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Well, today we're going to look at forgiveness according to Hebrews chapter 10. While you're still looking, I will pray. Oh, Father in heaven. Lord, we thank you and we praise you that we can come together this morning to hear your word, Lord, and to sit under your teaching. Lord, it's not the teaching of a person standing up front. It's the teaching that is coming from you. So, Lord, I pray that you would allow me to step aside and let your spirit speak, Lord, so that the word of truth can be rightly divided. Lord, we pray that the spirit would just dig deep into our hearts and into our minds so that we can learn and understand about forgiveness from this passage, Lord. And I pray that you would just direct everything that happens today, Lord, for your glory, Lord, and our good. And may we bless you in the name of Jesus. Amen. Okay, so. Yes, Hebrews, chapter 10. We'll see how far we can get through this.
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There's a lot in just the first, like 18 verses, so I'm going to break it up into sections. Okay, so we'll read this first section and be 1 through 4. For the law, since it has all it has only a shadow of the good things to come, and, and not the very form of things, can never be the same sacrifice, can, can never by the same sacrifices which they offer continually, year by year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise would they not have been, have ceased to offer to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have a consciousness of sin. But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. I'm going to read it again, but I'm going to read it in the new living translation. If you don't know, the new living translation is an easier to read kind of version. And it kind of just makes it a little more palatable, right, because some of the, some of the like word for word versions kind of make it difficult at times. So in the new living translation, this is how it is stated. The old system under the law of Moses was only a shadow, a dim preview of the good things to come, not the good things themselves. The sacrifices under that system were repeated again and again, year after year, but they were never able to provide perfect cleansing for those who came to worship. If they could have provided perfect cleansing, the sacrifices would have stopped, for the worshipers would have been purified once for all time, and their feelings of guilt would have disappeared. But instead those sacrifices actually Remained or reminded them of their sins year after year. For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. A little more palatable, right? Makes a little more sense when you, when you read it in those. In that way. So what does it say about forgiveness in this section? Does anybody got any thoughts, ideas? So that the sacrifices were temporary coverings, okay? Forgiveness wasn't. They had asked for forgiveness every year,
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so something they had to continually ask for, right?
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So this is it. This is in, in light of the day of atonement, right? The day of atonement was the day that the high priest sacrificed a goat, sprinkled another one with blood, sent it out, right? Saying that this has been forgiven, this one has been covered and has been sent away. You are now, you are now good for the next year. But there were still also the daily sacrifices, right? The ones that God required. There were a bunch of requirements in the law for sacrifices. So yes, you are right. It was kind of a temporary thing. It was a temporary covering. It wasn't a once and for all type of forgiveness, right? Because otherwise the sacrificial system would have ended. That's what it's saying here, that had it perfected you, the system would have been taken away. It would have been done with the first sacrifice. But because it didn't remove or perfect you and take away sin for forever, then you have to keep doing it, right? So it was a repetitive, constantly doing it over and over and over again. This is sometimes how we like to act. Thinking that I got to do all these things day after day after day after day to, to continue in forgiveness and to hold on to my atonement. But yet the Bible tells us that it has already been given to you and it's already yours in Christ and you must walk in and remain in that. Okay? And we're going to get there. So, so these first four, four verses, they discuss the inactive inadequacy of the old covenant sacrificial system. Can you see that in the verses that it was inactive? What was the point of the sacrificial system? Does anybody know that? What is the shadow and the type that it's referring to of the good things to come? We have Christ over here. Anybody else. Represented things to come, Right? So the good thing to come is Christ, correct? Okay, so the passage explains that the law, with its repeated sacrifices was only the shadow of what was to come, right? The sacrifices of pointed to Christ. It showed you that you had a sin problem, that you needed something to cover you and your sin was placed on the animals and it covered you for a time. But then a year came around and you had to do it all again. And you had to just keep doing it and keep doing it and keep doing it and hope that it was enough. And you had to do your best to follow the law and do everything that is said. But it never says that this was how one earned salvation in the old covenant, right? Because even in the old covenant, yes, it was following the law. It was doing everything God required and wanted you to do by the sacrifices and how you lived. But it was faith in the coming Messiah. It was faith in God that credited righteousness to Abraham. Correct? It's the same with Noah. He believed and he had faith that God was telling him the truth, so he acted upon it. Okay? So. And even if you go into the next chapter, right, that whole chapter in Hebrews is known as the hall of faith, right? Because it's all about the faith of the people of the Bible and the fact that they had faith. And that's the reason they were justified and made righteous in God's sight. It was their faith. It wasn't their sacrifices. Okay, so today we are living sacrifices. We are not going to a temple and sacrificing animals.
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Okay, so when we get into right here, the sacrifices were reminders sin, right? The law was brought about to amplify sin, right? To show you sin on a greater level, to show you just how bad it is. That was the whole point of the law. I mean, yes, God wants you to follow the law, but the law in Romans tells us that it was put in place to amplify sin, right? To show us sin and show us the depravity of that. We have, to use a fancy term. And so now this, the constant reminder of the blood of animals, having to sacrifice an animal shows you that, man, I'm just never going to be good enough. And that's kind of the point, though. Let me jump into the next verses. Here, here, which is going to be five through seven, nine. Okay? Therefore, when he comes into the world, he says, hey, who is the he here? Right. The quote is attributed to Jesus, but it was spoken by David in Psalm 40, verses 6 through 8
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says this.
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Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for me in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have taken no pleasure. Then I said, behold, I have come in the scroll of the book. It is written of me to do your will, O God. After saying above, sacrifices and offerings and Burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have not desired, nor have you taken pleasure in them which are offered according to the law. Then he said, behold, I have come to do your will. He takes away the first in order to establish the second. By this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. So does Jesus have to get up on a cross every day for us? No.
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No.
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The answer there is a definite no. Now, does somebody want to turn to Psalm 40 and read verses 6 through 8 for us? Yes. Six through eight.
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Mine ear hast thou opened burnt offerings and sin offerings hast thou not required? Then, said I low, I come in the volume of the book.
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It is written of me.
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I delight to do thy will, O my God. Yeah. That thy law is within my heart.
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So the question here is, well, how is that Christ if it's a psalm attributed to David? Okay, Because David was filled with the Spirit. Correct? Right. And who sends the Spirit? Jesus? God. Right. The Spirit is sent by God, and therefore it is one God, one working throughout the entirety of Scripture. Correct. In Psalm 51, verses 16 and 17. So if you don't know what Psalm 51 is, it is probably one of the greatest passages in the Bible on repentance, okay? Because this is the repentance of David after he has sinned with Bathsheba and had Uriah murdered. In verses 16 and 17, it says, for you, do not delight in sacrifice. Otherwise I would give it, you are not pleased with burnt offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart. O God, you will not despise. Hey, how many of you understand what contrite. What do you understand about it? Sorrowful heart, kind of mournful. All right, so here's the definition from. From Brown driver Briggs. Okay? I mean, the original word, I don't think I could pronounce, but it's called. It's dacha, okay? To crush, to be crushed, to be contrite, to be broken. Okay? So, yeah, it's to be, like, totally crushed in spirit. And in saying that, man, I am so broken over the sin that I have committed against someone else and against God ultimately. Right? In Psalm 51, David says, against you, and you only have I sin. Right? Because ultimately, sin is always against God. But he says that you will forgive if I come to you in my brokenness. If I come to you as somebody who is crushed, you will forgive and you will not despise them. You will turn your ear towards them if they are coming to you in the truth of repentance, right? Having that brokenness over it, knowing that God will forgive you. In matthew. 4:17. This goes along with verse seven here. Yeah. Matthew 4:17. Then I said, behold, I have come. From that time, Jesus began to preach and say, repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. What was the main message of Jesus? Repentance. Repentance, right. He's saying that I'm on the scene. The kingdom of heaven is fully in Christ, right? That's why he can say that it has come near. The kingdom of heaven is at hand. It has come near because it is fully embodied in me. So repent so that you can have relationship with the one true God, Yahweh, who sits on the throne, so that you can come to the sanctuary of God. And if you continue going, in the scroll of the book, it is written of me. Go to Luke. Luke, chapter four. A lot of chapter 4s today, apparently. And verse 17 through 20, we see this, and the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him, him being Jesus. And he opened the book and found the place where it was written. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed, to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. And then he goes on to say that today this is fulfilled in your presence, right? Because he is there. The one that Isaiah talked about is there. If you want to know where it is in Isaiah, let me tell you. Isaiah 60:1. So Jesus is handed the scroll, right? He's in the synagogue, and he reads this part, shuts it, gives it back and goes, this is fulfilled today in your presence, right? Because he comes and he is saying that I am here to preach the gospel, right? Repent. Believe in God. Trust that I am the one who he has sent, okay? And then he's like, I'm gonna set the captives free, right? Because we are all captive to sin, right? I am here to forgive. I am here to heal. I am here to make new. That's what the forgiveness of God gives us. That's what the atonement of Christ brings to us. He sets us free. We don't have to be in bondage anymore to sin. We don't have to live lives constantly looking over our shoulders. For who's coming after me because I now I've hurt too many people. You are forgiven. And because you are forgiven, you can extend forgiveness and you can seek forgiveness. Start living in the forgiveness that you have already been afforded. If you are not willing to live in that forgiveness, you are not following Christ because you have not experienced forgiveness. If you sit here today and you are unwilling to let go of something that somebody did to you, you do not understand what it means to be forgiven. If you sit here today with bitterness, you have not forgiven something. If you sit here today hating yourself, it's because you haven't understood forgiveness or you haven't experienced it. God wants you to experience his forgiveness. He wants you to live in that forgiveness and show it to other people. We can't sit on our hands and say, well, I know I'm forgiven, but I'm not going to forgive. That's not how this works. Correct. You have to forgive. It's not a suggestion, it's a command. God commands that we forgive because we've been forgiven. Are you greater than God? And so you're gonna hold. Hold on to things, hold stuff against people, or are you gonna do exactly what Christ told you? Forgive immediately and unconditionally, no matter how many times you gotta do it in Mark 12:33. And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as himself is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices. Again, we're going back to this. You can only love your neighbor truthfully if you love God. You can only forgive if you've been forgiven. Right? Like the unbelievers can forgive. But it's not the same type of forgiveness. Because a lot of times the forgiveness that they're extending is very temporal. Right? They're going to. They're going to stick to, like, what, What? In the Jewish times, it was right back then the Pharisees said, oh, you can. You can do up to three times, and then you got to cut them off, right? Three times. Forgive three times. So when Peter talked about, well, do I forgive my brother seven times? He was trying to be like, look at me, I'm better than the Pharisees. Jesus, right? He took it to a higher level, thinking that, oh, this is going to probably impress Jesus a little bit. And Jesus goes, no, right, right. In the original language, it is 77s, okay? And everybody likes to calculate that out to the 490. But that doesn't mean 490 times. It means unconditionally. Without end. Okay, because you've been forgiven of such great sins. Amount of stuff, right? We have been forgiven a lot, right? Any of us who have, have had a history past, we know I have been forgiven a lot. But we tend to sit here and still wallow in it because we still need to understand where we are in Christ and what our identity in Christ is. And I don't know about you, but I want to remember constantly that I am a blood bought child of the King who is set free and able to live free. Okay? That you can, you can live your entire life by that and that alone. And in verse, verse 5 again, it reiterates, you know, if you go back up to verse five, those sacrifices, God, God required them, but he didn't, he really didn't care about them, right? He's like, I don't need those,
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require those, but I don't need those. Okay? So even, even in yourselves, stop thinking I got to do something to atone for all my wrongdoing. You've already been atoned for, sure. You might need to ask others for forgiveness. And that's something that the Spirit will bring at some point. And you need to lean into that when he starts to give you those promptings of, hey, you need to go to this person because you're harboring unforgiveness or you hurt this person. You need to go to them and you need to seek forgiveness. If that person is long gone, like, you know, you're never going to see him again. They've died, whatever it is. Can you still forgive from your heart? Absolutely. Can you say it to their face? No, because we don't speak to the dead. Okay, you cannot go and talk to those people, but you can tell the Lord, hey, I forgive this person for what they did to me. I'm unable to talk to them myself. But I want you to know in my heart, Lord, that I have forgiven.
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Okay. I was to say, this morning I read Jonah, the fourth chapter man, and that's exactly what it's talking about, forgiveness. How Jonah, you know, he's in the Bilbao fish for three days, and then when he came out, he finally did what God told him to do, go to Nineveh and tell the people that he was going to destroy them. But when he got to Nineveh and the people, they wore sackcloths. And when you told them, they. And they repented and God forgave him, he got angry at it. I'm mad because you forgave these people. And then what happened was that God then he left and went out on the city because he still wanted the people to be destroyed, because that was his purpose of going there. And the thing is that when he went on the outside of the city, God put a plan over him. They covered him, gave him shadow shade, gave him a place, and then he sent a worm the next day to eat the plant. So when they ate the plant, the shade was gone. So he got upset and gone. He got upset. And God's like, I took care of you. I spe. I speed you. I forgave you and put you out the well of the belly. I forgave you because at least as far as me forgiving, I forgave my people, you know, and you want to get angry at me before forgiving my people.
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But he was just showing him the
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things he had been forgiven of. But I can't see what I do. I can't see the spectrum. I mean, the log in my eye for the speck of your eyes, you know, same thing. That was perfect man. Right?
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And it's always easier to point out others faults than have to take care of your own. Jonah's great. When he preached, he was like, yeah, just repent and storm by, right? Jonah's life. God's going to destroy you in three days.
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Bye, peace out.
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And the king is just like, nope, we repent.
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We own.
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Sat in ash and sackcloth. Yeah. All right, so In Hebrews chapter 7, verse 27, it says he does not need to offer sacrifices every day as the high priest do. Right? The high priest, every day they were just killing animals, right? High priest, other priests and other servants in the temple all day long, slaughtering animals, burning them on altars. I mean, there was a constant flow of blood coming from the temple. So first, for their own sins, the high priest, before he could do, on the day of atonement, before he could enter into the holy of Holies and sprinkle blood on the altar, he had to go through a whole ritual cleansing and do his own sacrifices for his own sins before he could enter the holy of Holies. And had he not done those things properly, he'd step foot into the holy of holy and God just kill him. That's why they had the rope tied to him. That is supposedly why they had the rope tied to him. We don't know 100% sure why, but that's kind of the idea that, well, if, yeah, if he dies, you gotta get him out somehow so you don't die.
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Okay, so Jesus as the high priest, being Sinless. He did not have to do this. Right? He just was the sacrifice and then he rises. Right? So it says here, for their own sins, then for those of the people, okay, so after he had went through the whole thing to have his sins atoned for, then he had to go and do the whole thing for the people's sins to be atoned for. There's a lot of different things they had to do in order to have the atonement done. Okay, Speaking of Jesus, he did this once for all time when he offered himself. That one line is so powerful. Once for all time means he doesn't need to go and get on the cross again and again and again. It means that he actually came off the cross. So if you see crosses with Jesus on it, that's wrong. Sure, it's a good reminder of what he did, but it's wrong. He's not still on the cross. He was taken off the cross, he was put in the tomb, and then he rose three days later. Right? Showing that sin and death has no power over me. I have power over it. And because he has power over it, if you're in him, you have power over it. Right? Because sin, after you become a believer, is now 100% a choice between do I follow the Lord or do I follow my flesh? And you don't have to follow your flesh.
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That's why we take every thought captive. And sometimes that's where we all struggle is taking the thoughts captive. Right? We have these historied past, right? Many of us have gone through lots of stuff that was either done to us or things that we've done, and we've experienced the consequences of those things. And for some of us, because we were in some of those things so long, mind renewal is going to take longer. Right? That's the whole process of sanctification is the mind being renewed so that you will sin less and less. Right. From the time that I was like a teenager to now, sin has gotten much less compared to what it was then. And you guys, it's the same way. And just the short amount of time that some of you have been here, have you seen that already? The transformation taking place, the sanctification changing you, the spirit in you making a difference. Are you seeing that? Hey, but are you leaning into that? Are you just, like sitting back going, man, I hope the Lord's gonna change me at some point. Maybe today. Where's. Can I get a lightning bolt? Gonna get a lightning bolt. Something changed. Okay, it doesn't work like that. All the Time. Not everybody has the Jared testimony that they get radically saved and then they no longer cuss or do drugs ever again. Not everybody gets that right. Everybody can be saved by Christ and forgiven in Christ, but the sanctifying work is. Is going to look different for everyone. And so we got to allow that sanctifying work to take its place and take root in us and understand that the sacrifice was made once and for all. So here in verse 11, in Hebrews 10, we'll continue. Shouldn't be hard to get back there. You were only a couple pages off. And every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time, the same sacrifice, which can never take away sin. I mean, is there anybody in here that that kind of does this every day? You think you got to do a certain specific thing in order to have specific things from the Lord, whether it be forgiveness or anything like that. I mean, and we're not talking like the confession, right? We're talking like, do you think there's something physical or something that you must do in order to have the forgiveness of the Lord, Right? There are like some religions out there, like, you gotta pay certain amounts of money in order to have full forgiveness, or you have to be baptized or you have to do this or you have to do that. Is there anybody that's like that? Because if so, I'd like to break you of that right now. Because it's the once and for all sacrifice of Christ that gives it to you. I mean, like confession and repentance, those are part of your forgiveness, right? Because you're forgiven, you want to confess and you want to repent. It's not so that you can have forgiveness, okay? That would make forgiveness a work, not a free gift. Continuing. But he, having offered one sacrifice for sin for all time, sat down at the right hand of God, waiting for the time until his enemies are put as a footstool for his feet. For by one offering he has perfected for all time those. Those who are being sanctified, some versions are going to say, have been sanctified. The process of sanctification is ongoing. As long as you got breath, you are being sanctified. So the better translation would be being sanctified, but you have been perfected in Christ, right? If you remain in Christ and you follow Christ and you live in Christ, and when you die and your soul separates from your body, and you go to stand before God and he asks you the question that we all love and know what? Why should I let you into my heaven? Are you going to sit There and go, well, I did this and I did this and I was good and I did all these things. And I mean, I'm sure my bad outweighed my good, didn't outweigh my good. So my good must. Must have gotten me in. Is that going to be the correct answer, or are you going to get a very quick trip to hell? Right? That's not the answer. The answer is Jesus. Let's go with the Sunday school answer. Jesus. Jesus is the answer here.
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So if you stand before God on the day of judgment, and he's like, what did you do with my son, Jesus? What did you do with him? I followed him. I surrendered to him. I became his disciple. So if the Lord looks at you, he says, why should I let you into my heaven? Why should I let you come into my presence? The answer is, because I have given my life fully, surrendered fully to the Lord Christ Jesus, who sanctifies and sacrificed for me. He has perfected. It doesn't mean you won't sin. But in the eyes of God, you are perfect. Because when he looks at you, he sees Jesus. He sees the blood that covers you, which is the perfect blood of the living. Sacrifice the Lamb of God, right? Because he is living now, now and forever. Jesus is alive, bears the scars even. And when it says that he's going to make your enemies, your footstool, being pretty literal there, that I am going to put your enemies under your feet. So when you return, you will exact the wrath of God upon those who have been against me. Against God. Jesus is the judge. He is the one who brings the wrath. So this is one of those eschatological sections of this passage, right? Eschatological just means study of the end times. Okay? Means that Jesus will return. And those who are not under the forgiveness, the covering of the blood of the Lamb will suffer at the hands of God's wrath. And Jesus will be the one who brings that to them. Verses 15 through. Let's just try to finish out this small section here through 18. And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us. For after saying, this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord, I will put my law upon their heart and on their mind I will write them. He then says, and their sins and their lawless deeds, I will remember no more. Now, where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin. So do you see that over and over and over again you are just getting beat into you that you are forgiven. Stop acting like you're not. You are forgiven. You are set free. You do not need to live as they did in the Old Covenant. Constantly trying to make sacrifices, constantly trying to put Jesus back up on the cross. And it'll go more into that. We'll keep going through Hebrew when I preach next. But I want to read. I want to read this synopsis of what? Of the first. Well, it's going to be for the first 25 verses, but we're just going to look at this, okay, According to Hebrews 10, 1, 25, we'll keep going on that. But I want to be respectful of time this time around. Forgiveness through Christ's sacrifice is presented as complete and final, in contrast to the repeated sacrifice of the Old Testament system. The passage emphasizes that Christ's single sufficient sacrifice has accomplished what the Old Covenant rituals could not total forgiveness of sins and cleansing of the conscious many of you. That's what you're feeling. The conscience is being cleansed. You don't have to sit in the shame and guilt of your sin anymore. That that's free. This forgiveness is described as decisive, making believers perfect forever and providing them with confident access to God's presence. Because of Christ, you can now be in the presence of the Lord Almighty, the author of the Hebrews, which we're not 100% sure who that is, stresses that this forgiveness is the central aspect of the Christian gospel, addressing the human problem of sin and guilt that rituals alone cannot solve. Importantly, this complete forgiveness is intended to provide believers with stability and assurance in their relationship with God by freeing them to focus on living for God and encouraging one another to love and good deeds. Right, that gets down into verse 25. Because you have been set free and forgiven, you have the assurance of being able to enter into the presence of God. You can come to him with what, whatever it is you're struggling with, whatever wrong thinking, whatever mindset, whatever it is, you can come to God, lay it at his feet. Right at the foot of the cross is a level playing field. We're all the same. We are all the same at the foot of the cross. He says, lay it all down. Because I've forgiven it. You don't need to try to carry this burden anymore. Stop trying to do it on your own and trust that you have been forgiven, that you are set free and you can now go out and forgive others, seek forgiveness and encourage one another to love and good works. Are there any questions, any thoughts, any inquiries, anything that anybody's thinking about?
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An unforgiven spirit is one of the Most serious of sins.
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Well, many people, they'll go to the unforgivable sin. Right. Which is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. But a lot of times we don't understand what that means. Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit means not receiving it. Not receiving the Spirit. That's one part of it. There's extra parts to to it, but we're not going to get too deep into that right now. Okay. But it is not receiving the Spirit. So you are willingly not receiving the free gift of grace and the forgiveness that is given by God.
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Because when you come to Christ and you are forgiven, the Spirit indwells you. Okay, Anybody else, Any other thoughts?
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Praise God. Okay, you have, you see? Does everybody see how this certainly really good teaching, bringing forth what we talk about a lot in all of the classes and things and what the enemy is trying to get you to do all the time. Everybody see that?
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You know, a lot more. We talk about that different. You have salvation and sanctification. The enemy wants to get you back on the cross, for lack of a better term there. He wants you to come back here and think that I've got to confess, I've got to come to God. I need to be forgiven. I've got to be forgiven by him. I've got to be forgiven by him. You are through faith in Christ now you're here, so stop going back here. Stop putting Jesus back on the cross all the time saying, oh, I've sinned, I've fallen short. I need God's forgiveness now so I can be kind of restored back with him again in a sense. You do that now through confession, repentance. It's not behavior based. Christ has already done that. Whether you're behaving rightly or wrongly isn't affecting the aspect of what Christ has done to save you and forgiven you of your sin. You're now forgiven. Believe in that and now live into the aspect of God's justice in this, in now confession, repentance and obedience that leads to what? Forgiveness. Hell is the scripture saying in James, confess your sins to one another, confession, agree with God that they're wrong. You're going to turn from that. Obviously you're not going to keep doing something where he said wrong. So you're going to repent and then what do you receive? Say it again, Derek. Human healing. You don't receive forgiveness. Again, that's good teaching by Jeff there. You don't receive. It's not. You're not doing it to be forgiven. You're already forgiven. Now live in the forgiveness, confess and repent so you can be healed and become more like Christ. If you're going to hide your sin, you're not going to grow more like Christ. You're not going to heal. If you don't confess it, you're not going to be healed of it. You're going to just continue to languish there. And the enemy will tell you that now you need to go back, back to Christ on the cross so you can be forgiven of what you're doing over here. God really saying you're forgiven, you're still sinning. Do you really trust him because you're still sinning. Are you really forgiven? See how the enemy can start to mess with what, how this, how God has put this perfect plan together. Trust and believe. Christ died for the forgiveness of my sins. I am forgiven. Now I'm going to. As Martin Luther, this may be kind of what he was leaning into. Now sin boldly as you're trying to follow because those sins have been forgiven through Christ's sacrifice. Now grow into more than his Christ likeness. Is everybody following that? And think about that when you're out at Peter. People are asking, you know, have you come to Christ? You need Christ's forgiveness. Okay, that isn't for the believers. That's for the non believers. And you may be sitting here, you might think, man, I thought I was following Jesus, but then I don't really trust him. So I need his forgiveness. I need what Christ has done. I'm in a state of need because I haven't trusted him. If you're a believer and you get that altar call and you raise your hand, man, I need Christ's forgiveness. Well, okay. Are you. Did you trust. Yeah, I trusted him by faith. And I need his forgiveness for what I'm doing. Okay, You've got to kind of mix that with me. So don't let the enemy try to convince you of where you're at. As we talked a few times before, don't let it drag you back in that you're not forgiven. You are forgiven, cleansed, free, now walking that freedom. And as you're convicted by his spirit, when you fall short, confess, repent following obedience, grow, leave peace. Leave these falsehoods and idols and addictions behind. Grow in the Christ likeness. Amen. Amen. Okay, so thanks, Jeff. That was super good. Praise God.

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Podcast Summary: Rogue Christian

Christ’s Complete Forgiveness and Living Freedom

Host: Jeff Mesker
Date: June 16, 2025

Overview

In this episode, Jeff Mesker facilitates a deep dive into Hebrews 10, focusing on the Gospel’s promise of Christ’s complete forgiveness and the liberated life it offers to believers. He unpacks the inadequacy of the Old Testament sacrificial system compared to the final, all-sufficient sacrifice of Jesus. Through scripture, group discussion, and real-life application, Jeff challenges listeners to both accept their forgiveness in Christ and live out that freedom in daily life by offering true forgiveness to others.

Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Shadow of the Law and Inadequacy of Old Sacrifices

Scripture Reference: Hebrews 10:1–4
The Law and its rituals were “only a shadow, a dim preview of the good things to come, not the good things themselves.” The repetitive sacrifices could never bring perfect cleansing or truly remove guilt.
Old Testament sacrifices served as a “reminder of sins year by year,” underscoring humanity’s inability to achieve perfection through works.
Memorable Quote:
- “This is sometimes how we like to act ... thinking that I gotta do all these things day after day after day to continue in forgiveness and to hold on to my atonement. But ... it has already been given to you ... in Christ.” (Jeff, 07:13)

2. Christ’s Once-for-All Sacrifice

Scripture Reference: Hebrews 10:5–10, Psalm 40:6–8, Psalm 51:16–17
Jesus’ crucifixion is the ultimate fulfillment and replacement of the entire sacrificial system.
Christ’s offering was “once for all”—there is no need for repeated sacrifice.
True repentance and a broken, contrite heart matter more to God than any ritual offering.
Memorable Quote:
- “Does Jesus have to get up on a cross every day for us? No. ... He did this once for all time when he offered himself. That one line is so powerful.” (Jeff, 10:48, 27:21)

3. Living in the Reality of New Covenant Forgiveness

Scripture Reference: Hebrews 10:11–18, Mark 12:33
Believers are “perfected for all time” and are being sanctified.
The New Covenant: God’s law is written on our hearts and minds.
Christ’s forgiveness provides “confident access to God’s presence.”
Memorable Quote:
- “You are forgiven. You are set free. You do not need to live as they did in the Old Covenant ... constantly trying to make sacrifices, constantly trying to put Jesus back up on the cross.” (Jeff, 38:24)

4. The Importance of Giving and Receiving Forgiveness

Real forgiveness is both to be received from God and extended to others.
Harboring unforgiveness toward others is a sign of not fully grasping Christ’s forgiveness.
Forgiveness is a command, not a suggestion.
Community Insight:
- The story of Jonah was shared to highlight God’s universal willingness to forgive and our frequent reluctance (24:04).

5. Assurance and Freedom Through Christ

The complete forgiveness in Christ is intended to provide assurance and stability, freeing believers from shame and guilt.
Living freely means focusing on “love and good deeds,” not self-condemnation or endless penance.
Memorable Quote:
- “Because you have been set free and forgiven, you have the assurance of being able to enter into the presence of God. ... At the foot of the cross is a level playing field. We’re all the same.” (Jeff, 39:14)

6. Distinguishing Salvation, Sanctification, and the Enemy’s Deception

Confession and repentance are evidence of forgiveness already received, not a means to earn it.
The enemy’s chief tactic is to convince believers they are still unforgiven and must “put Jesus back on the cross.”
Discussion Note:
- “If you’re a believer ... don’t let the enemy try to convince you of where you’re at. ... You are forgiven, cleansed, free, now walk in that freedom.” (Panelist B, 42:41)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote | |-----------|---------|-------| | 07:13 | Jeff | “This is sometimes how we like to act ... thinking that I gotta do all these things day after day after day to continue in forgiveness ... But ... it has already been given to you ... in Christ.” | | 10:48 | Jeff | “Does Jesus have to get up on a cross every day for us? No.” | | 27:21 | Jeff | “He did this once for all time when he offered himself. That one line is so powerful.” | | 38:24 | Jeff | “You are forgiven. You are set free. You do not need to live as they did in the Old Covenant ... constantly trying to make sacrifices, constantly trying to put Jesus back up on the cross.” | | 39:14 | Jeff | “Because you have been set free and forgiven, you have the assurance of being able to enter into the presence of God. ... At the foot of the cross is a level playing field. We’re all the same.” | | 42:41 | Panelist B | “You are forgiven, cleansed, free, now walk in that freedom.” |

Key Timestamps for Important Segments

00:00–04:30 – Introduction and reading of Hebrews 10:1–4; inadequacy of old sacrifices
04:30–11:00 – The Day of Atonement explained & the necessity of faith, not just sacrifice
11:00–18:00 – Jesus fulfills Psalm 40 and the deeper meaning of repentance (Psalm 51 & Matthew 4:17)
18:00–27:30 – The finality of Christ’s sacrifice; comparison with Old Testament priestly rituals
27:30–38:30 – Application: Living as forgiven people, extending forgiveness, Jonah as an example
38:30–41:30 – Assurance in forgiveness and summary of Hebrews 10:1–25
41:30–End – Panel discussion: Living in freedom, overcoming legalism, the danger of unforgiveness, and the enemy’s lies

Conclusion & Takeaways

Forgiveness in Christ is complete, final, and ongoing for all who trust Him. There is nothing left for us to add by our efforts or rituals.
Receiving forgiveness means sharing forgiveness. If you struggle to let go of bitterness, you haven’t fully understood or received grace.
Live as a forgiven and free person, not under the shadow of old systems or self-imposed guilt.
Confession and repentance are about healing—not earning forgiveness.
Don’t let the enemy rob you of assurance—believe and walk in your new identity in Christ.

A rich, gracious, and challenging call to stop striving for what Christ has already achieved and to live in the reality of His liberating forgiveness.

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Well, today we're going to look at forgiveness according to Hebrews chapter 10. While you're still looking, I will pray. Oh, Father in heaven. Lord, we thank you and we praise you that we can come together this morning to hear your word, Lord, and to sit under your teaching. Lord, it's not the teaching of a person standing up front. It's the teaching that is coming from you. So, Lord, I pray that you would allow me to step aside and let your spirit speak, Lord, so that the word of truth can be rightly divided. Lord, we pray that the spirit would just dig deep into our hearts and into our minds so that we can learn and understand about forgiveness from this passage, Lord. And I pray that you would just direct everything that happens today, Lord, for your glory, Lord, and our good. And may we bless you in the name of Jesus. Amen. Okay, so. Yes, Hebrews, chapter 10. We'll see how far we can get through this.
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Okay.
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There's a lot in just the first, like 18 verses, so I'm going to break it up into sections. Okay, so we'll read this first section and be 1 through 4. For the law, since it has all it has only a shadow of the good things to come, and, and not the very form of things, can never be the same sacrifice, can, can never by the same sacrifices which they offer continually, year by year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise would they not have been, have ceased to offer to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have a consciousness of sin. But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. I'm going to read it again, but I'm going to read it in the new living translation. If you don't know, the new living translation is an easier to read kind of version. And it kind of just makes it a little more palatable, right, because some of the, some of the like word for word versions kind of make it difficult at times. So in the new living translation, this is how it is stated. The old system under the law of Moses was only a shadow, a dim preview of the good things to come, not the good things themselves. The sacrifices under that system were repeated again and again, year after year, but they were never able to provide perfect cleansing for those who came to worship. If they could have provided perfect cleansing, the sacrifices would have stopped, for the worshipers would have been purified once for all time, and their feelings of guilt would have disappeared. But instead those sacrifices actually Remained or reminded them of their sins year after year. For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. A little more palatable, right? Makes a little more sense when you, when you read it in those. In that way. So what does it say about forgiveness in this section? Does anybody got any thoughts, ideas? So that the sacrifices were temporary coverings, okay? Forgiveness wasn't. They had asked for forgiveness every year,
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so something they had to continually ask for, right?
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So this is it. This is in, in light of the day of atonement, right? The day of atonement was the day that the high priest sacrificed a goat, sprinkled another one with blood, sent it out, right? Saying that this has been forgiven, this one has been covered and has been sent away. You are now, you are now good for the next year. But there were still also the daily sacrifices, right? The ones that God required. There were a bunch of requirements in the law for sacrifices. So yes, you are right. It was kind of a temporary thing. It was a temporary covering. It wasn't a once and for all type of forgiveness, right? Because otherwise the sacrificial system would have ended. That's what it's saying here, that had it perfected you, the system would have been taken away. It would have been done with the first sacrifice. But because it didn't remove or perfect you and take away sin for forever, then you have to keep doing it, right? So it was a repetitive, constantly doing it over and over and over again. This is sometimes how we like to act. Thinking that I got to do all these things day after day after day after day to, to continue in forgiveness and to hold on to my atonement. But yet the Bible tells us that it has already been given to you and it's already yours in Christ and you must walk in and remain in that. Okay? And we're going to get there. So, so these first four, four verses, they discuss the inactive inadequacy of the old covenant sacrificial system. Can you see that in the verses that it was inactive? What was the point of the sacrificial system? Does anybody know that? What is the shadow and the type that it's referring to of the good things to come? We have Christ over here. Anybody else. Represented things to come, Right? So the good thing to come is Christ, correct? Okay, so the passage explains that the law, with its repeated sacrifices was only the shadow of what was to come, right? The sacrifices of pointed to Christ. It showed you that you had a sin problem, that you needed something to cover you and your sin was placed on the animals and it covered you for a time. But then a year came around and you had to do it all again. And you had to just keep doing it and keep doing it and keep doing it and hope that it was enough. And you had to do your best to follow the law and do everything that is said. But it never says that this was how one earned salvation in the old covenant, right? Because even in the old covenant, yes, it was following the law. It was doing everything God required and wanted you to do by the sacrifices and how you lived. But it was faith in the coming Messiah. It was faith in God that credited righteousness to Abraham. Correct? It's the same with Noah. He believed and he had faith that God was telling him the truth, so he acted upon it. Okay? So. And even if you go into the next chapter, right, that whole chapter in Hebrews is known as the hall of faith, right? Because it's all about the faith of the people of the Bible and the fact that they had faith. And that's the reason they were justified and made righteous in God's sight. It was their faith. It wasn't their sacrifices. Okay, so today we are living sacrifices. We are not going to a temple and sacrificing animals.
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Correct.
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Right.
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Okay, so when we get into right here, the sacrifices were reminders sin, right? The law was brought about to amplify sin, right? To show you sin on a greater level, to show you just how bad it is. That was the whole point of the law. I mean, yes, God wants you to follow the law, but the law in Romans tells us that it was put in place to amplify sin, right? To show us sin and show us the depravity of that. We have, to use a fancy term. And so now this, the constant reminder of the blood of animals, having to sacrifice an animal shows you that, man, I'm just never going to be good enough. And that's kind of the point, though. Let me jump into the next verses. Here, here, which is going to be five through seven, nine. Okay? Therefore, when he comes into the world, he says, hey, who is the he here? Right. The quote is attributed to Jesus, but it was spoken by David in Psalm 40, verses 6 through 8
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says this.
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Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for me in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have taken no pleasure. Then I said, behold, I have come in the scroll of the book. It is written of me to do your will, O God. After saying above, sacrifices and offerings and Burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have not desired, nor have you taken pleasure in them which are offered according to the law. Then he said, behold, I have come to do your will. He takes away the first in order to establish the second. By this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. So does Jesus have to get up on a cross every day for us? No.
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No.
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The answer there is a definite no. Now, does somebody want to turn to Psalm 40 and read verses 6 through 8 for us? Yes. Six through eight.
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Mine ear hast thou opened burnt offerings and sin offerings hast thou not required? Then, said I low, I come in the volume of the book.
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It is written of me.
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I delight to do thy will, O my God. Yeah. That thy law is within my heart.
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So the question here is, well, how is that Christ if it's a psalm attributed to David? Okay, Because David was filled with the Spirit. Correct? Right. And who sends the Spirit? Jesus? God. Right. The Spirit is sent by God, and therefore it is one God, one working throughout the entirety of Scripture. Correct. In Psalm 51, verses 16 and 17. So if you don't know what Psalm 51 is, it is probably one of the greatest passages in the Bible on repentance, okay? Because this is the repentance of David after he has sinned with Bathsheba and had Uriah murdered. In verses 16 and 17, it says, for you, do not delight in sacrifice. Otherwise I would give it, you are not pleased with burnt offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart. O God, you will not despise. Hey, how many of you understand what contrite. What do you understand about it? Sorrowful heart, kind of mournful. All right, so here's the definition from. From Brown driver Briggs. Okay? I mean, the original word, I don't think I could pronounce, but it's called. It's dacha, okay? To crush, to be crushed, to be contrite, to be broken. Okay? So, yeah, it's to be, like, totally crushed in spirit. And in saying that, man, I am so broken over the sin that I have committed against someone else and against God ultimately. Right? In Psalm 51, David says, against you, and you only have I sin. Right? Because ultimately, sin is always against God. But he says that you will forgive if I come to you in my brokenness. If I come to you as somebody who is crushed, you will forgive and you will not despise them. You will turn your ear towards them if they are coming to you in the truth of repentance, right? Having that brokenness over it, knowing that God will forgive you. In matthew. 4:17. This goes along with verse seven here. Yeah. Matthew 4:17. Then I said, behold, I have come. From that time, Jesus began to preach and say, repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. What was the main message of Jesus? Repentance. Repentance, right. He's saying that I'm on the scene. The kingdom of heaven is fully in Christ, right? That's why he can say that it has come near. The kingdom of heaven is at hand. It has come near because it is fully embodied in me. So repent so that you can have relationship with the one true God, Yahweh, who sits on the throne, so that you can come to the sanctuary of God. And if you continue going, in the scroll of the book, it is written of me. Go to Luke. Luke, chapter four. A lot of chapter 4s today, apparently. And verse 17 through 20, we see this, and the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him, him being Jesus. And he opened the book and found the place where it was written. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed, to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. And then he goes on to say that today this is fulfilled in your presence, right? Because he is there. The one that Isaiah talked about is there. If you want to know where it is in Isaiah, let me tell you. Isaiah 60:1. So Jesus is handed the scroll, right? He's in the synagogue, and he reads this part, shuts it, gives it back and goes, this is fulfilled today in your presence, right? Because he comes and he is saying that I am here to preach the gospel, right? Repent. Believe in God. Trust that I am the one who he has sent, okay? And then he's like, I'm gonna set the captives free, right? Because we are all captive to sin, right? I am here to forgive. I am here to heal. I am here to make new. That's what the forgiveness of God gives us. That's what the atonement of Christ brings to us. He sets us free. We don't have to be in bondage anymore to sin. We don't have to live lives constantly looking over our shoulders. For who's coming after me because I now I've hurt too many people. You are forgiven. And because you are forgiven, you can extend forgiveness and you can seek forgiveness. Start living in the forgiveness that you have already been afforded. If you are not willing to live in that forgiveness, you are not following Christ because you have not experienced forgiveness. If you sit here today and you are unwilling to let go of something that somebody did to you, you do not understand what it means to be forgiven. If you sit here today with bitterness, you have not forgiven something. If you sit here today hating yourself, it's because you haven't understood forgiveness or you haven't experienced it. God wants you to experience his forgiveness. He wants you to live in that forgiveness and show it to other people. We can't sit on our hands and say, well, I know I'm forgiven, but I'm not going to forgive. That's not how this works. Correct. You have to forgive. It's not a suggestion, it's a command. God commands that we forgive because we've been forgiven. Are you greater than God? And so you're gonna hold. Hold on to things, hold stuff against people, or are you gonna do exactly what Christ told you? Forgive immediately and unconditionally, no matter how many times you gotta do it in Mark 12:33. And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as himself is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices. Again, we're going back to this. You can only love your neighbor truthfully if you love God. You can only forgive if you've been forgiven. Right? Like the unbelievers can forgive. But it's not the same type of forgiveness. Because a lot of times the forgiveness that they're extending is very temporal. Right? They're going to. They're going to stick to, like, what, What? In the Jewish times, it was right back then the Pharisees said, oh, you can. You can do up to three times, and then you got to cut them off, right? Three times. Forgive three times. So when Peter talked about, well, do I forgive my brother seven times? He was trying to be like, look at me, I'm better than the Pharisees. Jesus, right? He took it to a higher level, thinking that, oh, this is going to probably impress Jesus a little bit. And Jesus goes, no, right, right. In the original language, it is 77s, okay? And everybody likes to calculate that out to the 490. But that doesn't mean 490 times. It means unconditionally. Without end. Okay, because you've been forgiven of such great sins. Amount of stuff, right? We have been forgiven a lot, right? Any of us who have, have had a history past, we know I have been forgiven a lot. But we tend to sit here and still wallow in it because we still need to understand where we are in Christ and what our identity in Christ is. And I don't know about you, but I want to remember constantly that I am a blood bought child of the King who is set free and able to live free. Okay? That you can, you can live your entire life by that and that alone. And in verse, verse 5 again, it reiterates, you know, if you go back up to verse five, those sacrifices, God, God required them, but he didn't, he really didn't care about them, right? He's like, I don't need those,
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I
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require those, but I don't need those. Okay? So even, even in yourselves, stop thinking I got to do something to atone for all my wrongdoing. You've already been atoned for, sure. You might need to ask others for forgiveness. And that's something that the Spirit will bring at some point. And you need to lean into that when he starts to give you those promptings of, hey, you need to go to this person because you're harboring unforgiveness or you hurt this person. You need to go to them and you need to seek forgiveness. If that person is long gone, like, you know, you're never going to see him again. They've died, whatever it is. Can you still forgive from your heart? Absolutely. Can you say it to their face? No, because we don't speak to the dead. Okay, you cannot go and talk to those people, but you can tell the Lord, hey, I forgive this person for what they did to me. I'm unable to talk to them myself. But I want you to know in my heart, Lord, that I have forgiven.
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Okay. I was to say, this morning I read Jonah, the fourth chapter man, and that's exactly what it's talking about, forgiveness. How Jonah, you know, he's in the Bilbao fish for three days, and then when he came out, he finally did what God told him to do, go to Nineveh and tell the people that he was going to destroy them. But when he got to Nineveh and the people, they wore sackcloths. And when you told them, they. And they repented and God forgave him, he got angry at it. I'm mad because you forgave these people. And then what happened was that God then he left and went out on the city because he still wanted the people to be destroyed, because that was his purpose of going there. And the thing is that when he went on the outside of the city, God put a plan over him. They covered him, gave him shadow shade, gave him a place, and then he sent a worm the next day to eat the plant. So when they ate the plant, the shade was gone. So he got upset and gone. He got upset. And God's like, I took care of you. I spe. I speed you. I forgave you and put you out the well of the belly. I forgave you because at least as far as me forgiving, I forgave my people, you know, and you want to get angry at me before forgiving my people.
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But he was just showing him the
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things he had been forgiven of. But I can't see what I do. I can't see the spectrum. I mean, the log in my eye for the speck of your eyes, you know, same thing. That was perfect man. Right?
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And it's always easier to point out others faults than have to take care of your own. Jonah's great. When he preached, he was like, yeah, just repent and storm by, right? Jonah's life. God's going to destroy you in three days.
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Bye, peace out.
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And the king is just like, nope, we repent.
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We own.
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Sat in ash and sackcloth. Yeah. All right, so In Hebrews chapter 7, verse 27, it says he does not need to offer sacrifices every day as the high priest do. Right? The high priest, every day they were just killing animals, right? High priest, other priests and other servants in the temple all day long, slaughtering animals, burning them on altars. I mean, there was a constant flow of blood coming from the temple. So first, for their own sins, the high priest, before he could do, on the day of atonement, before he could enter into the holy of Holies and sprinkle blood on the altar, he had to go through a whole ritual cleansing and do his own sacrifices for his own sins before he could enter the holy of Holies. And had he not done those things properly, he'd step foot into the holy of holy and God just kill him. That's why they had the rope tied to him. That is supposedly why they had the rope tied to him. We don't know 100% sure why, but that's kind of the idea that, well, if, yeah, if he dies, you gotta get him out somehow so you don't die.
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Right?
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Okay, so Jesus as the high priest, being Sinless. He did not have to do this. Right? He just was the sacrifice and then he rises. Right? So it says here, for their own sins, then for those of the people, okay, so after he had went through the whole thing to have his sins atoned for, then he had to go and do the whole thing for the people's sins to be atoned for. There's a lot of different things they had to do in order to have the atonement done. Okay, Speaking of Jesus, he did this once for all time when he offered himself. That one line is so powerful. Once for all time means he doesn't need to go and get on the cross again and again and again. It means that he actually came off the cross. So if you see crosses with Jesus on it, that's wrong. Sure, it's a good reminder of what he did, but it's wrong. He's not still on the cross. He was taken off the cross, he was put in the tomb, and then he rose three days later. Right? Showing that sin and death has no power over me. I have power over it. And because he has power over it, if you're in him, you have power over it. Right? Because sin, after you become a believer, is now 100% a choice between do I follow the Lord or do I follow my flesh? And you don't have to follow your flesh.
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Right?
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That's why we take every thought captive. And sometimes that's where we all struggle is taking the thoughts captive. Right? We have these historied past, right? Many of us have gone through lots of stuff that was either done to us or things that we've done, and we've experienced the consequences of those things. And for some of us, because we were in some of those things so long, mind renewal is going to take longer. Right? That's the whole process of sanctification is the mind being renewed so that you will sin less and less. Right. From the time that I was like a teenager to now, sin has gotten much less compared to what it was then. And you guys, it's the same way. And just the short amount of time that some of you have been here, have you seen that already? The transformation taking place, the sanctification changing you, the spirit in you making a difference. Are you seeing that? Hey, but are you leaning into that? Are you just, like sitting back going, man, I hope the Lord's gonna change me at some point. Maybe today. Where's. Can I get a lightning bolt? Gonna get a lightning bolt. Something changed. Okay, it doesn't work like that. All the Time. Not everybody has the Jared testimony that they get radically saved and then they no longer cuss or do drugs ever again. Not everybody gets that right. Everybody can be saved by Christ and forgiven in Christ, but the sanctifying work is. Is going to look different for everyone. And so we got to allow that sanctifying work to take its place and take root in us and understand that the sacrifice was made once and for all. So here in verse 11, in Hebrews 10, we'll continue. Shouldn't be hard to get back there. You were only a couple pages off. And every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time, the same sacrifice, which can never take away sin. I mean, is there anybody in here that that kind of does this every day? You think you got to do a certain specific thing in order to have specific things from the Lord, whether it be forgiveness or anything like that. I mean, and we're not talking like the confession, right? We're talking like, do you think there's something physical or something that you must do in order to have the forgiveness of the Lord, Right? There are like some religions out there, like, you gotta pay certain amounts of money in order to have full forgiveness, or you have to be baptized or you have to do this or you have to do that. Is there anybody that's like that? Because if so, I'd like to break you of that right now. Because it's the once and for all sacrifice of Christ that gives it to you. I mean, like confession and repentance, those are part of your forgiveness, right? Because you're forgiven, you want to confess and you want to repent. It's not so that you can have forgiveness, okay? That would make forgiveness a work, not a free gift. Continuing. But he, having offered one sacrifice for sin for all time, sat down at the right hand of God, waiting for the time until his enemies are put as a footstool for his feet. For by one offering he has perfected for all time those. Those who are being sanctified, some versions are going to say, have been sanctified. The process of sanctification is ongoing. As long as you got breath, you are being sanctified. So the better translation would be being sanctified, but you have been perfected in Christ, right? If you remain in Christ and you follow Christ and you live in Christ, and when you die and your soul separates from your body, and you go to stand before God and he asks you the question that we all love and know what? Why should I let you into my heaven? Are you going to sit There and go, well, I did this and I did this and I was good and I did all these things. And I mean, I'm sure my bad outweighed my good, didn't outweigh my good. So my good must. Must have gotten me in. Is that going to be the correct answer, or are you going to get a very quick trip to hell? Right? That's not the answer. The answer is Jesus. Let's go with the Sunday school answer. Jesus. Jesus is the answer here.
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Okay?
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So if you stand before God on the day of judgment, and he's like, what did you do with my son, Jesus? What did you do with him? I followed him. I surrendered to him. I became his disciple. So if the Lord looks at you, he says, why should I let you into my heaven? Why should I let you come into my presence? The answer is, because I have given my life fully, surrendered fully to the Lord Christ Jesus, who sanctifies and sacrificed for me. He has perfected. It doesn't mean you won't sin. But in the eyes of God, you are perfect. Because when he looks at you, he sees Jesus. He sees the blood that covers you, which is the perfect blood of the living. Sacrifice the Lamb of God, right? Because he is living now, now and forever. Jesus is alive, bears the scars even. And when it says that he's going to make your enemies, your footstool, being pretty literal there, that I am going to put your enemies under your feet. So when you return, you will exact the wrath of God upon those who have been against me. Against God. Jesus is the judge. He is the one who brings the wrath. So this is one of those eschatological sections of this passage, right? Eschatological just means study of the end times. Okay? Means that Jesus will return. And those who are not under the forgiveness, the covering of the blood of the Lamb will suffer at the hands of God's wrath. And Jesus will be the one who brings that to them. Verses 15 through. Let's just try to finish out this small section here through 18. And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us. For after saying, this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord, I will put my law upon their heart and on their mind I will write them. He then says, and their sins and their lawless deeds, I will remember no more. Now, where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin. So do you see that over and over and over again you are just getting beat into you that you are forgiven. Stop acting like you're not. You are forgiven. You are set free. You do not need to live as they did in the Old Covenant. Constantly trying to make sacrifices, constantly trying to put Jesus back up on the cross. And it'll go more into that. We'll keep going through Hebrew when I preach next. But I want to read. I want to read this synopsis of what? Of the first. Well, it's going to be for the first 25 verses, but we're just going to look at this, okay, According to Hebrews 10, 1, 25, we'll keep going on that. But I want to be respectful of time this time around. Forgiveness through Christ's sacrifice is presented as complete and final, in contrast to the repeated sacrifice of the Old Testament system. The passage emphasizes that Christ's single sufficient sacrifice has accomplished what the Old Covenant rituals could not total forgiveness of sins and cleansing of the conscious many of you. That's what you're feeling. The conscience is being cleansed. You don't have to sit in the shame and guilt of your sin anymore. That that's free. This forgiveness is described as decisive, making believers perfect forever and providing them with confident access to God's presence. Because of Christ, you can now be in the presence of the Lord Almighty, the author of the Hebrews, which we're not 100% sure who that is, stresses that this forgiveness is the central aspect of the Christian gospel, addressing the human problem of sin and guilt that rituals alone cannot solve. Importantly, this complete forgiveness is intended to provide believers with stability and assurance in their relationship with God by freeing them to focus on living for God and encouraging one another to love and good deeds. Right, that gets down into verse 25. Because you have been set free and forgiven, you have the assurance of being able to enter into the presence of God. You can come to him with what, whatever it is you're struggling with, whatever wrong thinking, whatever mindset, whatever it is, you can come to God, lay it at his feet. Right at the foot of the cross is a level playing field. We're all the same. We are all the same at the foot of the cross. He says, lay it all down. Because I've forgiven it. You don't need to try to carry this burden anymore. Stop trying to do it on your own and trust that you have been forgiven, that you are set free and you can now go out and forgive others, seek forgiveness and encourage one another to love and good works. Are there any questions, any thoughts, any inquiries, anything that anybody's thinking about?
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An unforgiven spirit is one of the Most serious of sins.
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Well, many people, they'll go to the unforgivable sin. Right. Which is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. But a lot of times we don't understand what that means. Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit means not receiving it. Not receiving the Spirit. That's one part of it. There's extra parts to to it, but we're not going to get too deep into that right now. Okay. But it is not receiving the Spirit. So you are willingly not receiving the free gift of grace and the forgiveness that is given by God.
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Right.
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Because when you come to Christ and you are forgiven, the Spirit indwells you. Okay, Anybody else, Any other thoughts?
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Praise God. Okay, you have, you see? Does everybody see how this certainly really good teaching, bringing forth what we talk about a lot in all of the classes and things and what the enemy is trying to get you to do all the time. Everybody see that?
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Yep.
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You know, a lot more. We talk about that different. You have salvation and sanctification. The enemy wants to get you back on the cross, for lack of a better term there. He wants you to come back here and think that I've got to confess, I've got to come to God. I need to be forgiven. I've got to be forgiven by him. I've got to be forgiven by him. You are through faith in Christ now you're here, so stop going back here. Stop putting Jesus back on the cross all the time saying, oh, I've sinned, I've fallen short. I need God's forgiveness now so I can be kind of restored back with him again in a sense. You do that now through confession, repentance. It's not behavior based. Christ has already done that. Whether you're behaving rightly or wrongly isn't affecting the aspect of what Christ has done to save you and forgiven you of your sin. You're now forgiven. Believe in that and now live into the aspect of God's justice in this, in now confession, repentance and obedience that leads to what? Forgiveness. Hell is the scripture saying in James, confess your sins to one another, confession, agree with God that they're wrong. You're going to turn from that. Obviously you're not going to keep doing something where he said wrong. So you're going to repent and then what do you receive? Say it again, Derek. Human healing. You don't receive forgiveness. Again, that's good teaching by Jeff there. You don't receive. It's not. You're not doing it to be forgiven. You're already forgiven. Now live in the forgiveness, confess and repent so you can be healed and become more like Christ. If you're going to hide your sin, you're not going to grow more like Christ. You're not going to heal. If you don't confess it, you're not going to be healed of it. You're going to just continue to languish there. And the enemy will tell you that now you need to go back, back to Christ on the cross so you can be forgiven of what you're doing over here. God really saying you're forgiven, you're still sinning. Do you really trust him because you're still sinning. Are you really forgiven? See how the enemy can start to mess with what, how this, how God has put this perfect plan together. Trust and believe. Christ died for the forgiveness of my sins. I am forgiven. Now I'm going to. As Martin Luther, this may be kind of what he was leaning into. Now sin boldly as you're trying to follow because those sins have been forgiven through Christ's sacrifice. Now grow into more than his Christ likeness. Is everybody following that? And think about that when you're out at Peter. People are asking, you know, have you come to Christ? You need Christ's forgiveness. Okay, that isn't for the believers. That's for the non believers. And you may be sitting here, you might think, man, I thought I was following Jesus, but then I don't really trust him. So I need his forgiveness. I need what Christ has done. I'm in a state of need because I haven't trusted him. If you're a believer and you get that altar call and you raise your hand, man, I need Christ's forgiveness. Well, okay. Are you. Did you trust. Yeah, I trusted him by faith. And I need his forgiveness for what I'm doing. Okay, You've got to kind of mix that with me. So don't let the enemy try to convince you of where you're at. As we talked a few times before, don't let it drag you back in that you're not forgiven. You are forgiven, cleansed, free, now walking that freedom. And as you're convicted by his spirit, when you fall short, confess, repent following obedience, grow, leave peace. Leave these falsehoods and idols and addictions behind. Grow in the Christ likeness. Amen. Amen. Okay, so thanks, Jeff. That was super good. Praise God.