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00:00Part 1 in Hebrews 9, so in Hebrews 9 the Bible says, then verily, the word verily means truthfully,
00:11the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service in a worldly sanctuary.
00:18So what he's saying is that the service was a spiritual service unto God, but it was on
00:26this earth.
00:27It was of this world.
00:29But there was a tabernacle made, the first wherein was the candlestick, and the table,
00:35and the showbread, which is called the sanctuary.
00:39And after the second veil, the tabernacle, which is called the holiest of all, which
00:43had the golden censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was
00:50a golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant,
00:56and over it the cherubims of glory, shadowing the mercy seat of which we cannot now speak
01:02particularly.
01:03Now, when these things were thus ordained, the priest went also into the first tabernacle
01:09accomplishing the service of God.
01:12So a couple Sundays ago, I preached the sermon about the tabernacle of the Lord.
01:19And if you want to find out where all this is, it's in Exodus 25 and 26.
01:24And I'm not going to preach that again.
01:25It was a whole sermon explaining exactly how the tabernacle was made, how God had showed
01:32Moses on the mount how it needed to be made, how the candlestick, we talked about a candlestick
01:38having seven candle, like people call menorah, that's where that came from.
01:47But what the Christ-rejecting Jews do is they light a candle for every day for Hanukkah,
01:53which does what?
01:54It takes place at Christmas because they hate Jesus.
01:56Well, they had the same candlestick, it had seven candlesticks, and they would light all
02:02seven of them.
02:03So it was not lighting one at a time, they had seven of them to light up because Jesus
02:07is the light of the world.
02:09And then they had the table, and God explained to Moses how to make the table, how they made
02:17it with wood and then covered it in gold, the showbread, which is to show that Jesus
02:23is the bread of life, and then the veil, which divided the holiest of holy and just the regular
02:33tabernacle.
02:34So there's only one person that went into the holiest of holy in that area one time
02:38a year, and that was a high priest.
02:41And that's where we're gathering all this together.
02:43We're coming together to show you the high priest as Jesus Christ.
02:48And the whole book of Hebrews, again, is to show the things in the Old Testament that
02:54were a shadow or a picture of things to come of Jesus Christ.
03:00Make sure you understand that.
03:02But in the second, when the high priest alone, once every year, not without blood.
03:10So the high priest, whoever that was at the time, he had to go and he had to make a sacrifice
03:17for his own sins.
03:20That's the only difference.
03:21He had to make a sacrifice for his own sins and cleanse himself before he could go into
03:27the holiest of holy and make that sacrifice for the people.
03:31But it had to be a blood sacrifice.
03:33It had to be an animal, a lamb, to be sacrificed.
03:40If you will, go to Exodus 30.
03:42Keep your finger in there.
03:43Exodus 30.
03:44I want to show you this.
03:47Remember, all this stuff in the Old Testament, they probably didn't understand why they were
03:51doing it, but later on, they realized it.
03:57Well, the Jews, they still don't realize it.
03:59So look at Exodus 30 verse 9.
04:02You shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering, neither
04:09shall you pour drink offering thereon.
04:12And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it, atonement of the altar, of it
04:18once a year, with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year, shall I make
04:26atonement upon it throughout your generations, it is most holy unto the Lord.
04:32Goodbye to Hebrews 9.
04:33So Aaron was the high priest at that time.
04:36And what God was telling him is that one time a year, he had to make that sin offering.
04:41It had to be a blood offering for the people.
04:46Well, let's keep reading.
04:49Verse 8.
04:50The Holy Ghost, this signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest.
05:02What is manifest?
05:03It means it wasn't revealed.
05:06They had the physical holiest of holy, but it's not being revealed what that means.
05:12That's what it's talking about.
05:13While as the first tabernacle was yet standing.
05:17So the tabernacle, if I can remind you, it is a tent, a mobile tent.
05:22That's what God wanted.
05:23He never wanted a temple to be built for himself.
05:26That was what David wanted.
05:28And God told David, hey, you've killed too many people.
05:31You've got too much blood on your hands.
05:34So I'm not going to allow you to, but I'll allow your son Solomon to.
05:39But you're going to see later on these people over there in Israel that call themselves
05:43Jews.
05:44What are they going to do?
05:45They're going to try.
05:46I'm just going to go ahead and tell you what's going to happen.
05:48They are going to take that mount where the Palestinians are.
05:52They're going to knock that thing down and the Antichrist is going to allow them to build
05:56their temple back and they are going to build it and they're going to do sacrifices and
06:01then he's going to take it away from them.
06:02That's what the Bible says.
06:05So I was just telling some people before the service that, I don't know if you know this,
06:10but Netanyahu of Israel, he literally did a strike on one of the head guys in Iran at
06:17his house.
06:18So you can explain that stuff to just start to escalate.
06:23So what is it saying?
06:24That the Holy Ghost had not yet revealed what that meant, even while the tabernacle was
06:30still there.
06:32Let's keep reading.
06:33Which was a figure, remember, any time you see figure or shadow, a shadow, you cast your
06:40shadow, you see it, it's not the real thing.
06:42It's casting something.
06:44A figure, if you had a figure of like an army man or something, that's not a real army man,
06:50it's something to show you a picture of something.
06:54That's what this is talking about.
06:56For the time, then present.
06:59So all these things that they're doing was a figure for the time present in which were
07:06offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him that did the service perfect.
07:13What's that talking about?
07:14Aaron, the high priest, whoever it is, there's no way he could be perfect.
07:19He could never be perfect because he's a human person.
07:23But let's keep reading.
07:25As pertaining to the conscience, which stood only in meats and drinks and diverse washings,
07:31which means different washings and carnal ordinances and imposed on them until the time
07:37of reformation.
07:41Keep your finger there and go to Mark 15.
07:44So the Holy Spirit hadn't revealed that at that time, even though it was there.
07:51They just knew that only the high priest went inside this holiest of holy behind that
07:56veil.
07:57But what do we see?
07:59Look at Mark 15.
08:00We'll see something important.
08:02We'll show you a miracle.
08:08If you think about it, look at Mark 15 verse 37.
08:12This is right after Jesus Christ dies.
08:14He's on the cross.
08:15He dies.
08:16Look at verse 37.
08:17And Jesus cried with a loud voice and gave up the ghost.
08:20So there he is on the cross dying.
08:22Look at verse 38.
08:23And the veil of the temple was rent, means it was ripped in twain, means two pieces from
08:29the top to the bottom.
08:32Now you say, well, why?
08:33How's that a miracle?
08:34We can go there and take a curtain, rip it in half.
08:36Well, the problem is, is that if you go to a curtain or this veil and first of all, nobody
08:43ripped it.
08:44It was ripped by itself.
08:46God ripped it.
08:48But the second thing is, is to show you, if you were going to rip it, you would start
08:52at the bottom and you would tear it.
08:55So if you look in Exodus, how they made this veil, it's with purple or red or maroon looking
09:03curtains and they got rings on the top, just like you would a shower curtain.
09:07Well, if you went to your shower and I would don't suggest you do this because your mom
09:11would probably whoop you.
09:12But if you try to go rip the curtain, you're not going to stop at the top where it's got
09:16rings on it.
09:17It just wouldn't make any sense because it's folded and it's even even the veil here was
09:23folded over and it was sewn together.
09:26These loops were sewn in and if you read in Exodus 25 and 26, you'll see that.
09:32So you're not going to rip that and you're not going to tear that.
09:35That's why it's a miracle.
09:36What is this to represent that that temple is no good anymore?
09:41It's not necessary.
09:42That holiest of holy was when Jesus died.
09:46There's no more need in anybody going in there and doing any kind of sacrifice of any
09:51kind of animal because Jesus is the lamb slain from the foundation to the earth.
09:56And just like the physical priest in the Old Testament, they had to do it every year.
10:01Well, Jesus didn't have to.
10:04He did it once and that's it.
10:06No need to continue doing that.
10:09No need in Jesus to continue giving that sacrifice.
10:12Let's go back to Hebrews 9, verse 11, but Christ.
10:24So now we're talking about the physical.
10:26Now we're talking about what Christ did, being become an high priest of good things to come
10:32by a greater and more perfect tabernacle.
10:36Again, we see the comparison of the Old Testament, the old covenant and how it was.
10:42This is a better covenant, a better testament.
10:46We talked about that last week, how this is a better covenant, better testament.
10:50This is replacement theology.
10:52It's not replacing the nation of Abraham with some other nation, a physical nation.
10:59It's just replacing with all believers.
11:01That's what it's trying to say.
11:03A more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands.
11:07So what is he saying?
11:08That tabernacle has nothing to do with anything.
11:11Yes, it was a picture.
11:12It was a figure to show what Jesus Christ was going to do.
11:17But now it is just, it's nothing.
11:20So when these so-called Jews over there, when they decide to build that temple, it means
11:26nothing.
11:27It means nothing anyway because they're worshiping the devil.
11:29So it really doesn't matter.
11:31Not made with hands.
11:32Why?
11:33Because Jesus said, I will, you can destroy and I will build this temple up in three days.
11:38He's talking about his own physical body.
11:41There's no need in us going to the tabernacle.
11:43There's no reason for us to even come in this building.
11:45We can worship in a living room, under a tree, wherever.
11:50There's no need in coming here.
11:52We just meet here because that's what we do.
11:55That is to say, not of this building, neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his
12:02own blood he entered.
12:05What he's saying is that Jesus didn't go into the tabernacle carrying a goat slaughter.
12:11He brought his own blood.
12:13Let's keep reading.
12:16In once, entered in once into the holy place.
12:20Not every year.
12:21The physical, Aaron and these other physical high priests had to do it once a year.
12:27Jesus did it once.
12:29Having obtained eternal redemption for us.
12:33What does the word eternal mean?
12:35It means it never ends.
12:37Eternal life never ends.
12:39Eternal redemption.
12:40That means he doesn't have to keep coming every year and putting that blood on the altar.
12:45He did it one time.
12:47For if the blood of bull and of goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean
12:54sanctify to the peering of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through
13:01the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, purging conscious from the dead
13:07words to serve the living God.
13:09So what he's saying is if back then God accepted that sacrifice of a bull or a goat, how much
13:17more the blood of Christ would it be?
13:22And then it says purging conscious from dead works where any works to save you supposedly
13:27is dead works.
13:30Verse 16.
13:32And for this cause, for what cause?
13:35We just talked about Jesus going in there and offering that sacrifice one time.
13:39He is the mediator of the New Testament.
13:43The New Covenant.
13:44The New Testament.
13:45That's what it's saying.
13:47That he's a mediator.
13:48What is a mediator?
13:49Well, it's somebody who goes between somebody.
13:52Jesus is that person, that God figure that goes between God the Father and us.
13:59Why?
14:00Because God the Father can have nothing to do with sin.
14:03That's why he had to turn his back when Jesus was on the cross.
14:07So he is that mediator between us.
14:09That's why when we pray, we pray in the name of Jesus Christ so he can ask the Father for
14:16things.
14:17Verse 17.
14:30So what is it saying?
14:31The people in the First Testament.
14:32What's it talking about?
14:33Abraham, Isaac, Jacob.
14:36They were under the First Testament.
14:38The First Covenant.
14:39Guess what?
14:40They had the promise of eternal life or eternal inheritance.
14:45I've said this before.
14:46People in the Old Testament, before Jesus died on the cross, what were they doing?
14:50Looking forward to the cross.
14:53Looking for the day.
14:54Abraham and Moses rejoiced to see his day when he came on this earth as a baby and grew
15:00up as a man and then died on the cross.
15:02They looked for that day because they knew that was their redemption.
15:07Not the goats, not the bulls, not the sheep, but Jesus Christ.
15:12We in 2024, we're looking back to the cross.
15:17We're looking back to the cross about 33 AD, something like that, Anno Domino.
15:23And that's what we're doing.
15:25So they're looking forward.
15:27They were looking forward into the future.
15:29That's what we're talking about.
15:30The promise of eternal inheritance.
15:32For where a testament is, there must also of a necessity be the death of the testator.
15:40For a testament is a force after men are dead.
15:44Otherwise there's no strength at all.
15:45What a testator liveth, whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without
15:52blood.
15:53So what is it saying?
15:55The people in the Old Testament, you know, if you have a kinfolk and you say, hey, this
16:01person left me, you know, their house or their car or whatever, left it in the Will and Testament.
16:07Well guess what?
16:08In the Old Testament, it's null and void until they die.
16:10When they take their last breath, then that testament, that promise, that will can be
16:16left to that person.
16:18That will can be enacted.
16:20And that's what it's saying is that God's given us an example of the people in the Old
16:25Testament when they were under that Old Testament, that Old Covenant.
16:29When Jesus died, that's when it took effect.
16:32When Jesus died, he is that testator.
16:35That's what it's talking about.
16:37We would call it an executor of will or the person that makes a will, not executor, I'm
16:42sorry.
16:43The person that makes out the Will and Testament, when they die, then their will or their testament
16:48is being taken into place.
16:51And Jesus, when he died, that's what happened.
16:53The Old Testament, the first testament, that's what it's talking about.
16:56The Old Testament and the first testament was dedicated without blood.
17:00Look at verse 19, for when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people, according
17:10to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop
17:15and sprinkled both the book and all the people saying, this is the blood of the testament
17:20which God has enjoyed unto you.
17:23Moreover, he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels and amenities.
17:31Go to Exodus 24.
17:33Let me show you that, where that happened at.
17:37It happened every year, but there's several places.
17:42Exodus 24.
17:43Exodus 24, starting in verse 6, and Moses took half of the blood.
17:54So you've got to understand what's going on here.
17:57He's killing an animal, whether it be a goat, a sheep, or whatever, and he's draining the
18:03blood out into buckets or containers, and you say, well that's gross, but that's what
18:08God wanted to do.
18:09He had a reason.
18:10So he's taking half of the blood, put it in basins, so you can imagine buckets, basins,
18:16something to hold it in.
18:17And half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar, and he took the book of the covenant
18:22and read in the audience of the people, and they said, all that the Lord has said we will
18:27do and be obedient.
18:28And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people and said, behold, the blood
18:34of the covenant which the Lord hath made you concerning all these words.
18:39So you're lucky tonight.
18:41I'm not taking some chicken blood or something, or some kind of blood and taking a thing and
18:45slinging it on y'all.
18:48So you don't have to worry about that.
18:50But that's what happened back then.
18:51Go back to Hebrews 9, and that's what it's talking about, that when Moses had spoken
18:57those things and he sprinkled the blood, I don't know if you remember, we don't have
19:02time to go there, but if you go to the book of, I believe it's the book of Luke, at the
19:07end, it's either Luke or John, when Mary Magdalene goes to touch Jesus, he tells her,
19:16don't touch me because I'm not been yet glorified, means that he comes straight out of the pit
19:21of hell and his next journey was to go to heaven.
19:24And what was he going to do?
19:25Take his blood and sprinkle it on the mercy seat in heaven.
19:30So the ark of the covenant and the showbread and the candlestick and all these things are
19:34just like in heaven.
19:36OK, we're going to see that in a couple of chapters later that it explains that everything
19:42that God was telling Moses how to build these things, it's an exact replica of what is in
19:48heaven.
19:49So Jesus had to take his blood and sprinkle it on the mercy seat in heaven.
19:56Where are we at?
19:58And almost all things are by the law purged with blood and without shedding of blood is
20:05no remission.
20:06I want you to underline that in your Bible.
20:08I want you to keep your finger there and go to Colossians 1.
20:13You know, we're just talking about in the before the service about these new Bible versions.
20:17I want to show you a spot in one of these new Bible versions that just completely changes
20:23the word of God.
20:24And you can try to him haul around and say, no, it's not changed.
20:28But I'll show you a clear changing of the Bible.
20:32Let me let me see.
20:34Folks, it's disgusting.
20:36And and Christians ought to stand up and say, no, I'm not going to do it and get some smarts.
20:40If they're not smart enough to read the King James Bible, then it's time to get some smarts.
20:47Colossians 114, the Bible says, in whom Christ Jesus, we have redemption.
20:54These next three words through what his blood underline that through his blood.
20:59So do you have redemption without his blood?
21:01We just saw there's no remissions of sin without his blood.
21:04We just saw in the Old Testament where Moses sprinkled the blood on the people.
21:08We just saw plenty of times throughout the Old Testament where Jesus, I'm sorry, where
21:13the animals were slain.
21:14They collected the blood.
21:16And without that blood, without bringing that blood into the tabernacle, there was no remissions
21:22of sins.
21:23None.
21:24See if I can find it.
21:33So you there's no there's no way that you can have it without it.
21:37So this is the NIV or the non inspired version.
21:42It says, for he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom
21:50of the son he loves, verse 14, in whom we have redemption, no blood, the forgiveness
21:56of sin.
21:57It's like that in the other Bible versions.
22:00And I remember years ago, I was going to give to some group of people, the Gideons, because
22:08I figured they were just all King James Bible.
22:11And I called the head people and I talked to a lady and she said, well, you can make
22:17a check out and tell them you want them just to spend on the King James Bible.
22:21And I said, well, can you explain to me why they have changed?
22:24And this is what she said.
22:26The committee has preyed upon it and they prayed together and they felt like other versions
22:32need to be used.
22:33And they chose a new King James and something that I don't remember.
22:37And I told her, I said, do you have a Bible with you?
22:39And she said, yes.
22:40And I said, can you turn to Colossians 1, 14?
22:43And she said, and I basically told her, I said, read that to me.
22:46And she read it.
22:47She says, well, there's no blood.
22:48I said, well, let me tell you what the King James Bible says.
22:51It says through his blood.
22:52I said, can you tell me why did they take the blood out?
22:55She said, no.
22:58I said, I'm not interested.
23:00And you say, well, she said, well, you can write it out and say you want the King James
23:04Bible.
23:05No, I'm not interested.
23:06That's just I'm not interested.
23:08So we clearly see in Hebrews, it says without shedding a blood, no remission.
23:15Now, again, Jesus doesn't have to keep doing it.
23:18He only did it one time and that's enough.
23:21It was therefore necessary that the pattern of things in heaven, this is where we're going
23:26to see the things that are happening in heaven are the same thing.
23:30Should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than
23:38these for Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures
23:44of the true.
23:46But in heaven itself now appear in the presence of God for us.
23:51Jesus is seated at the right hand of the father, nor yet that he should offer himself often
23:59again.
24:00He only had to do it once.
24:01He doesn't have to do it several times or once a year as a high priest entered into
24:07the holy place every year with blood of others.
24:10He don't have to do that for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of
24:17the world.
24:18See, before the foundation of the world, Jesus knew that he was going to have to be that
24:23lamp slain all the way back before Genesis one, one for anything was created.
24:32He knew that every year with the blood of others for then he must offer has suffered
24:41since the foundation of the world.
24:42But now once underlying that word, once in the end of the world had the appeared to put
24:49away sin by the sacrifice of himself, all the sin he died one time that's necessary.
24:57That's all that's necessary to take all the sin away in the world.
25:03And as it is pointed unto men once to die, but after this to judgment.
25:09So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many and unto them that look for him shall
25:19he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
25:26Now folks, again, I'm going to beat a dead horse, but why are we looking for Jesus at
25:32the second time?
25:34It says that he's going to appear.
25:37Go to second Thessalonians.
25:38I'm sorry.
25:39First Thessalonians four.
25:40His last place we'll turn to.
25:51You know, we're just talking about this for the service.
25:53I'm trying to figure out how many churches, how many pastors, how many people, when they
25:58start seeing world war three happen and things go to pot in quickly, when are they going
26:05to say, well, you know what?
26:06This pre-tribulation rapture that we may just be raptured out here at any time, maybe a
26:10bunch of garbage.
26:11When's it going to happen?
26:12I don't know.
26:13It's not my place to figure it out, but look, look at verse 13 of first Thessalonians four,
26:20but I would have you not to be ignorant.
26:22There's a lot of people ignorant.
26:23They're going to be ignorant.
26:24God's going to allow them to be ignorant, brethren concerning them which are asleep,
26:29that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
26:32For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again to death, burial, resurrection, even
26:36so them also, which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with them.
26:42So the people who are dead in the grave, my grandma, my grandpa, my dad, who had believed
26:48on Christ, they're in the grave.
26:50Jesus is going to bring their soul with them in the air and their body is going to rise
26:55up out of the grave and meet their soul forever.
26:58Jesus, this is Jesus's second coming for this.
27:03We say unto you by the word of the Lord that we, which are alive and remain until the coming
27:08of the Lord shall not prevent them, which are asleep.
27:11So it is.
27:12Some of us are going to be on this earth when this happens.
27:17What happens?
27:18We're not going to go first, the people in the grave, that's what prevent means.
27:21For the Lord himself, the Lord himself, who Jesus shall descend from heaven, sound like
27:29a second coming to me with a shout, with a voice of the archangel, with the trump of
27:34God and the dead in Christ shall ride first.
27:37Then which we are alive and remain shall be caught up together.
27:42Folks, that's what the word rapture means.
27:45That don't make sense to be called the catch up because then you're going to think it's
27:48something you put on a hot dog or something.
27:50Caught up is what the word rapture is about.
27:52The word rapture is never even found in the Bible.
27:55Did you know that?
27:56We're being caught up together, being caught up together with them.
28:01Who's them?
28:02The ones that just came up out of the grave in the clouds to meet who?
28:12It's a mystery, right?
28:13Nobody knows.
28:15Nobody knows that people just, there's a pile of clothes left on the ground.
28:19Their bodies are gone.
28:21Nobody knows.
28:22No, to meet the Lord in the air.
28:24Who's the Lord?
28:25Jesus in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
28:30Wherefore comfort one another.
28:31Folks, this is why we can comfort people who are Christians who have believed on Christ
28:36and you can say, you know what, you're going to see your kinfolk again.
28:40If you're saved and they're saved, you will see them again in heaven.
28:44That's the comfort.
28:45People in hell, they don't have that comfort.
28:48They don't have that comfort.
28:51And it's just mind boggling to me how many churches and people teach that Jesus is coming
28:57at any time.
28:58God be blessed if he comes before I can get through speaking.
29:03That ain't going to happen.
29:04That ain't going to happen.
29:06There's going to be a lot of bad things that happen before that happens.
29:09Let's bow our heads in that word of prayer.