{"id":28950,"date":"2023-11-30T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/hebrews-9_15-28-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T16:20:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T23:20:23","slug":"hebrews-10_1-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/hebrews-10_1-10\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Has Gone, Jesus Has Come"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hebrews 10:1-10 <\/strong>\u00a0(CLICK HERE FOR\u00a0BIBLE VERSES)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s passage is\u00a0Hebrews\u00a010:1-10.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Hebrews 10:1-4 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n1\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming–not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
\n2\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0If it could, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.
\n3\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,
\n4\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.<\/em>
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\nOn verses\u00a01-4:\u00a0\u00a0Here we find the clearest explanation from the writer of\u00a0Hebrews\u00a0as to the reason why the old covenant (established by the law of Moses) needed to be replaced by a new covenant (established by the grace of Jesus):\u00a0\u00a0the old covenant \u201ccan never, by\u00a0the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship\u201d (v1).\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s because the law was just \u201ca shadow of the good things that are coming \u2013 not the realities themselves\u201d (v1).\u00a0\u00a0In other words, the law of Moses, which required the ongoing sacrifice of bulls and goats, was only foreshadowing (pointing forward to) the day that the real lamb of God \u2013 Jesus \u2013 would come and be sacrificed for our sins.\u00a0\u00a0In the meantime,\u00a0the sacrifice of bulls and goats under the law of Moses did not do anything to truly cleanse people of their sins or alleviate their consciences<\/strong>\u00a0(v2).\u00a0Asverse 4 says, \u201cIt is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.\u201d Rather\u00a0the old covenant as contained in the law of Moses simply served as \u201can annual reminder of sins\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(v3), a reminder to the people that they are sinners in need of a Saviour.\u00a0\u00a0(See also Romans 7:7.)<\/p>\n

Hebrews 10:5-10 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me;
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then I said, ‘Here I am–it is written about me in the scroll– I have come to do your will, O God.'”
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them” (although the law required them to be made).
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second.
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 5-10:\u00a0\u00a0In verses 5-7, the writer of\u00a0Hebrews\u00a0quotes Psalm 40:6-8.\u00a0\u00a0He quotes Psalm 40:6-8 to show that God, in particular Jesus the Son of God, was setting aside the old covenant to establish a new covenant.\u00a0\u00a0When it says, \u201csacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them\u201d (v5-6), it means that even though the law of Moses required that these sacrifices and offerings be made, these sacrifices and offerings did nothing to truly appease the wrath of God against sin.\u00a0\u00a0Then when it says, \u201cHere I am, I have come to do your will\u201d (v9), this is a reference to Jesus Christ and how, as the lamb of God, He prayed \u201cnot my will but Yours be done\u201d (Luke\u00a022:42) and gave His life as a sacrifice for our sins.\u00a0\u00a0Thus,\u00a0the writer of\u00a0<\/strong>Hebrews<\/strong>\u00a0interprets Psalm 40:6-8 as God setting aside the old covenant (which could not cleanse people of their sins despite the endless sacrifice of bulls and goats according to the law) in favour of a new covenant (which effectively made sinners holy through the one time sacrifice of Jesus\u2019 blood)<\/strong>.\u00a0 As verse 10 says, \u201cAnd by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also notice that even though Psalm 40 was written by David, the writer of Hebrews attributes these words to Jesus (v5).\u00a0\u00a0What can we learn from this?\u00a0\u00a0This gives us a clue into how\u00a0the Bible is on one hand written by human beings and on the other hand divinely inspired<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0David wrote Psalm 40 while being inspired by the Holy Spirit.\u00a0\u00a0As 2 Peter\u00a01:21\u00a0says, \u201cFor prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lord Jesus, thank You that when the endless offering of bull blood and goat blood could not cleanse human beings of sin, You came, set aside Your own will for Your Father\u2019s will, and shed Your own blood to cleanse us of our sins.\u00a0\u00a0With gratitude I proclaim today that my sins are forgiven and my conscience is cleansed because of the blood of Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Copyright \u00a9 2021 Justin Lim. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is\u00a0Hebrews\u00a010:1-10.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Hebrews 10:1-4 (NIV)
\n1\u00a0\u00a0The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming–not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
\n2\u00a0\u00a0If it could, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.
\n3\u00a0\u00a0But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,
\n4\u00a0\u00a0because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
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\nOn verses\u00a01-4:\u00a0\u00a0Here we find the clearest explanation from the writer of\u00a0Hebrews\u00a0as to the reason why the old covenant (established by the law of Moses) needed to be replaced by a new covenant (established by the grace of Jesus):\u00a0\u00a0the old covenant \u201ccan never, by\u00a0the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship\u201d (v1).\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s because the law was just \u201ca shadow of the good things that are coming \u2013 not the realities themselves\u201d (v1).\u00a0\u00a0In other words, the law of Moses, which required the ongoing sacrifice of bulls and goats, was only foreshadowing (pointing forward to) the day that the real lamb of God \u2013 Jesus \u2013 would come and be sacrificed for our sins.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28953,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28950\/revisions\/28953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}