Hebrews 10:5-10

Hey, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions. This morning, we're at Hebrews chapter 10, verses 5 through 10. We're going to be looking at, again, Jesus fulfilling the Old Testament promises, specifically in Psalm 40. So let's have some coffee. We'll pray and we'll get into God's word. Let's pray.
Lord, we thank you so much for this day. What a blessing it is for us to get to come to your word. Father, we pray that you would calm our hearts. Lord, that you would enlighten our minds, that you would direct us in your paths. God, please help us. Help us, Lord, to walk in your ways. In Jesus' name. Amen. All right, here we go. Hebrews chapter 10, verses 5 through 10.
Therefore, when he came into the world, he said, sacrifice an offering you did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you had no pleasure. Then I said, Behold, I have come, in the volume of the book it is written of me, to do your will, O God. Previously saying, sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings and sacrifice for sin you did not desire, nor had pleasure in them, which are offered according to the law.
Then he said, Behold, I have come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second. By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Well, let's ask ourselves our three questions. A, what is this about? B, what's the best verse to summarize this? And C, what are we called to do? So, A, what is this about?
When we get the word in the scriptures, therefore, it means it's tied to what was above it. And so what was above it is about this whole idea of the sacrifice is never being able to take away sin, but Jesus's sacrifice does right verse 4 for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins that's why it was written in Psalm 40 verses 6 through 8 specifically about sacrifice and offering you did not desire but a body you have prepared for me Jesus is the one that his body was prepared for this in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
You had no pleasure. And then verse seven. Then I said, behold, I have come in the volume of the book. It is written of me to do your will. Oh God. And the author of Hebrews is saying that is talking about Jesus, that all the stuff in the volume of the book was talking about Jesus. It was talking about him who was to come to do God's will. So that's what he's talking about, right?
He says the offerings were according to the law. But then he said he takes away the first that he may establish the second. He took away the first covenant to establish the new covenant. He made a better covenant, a grander covenant, a more full covenant.
And then what I think is so beautiful here, verse 10, By that will we have been sanctified. That idea, have been sanctified, is a perfect passive participle, nominative, masculine, plural in the Greek, right? This is something that occurred in the past, finished, but has ongoing implications and effects.
Jesus did lay down his life for us and because of that, because of our testator dying, because of the sacrifice being offered up for us, we are holy. If we are in Christ, we have been declared made holy. We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ. That is how we are made holy. That is how we are sanctified. That is how we have propitiation with the Father. That is how our consciences are free, is through the sacrifice of Jesus.
And notice the very last words, once for all. Ephapax is what it is in the Greek. And this is the idea of not just once, and the New King James tries to translate it, once for all, and some people will take that as like oh okay so we're talking about universal atonement here no that's not what that's saying it's meaning once and never again once and for all time This is this is it only happened one time and it doesn't need to happen again and again.
No, because it was good enough. It was finished. It was done. And so all the Old Testament with all these sacrifices, the bulls and the goats, which could never take away sin or finally cleanse the conscience. Jesus once and never again was sacrificed. That's why we don't have to have the sacrifice every year. That's why we don't have Yom Kippur every year. That's why we rest in the finished work of Jesus.
So that's what this is all about. What's the best verse to summarize this? I have verse 9 and 10 underlined in my Bibles, but like I am always saying, feel free to disagree with me. What do you think is the best verse to summarize this section? And last, seek calling. What are we called to do?
Do you rest in Jesus Christ alone? for your salvation. You have if you are in Christ, if you have received him and are resting in him by faith. If you're turning away from your sins because the Holy Spirit has given you joy in Jesus. It's not your works that are ever going to save you. It's never living a life of a perfect sacrifice, it's going to give you a clean conscience. It's looking to Christ, resting in Christ. Every time you take the Lord's Supper, it's about remembering that this is the covenant in his blood, which he shed for you for the remission of your sins.
So take confidence. Rest in Jesus. Follow him. Enjoy him forever. Let's pray. God, we thank you for Jesus Christ. We thank you for our once and never again sacrifice. We thank you, Lord, that you so loved us that you would die for us. Lord, please, let us walk in your ways. Let us trust in you always. In Jesus' name, amen. Well, may the Lord bless you with ever greater assurance that his love for you is eternal. I'll see you next time.