Hebrews 8

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00:00So we're in Hebrews 4, I mean Hebrews 8, Hebrews chapter 8.
00:09Hebrews chapter 8 says, Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum.
00:21So this is where he kind of brings everything, the last couple of chapters to sum it up.
00:27Like you may say, let me sum this up or to sum up everything that's being said.
00:35We have such a high priest who is set on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens.
00:42So it reminds me of a guy, he was a Muslim, he was telling me that at no time is Jesus mentioned in heaven.
00:53I don't know. It caused me to look stuff up.
00:57And he was saying that it's never saying that he's on the right hand of God.
01:02Well I actually looked it up and I think there's 11 or 14 times where it says that Jesus is sitting at the right hand of the throne of God in heaven.
01:11And this is one of them. He is our high priest.
01:17And what we need to understand, the reason for this is that God the Father can have nothing to do with sin.
01:25A good example is when Jesus took the sin of the world on him, God the Father had to turn his back.
01:31That's why Jesus said, why has thou forsaken me?
01:36We need to understand that, that Jesus is that high priest, he's that gap.
01:40And we're going to see in a minute why that is important.
01:44In the Old Testament, why they had a priest to do these things.
01:48It's all to show Jesus Christ.
01:51I can't emphasize that enough.
01:53Verse 2, a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man.
02:03Make sure you understand that.
02:05The tabernacle.
02:09Keep your finger there and go to Exodus 20.
02:12So you've got a group of people over there in the Middle East.
02:16And eventually the Antichrist will allow them to build their temple back and they will start sacrificing animals.
02:27But what we need to understand is that God never wanted a temple.
02:34God never wanted a temple.
02:36His idea was two things.
02:38Look at Exodus 20 verse 24.
02:43So you go to churches and they have an altar and there's stairs and people bow down to it.
02:48But that's not really what an altar is, okay?
02:51An altar is this.
02:54Look at verse 24.
02:55An altar verse.
03:25So the two things I want you to realize is first, there's two altars that they can make.
03:37One is with stone.
03:39But what he's saying is you don't take some type of tool and cut it to make it fit.
03:45It's just rocks built up, just laying on top of each other, built up into it.
03:51The other thing is an altar of earth.
03:56And the other thing is that you see in pretty much every other church you see is what?
04:01You have steps going up to the altar.
04:04And it clearly says not to make steps so that your nakedness be not discovered thereon.
04:10That's what he's saying.
04:13So I want you to go to 2 Samuel 7.
04:192 Samuel 7.
04:25So that was an altar.
04:27That was before the tabernacle.
04:29That was before the temple.
04:30So you have just an altar.
04:32You have Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, before Moses, before the Mosaic Law.
04:39That's what they did.
04:40They just took a bunch of stones.
04:41They just piled them up.
04:42They had the altar.
04:43They did the sacrifice and it was done.
04:46And then later on you see God implements the tabernacle, which was what?
04:53Pretty much a tent.
04:54All it is is a tent.
04:56It's something they can, you know, a tent you can fold up and you can take with you.
05:00And you can go from place to place because you got to understand early they were moving from Egypt all the way to the promised land.
05:11And they were fighting wars and doing things.
05:13And God just wanted, he never wanted a permanent place for him to be in.
05:18A place of worship.
05:202 Samuel 7 verse 4.
05:23Look at verse 4.
05:25And it came to pass that night that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan, saying, Nathan's a prophet.
05:33Go and tell my servant David, thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in.
05:41Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even in this day.
05:49But I have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
05:52And in all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel, speak I a word with any of the tribes of Israel whom I commanded to feed my people of Israel, saying, Who build ye not me a house of cedar?
06:06So we see that Nathan is telling David, because David says, hey, I'm going to build the Lord a building.
06:13Which there's nothing wrong with that.
06:15Except God's telling him, hey, why do you think I need a house now?
06:21Because God knew the future.
06:23What would he know the future of?
06:25Well, he knew that eventually the Jews, the Pharisees and that, they would worship the building.
06:31They bow at a wall now, supposedly that's supposed to be the wall.
06:35Folks, the wall's not there.
06:38Or there's a wall there, but it has nothing to do with the temple.
06:42Jesus said there'd be no stone left unto the temple.
06:45I got to believe Jesus over the Jews every day.
06:48So that wall that they're so-called bowing down to in Israel, in Jerusalem, has nothing to do with the temple.
06:57There's no stone left there.
06:59Who knows what kind of wall?
07:01Might have been a goat wall.
07:02Who knows?
07:03But what they're doing is they're trying to say that is, and nobody knows, but I have to go with what Jesus said, that no stone would be left to the temple.
07:11And we know in 70 AD it was burned down to the ground.
07:16History tells us that.
07:18But what I do want you to see is that sometimes we force, I'm not going to say force things onto God, but God does not want things, like he didn't want the temple.
07:30But why?
07:31Because he knows the future.
07:33He knows what's going to happen.
07:35He knew that if they'd stayed in the tabernacle, things would have been different.
07:40But sometimes he just allows things for whatever reason.
07:43For whatever reason.
07:44I don't know.
07:45I don't claim to be God.
07:46The last place I want you to turn to is 1 Chronicles 22.
07:51You're in 2 Samuel.
07:52Just go four books over in the right to 2 Chronicles 22.
08:00I'm sorry, I said 1 Chronicles.
08:011 Chronicles 22.
08:071 Chronicles 22.
08:12Look at verse 6.
08:42So God tells David, you can't do it.
08:59Your son Solomon will do it.
09:01But you've shed too much blood.
09:03How?
09:04Well, first of all, he committed adultery and murder.
09:09But then, just besides that, he did do a lot of wars.
09:13I mean, he did a lot of wars.
09:15He fought a lot of people.
09:17If you remember early in the days when Saul was still king,
09:21it was talking about how many battles that David was, the people he was slewing left and right.
09:27So that just goes to show you that God doesn't have people represent him,
09:34even though they're doing what...
09:36I don't know why God didn't choose him.
09:38I mean, it says that David is a man after his own heart.
09:42So I don't understand.
09:44But again, I'm not God.
09:45But for some reason, because he did all those wars and doing all these things,
09:51he felt like it would be Solomon, his son.
09:55Go back to Hebrews.
09:57So I just wanted to show you that.
09:59God never cared about a temple.
10:01So when the Jews go there and they say,
10:03hey, we're going to build a temple, we're going to build a temple,
10:05God don't care, especially for them,
10:07because they're not worshiping the same God we are.
10:10God had a son.
10:12Verse 3.
10:14For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices.
10:20So if you go all the way back to the first priest with Aaron and all the rest of them,
10:26they were ordained.
10:28Because they were of the Levite tribe,
10:31they were ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices.
10:35That's what they did.
10:36They did sacrifices and they offered gifts.
10:38But look at the next verse.
10:40Seeing that they are priests,
10:42I'm sorry,
10:43it is of necessity that this man,
10:46what man?
10:47Well, if you go back to chapter 7,
10:49it's talking about Mechizedek, the high priest,
10:51which is Jesus.
10:52I think we proved that last week.
10:54It's a necessity.
10:55What does that mean?
10:56It had to be done.
10:57It's necessary that this man has someone also to offer.
11:02So what did he do?
11:03He offered sacrifices himself.
11:06He's a lamb slain from the foundation of the earth.
11:08What gift did he offer?
11:10Well, how about the gift of salvation?
11:12It's a necessity.
11:13If he didn't do that,
11:14if he didn't offer himself,
11:16we would die and go to hell.
11:18We wouldn't have that free gift of salvation.
11:21Verse 4.
11:23For if he were on earth,
11:25he should not be a priest,
11:27seeing that there are priests that offer gifts
11:29according to the law.
11:32So what it's saying is
11:34that there's people that were on the earth
11:37throughout the Bible
11:38that they were doing it
11:40because that's what they were supposed to do.
11:42But what he's saying is
11:43that if he was on earth,
11:45that's what he would be doing.
11:46But he's not.
11:47Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things.
11:52What is a shadow?
11:53A shadow is pretty much
11:55a reflection of the real thing, right?
11:57I mean, you go outside.
11:59You can't go out there now
12:00because there's no sun.
12:01But if you went out there,
12:02the sun would shine
12:03and you'd see your shadow.
12:04Well, that's not you.
12:06That's a reflection of you.
12:08And what it's trying to show us,
12:10the whole book of Hebrews,
12:12is what Moses did
12:14and what all the Mosaic law
12:16about the diverse washings,
12:18the sacrifices,
12:20the animal sacrifices
12:21was a shadow of showing
12:24what Jesus was going to do on the cross
12:28of heavenly things.
12:29As Moses was admonished of God
12:32when he was about to make the tabernacle
12:35for see saith he
12:37that thou make all things according to the pattern
12:40shown to thee in the mouth.
12:42So quickly turn to Exodus 25.
12:45I want to show you where God tells him that.
12:48There's several places.
12:51So, I'm not going to spoil it,
12:54but eventually I'm going to do a sermon
12:56on all the things that Moses had to do.
12:59And the reason is
13:01is because up in heaven
13:03the same stuff's there.
13:05Tabernacle, the showbread,
13:08the table, the candlesticks.
13:11You know, the Jews,
13:12they like these seven menorah things,
13:14candlesticks.
13:15But there are candlesticks
13:17that we see in Exodus,
13:20but they are in heaven as well.
13:23But they have something to do.
13:25They are to represent something,
13:29each one of them.
13:32Exodus 25, verse 8.
13:38And let them make me,
13:39this is the Lord talking to him,
13:41a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.
13:45This is a tabernacle.
13:46This is not a temple.
13:47This is a tent.
13:49According to all that I show thee,
13:52after the pattern of the tabernacle
13:55and the pattern of all the instruments thereof,
13:59even so ye shall make it.
14:02Go to 25, down to 17, verse 17.
14:10And I shall make a mercy seat of pure gold,
14:12two cubits and a half,
14:13shall be the length thereof,
14:15and a cubit and a half,
14:16and a breadth thereof.
14:17And I could keep going on,
14:20but he constantly explains to them
14:23how to make the things.
14:26And God was showing him,
14:30I believe,
14:31it has to do with the exact replica
14:34of what is in heaven.
14:36Go back to Hebrews.
14:41Look at verse 6.
14:43Now, I'm not going to spend a lot of time
14:45because I'm probably going to do a whole sermon on this.
14:47There's something called replacement theology.
14:50Replacement theology.
14:52And what that basically says
14:54is that Christians,
14:59or some group,
15:00they want to think of a country,
15:02but Christians have replaced
15:04the Jews of old time,
15:07the covenant.
15:08Well, that's true,
15:11but you can't just explain it that simple.
15:14So Paul, what was he?
15:17Well, when he was Saul,
15:18he was a Jew.
15:20He was a Hebrew of Hebrews.
15:21He was a Pharisee.
15:23But because he believed on Christ,
15:25he was saved.
15:28So what Paul's telling us in the book of Romans
15:31is that God has not thrown all the Jews away.
15:34God forbid.
15:36There's other people.
15:37You look at the disciples.
15:38Matthew was a Jew.
15:39These other people were Jews.
15:41So God didn't throw them away,
15:43but what it's saying is the covenant
15:45is done away with.
15:47And people say,
15:48no, that makes God a liar.
15:50Folks, a covenant is nothing more
15:53than a document.
15:55So if you went to go rent a house
15:59and they said,
16:00okay, you rent this house
16:02and you have to cut the grass.
16:04You have to pay $800 a month.
16:07And these things,
16:08if you do all these things,
16:10you can stay there.
16:12But if you don't do these things,
16:14you cannot stay there.
16:15So let's say a month goes by
16:17and you don't cut a grass.
16:18And they say,
16:19hey, I told you to do that
16:22one more month
16:23and you're not going to stay there.
16:25So guess what?
16:26The next month,
16:27you don't cut a grass
16:28and instead of $800,
16:29you decide to pay $600.
16:30The covenant's gone.
16:32The agreement's gone.
16:33And that's what the Bible's showing us here
16:36is that the agreement was demolished.
16:39Look at verse 6.
16:40But now hath he,
16:42who's he?
16:44Talking about Meshelzadek,
16:46a more excellent ministry.
16:49So the word more means that
16:52this is not as good
16:54and this is more excellent.
16:57This is excellent,
16:58but this is more excellent.
17:00So which is more excellent?
17:01This one is.
17:04Also, he is the mediator
17:06of a better covenant.
17:09So the word more and better,
17:11what do they do?
17:12They compare two different things.
17:14You got good, better, best.
17:17And if something's better,
17:19means it's better.
17:20Well, if God's saying
17:21this is a better covenant,
17:23we got to go with what God's saying,
17:25which was established upon
17:27better promises.
17:29So it's a better covenant.
17:31It's a more excellent ministry.
17:32And it's a better promise.
17:36So I don't know how people can't read this.
17:38They're all stuck up.
17:40Benjamin Netanyahu's rear end, I guess.
17:43For if that first covenant,
17:46what's the first covenant?
17:48The one that he made with Abraham.
17:52If it was what?
17:53Had been faultless.
17:55What does faultless mean?
17:56No problems.
17:58If.
17:59So if it's saying if,
18:00guess what it's saying?
18:01That God's saying that there was fault in it.
18:04Then should no place have been sought for the second.
18:07So let me put this in context.
18:08If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
18:10But it was broke.
18:11So God had to fix it.
18:13It's not because God's imperfect.
18:15It's because man screwed it up.
18:17Okay.
18:18For finding fault with them,
18:20he said, behold, the days come,
18:23said the Lord.
18:24I will make a new covenant
18:26with the house of Israel
18:28and with the house of Judah.
18:29So he's saying, look,
18:31I'm not throwing them away
18:32because some of the disciples were saved.
18:36Paul was saved.
18:38You know, he's out there killing Christians.
18:40So he didn't throw them all away,
18:42but he's making a new covenant.
18:43What's the new covenant?
18:44If you believe on Jesus and his righteousness,
18:49guess what?
18:50You'll be saved.
18:52Just like Abraham.
18:55See this idea that people say
18:57that the people in the Old Testament,
18:58they did their works.
19:00They did all these things to get heaven.
19:02It's just a bunch of garbage.
19:04Everybody in heaven is in heaven
19:06for the same reason.
19:07The people in the Old Testament,
19:09they're looking forward to the cross.
19:11We're looking backwards to the cross.
19:13Everybody's looking at the cross.
19:15Whether forward or backwards
19:16has to do with where they are in history.
19:20And then it says,
19:21not according to the covenant
19:22that I made with their fathers.
19:24Who's he talking about?
19:25Abraham, Jacob, and Isaac.
19:27The Bible clearly says, Galatians,
19:29that Abraham believed God
19:31and it was counted for his righteousness.
19:34In the day when I took them by the hand
19:36to lead them out of the land of Egypt
19:38because they continued.
19:40Why? Because they what?
19:41Because they what?
19:42Because they continued not in my covenant.
19:45He's saying the whole reason
19:47that was busted up, that covenant,
19:49was why?
19:51Because they didn't continue in it.
19:53The covenant was broken.
19:56And I regarded them not,
19:59said the Lord.
20:00It means that he didn't have anything for them.
20:09Keep your finger there and go to Jeremiah 31.
20:13Because we're going to see where God told them this.
20:16It's in Jeremiah.
20:18So keep in context where Jeremiah is.
20:21Isaiah is the precursor to tell them
20:25they're going to be in bondage.
20:27Jeremiah is right before they go into bondage.
20:30And this is one of the verses
20:32that is supposed to encourage them
20:35that God's not doing away with them completely.
20:39Look at Jeremiah 31.
20:47Behold, the days come, said the Lord,
20:50that I will make a new covenant
20:52with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
20:54Hebrews.
20:55Not according to covenant that I made with their fathers
20:58in the day that I took them by the hand
21:01to bring them out of the land of Egypt,
21:03which my covenant they break.
21:06They broke it.
21:08How did they break it?
21:09Well, I don't know.
21:11I guess they quit serving the Lord.
21:12They quit worshiping God.
21:14However, they did it.
21:15They didn't keep His commandments.
21:16They didn't keep His covenant.
21:17And when that happened, it was done.
21:20It was void.
21:21That's what the Bible is saying.
21:22It's done with.
21:24And there's a new covenant.
21:26Although I was a husband unto them, said the Lord,
21:29but this shall be the covenant that I will make
21:31with the house of Israel.
21:33So he's telling them this is what's going to happen.
21:36After those days, said the Lord,
21:39I will put my law in their inward parts
21:42and write it in their hearts
21:44and I will be their God
21:46and they shall be my people.
21:48I'm talking about the Benjamin Nott and Netanyahu people over there.
21:52What is it saying?
21:53Well, you've got to believe in the Lord.
21:55You've got to put your trust in the Lord.
21:57You've got to believe that He's the Savior.
21:59And you can't spit three times when you say the name of Jesus
22:02because He is the Lord.
22:04But what it's saying is that once you believe in the Lord,
22:08that I will put the law in their inward parts
22:10and write it in their hearts
22:12and I will be their God and they shall be my people.
22:14And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor
22:16and every man his brother and know the Lord
22:19for they shall all know me.
22:22The least of them and to the greatest of them,
22:25said the Lord,
22:26for I will forgive their iniquity
22:28and I will remember their sin no more.
22:30So the reason you know these people were saved
22:32is the last part
22:34because He's forgiven their sins
22:36and He doesn't remember them.
22:37The Bible clearly says in Psalms
22:39that our sins are far from the east to the west
22:42that He doesn't remember them anymore.
22:44Once we have believed on Christ,
22:46He's not going to bring up when you get to heaven,
22:48hey, you remember that time you did this or that?
22:50It's done with.
22:52Now, I want you to understand
22:54that just because Jesus has forgotten your sin
22:58does not mean that it keeps you from being punished
23:01for that sin.
23:03What it means is
23:05is that if you had,
23:07let's say you had,
23:09I like to think of
23:11a ledger,
23:13you know, you have a ledger where you owe stuff
23:15and you write down everything that you owe.
23:17Let's say you write down all your bills
23:19and you owe this much, you owe that much every month.
23:21Well, let's say that God has a ledger
23:24and He says you did this, you did this,
23:26you did this, all these sins
23:28and you have all these sins
23:30and this ledger means you owe this.
23:33When you put your trust on Jesus,
23:35that ledger's clean.
23:36There's nothing left.
23:37It's washing it's blood.
23:39But,
23:40does not mean you're going to be not punished for those things.
23:42I want you to understand that.
23:46But this is what this is talking about.
23:47This is the covenant.
23:48In fact, in my Bible above it, it says
23:50a new covenant.
23:52Go back to Hebrews.
23:54Do I believe in replacement theology?
23:57Yeah, I do.
23:58It's not America.
24:00It's not China.
24:01It's not Japan.
24:02It's not Russia.
24:03That's not the new nations that's being replaced.
24:05It's all believers.
24:07In fact, if you remember when God was talking to Abraham
24:10and he was saying,
24:11your seed is going to be as far as you can see
24:15the sands of the sea, the stars.
24:18He's not talking about his personal people
24:20that came from his loins.
24:21He's talking about every single believer
24:24that is going to heaven.
24:26That's what he's talking about.
24:27He wasn't talking about Isaac
24:29was going to bring that many people
24:30because we know that Isaac only had two kids.
24:35Where are we at?
24:36Verse 10,
24:37This is a covenant that I will make with the house of Israel.
24:40After those days, saith the Lord,
24:41we just saw that,
24:42I'll put my laws in their mind
24:44and write them in their hearts
24:45and I will be to them a God
24:47and they shall be to me a people.
24:49And they shall not teach every man his neighbor
24:51and every man his brother,
24:53saying, No, Lord, for all shall know me
24:55for the least to the greatest.
24:57That's in heaven.
24:58Everybody's going to know him.
25:00For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness
25:02and their sins and their iniquities
25:04will I remember no more.
25:07And in that he saith,
25:11A new covenant hath made the first old.
25:15So if you have a new covenant,
25:17if you have something new
25:18and you replace it,
25:20get it?
25:21Replacement theology.
25:23If you replace something old,
25:25let's say you got a pair of shoes
25:26and they're old and they got holes in them
25:28and you go say,
25:29Well, I need to go buy another pair of shoes
25:31and you say,
25:32These shoes are going to replace these
25:34with these old shoes.
25:36You're probably going to throw them out.
25:37I will not.
25:39But my wife will try to,
25:43she will when I'm not looking.
25:45But I'll think that there's a way I can use them.
25:48But that's not the way God does it.
25:50If there's going to be a new covenant
25:52to replace the old,
25:54the old's thrown out.
25:56And that's what replacement means,
25:58is that you're replacing something
26:00with something that's not working.
26:02And the Bible's clearly telling us,
26:05it's the Holy Spirit telling us
26:07that the old covenant had faults.
26:11And because it had faults,
26:13there had to be a new covenant.
26:15What's a new covenant?
26:16If you shall believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
26:19thou shalt be saved.
26:21There's your condition.
26:24If now that which decayeth
26:27and waxes old
26:29is ready to vanish away.
26:31So if you put something out there,
26:33just like any kind of body,
26:35an animal, or whatever,
26:37it's going to decay,
26:38and it's going to get old,
26:40and eventually it's going to turn to dust.
26:42The Bible clearly says in Genesis,
26:44we came as dust,
26:46all the way back to Adam,
26:48and we're going to return as dust.
26:49If the body sits there long enough,
26:51it will turn to dust.
26:52And that's what it's giving you in the example
26:54of this old covenant is dust.
26:57It's gone.
26:59So we need to understand,
27:01and next week we're going to get into
27:03a little bit more,
27:04that it is replacement theology.
27:07Because the old was no good.
27:09And it was replaced with the new.
27:11Not that it did anything away.
27:14Abraham's still in heaven.
27:15Isaac's still in heaven.
27:16Jacob's still in heaven.
27:18But they were looking forward to the cross.
27:21We're looking backwards to the cross.
27:23Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.