WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:01.199 Tab your Bibles this morning. 00:00:01.280 --> 00:00:02.879 We'll be in Hebrews chapter 10. 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:04.639 Hebrews chapter 10. 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:10.800 As you turn there, for those of you who were here last week, you remember we talked about the new covenant. 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:17.920 For those who weren't, last week we talked about the new covenant that God was bringing to mankind. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.039 It was not like it was a covenant unlike the Mosaic covenant. 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:21.839 Here's the difference. 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:29.760 In the Mosaic covenant, the Mosaic covenant was a covenant where man had obligations to fulfill to God. 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:34.640 And as as Israel kept those obligations, then God was going to be their God. 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:36.719 They were going to be his people. 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:40.000 But the new covenant was not like that covenant. 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:42.399 The new covenant was different in this. 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:55.039 In the new covenant, God, who is obviously the stronger power, is obligating himself for the benefit of mankind, who is obviously the weaker party in him. 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:56.560 God is obligating himself. 00:00:56.719 --> 00:00:58.799 He is going to write on our hearts. 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:05.200 He is going to start from the inside in this relationship that he is building with mankind. 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:11.680 Now, as we look about, look at that and think about that, sometimes we think, grant, that is just too good to be true. 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:15.760 You know, and if we're honest with ourselves, I don't know about you. 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:17.599 I get a lot of spam. 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:23.359 Email, text messages, phone calls, get a lot of spam messages. 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:26.640 And most of the time, those things are too good to be true. 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:35.120 The latest that I've really been getting in my video feed lately has been Tai Chi workouts for men over 40. 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:47.519 For just seven minutes a day, for the next 28 days, you can not only transform your body, but also your whole life. 00:01:47.840 --> 00:02:02.079 And if you watch these videos, which I have to get some amusement out of them, usually it is a guy whose body looks a lot different from mine, who is conducting a conference with his shirt off. 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:13.199 But Divine Prince says this this actor is AI generated, results may vary. 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:18.159 Too good to be true. 00:02:18.719 --> 00:02:33.280 You know, and it's because of videos and commercials like that, so often, when we hear things like God is obligating himself for our benefit. 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:36.000 It sounds too good to be true. 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:39.840 But let me tell you, the new covenant is not spam. 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:42.800 It is true. 00:02:43.360 --> 00:03:01.680 What we're going to find in our passage today is that Jesus' sacrifice was sufficient for our salvation and our sanctification to bring us into a new covenant relationship with God. 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:09.360 So as we hear this message, what we need to hear is that we can accept Christ's sacrifice. 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:19.039 We can accept his sacrifice for our sins and live under this new covenant and in this new covenant relationship with Christ. 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:27.680 The challenge is that we just need to trust Christ's forgiveness and move towards maturity. 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:42.400 The question that we seek to answer this morning, though, is if Christ's sacrifice is sufficient, and you hear me say that Christ's sacrifice is sufficient, the question that I would ask is how do we know? 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:46.319 Grant, how do we know this isn't spam? 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:51.360 How do we know that this sacrifice was sufficient? 00:03:51.680 --> 00:04:02.960 So I invite you this morning, if you are able to stand with me as we give honor to the reading of God's Word from Hebrews chapter 10, we'll begin reading in verse 11. 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:15.199 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices which can never take away sins. 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:29.360 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting for that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:38.560 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:40.079 Let's pray together. 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:42.480 God, we thank you for today. 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:45.040 We thank you for your word. 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:53.360 God, we pray that today you will change our lives because of your word. 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:56.319 Jesus, it's in your name that we pray. 00:04:56.639 --> 00:04:57.279 Amen. 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:11.360 So before we actually get to our passage in verses 11 through 14, we we probably need to take a moment and glimpse back even to the beginning of the chapter in verses 1 through 10. 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:22.240 In verses 1 through 4, what we're going to find, the author of Hebrews saying is that the blood of bulls and goats is insufficient to make atonement for our sins. 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:32.560 He actually says almost that very same thing in verse 4 when he says, It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:48.560 See, God, he set up this old covenant with Moses and with the people of Israel, and he knew that they wouldn't be able to keep the law, so he had to make a way so that they could stay in relationship with him and through offering bulls and goats as sacrifices. 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:54.639 But he knew it was really impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sacrifices, actually, take away sins. 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:58.959 Actually, what those things were were shadows of what was to come. 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:07.600 I remember one time as a kid, my brother and sister and I decided to camp out in our backyard. 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:15.279 Now many of you have heard me talk about my feelings on camping, and some of you will remember that my thoughts on camping is why? 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:19.040 Why? 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:25.040 But we decided for some reason, this and this this story may be part of the reason for that. 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:33.120 We decided to set our tent up in the backyard, and we did we set it up there, and you say, Grant, it's the backyard, can't be that much to it. 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:34.959 You've never been to Troy. 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:37.759 We set our tent up in the backyard. 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:46.399 Now we did have one of those lights that goes on the post, you know, that the power company comes and sits in, but those things cast weird shadows. 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:52.160 And I remember in the middle of the night, I say the middle of the night, I have no idea what time it was. 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:55.759 It felt like the middle of the night or the wee hours of the morning. 00:06:56.319 --> 00:07:00.879 A wild boar came and started circling our tent. 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:02.480 Woke us up. 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:11.600 Man, you could see it had that little snout and it was snorting around, grunting in the dirt, had the curled up tail in the back. 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:14.720 We got scared to death, didn't know what we were gonna do. 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:22.720 Now, granted, we were only probably 15 yards from the house, but still, oh my goodness, what we were gonna do. 00:07:22.879 --> 00:07:35.759 Finally, my sister, who was the bravest of all of us, opened the door to the tent and saw our terrier-sized dog walking around the tent. 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:40.560 See, we saw a shadow and illusion. 00:07:42.000 --> 00:08:00.000 What the old covenant was is it was a shadow, it was an illusion, and while it gives us a better picture of what was to come than our dog gave us of that wild boar, while it gives us a better picture of what is to come, it is a shadow of what was to come for them. 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:07.519 It was only a picture of what would take place, that they were looking forward to a Messiah who would come. 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:09.920 Because, see, it was impossible. 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:19.279 What the law did for the what the law did for mankind is it let us know that it is impossible for us to reach God on our own. 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:25.839 It is impossible for mankind to be good enough and for mankind to set up a way to reach God. 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.240 That is an impossibility. 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:36.799 But as we come to verses 5 through 10, I love how the ESV starts that paragraph. 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:38.480 Consequently. 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:41.759 Some translations will say, therefore. 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:53.759 Here's what he's saying: because it is an impossibility, or even though it is impossible for man to get to God, God has a solution. 00:08:54.639 --> 00:08:57.759 He has put forth a solution to that impossibility. 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:02.720 What is impossible for man, it's become possible for God. 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:10.879 And his possibility for us to be in relationship with him is he sent his son, Jesus Christ. 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:18.720 He sent his son to not be a shadow, but to be the sacrifice that was sent for us. 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:22.080 He sent Jesus to fulfill the Mosaic covenant. 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:26.399 He quotes in verses 5 through 7, he quotes from Psalm 40. 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:33.120 He says, sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for me. 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:37.440 In burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:44.000 What he's saying is, listen, I know the blood of bulls and goats is insufficient, that it can't atone for our sins. 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:53.600 But he says, A body you have prepared for me, the Son is saying, a body you have given for me, because I'm gonna come and I'm going to be the sacrifice. 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:55.279 I'm going to be the one. 00:09:55.440 --> 00:10:01.279 And through my blood that we just sang about, I'm going to atone for those sins. 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:03.679 I'm coming. 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:10.799 He even says in verse 7, then I said, Behold, I have come to do your will, O God. 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:14.879 It is as it is written of me in the scroll of the book. 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:19.840 Jesus fulfilled the Mosaic covenant because he became that sacrifice that truly atoned. 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:28.240 We see him fulfilling the Davidic covenant even here, because what the author did is put in the mouth of the Messiah the words of David. 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:33.360 So he has put in the mouth of Christ the words of David, linking the two. 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:43.919 So the Messiah, Jesus Christ, has fulfilled both of those covenants, and he has come to atone for our sins by being the sacrifice. 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:49.200 And only, only Jesus could do God's will. 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:52.879 Only Jesus could establish this new covenant. 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:55.919 Only Jesus can sanctify us. 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:58.799 And it is only Jesus who can do that. 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:08.159 Because he came and he lived a perfect life here on this earth, keeping the full law of Moses. 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:11.600 Not failing one time in it. 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:20.159 And he went to the cross, and on the cross, he took upon himself the wrath of God that it was intended for us as sinners. 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:22.159 And he was buried. 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:25.759 And three days later he arose. 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:28.639 Only Christ could do that. 00:11:29.679 --> 00:11:36.000 So now we actually finally come to our question of how do we know that he did that? 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:42.639 How do we know that his sacrifice was sufficient for us? 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:49.919 Well, there's three things here I think that show us and demonstrate to us that Christ's sacrifice was sufficient. 00:11:50.159 --> 00:12:01.679 First, we find in verse 11 in the beginning of verse 12, and every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:04.960 He repeats himself again because they need to hear it. 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:08.240 We can't get to God on our own. 00:12:08.879 --> 00:12:20.240 As we read as we have been reading through the Bible together, DeSoda Hills, as we read through Exodus and Leviticus and Deuteronomy, and I hear that they stood daily and offered their sacrifices. 00:12:20.399 --> 00:12:22.000 You know what I think about? 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:25.200 I think, man, if I were there, they wouldn't have to stand daily. 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:29.759 They would have to stand hourly offering sacrifices for sins. 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:36.399 They repeatedly offered these sacrifices for sin, but not Jesus. 00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:53.440 Look at verse 12, it says, But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sin, Christ didn't have to continue to offer that sacrifice one time. 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:57.679 One time and the job was complete. 00:12:57.919 --> 00:13:03.840 One time he died on the cross and the blood that he shed was sufficient to cover our sins. 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:05.600 One time Christ died. 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:11.759 How do we know that it was sufficient that it took away because he only had to offer it once? 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:20.080 When I was interned at the University of Southern Mississippi in the BSU, part of my job was just to build relationships with students. 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:23.519 BSU director said, Grant, I just want you to get to know these students. 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:27.600 And so one way that I was able to do that is in the BSU. 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:28.879 We had a ping pong table. 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:30.159 Actually, we had two. 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:33.120 I played a lot of ping pong. 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:35.279 Got pretty good at it. 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:45.440 Got pretty good, so students would come in and they say, Hey Grant, let's play ping pong, and I would go out there and play ping pong and about got to a place that not a student could beat me. 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:51.279 The associate BSU director, now that was enough, that's a story for another day. 00:13:51.600 --> 00:14:03.200 But then when I went to Crystal Springs, we had a ping pong table in our youth room, and I would play those students, and they would come and get so mad because I just beat them bad every time. 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:13.919 But then there was one Sunday school teacher who came and he just he couldn't beat me, would get so mad. 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:24.720 He even set up that he worked there in town not far from the church and he would take his lunch break every day, got an hour for lunch. 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:30.399 He would walk to the church almost every day to play me in ping pong. 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:37.279 Repeatedly, he played me and played me and played me to try to beat me. 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:39.679 And then one day he did. 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:50.080 Not by my choosing, but by his. 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:57.519 When he accomplished his task, when he accomplished his goal, there was no longer any reason to play. 00:14:57.759 --> 00:14:59.840 There was no longer any reason to go. 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.279 There was no longer any reason to repeatedly come and play. 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:06.000 Hear me. 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:21.600 We know that Christ's sacrifice is sufficient for us because one time he hung up on the cross, one time he offered his life as a sacrifice for us, and one time was all it took because the job was accomplished. 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:25.279 We know it was sufficient because he offered one sacrifice. 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:35.519 Secondly, we know that it was sufficient, that his sacrifice was sufficient because what he did after he offered the one sacrifice. 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:37.519 See what happened with the priests. 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:43.200 When the priests in the old covenant, every day, what did they do as they repeatedly offer the sacrifices? 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:44.559 See their posture. 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:48.960 They stood offering those sacrifices. 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:51.039 Daily they stood. 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:55.440 They couldn't sit down, they couldn't stop because the job wasn't complete. 00:15:55.600 --> 00:16:00.000 They had to repeatedly offer these sacrifices, but not Jesus. 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:02.240 What does it tell us that Jesus did? 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:08.480 When he offered his sacrifice, his single sacrifice for sin, what does it tell us he did? 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:10.080 He sat down. 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:14.399 He sat down. 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:20.960 Listen, my family is coming to visit us today. 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:23.039 They'll be here in the next service. 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:27.200 So yesterday was a day of cleaning at our house. 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:28.960 Y'all understand that. 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:31.679 It was a day of cleaning. 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:39.200 And as we got towards the end of the day, I told Amber, I said, I hope I can preach tomorrow. 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:42.559 My legs are tired, my feet are tired. 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:45.919 But I knew this. 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:47.519 I couldn't stop. 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:52.080 I couldn't stop because you know what would happen when I sat down? 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:54.639 I wouldn't be able to get up. 00:16:56.080 --> 00:17:06.720 But listen, at the end of the day, when when we were done, I took my shower and I sat down in our bed. 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:09.519 It was done. 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:11.119 It was over. 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:13.359 The day had ended. 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:15.279 It was completed. 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:18.640 Jesus sat down. 00:17:19.279 --> 00:17:24.720 And we know the resurrection was was sufficient from his seating because of this. 00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:27.359 One, because he resurrected. 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:32.480 We know his sacrifice was sufficient because God raised him from the dead. 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:34.559 The price had been paid. 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:37.759 Appeasement for his wrath had been made. 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:40.640 So he raised him up. 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:48.640 And then he sat at the right hand of the throne of God. 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:53.039 It was sufficient. 00:17:54.079 --> 00:18:02.079 Finally we see that the sacrifice was sufficient because now he is waiting. 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:08.240 From that time until his enemy should be made a footstool for his defeat. 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:10.160 He is waiting. 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:12.960 You say, Grant, what is so what? 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:14.240 He's waiting. 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:19.200 How do we know that his waiting means his sacrifice is sufficient? 00:18:19.359 --> 00:18:24.160 Well, best way I can think of this. 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:26.079 Now I'm not a duck hunter. 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:28.240 There are people who are. 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:31.759 And if I'm wrong, come tell me in between services. 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:41.039 I've never really, I've had labs and stuff that I've halfway trained, but I've never had a great trained dog. 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:43.279 But I've seen some. 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:44.799 I've seen them. 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:55.599 If you watch a good duck dog, when the ducks fall or when you're training them and you throw that buoy out for them to go get, man, they wait. 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:57.839 But have you ever watched them wait? 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:05.119 They're waiting. 00:19:05.759 --> 00:19:07.359 But they're ready to go. 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:17.519 And they're waiting because they have waiting on them on their master just to give the word to go because they know they can do what they've been trained for. 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:24.480 They know it's time to go and get what they know it's time to fulfill their task, to fulfill what has come. 00:19:24.559 --> 00:19:27.200 They know it's time, so they're just waiting. 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:36.079 And Jesus is sitting at the right hand of the Father, waiting for the Father to say, Go get my people. 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:38.240 It is time. 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:47.920 He is waiting, and we know that his sacrifice is sufficient, that his death on the cross was sufficient. 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:51.680 We know that it is because he is waiting. 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:52.559 He is waiting. 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:55.680 What does he say in verse 14? 00:19:55.920 --> 00:20:02.400 For by a single sacrifice he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:08.240 He is waiting to go get those whom he has perfected for all time. 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:19.759 Because his death on the cross was sufficient to bring us into relationship with God. 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:22.400 So what? 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:25.359 Grant great. 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:28.559 His sacrifice was sufficient. 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:30.480 So what? 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:34.160 The author of Hebrews tells us. 00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:43.039 Because right after that, he quotes from Jeremiah 31 what we looked at last week in the New Covenant. 00:20:43.680 --> 00:20:50.000 He says, This, this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. 00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:54.960 I will put my laws on their hearts and I will write them on their minds. 00:20:55.119 --> 00:21:02.000 Then he adds, I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more. 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:08.640 Here's what it means for us that his sacrifice was sufficient. 00:21:09.119 --> 00:21:15.200 And now that he is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Father, he has sent the Holy Spirit. 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:17.920 And the Holy Spirit is at work. 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:22.960 As Hebrews says, he is he bears witness to us. 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:25.920 The Holy Spirit is bearing witness to us. 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:28.240 It is the Holy Spirit who calls us. 00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:30.640 It is the Holy Spirit who convicts us. 00:21:30.799 --> 00:21:34.240 It is the Holy Spirit that draws us to Christ. 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:41.279 It is the Holy Spirit, and He can come, and the Holy Spirit can work because Christ's sacrifice was sufficient. 00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:44.319 The Holy Spirit can work on us now. 00:21:44.480 --> 00:22:02.799 And now what we need to do, what this new covenant means for us, as we trust in the work of the Holy Spirit that He is calling us, and we believe in the Lord Jesus and the redemption that He has made for us, that He died on the cross, that He Arose and that sacrifice was sufficient. 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:12.720 When we believe in him, we find true forgiveness. 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:19.039 We find a true relationship with God. 00:22:20.640 --> 00:22:25.759 We must trust in Him. 00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:31.759 Just a moment, we're gonna stand and sing a hymn of invitation. 00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:37.359 As we do that, we are inviting you to come. 00:22:39.359 --> 00:22:53.440 Those who have never believed in Jesus, who have never accepted for yourself the sacrifice that Christ died for you, that he arose and offers you life. 00:22:54.240 --> 00:22:55.920 We invite you to come. 00:22:56.799 --> 00:22:57.839 We'll pray with you. 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:05.680 There will be people who will take you out after we pray and counsel with you and share with you how you can know Jesus. 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:07.759 Or if you have. 00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:13.839 But you are still trying to live under this old covenant. 00:23:15.279 --> 00:23:19.519 Listen, Christ's sacrifice was not just to save us. 00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:20.720 Does it save us? 00:23:20.960 --> 00:23:21.599 Yes. 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:22.559 Yes. 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:25.759 But it's not a one-time thing. 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:32.960 Those who are being sanctified, he perfects those who are being sanctified. 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:44.160 Christ's sacrifice was sufficient to change us and help us become the people He has made us to be. 00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:58.079 And if this morning you are trying to do that on your own, this morning you think you can be good enough, or you think you can just you got this. 00:23:59.039 --> 00:24:08.480 Maybe this morning in this time of invitation, you need to repent and stop trusting yourself and trust in Christ. 00:24:10.079 --> 00:24:14.160 Not just to save you, but to change you. 00:24:14.559 --> 00:24:16.160 We'd love to pray with you. 00:24:16.400 --> 00:24:18.960 You can come kneel at these steps and pray. 00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:21.039 You can do it at your seat. 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:23.119 However, God's moving you. 00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:27.440 Or maybe this morning you're looking for a church home. 00:24:28.079 --> 00:24:30.000 We would love to have you here. 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:32.880 However, God is moving you. 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:39.200 I'm going to pray for us, and as we're going to stand and sing, and as we sing, we invite you to come. 00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:40.799 Let's pray. 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:43.519 God, I thank you for today. 00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:53.119 I thank you for the sacred moment that we have now to respond to your call. 00:24:54.160 --> 00:25:11.599 Spirit, as you bear witness to us that Christ came and died and arose and is seated at the right hand of the Father as you call us, as you convict us, give us the faith that we need to answer your call, to believe in you. 00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:15.039 God, work in our hearts and lives. 00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:18.319 Jesus, it's in your name that we pray. 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:20.079 Amen.