Hebrews
Chapter 9
Memory verses for this week:
Prov
30:5 Every word of God
is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Introduction:
In Chapter 8, we studied about how
that Christ’s Priesthood was greater than that of Aaron’s order.
When Jesus died and took His blood before the Father and
offered that for our sins, it was a complete and final
reconciliation for sin. Christ
is eternal, and will forever be our Great High Priest.
I. The
Ordinances and Sanctuary of the Old Covenant were only types
Heb 9:1
Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine
service, and a worldly sanctuary.
Heb 9:2
For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the
candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the
sanctuary.
In Chapter 9, we see Paul directing our attention to the character of
the sanctuary and its service under the former dispensation.
We will find these all pointed to Jesus and His ultimate
payment of our sins by His blood. Verse one speaks of view things in regards to the
Tabernacle rather than the temple.
The tabernacle was the place God met with the priests as they
wandered through the wilderness and then in the early years after
entering Canaan before Solomon built the temple.
This view he takes does not mean the temple was any less
divinely ordered than the tabernacle.
As we have studied over the past month in our Wednesday night
services, Moses was given exact instructions as to how the
tabernacle was to be built. God
also gave David the instructions as to how the temple was to be
built.
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Chr 28:9 And thou,
Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with
a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all
hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if
thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he
will cast thee off for ever.
1
Chr 28:10 Take heed
now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house for the
sanctuary: be strong, and do it.
He gives
instructions for the temple
1
Chr 28:11 Then David
gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses
thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers
thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the
mercy seat,
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Chr 28:12 And the
pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of the house
of the LORD, and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries
of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things:
…….
1
Chr 28:19 All this,
said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by his hand upon
me, even all the works of this pattern.
1
Chr 28:20 And David
said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it:
fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be
with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast
finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.
In verse1, notice the words “Worldly
sanctuary”. This
does not carry the normal meaning when we typically speak of
worldly, but in this sense means the ‘earthly sanctuary.’
As we have studied, the covered part of the tabernacle was
divided into two parts, the first section called the Holy Place, and
the second inner chamber, was called the “Holiest of Holies”.
The sections were separated by the sacred veil.
In the Holy Place there was the candlestick, the table of
shewbread, and the gold altar.
There was a curtain that covered the first entrance that was
behind the 5 pillars. The
pastor pointed out that he felt those five pillars typified the five
names of our Lord Jesus Christ as named over in Isaiah.
(Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, Prince of Peace, and
Everlasting Father.) It should be noted that there was only one way into the
inner yard (the gate), only one way into the Holy Place (through the
curtain), and only one way into the Holiest of Holies. (another
beautiful curtain with pictures of the Cherubim on it.
These all typified our Lord in that Jesus is the only way we
can come unto the Father.
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
We found there to be four pillars holding up the curtain to the Holiest
of Holies. All of these
had the tops of them cut off, another probably typification of how
our Lord Jesus was cut off.
Isa
53:7 He was oppressed,
and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as
a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,
so he openeth not his mouth.
Isa
53:8 He was taken from
prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for
he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression
of my people was he stricken.
The four inner pillars may also typify what our Lord brings to us when
we come to Him for salvation and have access today directly to the
Father through Christ. Those
four being: Wisdom,
righteousness, sanctification, and Redemption.
It is wonderful to see the way God has shown us pictures and
types of Christ through the tabernacle.
Heb 9:3
And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the
Holiest of all;
Heb 9:4
Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant
overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had
manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
Heb 9:5
And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat;
of which we cannot now speak particularly.
The ark of the covenant was kept in the Holiest of Holies.
The second veil or curtain separated the Holy Place from the
most Holy place. Inside
the ark was the golden pot that contained manna, Aaron’s rod that
budded, and the tables of the covenant.
Exo
16:33 And Moses said
unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and
lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations.
Num
17:10 And the LORD said
unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept
for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their
murmurings from me, that they die not.
Deu
10:2 And I will write
on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou
brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
Deu
10:3 And I made an ark
of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first,
and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.
Deu
10:4 And he wrote on
the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments,
which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the
fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.
Deu
10:5 And I turned
myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark
which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
No one entered into the Holiest of Holies except for the High Priest who
entered only once per year.
He first offered a blood offering for his own sins, and then
another for the sins of the people.
God met with him and made an atonement to the people.
All of the blood pointed forward in time to the time when
Jesus would die on Calvary and shed his blood to save us from our
sins.
Heb 9:6
Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went
always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
Heb 9:7
But into the second went the high priest alone once every
year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the
errors of the people:
Heb 9:8
The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest
of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was
yet standing:
Heb 9:9
Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were
offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did
the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
Heb 9:10
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings,
and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of
reformation.
The priests were permitted
to come into the Holy place each day to accomplish the service of
God. But as we
said, only once per year did the High Priest go into the inner most
chamber. This
first tabernacle was a figure of the true tabernacle in heaven.
These offerings could not make anyone perfect, but they did
speak of one (Christ) who could.
This first tabernacle was to last until Christ died on
Calvary.
II. The Superiority of the
Sacrifice of Christ
Heb 9:11
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come,
by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that
is to say, not of this building;
Heb 9:12
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own
blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained
eternal redemption for us.
Christ is a high priest of better things than that of Aaron.
He did not go into the earthly tabernacle with blood, but
into heaven. Aaron took
the blood of bulls and goats into the tabernacle. Christ took his own blood to the Father.
The blood of all those animals could not take away one sin.
Christ’s blood (being the perfect sacrifice) cleanses the
believer from all sin.
We studied about this in last week’s lesson.
Heb
8:1 Now of the things
which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest,
who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the
heavens;
Heb
8:2 A minister of the
sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and
not man.
Heb
8:3 For every high
priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of
necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
Heb
8:4 For if he were on
earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that
offer gifts according to the law:
Heb
8:5 Who serve unto the
example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of
God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he,
that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in
the mount.
Heb
8:6 But now hath he
obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the
mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better
promises.
Heb 9:13
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an
heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the
flesh:
Heb 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the
eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your
conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:15
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament,
that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions
that were under the first testament, they which are called might
receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
If the ashes of a heifer served to the purifying of the flesh, how much
more should the blood of Christ purge our conscience from dead works
to serve the living God? Christ
is the mediator of the new covenant, which is founded on His own
death.
III. The New Covenant is
the Last Will and Testament of Christ
Heb 9:16
For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the
death of the testator.
Heb 9:17
For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it
is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Heb 9:18
Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without
blood.
Heb 9:19
For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people
according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with
water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book,
and all the people,
Heb 9:20
Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath
enjoined unto you.
Heb 9:21
Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all
the vessels of the ministry.
Heb 9:22
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and
without shedding of blood is no remission.
This new covenant testament of Christ was sealed by His blood.
It came into effect after the death of Christ.
Verse 18 says that the first testament was dedicated with
blood. Without
the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins.
IV. The Heavenly Sanctuary
Purged with a Better Sacrifice
Heb 9:23
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the
heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things
themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Heb 9:24
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with
hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself,
now to appear in the presence of God for us:
We see a pattern of things in the heavens when we look at Moses, the
blood of bulls, calves, goats, the sanctuary and the services of the
tabernacle. The
heavenly mercyseat had the blood of Christ sprinkled upon it.
Christ entered into heaven to appear in the presence of God
for us. The
pastor said that the curtain or veil of the Holiest of Holies was
perhaps as wide as 10 inches.
When Jesus died, God tore that veil apart from the top to the
bottom. This is a
significant thing. It
showed that God tore down the separation of man to God through Jesus
Christ. By the
blood of Christ, we can come directly to the throne of God and meet
with Him. There
is no need of an earthly High Priest to make intercession for us.
We have a great High Priest in Jesus Christ who sits at the
right hand of God living to forever making intercession for those
who know Him as Lord and Savior.
Mat
27:51 And, behold, the
veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and
the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
Mat
27:52 And the graves
were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
Mat
27:53 And came out of
the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and
appeared unto many.
Mat
27:54 Now when the
centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the
earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly,
saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
V. Christ Appeared to Put Away Sin by the Sacrifice of Himself
Heb 9:25
Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high
priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
Heb 9:26 For
then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world:
but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Christ offered himself once and this was all that was necessary.
In next week’s lesson, we will be covering this topic in
detail.
Heb
10:9 Then said he, Lo,
I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may
establish the second.
Heb
10:10 By the which will
we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ
once for all.
Heb
10:11 And every priest
standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same
sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
Heb
10:12 But this man,
after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on
the right hand of God;
Heb
10:1 For the law having
a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the
things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by
year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Heb
10:2 For then would
they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers
once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
Heb
10:3 But in those
sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
Heb
10:4 For it is not
possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Heb
10:5 Wherefore when he
cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou
wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Heb
10:6 In burnt offerings
and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Heb
10:7 Then said I, Lo, I
come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy
will, O God.
Heb
10:8 Above when he
said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for
sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are
offered by the law;
Heb
10:9 Then said he, Lo,
I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may
establish the second.
Heb
10:10 By the which will
we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ
once for all.
Heb 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this
the judgment:
Heb 9:28 So
Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that
look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto
salvation.
There are two appointments man will keep. He will keep the appointment of death, and then after
that, the judgment. The
saved person will stand at the judgement seat of Christ to receive
rewards or loss of rewards for what he or she has done in their life
for Christ. Unfortunately,
all others, the lost, will stand before the Great White Throne
Judgment where they will be cast into Hell.
For all that know Christ, he will appear the second time and catch us up
to Him in the air… and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1
Th 4:13 But I would not
have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep,
that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
1
Th 4:14 For if we
believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which
sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
1
Th 4:15 For this we say
unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain
unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
1
Th 4:16 For the Lord
himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of
the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ
shall rise first:
1
Th 4:17 Then we which
are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with
the Lord.
1
Th 4:18 Wherefore
comfort one another with these words.
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