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ONE & DONE

The Book of Hebrews was written by a HEBREW to other HEBREWS telling the HEBREWS to STOP ACTING like HEBREWS

WHY? Many of the early Jewish believers were slipping back into the rites & rituals of Judaism in order to escape the mounting persecution

• Dr. Walter Martin , “Kingdom of the Cults”

The Book of Hebrews was written by a BELIEVER to other BELIEVERS telling the BELIEVERS to STOP ACTING like NON-BELIEVERS

The Book of Hebrews was also written to continually remind the early believers of the SUPERIORITY OF CHRIST. Jesus Christ is better than anything mere religion has to offer.

Hebrews 8:13 (NIV)

By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first

• ne obsolete; and what is
• bsolete and outdated will

soon disappear.

ONE & DONE

Tent described in Hebrews 9:1-5a

Tent described in Hebrews 9:1-5a

Tent described in Hebrews 9:1-5a

Tent items described 
 in Hebrews 9:1-5a

Priests described 
 in Hebrews 9:6-10

Hebrews 9:9-10 (NIV)

9 This is an illustration for the present time,

indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being

• ffered were not able to clear the

conscience of the worshiper. 10 They are

• nly a matter of food and drink and various

ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.

CONSCIENCE

The conscience is a divinely given warning devise that reacts to sin and produces accusation and guilt. That cannot be relieved apart from the work of Christ.

The MacArthur Study Bible

Hebrews 9:14 (NIV)

14 How much more, then, will the

blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse

• ur consciences from acts that lead

to death, so that we may serve the living God!

First Covenant

▪ Regulations for worship ▪ Earthly sanctuary/tab. ▪ Continual offerings for sins & 1x a yr. for nat. sins ▪ Always with blood of animals (goats/calves) ▪ External rituals ▪ Unable to clear the conscience/worshipers

New Covenant

▪ Entered a greater more perfect tabernacle (not made by human hands) ▪ One time offering for sin ▪ Shed His own blood/died ▪ Released from external rituals ▪ Able to cleanse consciences – to serve Him

Isaiah 53:12(NIV)

Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

2 Cor. 5:21(NIV)

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

1 Peter 2:24(NIV) “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”

Takeaways

▪ The first covenant with its sacrificial system was insufficient – all external regulations

(unable to clear the conscience/worshipers)

▪ Christ did a “ONE & DONE” to do away with the first covenant & its regulations to bring forth a new covenant allowing believers access to God…

Takeaways (Heb. 9:26-28)

Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28 so Christ was sacrificed

• nce (ONE & DONE) to take away the sins of

many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.