Sermon: Hebrews 10:1-25; "Paid In Full"
Date: March 24, 2013
Pastor: Michael Howard


Scripture: Hebrews 10:1-25

1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not
the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the
same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect
those who draw near to worship.
2 Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the
worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no
longer have felt guilty for their sins.
3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins.
4 It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away
sins.

5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:

"Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but a body you prepared for me;
6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings
you were not pleased.
7 Then I said, 'Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll—
I have come to do your will, my God.'"

8 First he said, "Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and
sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them"
—though they were offered in accordance with the law.
9 Then he said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will." He sets
aside the first to establish the second.
10 And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice
of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11 Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious
duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can
never take away sins.
12 But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice
for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,
13 and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his
footstool.
14 For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are
being made holy.

15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:

16 "This is the covenant I will make with them
after that time, says the Lord.
I will put my laws in their hearts,
and I will write them on their minds."
17 Then he adds:

"Their sins and lawless acts
I will remember no more."
18 And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no
longer necessary.


19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to
enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain,
that is, his body,
21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the
full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to
cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed
with pure water.
23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who
promised is faithful.
24 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love
and good deeds,
25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of
doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the
Day approaching.



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