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For This Reason He Is the Mediator of the New Covenant

If you’ll turn with me in your Bibles to the book of Hebrews, chapter 9, we will return after a one week break – it’s been two weeks since we’ve been in this passage – to the argument of the author of Hebrews. And I’d invite you, even as you’re turning to Hebrews 9, to look at verses 15 to 28. Go ahead and allow your eyes to scan the first part of the chapter and let me remind you where we’ve been. The last time we were together in this book two weeks ago we looked at verses 1 to 14 of Hebrews chapter 9 and we said that the argument there is that Jesus is a better priest of a better covenant, based on what is said in those verses, 1 to 14, about the Old Testament tabernacle furnishing and architecture and the Old Testament tabernacle, ritual, sacrifice, and…

Once for All

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Hebrews chapter 10 as we continue our way through this letter. The theme has echoed throughout the book that Jesus is a better Savior. He’s a better priest. He’s a better sacrifice. He’s the better mediator of a better covenant. And especially as we’ve looked at Hebrews 8, 9, and 10, the explanation of why Jesus is a better sacrifice has been very much on the author’s mind. And in this culminating part of that section, we see a three part argument for the superiority of Jesus’ sacrifice. And I’d like you to notice, first of all in verses 1 to 4, what is said about the Old Testament ceremonial system. It is argued that that Old Testament ceremonial system of sacrifices did not result in the cleansing of sinners.…

Draw Near, Hold Fast, Consider How

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Hebrews chapter 10. We’re going to be looking at verses 19 to 25 this morning as we continue our way through this glorious book. This is one of those turning point passages that you encounter in books of the New Testament. I know you’re familiar with them in the writings of the apostle Paul, for instance, in Romans. When you get to Romans 12 verses 1 and 2, you know you’ve turned a corner in that book. The first eleven chapters have majored on a glorious exposition of the Gospel of God’s grace. And then from chapters 12 to 15 especially, but even on into 16 and the final greetings, Paul begins to apply those words of truth. So he takes the doctrine and he applies it to your life. He takes the theology and…

If We Go on Sinning Wilfully

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Hebrews chapter 10; we’re going to be looking at verse 26 and all the way to the end of the chapter. This is a hard, sobering, but important passage of Scripture. You may remember when we looked at Hebrews 6 together that I commented that Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones, the pastor of the Westminster Chapter in London, had remarked a couple of years ago that in his pastoral experience that misunderstandings of Hebrews 6 and 10 were very…

Faith is…?

If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Hebrews chapter 11. As you’re doing so, I want you to be sure to look at the last verse of Hebrews 10. You’ll remember last week, as we looked at Hebrews 10:26-39, we encountered a chilling warning passage, the main point of which is – if you turn your back on Jesus (because the whole theme of the book has been that Jesus is better; Jesus is the only Savior; Jesus is superior to anything offered anywhere else) if you turn…

By Faith, Abraham and Sarah…

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Hebrews chapter 11 as we continue our way through this book and through this great chapter on faith. The book of Hebrews, we have said all along, is about the great theme that Jesus is better. And trusting in Jesus means a life of faith, a life in which we base our whole hope on Him and on His promises. We just sang, “More than all in Him I find.” We put all of our hopes in Him. He is greater than any other treasure in life. So a…

By Faith, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and Moses…

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Hebrews chapter 11 as we continue our way through this great passage about faith. Every once in awhile we hear folks exhorting us to understand the Old Testament from a Christ-centered perspective – and that's good, and that's of course exactly what the author of Hebrews is going to do today, especially in the amazing verse 26 that we're going to read in this passage – but sometimes we hear people say, “If…

The World was Not Worthy of Them

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Hebrews chapter 11. We’re going to be looking at verses 30 to 40 this morning as we continue our way through this book and as we continue our way through this great chapter of faith. The author of Hebrews has been explaining to us that the Christian life must be lived by faith. And in the passage today, he is going to show us five ways that that is so. And I'd like to go ahead and point those out to you so that as we read…

The Good of Discipline

Keep your eyes on Jesus and run the race – that's sort of the motto of the Christian life. And you’ll notice in each of the verses the three directives – lay aside, run, and consider Him. Those are the three directives in each of the three first verses of the chapter and they outline for us three important parts of living the Christian life. Laying aside the hindrances of sin and other things, obstacles, especially in us, that keep us from living the Christian life. Running…