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Introduction
Last week, we introduced the big theme to the book of Hebrews.
All of this passage has come to the point that is made last week and this week.
The next two weeks begin to play out what that looks like
I said last week that the sermons are connected.
Hebrews offers a number of comparatives.
Jesus to the angels
Jesus to Abraham
Jesus to the priests
Jesus to the law
Last week we looked at the first part of the comparative of a few things, but these things all revolved around the Tabernacle
Last week
We looked at what the Tabernacle was
We saw the diagram of how the Tabernacle was laid out
Outer courts
Altar of sacrifice
Basin for purification
Holy Place
Lampstand
Consecrated bread
Altar of incense
Most Holy Place
Ark of the Covenant
Box
Aaron’s rod that had budded
Tablets of the law
Jar of manna
The world for all of this is “covenant”
A covenant is an agreement between two parties.
This covenant had to do with man’s approach to God.
God desired to be in relationship with mankind
This is a picture of God’s love
God made a way through the Tabernacle
God dwelled among the people in the Tabernacle
The approach to God was very specific and had to deal with mankind’s primary issue with God: sin
In order to approach God, the picture was clear.
Your sin needed to be dealt with.
Sacrifice
Priests were set apart to go on your behalf
In this covenant, it was incomplete.
It gave mankind a means by which to approach God
But it had limitations.
Limitations that mankind needed to understand.
In an agreement with God, man would always fail.
There was a look ahead to the when this system would be made perfect.
The agreement between God and man would be done in a way that man could not fail and God would be available to man without the limitation of sin.
Something I found interesting in studying this week is this:
Old Covenant- Agreement with God and man about how they would approach God
System- Tabernacle, sacrifice, purification
Those who were engaged in this approach were called worshipers.
Worship is what our approach to God looks like
The approach to God was very specific
It had to do with dealing with our sin and approaching the presence of God.
This is a picture of what was.
Now, we will finish up this comparative
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Sermon
There are three pieces that we will pull from last week that will be massive keys to understanding today’s text
Our covenant with God had three important parts:
Place
Sacrifice
Duration
Place
OT- Tabernacle
Sacrifice
Blood of animals
Duration
Yearly
Will see how that changes.
“But” is a contrast to the old ways and the old covenant.
Something is different now.
Jesus came as a high priest
Remember, the author of Hebrews has established that Jesus is a high priest
He is not like the Levites who were human and sinful high priests.
He is a different kind of priest
He is like the OT priest Melchizedek who had no beginning, no end, and he is a priest not based on the law, but by appointment of God.
Jesus didn’t just go “to” the more perfect tabernacle.
He went through it.
What does this imply?
He didn’t just show up.
He performed a function and entered through all of the requirements that God requires.
This Tabernacle is not made of human hands.
The Old Covenant was made with human hands.
This one is different.
The old way was through the blood of animals that sin was paid.
Jesus entered the Most Holy Place, the presence of God by his own blood.
Something about this sacrifice earned eternal redemption
Eternal- Like Jesus as priest, no ending
Never ending
Redemption
Think of a coupon.
They are redeemed for .25 off of your next order of dish soap.
You pay with the coupon and you get the benefit of .25 off of the cost.
Jesus paid His blood and earned us the benefit.
Unlike a coupon, that discount ends at the end of the transaction
Jesus sacrifice is eternal.
It was paid one time for all
He then again compares the old and the new.
This process was external.
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