WEBVTT 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:10.720 Hebrews chapter 8. 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:22.800 Hebrews chapter 7 is a complex argument about Melchizedek, often referred to one of the most uh complicated and complex arguments in all of the Bible, Hebrews chapter 7 is. 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:25.600 And so I love Hebrews chapter 8, verse 1. 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:26.960 As we start reading. 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:29.359 Now the point in what we are saying is this. 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:30.559 I just love it. 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:44.079 We have a complex, profound argument that takes a full chapter, and the author of the Bible says, the point of all that, in case you got lost somewhere, in case you fell into a Melchizedek trap and can't get out, chapter 8, verse 1. 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:58.399 The point of all that is that we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in heaven, a minister in the holy places, in the true tense that the Lord set up, not man. 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:03.439 For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:09.599 Thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:14.319 Now, if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all. 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:21.439 Since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law, they serve as a copy and a shadow of the heavenly things. 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:30.560 When Moses was about to enter the tent, he was instructed by God saying, See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain. 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:43.519 But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is much more excellent than the old, as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:47.359 This is the word of God, and I pray he would seal it into your hearts. 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:51.920 One of my favorite books, uh, it's a kid's book, Holes. 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:53.760 I brought show and tell tonight. 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:56.560 Holes by Lewis Sakar. 00:01:56.719 --> 00:01:57.760 I'm not sure if you've read it. 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:02.239 Uh I read it before they made it uh into a movie, read it and loved it. 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:05.120 Uh as I think I was a middle school student when I read it. 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:10.879 And uh then they made a movie, which I also loved, and it was leverage in my own family's life. 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:17.199 I told Madison she could watch this movie only if she read the book. 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:19.439 And it motivated her to read the book. 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:20.639 Perhaps you have read this book. 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:25.759 What drives it, this is a book that is uh uh I think really uh extremely popular. 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:33.439 It's not a Christian book, but it has a kind of a plot that draws you in and traps you in it. 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:40.800 Because what's behind all of this book is this idea that generations ago, two families made a promise to each other. 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:47.759 And that promise binds them together, binds their fortunes together in unforeseen and unsuspecting ways. 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:50.159 This book jumps from generation to generation. 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:53.840 It swings hundreds of years in different directions as the plot goes through it. 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:56.000 It doesn't tie it all up together until the end. 00:02:56.080 --> 00:03:01.280 I won't spoil it for you because I hope especially some of the littler people here tonight would actually read it. 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:12.400 So I won't tell you the ending of it, but what drives the whole book is this idea that an oath or a promise or a covenant made between two families actually impacts the way those families interact. 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:21.120 And for generations, generations throughout the centuries, they're bound together by this common oath or common covenant. 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:28.000 That obviously is a kind of a faint uh indication of what you see happening in Hebrews chapter eight. 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:34.639 Hebrews chapter eight is where Paul is transitioning here from his argument in chapter seven about Melchizedek being a priest. 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:37.120 It's a different category than a Levitical priest. 00:03:37.280 --> 00:04:00.960 He's in a world all to himself, and Jesus belongs to that world, and now, centuries, millennia after Melchizedek, thousands of years to this present day after Melchizedek, our fortunes, our life is just fundamentally different because of what kind of priest Melchizedek was. 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:10.800 He too was appointed a priest by somebody else. 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:13.599 He too is a priesthood that's bigger than him. 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:19.439 And all those who were under that priesthood, namely Jesus, act in one way. 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:25.360 And then all those who are blessed by that priesthood, from Abraham was the first person to encounter Melchizedek back in Genesis. 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:30.319 Abraham and all of his children, all the way to this present day, as we're the children of Abraham by faith. 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:37.759 We are blessed by that promise to Melchizedek, that covenant made with Melchizedek, that oath that was given to him about being a priest. 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:52.319 So, centuries later, our fortunes are interwoven in a very complex and profound way that can only be explained by an oath that took place long before we were ever born. 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:57.439 Long before Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem, that oath had taken place. 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:02.560 Long before Melchizedek walked the earth, that oath had taken place. 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:14.240 And the point that Paul is making here in Hebrews chapter 8 is that oath finds its culmination or its fulfillment, its realization, its unveiling. 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:15.759 You can use all kinds of different words. 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:25.680 That oath comes to fruition fully in the death of Jesus Christ, his resurrection into heaven, and his present-day ministry right now. 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:45.519 I'm not going to go through all of chapter seven, as I mentioned, it's a very complex argument, but the reader's digest version, the Sparks Notes version here of Hebrews chapter 7, is that there was a priest back in Genesis named Melchizedek, which basically means king of righteousness. 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:48.240 And that king encountered Abraham. 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:52.720 Abraham made offerings to him, tithed to him. 00:05:52.879 --> 00:06:02.480 Abraham submitted himself to him long before the Levitical priesthood, long before Levi was a person, Abraham submits himself to the priesthood of Melchizedek. 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:16.480 David then picks up on that in Psalm 110 and says, The Savior, when the Savior comes to crush the head of the devil, when that savior comes and fulfills Genesis chapter 3, that savior will come in light of Genesis chapter 14. 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:19.920 That savior will come like Melchizedek. 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:21.920 So that's the promise. 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:48.240 Now the point of all that though in Hebrews 8, verse 1, is that a high priest like Melchizedek is what we have. 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:54.240 In verse 1, that high priest right now is at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in heaven. 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:55.600 He's at God's right hand. 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:58.399 That high priest has been resurrected, of course. 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:06.160 That high priest was crucified on the cross for our sins, buried on the third day, resurrected, has ascended up into heaven where he is right now. 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:08.399 Hebrews 8 is in light of the ascension. 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:17.360 Paul's describing Jesus right now is seated at the right hand of God, sitting there, and he's making intercession for us. 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:19.920 This goes back to earlier in the book of Hebrews. 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:22.240 Hebrews chapter 2, Hebrews chapter 4. 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:23.199 We have a high priest. 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:27.600 We can draw near to the throne of grace because our prayers are heard by Jesus Christ. 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:31.759 Our prayers are spiritual, they're brought by the Holy Spirit through Christ to the Father. 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:34.800 Jesus intercedes for us right now in heaven. 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:40.319 So the priestly work of Jesus Christ is ongoing at this moment. 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:43.120 He is interceding on our behalf. 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:45.519 He at this very moment is our mediator. 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:47.120 That's from 1 Timothy. 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:50.720 There's only one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:52.480 So right now he is our mediator. 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:54.399 Right now he is interceding for us. 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:57.120 Right now he is our high priest, present tense. 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:00.800 Right now, he's seated in heaven, is the language in verse 1. 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:04.079 He's seated at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in heaven. 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:09.439 He's ministering there right now in verse 2 says, He's a minister in the holy places in the true tent. 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:11.120 So this is all present tense. 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:17.199 Like right now in heaven, Jesus is ministering in the tent. 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:21.040 So there's a lot of questions about that. 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:22.639 Like what tent? 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:26.079 Jesus isn't dwelling in a tent in heaven. 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:27.680 The tent was set up on earth. 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:32.960 Remember, the tent was set up on the language of tent in Hebrews 8 is for the tabernacle. 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:38.399 As the Israelites left Egypt, they crossed the Red Sea. 00:08:38.639 --> 00:08:58.879 Moses went up Mount Sinai, comes down with the Ten Commandments, comes down with plans, comes down with the description for the ark, comes down with what they're going to build for the Ark of the Covenant, where they're going to store the tablets, the Ten Commandments, they're going to put manna in there, they're going to put Moses' rod and Aaron's staff, or Moses' staff and Aaron's rod and bud, and all that's going to go in this. 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:02.639 And they're going to have a tent that for 40 years is going to wander around the wilderness. 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:03.600 That's the tent. 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:04.639 It's not a temple. 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:06.159 The temple's going to come later. 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:09.360 The tent is before the temple and it's in the wilderness. 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:16.559 And here in Hebrews 8, it says there's a tent right now in heaven where Jesus is doing those things for us. 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:19.519 He's praying for us, he's interceding for us. 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:25.519 He's seated at the right hand of God in the true tent that the Lord set up. 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:33.840 So, got questions, and those questions we'll work through in verse 3 and hope to answer them tonight. 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:35.759 And then you get to verse 3. 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:43.200 Here's the statement of fact, like the doctrinal statement that drives verses 1, 2, and then 4 down through 6. 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:48.559 This one doctrinal, all this is being in the first paragraph of Hebrews 8 is being driven by this one doctrinal sentence. 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:52.399 It's just a very clear statement of fact, and it's not complicated, it's straightforward. 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:57.279 Verse 3 every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:01.840 Thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:03.360 So that's the statement of fact. 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:05.519 And then I'm going to put it very simply for you. 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:09.360 Here's the doctrinal statement, the doctrine, Jesus is the high priest. 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:12.879 So that's the doctrinal statement from this first paragraph of Hebrews 8. 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:15.279 If you're taking notes, that's what you write down. 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:19.759 Then there's going to be four observations from that doctrinal statement. 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:25.039 So the doctrinal statement for the first paragraph of Hebrews chapter 8, Jesus is the high priest. 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:34.639 So I'm trying to make this complex, uh, very profound theological point accessible to you by doing it in this style of outline. 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:45.279 It's not my normal style of outline, like a doctrine and then observations about it, but I think it'll help you get your mind around what's going on in Hebrews 8, because Hebrews 8, of course, is a very profound and important chapter. 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:47.759 So the doctrinal statement is that Jesus is the high priest. 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:49.679 That's drawn out of verse 3. 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:50.799 Follow the logic. 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:53.600 You could even diagram this if you wanted to. 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:58.480 Last time I said that in passing to some sentence in Ephesians 1, I said it's impossible to diagram. 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:04.639 I know some homeschool families made their kids do it, and now their kids hate Ephesians and diagramming and homeschooling. 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:07.360 So try this one instead. 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:10.960 This one is more straightforward in verse 3. 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:14.879 Every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:18.960 Thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. 00:11:19.200 --> 00:11:26.000 You could diagram that grammatically, but more importantly, you could diagram this logically. 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:35.759 You know, high priests are appointed to offer something. 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:42.000 Jesus is a high priest because he was appointed to offer something. 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:44.399 The conclusion is that Jesus is the high priest. 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:47.600 Every high priest is appointed to offer sacrifices. 00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:50.480 Jesus was appointed to offer sacrifices. 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:53.120 Ergo, Jesus is the high priest. 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:54.480 So that's the doctrinal statement. 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:56.399 Jesus is the high priest. 00:11:57.279 --> 00:12:02.399 Now what follows from that, to work your way back to the syllogism and draw out those points, what follows from that? 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:03.440 Four observations. 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:07.360 First, he ministers in the sanctuary. 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:10.240 That's the first observation from this. 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:17.039 If Jesus is the high priest, that means that he ministers in the sanctuary. 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:24.480 So this gets back to the mystery in verse one and in verse two. 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:29.600 In verse 1, it clearly says he's seated at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in heaven. 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:31.200 That's not new information for us. 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:32.720 We learned that in the book of Acts. 00:12:32.879 --> 00:12:35.279 Stephen sees this, the heavens open up. 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:43.919 There, Jesus, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the majesty, stands up to receive Stephen in glory, as Stephen becomes the first martyr. 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:45.519 So we know where Jesus is. 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:47.840 Jesus told his disciples he's going into heaven. 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:51.200 He'll be seated at the right hand of the Majesty on high. 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:53.120 Paul describes this in 1 Corinthians 15. 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:55.360 It's alluded to in the book of Revelation. 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:56.399 This is not new knowledge. 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:58.639 Jesus is the right hand of God, got it. 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:08.879 Secondly, in verse 2, he's also in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man. 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:19.440 So this tent is what the ark and the tabernacle in the wilderness are going to be patterned after. 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:22.799 The word tent and tabernacle are often used as synonyms. 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:41.600 What is paraded around the wilderness, what moves with the pillar of fire and the cloud of fire and the pillar of smoke, what moves that way through the wilderness, that tabernacle for those 40 years wandering that then David kept in the barn after Uzzah was struck dead and was eventually replaced with the temple that Solomon built. 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:47.039 That tabernacle was made according to the design that God gave Moses. 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:54.799 And God told Moses in Exodus 25, verse 9, that the design I'm giving you is a it's patterned off of something else. 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:59.440 The design that you're gonna get, the tabernacle in the wilderness, that's not the original. 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:02.799 There's an original somewhere else. 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:04.639 That's just the pattern for you. 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:12.399 So you you see as you drive along uh Backlick, our Braddock away from the church, the soccer field, the church's soccer field. 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:14.399 I love that our church has a soccer field. 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:15.279 Amen. 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:21.120 We don't have a coffee shop, but we have a soccer field, and I choose a soccer field over the coffee shop every time. 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:22.399 No regrets. 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:26.879 On the soccer field are those labradors. 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:29.519 You know the dogs I'm talking about. 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:31.840 They are stationary labradors. 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:34.000 You never see them move. 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:35.600 There's three of them. 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:41.840 And people often ask me, what are those labradors doing on the soccer field? 00:14:42.159 --> 00:14:45.519 And what they are doing there is scaring away the geese. 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:47.440 They are wood dogs. 00:14:47.679 --> 00:14:54.240 They're wood cutouts of dogs, and they're propped up on the soccer field, and they actually work. 00:14:54.879 --> 00:15:06.960 The geese, there's like two geese that are rebel geese that have seen through it, but but most of the geese, before those labradors existed, that field was covered in geese. 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:10.960 And Tom Coles had an idea one day. 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:12.960 He said, I bet birds aren't very smart. 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:16.240 I mean, there's an expression bird brain brain for a reason. 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:19.600 I bet they would fall for a wood cutout of a dog. 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:21.600 And so this is where those labradors came from. 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:48.399 Tom Coles did a Google image search of Labrador and got a clip art image and printed it out on a printer upstairs in the church, like one of those big printers, and took it to the woodworking room over there and laid it down on a piece of wood and cut out off it's so it's those are clip art labradors out there, made from clip art on the wood. 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:53.679 So it's not just that those are fake dogs, it's not just that are wooden dogs. 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:56.159 They look very real. 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:58.399 They fooled some of you, I know it. 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:06.240 Those dogs are patterned after a different dog, after a real dog somewhere else. 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:29.600 Who knows what image of a dog the artist of those dogs had in mind, but whoever drew that clip art dog had seen Labradors before, had seen dogs before, and so made that drawing of the dog as an outline or an image of a real dog, or like the Plato would call it the like the quintessential dog, the the true dog. 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:37.279 That Labrador has all the marks of a true essence of dogness, even though it's not a real dog. 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:41.440 It relates to the dog, it's the image of it, it's the copy of it. 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:46.159 The real dog is the source, and that is the pattern of it. 00:16:46.399 --> 00:16:58.559 And if you're driving by in Braddock or you're flying by in the sky, and you look down, you'll be confused because you don't, it's not a real dog, but it's a patterned dog. 00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:00.960 It's a dog that's pointing somewhere else. 00:17:01.600 --> 00:17:04.240 So that's what the tabernacle is doing in the wilderness. 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:09.759 The tabernacle is in the wilderness, wandering around, and it's the cutout. 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:13.279 What's it the cutout of? 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:19.920 Where did Moses on Mount Sinai go to Google Images and print out the pattern which he would get? 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:31.279 Well, that's Exodus 25, where Yahweh tells Moses, exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle and all of its furniture, even, you shall make it. 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:35.200 Or again, Exodus 25, verse 40. 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:37.839 See that you make them after the pattern for them. 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:48.079 And in that part, the last part of Exodus 25, that's talking about like the utensils, the snuffer for the fire. 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:54.960 The implements for moving the wood out of the fire and the offering onto the altar. 00:17:55.680 --> 00:18:00.400 It says those are patterns off of something in heaven. 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:08.000 And verse 40 says, which Moses saw on the mountain of Exodus 25, verse 40, it says, Moses saw it on the mountain. 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:10.960 So what did Moses see? 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:15.279 Well, Moses had an image, a vision of the Lord, of course. 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:18.400 Remember, the Lord moved by Moses. 00:18:19.039 --> 00:18:24.480 Moses could only see the back of him, which is another way of saying Moses saw him faintly. 00:18:24.559 --> 00:18:27.039 He didn't see the incarnate Jesus Christ. 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:33.599 He can't say what John writes in 1 John chapter 1, that which we have have touched and heard and handled. 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:34.640 Can't say that. 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:35.599 Moses can't say that. 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:42.960 Moses is, you know, back in a cleft of a rock, and his deity moves by him in some manifest form. 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:45.759 And that's what he saw. 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:48.640 And that becomes the pattern. 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:53.359 That becomes the reality that shines forth into the world. 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:56.160 The people, the Israelites, they didn't go up on the mountain, remember? 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:57.680 They did not want to go up on the mountain. 00:18:57.839 --> 00:19:02.880 God was willing to reveal himself to all of Israel, but the Israelites were not willing to endure it. 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:04.000 Remember, they yelled at Moses. 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:10.880 They, you know, the glory of God was being unveiled at Mount Sinai, and they yelled at Moses and begged Moses to get God to be quiet. 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:13.599 They begged God that no further word be spoken to them. 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:15.119 That's Hebrews chapter 12. 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:19.920 They couldn't endure the command that if even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned. 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:24.559 So terrible was the sight that Moses himself said, I tremble with fear. 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:26.480 And so they pushed Moses forward. 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:27.839 Say, you go up there. 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:29.279 So Moses sees it. 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:31.440 Moses comes down, the glory fades in his face. 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:34.640 Remember, he's got to cover his face and hide in the tent. 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:38.000 That's the reality. 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:39.920 Moses was exposed to it. 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:42.720 It caused his face to glow. 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:45.519 That was not the shadow. 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:50.240 What they built on the earth in the tent, that was the shadow. 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:53.839 And so, what's the reality? 00:19:54.400 --> 00:20:02.160 Is there in heaven the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, model of the tabernacle? 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:04.079 Of course not. 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:07.200 If you go to Jerusalem, you might see there's a model city in Jerusalem. 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:10.880 One of my favorite tourist attractions in Jerusalem is the model, the model city. 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:13.599 It's a replica of Jerusalem from the life of Christ. 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:15.119 It's incredible to look at. 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:21.599 Incredibly detailed. 00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:23.680 And it just, I love it. 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:26.640 And is that what's going on in heaven? 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:34.960 Is there father, son, spirit model of the tabernacle or of the temple with all the implements in it? 00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:39.119 And then what's on earth is the real is the is patterned off of the reality in heaven. 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:40.079 I don't think so. 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:43.680 What's in heaven is before creation is only deity. 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:45.759 It's only father, son, spirit. 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:46.559 That's all is there. 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:49.039 There's not a fourth thing, there's not furniture there. 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:51.519 There's not a pattern there. 00:20:52.400 --> 00:21:02.480 And so I deduce that where Jesus ministers is to the Father through the Spirit. 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:06.799 And that that interaction, that ministry, that is the sanctuary. 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:09.599 And I'll talk more about that as we get to the final observation. 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:18.400 But the bottom line is that Jesus is in heaven, and he is doing ministry right now, interceding, seated at the right hand of God, in the sanctuary. 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:19.519 That's the point. 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:23.680 Number two. 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:29.680 Not only is since Jesus is a high priest, not only does he minister in the sanctuary, but number two, he also makes an offering. 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:30.799 That's what the high priest does. 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:33.680 That's the difference between the high priest and the other priests. 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:36.240 The other priests all do offerings. 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:37.759 You know, they'll sacrifice. 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:39.759 Priests are basically butchers, remember? 00:21:39.839 --> 00:21:45.519 So the other priests will sacrifice the cows and they'll do the goats, and like the rookie priests get the pigeons, you know. 00:21:46.160 --> 00:21:49.279 And they get promoted up to goat duty one day or ram duty, that's awesome. 00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:53.119 And they get promoted up to the cow duty, and they're you know, rising through the hierarchy there. 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:54.079 That's great. 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:59.359 The high priest on the Day of Atonement. 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:04.400 The bulls are sacrificed, and there's the wave offering. 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:17.519 You know, you take up the hindquarters of the bull and you wave it in the air, and you're putting the kidneys and the entrails and the fire, and you're getting the ash from that, and you're you're gonna take blood into the tabernacle, into the tent. 00:22:17.599 --> 00:22:22.400 And even when there's the temple, in the middle of the temple is the holy of holies, which is kind of a model of the tabernacle itself. 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:25.599 So it's kind of going to temple pointing back to tabernacle, pointing back to heaven. 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:27.200 So all that's in the Holy of Holies there. 00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:35.039 The high priest goes in there, splashes blood on the Ark of the Covenant, the two angels with their wings out facing each other, and the Ark of the Covenant in the middle there. 00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:36.079 There's no chair in there. 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:38.160 You know, the high priest doesn't get to sit down. 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:41.519 He just goes in and splashes blood on it, and then he gets out of town. 00:22:41.680 --> 00:22:43.119 So that's what the high priest does. 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:49.839 He goes into the sanctuary to make the offering into the Holy of Holies. 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:55.039 And so Jesus himself makes an offering. 00:22:55.599 --> 00:22:57.759 So what offering does Jesus make? 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:05.759 As far as we know, Jesus never walked into the literal temple, into the Holy of Holies in his ministry. 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:10.160 He goes into the court, he cleanses the temple, he purifies the temple. 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:13.279 I don't know of him going into the Holy of Holies. 00:23:13.519 --> 00:23:14.960 So what offering does he make? 00:23:15.119 --> 00:23:21.920 Well, if you recall, the curtain that separated the Holy of Holies was torn at his crucifixion. 00:23:22.079 --> 00:23:26.000 So that's a pretty big indicator that that is the moment of his offering. 00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:29.680 That when the curtain is torn, the offering is that's his offering right there. 00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:33.759 That's his death on the cross, and that seems to be the way the rest of the New Testament picks up on this. 00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:44.000 Ephesians 5, verse 2 says, walk in love as Christ loved, gave himself up for us, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering. 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:46.319 Ephesians 5, verse 2? 00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:50.960 Walk in love as Christ loved us and gave himself up as a fragrant offering. 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:52.880 And the sacrifice to God. 00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:56.079 So Jesus made an offering, which was his death on the cross. 00:23:56.240 --> 00:23:58.880 Hebrews 10 will say the same thing. 00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:06.160 Hebrews 10 verse 10, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:11.039 So Hebrews 10 10 describes the death of Christ as his offering. 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:13.759 And by the way, Hebrews 10, fascinating passage. 00:24:13.839 --> 00:24:15.680 It says the death of Jesus is the offering. 00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:18.079 You remember what Hebrews 10, verse 11 says? 00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:21.279 The blood of bulls and goats can't take away sin. 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:22.799 That's Hebrews 10 11. 00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:24.079 Very, very well-known verse. 00:24:24.160 --> 00:24:26.400 We talk about it at communion almost all the time. 00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:36.640 But Hebrews 10.10 and Hebrews 10.12, bracketing that verse, both describe the death of Christ as his offering, his sacrifices. 00:24:36.880 --> 00:24:42.799 Hebrews 10 verse 12, when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sin, he sat down at the right hand of God. 00:24:43.119 --> 00:24:44.000 Finished. 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:52.960 In the Roman Catholic Church, they teach what's called the perpetual sacrifice of the Mass. 00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:55.599 So they teach this as the transubstantiation. 00:24:55.680 --> 00:25:01.039 They teach that the bread becomes the body of Jesus in a mysterious and mystical way, of course. 00:25:01.200 --> 00:25:04.720 And the priest, in the breaking of the bread, re-sacrifices Christ. 00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:08.319 That's why the Mass is called the perpetual sacrifice of the Mass. 00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:10.319 Jesus is continually sacrificed. 00:25:10.480 --> 00:25:17.039 And they derive that doctrine, by the way, from passages like Hebrews 8 that describe the ongoing ministry of Christ. 00:25:17.119 --> 00:25:22.319 So if he's still ministering at this day, then that ministry must be in the form of his death. 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:27.440 Hebrews 10, I think, contradicts that by saying he's offered himself a single time. 00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:31.359 He was a single sacrifice for sins and then sat down at the right hand of God. 00:25:31.519 --> 00:25:41.279 Hebrews 10, verse 12 says, when you pair that with Hebrews 8, which has him seated down at Hebrews 8, verse 1, you know that his seating is not a perpetual sacrifice. 00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:43.200 He's not continually dying in heaven. 00:25:43.359 --> 00:25:45.359 That's not what his ongoing ministry looks like. 00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:50.240 His offering is not a perpetually reoccurring offering. 00:25:50.559 --> 00:25:53.599 Because Hebrews 10 says he did it one time and sat down. 00:25:53.680 --> 00:25:58.480 And Hebrews 8 says that while he's ministering, he's sitting. 00:25:59.200 --> 00:26:00.480 Which means he's not dying. 00:26:00.559 --> 00:26:03.440 He's not being taken off of the cross repeatedly in communion. 00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:04.880 We're going to celebrate communion tonight. 00:26:05.039 --> 00:26:07.680 Jesus is not re-dying at communion. 00:26:09.119 --> 00:26:13.680 It's a final sacrifice, a final offering that was already made. 00:26:16.079 --> 00:26:22.880 Hebrews 10, verse 13, if you keep going to Hebrews 10, it says he sat down and made his enemies a footstool for his feet, which is from Psalm 110, by the way. 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:25.200 So all this is going to connect in a second. 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:27.599 But my second point here, he made an offering. 00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:29.759 The offering was his own death. 00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:31.279 Third application of this doctrine. 00:26:31.440 --> 00:26:32.319 Jesus is the high priest. 00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:33.680 First, he ministers in the sanctuary. 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:34.880 Second, he makes an offering. 00:26:35.119 --> 00:26:37.519 Third, he was appointed. 00:26:38.799 --> 00:26:40.160 He was appointed. 00:26:43.039 --> 00:26:45.759 You don't sign up to be high priest. 00:26:47.359 --> 00:26:48.720 You're appointed. 00:26:49.920 --> 00:27:01.519 You know, even if you volunteer to run, like you use an American political analogy, you volunteer to run for president, you put yourself forward, you get voted in, you don't give yourself the oath of office. 00:27:01.759 --> 00:27:04.000 Somebody else has got to give it to you. 00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:07.519 This is kind of imagery here in Hebrews 8. 00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:11.759 Every, it's back at the beginning of verse 3, every high priest is appointed. 00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:19.039 This is the same kind of questions that we saw earlier with if it's a sanctuary, what is a sanctuary like? 00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:20.640 When was it made? 00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:23.359 And we said, no, it always exists. 00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:26.960 Well, with this, when was Jesus appointed? 00:27:27.279 --> 00:27:28.480 Who appointed him? 00:27:28.799 --> 00:27:29.680 When did that happen? 00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:31.119 Did the disciples appoint him? 00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:32.480 Certainly not. 00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:35.279 He chose them, they didn't choose him. 00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:38.720 Did Mary and Joseph appoint him? 00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:39.599 Certainly not. 00:27:39.759 --> 00:27:44.240 This happened to Mary, not at her initiation. 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:50.079 Certainly Joseph was not the one who initiated this. 00:27:50.559 --> 00:27:51.599 It happened to them. 00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:53.039 So when did this happen? 00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:56.079 And this gets you back to the Melchizedek point. 00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:58.960 Well, when was Melchizedek made a priest? 00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:24.799 I mean, we're saying Jesus was appointed to be high priest like Melchizedek, which is another way of saying he was appointed not from the tribe of Levi, not from the line of Judah, where the kings come from, not from the line of the family of Jacob, not even because he was an Israelite, although he was, not even from Abraham, not only even because he was a Jew. 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:28.880 No, his appointment comes before that. 00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:35.119 Everything in Genesis is describing the division of the families and the earth, where all the families and the nations came from. 00:28:35.359 --> 00:28:38.480 You don't get that with Melchizedek, no genealogy for him. 00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:46.000 The point is that he, his appointment happens before people, before nations, before families, before people. 00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:49.440 In other words, this is an eternal appointment. 00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:52.079 This happened in eternity past. 00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:54.079 That's when he was appointed. 00:28:55.519 --> 00:29:00.880 And I can show you this from the book of Hebrews, so we're gonna just dance through several verses in the book of Hebrews. 00:29:01.119 --> 00:29:03.599 You guys don't have to be anywhere until tomorrow, right? 00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:06.960 Look at Hebrews 1, verse 2. 00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:14.000 So flip left a few pages, these short chapters in Hebrews, so my Bible is just like two or three pages left to Hebrews 1. 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:20.079 Hebrews 1 verse 2. 00:29:20.400 --> 00:29:27.359 In these last days, God has spoken to us by his son, whom he appointed the heir of all things. 00:29:27.440 --> 00:29:28.319 There's that word appointed. 00:29:28.400 --> 00:29:30.880 We're gonna look at all the words of uses of appointed in Hebrews. 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:31.839 Here's the first one. 00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:34.240 The book begins with this concept. 00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:38.079 So this isn't tertiary or secondary in the book of Hebrews. 00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:39.839 This is a critical point in the book of Hebrews. 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:51.119 Arguably, Paul's main point in this book is that the Son was appointed the heir of all things before the world was created. 00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:52.559 Do you see that in verse 2? 00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:55.440 Through whom also he created the world. 00:29:55.599 --> 00:29:57.519 So he would and notice the structure. 00:29:57.680 --> 00:30:03.119 He was appointed heir, and then through that appointment he created the world. 00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:05.839 It's not normally the way an heir works. 00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:18.799 You know, my children will inherit our wealth or property, however little or great that may be, but they're inherited, but they didn't make me. 00:30:20.079 --> 00:30:22.960 They're the heir because I made them. 00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:28.640 So Hebrews begins with that flipped on its head that Jesus was appointed heir of all things. 00:30:28.799 --> 00:30:32.960 He's going to inherit all things, and so he made all things through him. 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:35.279 That's what appointment means in the book of Hebrews. 00:30:35.359 --> 00:30:37.440 It's something that predates creation. 00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:40.880 It predates, in the language of verse 2, the creation of the world. 00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:42.559 I just love it. 00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:43.839 The Son is the heir of all things. 00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:45.279 Oh yeah, he also made all things. 00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:46.160 Side note. 00:30:46.480 --> 00:30:47.759 Hebrews 3. 00:30:50.079 --> 00:30:52.000