures to learn these things from him. So, beloved, look, we have covered verses 1 to 18. There is a superior sacrifice of the Messiah. He took away sin, verses 1 to 10, And sin's sacrifice need not to be repeated because it's done once and for all. In our next meeting, we are going to see how this sacrifice opened the door for us to the immediate presence of God and to keep our focus, our minds and our hearts on the person of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah.

Can you say Amen for that?