Source: https://cmpps.org/hebrews-chp-1011-25/
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 18:22:23+00:00

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What is offered again and again? These sacrifices never took away__________.
v. 12 But when _____________ had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He_____________ at the right hand of God the Father.
v. 13 What is going to become of those who are against Jesus?
v. 14 For genuine Christians, who makes us perfect forever? This applies to genuine Christians who experience Christ personally. We are in the process of being made__________.
Are you experiencing a personal relationship with God through Jesus who promised to abide in you and you in Him?
v. 15 -17 Here we read that “The Holy Spirit also testifies” Who is the Holy Spirit?
The Holy Spirit is God, third person of the triune godhead.
God the Holy Spirit testifies through Jeremiah 31:33; 34b. pointing forward to Christ.
1. God will put His laws on our hearts.
3. Because of Christ, our sins are forgiven.
v. 18 The emphasis is now the new covenant where genuine Christians experience ______________ and there is no longer a need for any sacrifice for sin.
v. 19 “Therefore” (because of Jesus’ sacrifice, & our forgiveness) We can come to God in prayer (enter the Most Holy Place) with___________________ by the _____________ of Jesus.
v. 20 Why couldn’t we enter the Most Holy Place before Jesus?
Remember God is holy x3. Animal sacrifices did not completely atone for sin. Therefore, only the high priest could enter the Most Holy Place—and only once a year to offer sacrifices for sin according to the law. However, sin still lingered and the people continued to experience guilt because of their sinful nature and there wasn’t complete forgiveness of sin.
Now, we are given opportunity to enter “by a new and living way…. What Jesus has done has created a completely new situation. We now come to God the Father through Jesus—our living Savior. He was the perfect sacrifice for the forgiveness of our sins.
Should Jesus’ example of “lowly service” influence our behavior and attitude toward those in our sphere of influence?
As a professing Christian, do others see your willingness to do the least desirable behaviors because Jesus is working through you?
Do you recognize that we only have a sincere heart if we have applied the blood of Jesus to our sinful nature, understand that we need forgiveness, and repent from our sin?
“The heart stands for the whole of the inner life of man[kind], and it is important as God’s people approach him, they be right inwardly” (Morris, 1981).
…”having our bodies washed with pure water.” This goes hand in hand with being cleansed inwardly. Some scholars view this verse as referring to baptism. Baptism is an outward sign of an inward cleansing, most important is the inward cleansing followed by baptism.
Others view “washing” and “pure water” as reference to the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit.
MacArthur (1983) said, “does not refer to baptism, but has to do with our living, with how the Holy Spirit changes our lives.” Titus 3:5 Eph. 5:26.
Thus ‘washing’ with ‘purified water’ signifies responsive obedience in accordance with God’s word to us, and it is ‘the washing of water with the word’ which produces that obedience (Ephesians 5.26). It is only seen as possible through obedience combined with the sacrifice of Christ (1 Peter 1.2). Compare how ‘washing’ is also elsewhere closely connected with new life and the regenerating work of the Spirit (see Titus 3.5). So the reference here is not specifically to being baptised but to the deeper requirements of obedience as a result of cleansing (angelfire.com).
With that said. Baptism is an act of obedience for the cleansed and regenerated Christian. The author may not have had the act of baptism in mind as much as the transformation process and subsequent obedience through the power of God the Holy Spirit.
v. 25 “Let us not give up ____________ ______________, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us _____________________ one another—and all the more as you see the _________ approaching.
This verse emphasizes accountability for one another. We are called to act toward fellow believers as those who will give an account of ourselves to God on the Day of Judgment.

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