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God's Longings for Your Life #3: Renewal
Hebrews 10:18-25
Sermon by Rick Crandall
Grayson Baptist Church - Sept. 14, 2014
BACKGROUND:
*Over the past two Sundays, we looked at some of God's greatest desires for our lives.
And we began with God's rescue: God wants to rescue all of us from our sin and eternal death.
His commandments help with that, because they teach us how much we need to be rescued by God.
*No matter how hard we try to obey God's laws, we find that can never keep them all.
And the just punishment for our sin is eternity in the horrible place called hell.
But God loves us so much that He wants to rescue us from that terrible fate, even though the only way He could do it was to come into the world as a man, and die on the cross for our sins.
*That's what the Son of God spoke about to His Heavenly Father in vs. 5-7:
5. Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me.
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In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you had no pleasure.
7. Then I said, 'Behold, I have come in the volume of the book it is written of Me to do Your will, O God.'''
*And that's why vs. 10-12 tell Christians that by God's:
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will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
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And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices (i.e. the same Old Testament sacrifices), which can never take away sins.
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But this Man (Jesus), after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God,
*One of God's greatest desires for your life is to rescue you from eternal death.
And He will, if you will trust in our crucified and risen Savior Jesus Christ.
But there's more, because God also wants to have a relationship with us.
Jesus wants to be our best friend, and in John 15:13-15, Jesus said:
13. "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.
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You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.
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No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends. .
."
*God the Father also wants to be our Heavenly Father.
He wants all of us to be able to be able to sincerely pray, "Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name. .
."
But we must be born again into the family of God, and we are born again when we receive God's Son Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.
*God wants to rescue us, and He wants to have a close relationship with us.
But Christians: God also wants to renew us.
And all Christians need these times of spiritual renewal.
Today's Scripture helps us see how we can be renewed.
So let's begin by reading Hebrews 10:18-25.
INTRODUCTION:
*Way back in high school I used to have a muscle car.
It was a 1966 Oldsmobile 442.
It had a 400 cubic inch engine with 350 horsepower.
That car was a rocket ship!
*Every once in a while, you'll see one of those great, old cars driving around.
One of our neighbors up in West Monroe has an early sixties Corvette convertible.
He gets it out of his garage every once in a while, when the weather is just right to put the top down.
That car is beautiful.
It looks like it's in mint condition.
But that car had to be renewed!
And Christians: God wants us to be renewed.
*One of the best Old Testament places to see this truth is in Isaiah 40:28-31.
There God began with these questions:
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Have you not known?
Have you not heard?
The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary.
There is no searching of His understanding.
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He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength.
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Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall,
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But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
*God wants His people to be renewed.
One of the best New Testament places to see this truth is in Romans 12:1-2, where Paul said:
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I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
2. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
*Christians: God wants us to be renewed, because we need to be renewed.
Imagine that old Corvette without renewal.
It would just be an old rust bucket.
And we're a little like that on the inside.
So God says: "Be transformed by the renewing of your mind."
And today's Scripture helps us know how to be renewed.
1. First: Move closer to our Master.
*Christians: We have to move closer to our Master Jesus Christ.
That's what God's Word urges us to do in vs. 22, when it says: "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith. .
." "Let us draw near," he says.
Move closer to the Master.
*Verses 18-21 help us do this, because they put our focus on Jesus Christ and all He did for us on the cross.
For example, in vs. 18, we see that we don't need any more sacrifice for our sins, because Jesus paid it all!
Speaking of our sins, vs. 18 says: "Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin."
*"Remission" -- That's the forgiveness of our sins, plus our freedom in Jesus Christ.
This word "remission" includes the idea of release from prison, deliverance, pardon, and letting our sins go as if they had never been committed.
We don't need any more sacrifice for our sins, because Jesus paid it all!
*And that's why vs. 19 says we have "boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus."
As Christians we can have boldness to enter into the most holy place in the universe, because of the blood of Jesus Christ!
Verse 20 rightly calls this "a new and living way," which Jesus has "consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh."
*When he talks about the veil of Jesus' flesh here, he's talking about the Lord's humanity.
And the Lord's flesh surely was a veil, because while Jesus was in this world, His Godhood was hidden behind His humanity.
If Jesus was just walking down the street, you could never tell He was God.
But the Son of God took on our humanity, so He could take our sins when He died on the cross.
*Larry Kalajainen told about a Christian lady who was teaching English as a second language to young children.
One day, a first grader brought a drawing of a skeleton to class, and the title across the top said: "Inside of Me."
The poster was designed to teach children that everyone has a skeleton inside of them.
The boy unfolded it, and proudly showed it to the class.
*One little girl from India was astounded at the thought that she and other people had this scary-looking skeleton inside of them.
So she asked her teacher, "Even you got one of these inside you, Mrs. K?" Her teacher replied, "Yes, I have one too."
Then, the little girl asked, "Even God got one inside him?"
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*Church: God didn't have to have a skeleton like ours, but He certainly got one, and He did that for us.
God became a man for us.
He even died on the cross for us.
So our new and living way came through the veil of Christ's flesh.
*This veil also reminds us of the veil in the Old Testament Temple in Jerusalem.
*That veil covered the holiest place in the Temple, because in Old Testament times, God was almost always unapproachable.
His glory rested on the Mercy Seat in the Holy of Holies in the Temple in Jerusalem.
Only the High Priest could go into the Holy of Holies, only once a year, and only by the sprinkling of blood to protect him from death.
*Whoever entered into the Holy of Holies was entering the very presence of God.
In fact, anyone except the high priest who entered the Holy of Holies would die.
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