 So far we've understood what the Lord Jesus has done for us and how He Himself has sealed this covenant for us as the testator, the testament and the testator and how this blood of Jesus has done a great work for us, not only the blood but the very person of the Lord Jesus, we have understood that. All right now let's move forward from verse 22, we saw how with the shedding of blood, again if you go back to the Old Testament you will see that God asked for this, without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins. Where did this understanding come from? Even the cultures which don't take from the Jewish traditions and rituals, you would find that there is some innate sense of paying for the sins of the people in the conscience of human beings itself and you wonder where did people get this understanding and to pay with blood sacrifice you know animals. You know it's very interesting and intriguing even those who have never heard of blood sacrifices from the Old Testament still practice blood sacrifices because there's something in the just the framework of mankind and the heart of man tells us it tells us that sins need to be paid for and paid for through blood and very early on in the book of Leviticus also God instituted this practice the shedding of blood if there is sin there must be the shedding of blood. Now we know that the fulfillment of this was through the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. So it was definitely something that was showing or pointing indicating towards what Jesus is going to do for us. Now let's move forward from verse 23. There are lots of these small bits and pieces of truth here that's why I'm looking at the text intently while talking to us. So yeah so also another thing that we notice here is that the things in the tabernacle they were purified similarly we are told in verse 23 that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. So utterly substances were purified but in the heavens now how will you purify heavenly things? Obviously you need a better way of cleansing and purification but we know that the blood of Jesus right and the sacrifice of Jesus was perfect enough to purify the heavenly things and the Lord Jesus has not entered the natural tabernacle which were just copies of the true tabernacle but where has he entered remember we discussed this when we studied Hebrews 8 also and we said that he has entered heaven itself and where is he now in the presence of God not that he should offer himself often remember we said once and for all the Lord Jesus has paid the price for us and so it also the other way of interpreting this when you say once and for all it means repetition is not required and therefore again it says here not that he should offer himself often once and for all it was already done for us okay then as a high priest enters the most holy place every year with blood of another so in the earthly practice each year this needed to be done but obviously we don't require for Jesus to repeat this if at all there was such a requirement you would see that Jesus also would need to suffer often since the world was created or the foundation of the world but now it is very clear for us once at the end of ages he has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself so it's already done so what does this show for us no another thing you can interpret this as it is a perfect sacrifice so you know how people say that once Jesus has died for us and he has done this spiritual work now we have to make up for any imperfection in his sacrifice through our good works or through our paying the price by doing different rituals you know there are traditions where people continue the sacrifice they live sacrificing through their own life and their resources maybe even inflicting pain on themselves so that they're able to pay for the sins of their own sins and sins of others but from what we read here we are told that it was already done so for me to become born again I have to put my faith in the once for all perfect sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ I don't really have to you know do something to earn my salvation now yes once we are saved we know scriptures tell us that we must work out our salvation with fear and trembling and we must continue to pursue a sanctified life so we go through the challenges and the struggle to live an obedient life that's a different thing that's not we're not talking about earning salvation through works that's living a life of obedience so in that we do have to strive to live a righteous life but to start off you know the earning of our salvation is already complete so I don't need to do anything now sometimes you know people have this idea that somebody else has to do if not me then maybe another saint has to do it or maybe another good human being has to do it or you know maybe some other person maybe another reincarnation of Christ has to come from what we are learning here Jesus has done it he has done it once and it is perfect so a repetition of this sacrifice for the remission of our sins is not required anymore and this is what people from the old covenant were actually waiting for because before this what was the practice every day priest has to make atonement for the sins of the people every year high priest has to go into the holy of holies right to also compensate for the sins of ignorance but after this these practices are redundant or you don't have to do this anymore because the fulfillment of that has been done through the life of Jesus Christ so you know we have a very very clear understanding of that and he has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself and it says and as it is appointed for men to die once but after this is judgment so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many again just doubly clarifying for us that you know one is is sufficient and also it points out that here another part of the statement is that it is appointed for men to die once in general yeah we recognize that you know this journey of passing through death it comes for every one of us at least once now there are a few exceptions in scripture you have people like Enoch who never even passed through death once so far but you have some others who you could say have passed through death twice you can consider Lazarus Lazarus died but Jesus raised him from the dead and obviously he died again because that is the natural progression here on the earth that things tend to decay and death but we know that the Lord Jesus has also overcome death for us because we can now put our hope in a resurrection that can only be offered you know by the one who himself overcame death and so you know we also have that kind of a hope and we are told to those who eagerly wait for him he will appear a second time that's what is it talking about it's talking about the return of the Lord Jesus we know we've and are the class that I see here of course the online class we some are taking the subject separately but we have studied eschatology and we understand about the end times we know how the Lord Jesus will appear in the clouds and then the dead in Christ will rise first and those who are alive they will be caught up in the rapture so we are supposed to eagerly wait for the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ okay and this eager eagerness again it's so beautiful because imagine if we were burdened with the weight of sin we would never be excited about the return of Jesus because or rather let's say not so excited maybe we would be excited because we are still paying for our sins you know day in and day out but now when we talk about the return of the Lord Jesus no we have that assurance assurance of salvation and also not just that but our worship for our savior he has become a high priest he has become the perfect sacrifice he has entered the true heavenly tabernacle he has given his own blood you know so many wonderful things that we are just ready to see wow I want to see my savior I want to go with my savior okay so these are all some insights that we have received from this chapter now I also want to just share one more quick thing here which will help us also so I'm just backing up a little bit and where's that verse yeah so I think it's verse 13 is it 13 or 14 where it says um how much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God okay so that one scripture there so you see there that the Lord Jesus walked in obedience unto God and we know that it was not easy for him because he was a human being and therefore uh how did he manage to live a life of obedience how did he offer himself to the will of God and the purposes of God because it took the will of Jesus to submit to the will of God so it's an act of um it's an act of the will because it's not like God forced him or automatically uh he was programmed to be obedient to the father no if he wanted he could have been rebellious but you see here that through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God so the walk of obedience before the Lord that's a lesson for us we can also learn from it we need the empowering of the Holy Spirit okay yes the power of sin is broken over our lives but in addition to that we have the Holy Spirit who helps us so you notice here even Jesus with the help of the Spirit offered himself without spot to God so just uh you know one more thought that I wanted to add there and we will move on to chapter 10 of Hebrews so I hope you're all doing fine are you doing okay uh is it uh you're able to understand okay I didn't say yes that's good uh I hope so with the others as well so please feel free if you have just an additional thought that you want to share to stop me anytime and unmute and speak but otherwise I will continue so we've understood about the work of Jesus now again this is all in continuation so we are being told about the Lord Jesus and his ministry first one of Hebrews 10 we see for the law having a shadow of the good things to come and I've explained this so many times over so by now you have understood it and not the very image of the things can never with these same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year make those who approach perfect okay we have understood that so the repeated sacrifices of the earthly uh uh you know kind will not help us uh approach God okay so it says for then would they not have ceased to be offered so if at all at any point a perfect sacrifice was offered then these practices would have just needed to be stopped but you know that was not the case for the worshipers once purified would have not would have no more consciousness of sins but in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins okay now I told us earlier that the blood of animals did something for sins of people and that was to cover remember we uh considered that word that Hebrew word kofa which is simply to cover but you see here in this verse verse four it says take away sins take away that's different from covering so what is our understanding our understanding is that the blood of Jesus not just covers our sins but it is able to take away our sins okay that is the power of the blood of Jesus and in continuation of what he's saying is continuing to talk about the sacrifice of Jesus he says uh Jesus as Jesus is speaking this is an excerpt uh from the book of uh Psalms Psalms 40 where Jesus says sacrifice and offering you did not desire but a body you have prepared for me in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you had no pleasure then I said behold I have come in the volume of the book it is written of me to do your will oh god so you see the relationship that the son has with the father the father has his own will the son has his own will but the will of the son is submitted to the father so the son is saying god I understand what is your desire your desire is not sacrifice and offerings but the ultimate sacrifice through Jesus himself and so what did god give Jesus god became man Jesus became man and you notice here that the son is saying but a body you have prepared for me what is this body human humaneness humanity humanity was given to the Lord Jesus Christ and the Lord Jesus is now submitting his will to the father and he's saying to do your will oh god god I'm saying yes to what you want me to do so uh that you know that kind of a relationship is is is so special within the godhead you have everyone who is co-equal everyone is god so why shouldn't there be a conflict among them but that's not what you see throughout scripture you see the unity and the harmony of the godhead even though they have a will of their own they all have a will of their own but there is unity there is love there is um submission and Jesus is submitting to the will of the father and he's saying that it's through this body lord you know I'm ready to do what you want me to do and we know that he became a sacrifice that's exactly what he did and Jesus affirms again the writer reiterates behold I have come to do your will oh god is what Jesus said to the father and through this what Jesus has done is that the practices of the first covenant so he says he takes away the first that he may establish the second so the second one which is Jesus's sacrifice is the main one that has been established that means the others have now been taken away so many people ask the question once you become a christian should you have these practices no we will study in the book of Hebrews that now everyone is a priest unto god so we don't pick and choose you know somebody as okay in our congregation so and so will be high priests so and so will be priests and you will continue to offer sacrifices because our sacrifices have now become spiritual sacrifices what are these spiritual sacrifices we offer up our thanks our praise we give off our resources our money for the work of god these are all things that have that are our sacrifices to the lord right now um and so the first all these earthly practices of sacrificing have been taken away the second is now established but that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all so you notice here many things that have happened because of Jesus's sacrifice the remission of sins through the shedding of blood you know we have redemption from our transgressions and now what do we study we study that we have been sanctified meaning cleansed we are cleaned through the offering of the body of Christ again once for all okay um now we will also look at this here it seems like sanctification is already done we have been perfected you know we'll come to that later but we there was no offering or sacrifice that could perfect us you know words like perfect sanctified now does that mean that we no longer have to that all of us and get go a perfect no don't go by the that understanding of the word perfected or perfect or here we have cleansed completely cleansed because we also see from other passages of scripture that we have to be continually sanctified okay so the cleansing is a continual process where we come to God we have to confess our sins we have to live our lives with repentance whenever we fall short of what God wants from us so sanctification is something that is done for us through the sacrifice of Jesus when we are born again it's a spiritual reality okay however in our daily lives we have to live it out as well so there are two elements or two dimensions to this so uh it doesn't mean that we are already perfect so if we interpret the perfect there as oh believer does not have to believer is every believer is perfect so then you have every right to look at other uh writing to believers and wonder you know when Paul writes to the Corinthian church they were also believers but he's telling them don't be carnal so can believers sin can believers be carnal answer is yes we could we could do um we could live a sinful life but we should not it's a choice we make okay it's our obedience to God to walk in righteousness so positional truth is one thing but living it out is also very very important so that is our understanding okay when we are reading passages like this now let's move forward again same thing we are being told that there was a repetition of these sacrifices um and the uh sacrifices which were offered they could never take away the sins but the Lord Jesus has offered one sacrifice for sins forever okay so that sacrifice has already been made for us and we are told that he sat down at the right hand of God remember when we study the book of Acts even there we said Jesus uh is is somebody who sat down at the right hand of God to show that the work is completed when one sits down so the priest generally did not sit down because it was never over their work was never over you know it's so nice if uh our tasks are done we can take it off but in the case of the priest every day they have to wake up every day they have to make sacrifices because it was never completed but the only the Lord Jesus could say okay the work is finished and the symbol of that or the way this was shown was he sat down at the right hand of God uh from that time waiting till his enemies are made his footsteps so we know that certain things are still unfolding here on the earth and we will see um the the fulfillment of Christ's victory uh completely in some time to come so he's just you know waiting for the things here on earth to unfold uh but here's what he has done by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified see notice here earlier we read you're already sanctified now it's saying those who are being sanctified so it is a process that we have to live out in the Christian life but we notice a term like perfected forever again don't mistake that as a believer is always perfect there is no no sin that we ever commit no that's not the understanding we have to live out our life with uh faith and just walk with fear and trembling okay uh and what what kind of work has the Lord Jesus done for us we notice in these words it says I will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds I will write them so this is a new covenant isn't it and the Lord Jesus is the mediator of this better covenant how is this a better covenant one of the reasons is that the law is now written on our hearts meaning our conscience is also awakened to the righteousness and the righteous life that we ought to live and we have the work of the Holy Spirit inside of us which was not there earlier yes to an extent all every human being's conscience speaks to them about uh right and wrong but you know in addition to what has happened to us in our spirit man when we were born again uh we also now have the witness of the Holy Spirit so so much has happened within us as believers when we are born again and that is only because of the work of the Lord Jesus Christ and this is what has the new covenant that Christ Jesus has made with us through his sacrifice and you know he adds there that their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more you know the fulfillment of that has now happened so you know whenever we talk about forgiveness um as believers I don't think the the Jews the godly Jews um who were involved in these practices could ever experience what we are experiencing now to think that my sins are surely forgiven and God does not remember them anymore that sense in our within ourselves in our spirit I don't think uh before Jesus's sacrifice people had that sense but today I've got so many believers say even those who have lived in sort of known sins maybe some substance abuse and living for years with drinking and the wrong immoral lifestyle you know when they come to Christ and they accept the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus you know many would testify in their in themselves in their spirit in their conscience they sense that they have even been forgiven of such sins that they no longer know have that feeling of guilt that oh I have to pay my price I have to no make it up to God no instead there is a freedom that I know that God is now my father he loves me he has forgiven my sins uh and he doesn't remember my sins anymore sometimes we are the ones we remember our sins but what does God say if you fully accepted the work of Jesus on the cross you know what I remember your sins no more so that must give us great confidence in the presence of God yeah so again we are told that whether it's remission of these there is no longer an offering for sins so for a for a born again believer you don't need to go back and keep trying to make it up to God so then what comes out of this we will slowly see that so in verse 19 now I told you we can be confident so what comes out of the work of Jesus boldness in the presence of God the high priest once a year how did what was their state of mind their emotions when they entered the presence of God I should not die fear they were scared for their lives and so in the presence of God I don't know you know whether they they were they were fully free to fellowship with God with a sense that God accepts me no I don't think so they could be that free even if they loved God they still had that fear of sin and the whether it was fully covered and all of that but after we have understood the work of Jesus this is what the Jewish believers are being told and this is a reality for us you know sometimes I think we don't try to think deeply into this because we've got it we have already enjoyed it and you know we don't take the time to understand how did we get this kind of boldness in the presence of God but for the Jewish believers they needed to be told that you have struggled so hard to get something through Jesus you've got something better so be strong you know don't let the persecution around you stop you from following him so now you know they are being told because of what Jesus has done not even the high priest had the courage but what do you have boldness boldness to enter the holiest how we know through the blood of Jesus remember we saw the blood it takes away the sins remission of sins so many things we saw wow the blood of Jesus has done this for us we can enter the presence of God boldly so how many of us believers think you know Sunday after Sunday when I became a believer I remember I used to enjoy times of worship I could just feel like before I never had that experience but once I was born again and people were singing and you know that first few you know maybe a half an hour 45 minutes of just worshiping the presence of God I used to enjoy sometimes I used to even weep because that sense of closeness with God I never experienced it before and I didn't feel scared but instead I felt wow you know I can be with God and there is fullness of joy isn't it in God's presence so enjoying all that boldly at that time I didn't understand how I could be bold in God's presence but now I can understand if Jesus had not died if it was not for the blood of Jesus I don't think I could have enjoyed it then and continue to enjoy it now so we got boldness to enter the presence of God only through what the Lord Jesus has done and in addition to that we are told by a new and living way obviously he made that way isn't it a new and living way he consecrated for us Jesus made for us through the veil that is his flesh so through his body he gave us in other words access into the presence of God that every believer you can enjoy bold access into the presence of God at all times so now there are some teachings where people say that you need somebody more mature than you or let's say a leader over us or a pastor over us to enter God's presence they will help us enter God's presence there is some truth to it because yes they are well versed in God's word and they can reveal that to us but as believers we are all even the the youngest believer has access direct access let me put it that way direct access into the presence of God because the body of Jesus his flesh has been offered up for us and so any moment I can say okay God I want to talk to you I want to come into your presence and because of what Jesus has done we have already received that access and in heaven right now we have a high priest over the house of God so we know that the born again believers are known as the house of God you know the church of God we've studied that you know different terms with which we address the body of believers there is a high priest for us in heaven now what is the ministry which the Lord Jesus performs up in heaven what is what is he doing for us everyone what ministry is Jesus doing for us right now interceding for us yes yes thank you thank you Thomas so he's interceding for us and one more thing which we have to understand you know we studied that in the book of episode of John one John we saw how he is our advocate so does that mean that he still has to argue on behalf of us to defend us for every sin that may take place not really he has already done that work through his sacrifice so while we consider the Lord Jesus up in heaven we should not imagine him yes he is praying for us that is there but you know sometimes people think that for every sin like we have to go to Jesus and then you know he will act as our advocate and he will pray to the Father he will argue on behalf of us not really what he needed to do for the remission of our sins he has already done it okay so by virtue of his work there is an intercession that has already been done and we have been forgiven that's what the presence of Jesus up in heaven talks about but also you know we we understand that then he is doing a work of intercession for us but not like the way we imagine okay so I'll just come back to the chats here and also I want to know if y'all against me because I've had a power cut so but I think yeah my alternate network is connected can you hear me everyone that's how we can hear oh okay okay great I'm I'm still connected okay so when you think of intercession don't think of it like a court case up in heaven okay all right so the chats over here Aran says today some people sprinkle the blood of animals yeah correct they do sprinkle the blood of animals but we don't have to do that we've already clearly seen it Jesus has already done it 2000 years ago and Kiran has commented and said that it happened to me also ma'am so maybe that sense of forgiveness no Kiran where we experience such freedom in our spirit because of what Jesus has already done for us so good we have excuse me clarified couple of things so we've understood the kind of high priestly ministry also that Jesus has over the house of God verse 22 we are told let us draw near with the true heart and full assurance of faith how is it possible only because of Christ sacrifice excuse me yeah so we can access God and come into his presence and we are told our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our body is washed with pure water so this is a spiritual thing because our hearts cleanse from an evil conscience how is it possible because of you could say the shed blood of Jesus we've already seen how it rescues us from dead works but bodies washed with pure water refers to baptism now in the Jewish rituals there were many many practices excuse me yeah there were many practices that had to do with washing washing hands washing feet so there were lots of washings so when you said bodies washed the believer the Jewish believer could think could ask the question which washing are you talking about but obviously we know that there is one body washing which is applicable to the born again believer and that is baptism so we are being told here that you know we receive a clear conscience through the work of the blood of Jesus as well as the act of baptism so a believer can now have one is access you can enter easily second is confidence right boldness we said earlier and now we are saying true heart and full assurance of faith that God is not going to reject us but we have been accepted by God unconditionally in that sense and so we are told let us hold fast the confession of our hope remember we said that hope is our anchor what do we have hope in we have hope in the fact that us sins are forgiven you know we we are going to have an eternal inheritance we have the hope of resurrection in Christ Jesus you know these are all spiritual things there sometimes we may not be able to for an unbeliever we may not be able to explain to them this is how I believe but deep within us we have that anchor which is called as hope that we already know we are expecting that God is God has already done these things but he is also going to do many things in our life and so the believers are being encouraged you see Jesus has done so much so please hold on to the confession what confession our confession is a confession of faith that you know this is what Christ has done this is what we are going to experience the promises of God so keep confessing those with hope without wavering don't be worried so going back to the example of Abraham because God who promises faithful so God is a God who will never tell us something that he is not going to do for us certainly he will do it and this is leading us into an encouragement of believers where we will be told about the way those who have gone ahead of us have believed God so believer you may be going through so many challenges the promise may not have been fulfilled but you see there are people who have excuse me held on to the promise of God and they have seen its fulfillment so you take courage from their life example and you hold on because one thing is God is faithful another thing is that there are people who have lived you know without leaving their confession of hope and he is just encouraging the believers once again and he is saying that we need to think of one another and he says you know stir up love and good works so the body of believers or the community of believers we say right like oh how should the church be we have talked about that in the house of God it's a house of prayer it's it's a house of the presence of God we've also said that it is a family of God where we care for each other so as the believers were going through the difficulties in their times they are told to encourage each other today we have our set of challenges isn't it it may be different from what the Jewish believers faced but this command stays for us stir up love and good works meaning be encouraging to one another live with love and we must we must move one another towards doing the works of God so what are good works these are the works of God whatever God wants us to do and we are also being encouraged not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together sometimes the tendency is to become a loner or become a person who avoids community because we are so discouraged you know discouragement can do that to us that we don't want to go to church we don't want to be part of a fellowship you know so we are being encouraged you know when there are challenging times it is important for believers to encourage one another to show love towards one another and if possible also come together in a gathering so assembling of ourselves together as in this manner but exhorting one another and so much the more as you see the day approaching so he's saying that they were all eagerly waiting for the second coming of Christ and he's saying that fellowship is important good loving community of believers is very very important particularly in difficult times so please keep that up don't give up and then he says for if we sit willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries so once again you know as he spoke about one falling away there is a warning there's an explanation of the sacrifice of Jesus then there is an encouragement to keep continuing strong in the faith and now there is a warning same like Hebrew 6 where we are told just because you know this is what we say grace grace grace that doesn't give us a license to sin because if we sin after having understood everything we are making that sacrifice of Jesus like we are considering it with reverence and so it no longer is applicable for us so he's saying no longer remains a sacrifice for sins it will not be valid for a person who is willfully notice their sin willfully and what can that person expect they can expect judgment they can expect you know the result of sin which is God's anger so indignation God's anger so don't be uh such a person instead be a person who is walking in the ways of God so what I'll do is we'll just stop here because we are running out of time we'll quickly come back we can wrap up this and we're going into a very beautiful passage next which is Hebrews 11 it is known as the hall of faith okay and we will see how so many men and women of God lived a life of faith without wavering uh and you know that's an example for us to live our lives by as well so let's close with a word of prayer uh anyone of us can you please pray so that we can wrap up today's class prince prince can you pray yeah go ahead thank you a lot thank you in this morning lot you help us to learn that uh from the book of hebrew that you are the one the mediator for uh you are in the either is the high priest for us lot thank you we don't have to worry about uh about the old testament but you are the new that we could enter in the presence of God thank you thank you for your mercy and grace for us each of us thought thank you you have blessed us in this subject uh you helped us to learn and more and more thought thank you upcoming time I submit in your hand in Jesus name I pray amen thank you thank you prince god bless you and all of you have a wonderful day we will meet again next monday and hopefully let's see how much we can finish okay all right bye bye for now thank you thank you bye