601 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 Part 1 Book 51 - For Lost Mankind - Death and Judgement

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 1 * BOOK 51 For Lost Mankind – Death and Judgement Hebrews 9:15 – 10:1a Hebrews 9:14a The book of Hebrews is constantly referring back to the system of Law and Judaism – and that it was good. The Book of Hebrews is not a book of salvation like Romans or Galatians or even a book of church position like Ephesians. Hebrews 5:13-14a The Book of Hebrews isn’t for the novice, the young believer. Now there again, times have changed. Times two = $7.50. Well, that’s Hebrews. All right, let’s come back: Hebrews 9:14 "How much more (than the blood of animals mentioned in the previous verse) shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit (there’s your third Person of the Trinity, all involved together, see? ) offered himself without spot to God, (as a lamb, remember back there in Exodus 12 – without blemish) purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" So what did God do with our sin? He purged it. God can forget! It’s over so far as God is concerned." Well, look at it the way God does. God has forgotten your past. We’ve been purged. We’ve been cleansed. The blood! The blood is the cleansing agent. Hebrews 9:14b "…purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" It was dead works. And so, now Paul is saying, "My, the blood of the Lamb! All right, now let’s move on to verse 15. Hebrews 9:15a "And for this cause (because God has with His own blood purged us of all our filth and our sin) he is the mediator of the new testament (covenant) that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament (covenant),…" Now you’ll notice I’m using the word ‘covenant’ rather than the word ‘testament’ because in the Old Testament as we call it, you don’t see that word ‘testament;’ it’s ‘covenant.’ And the covenant back in the Old Testament was from God to Israel but with Moses as the mediator. Moses was the go-between God and Israel. All right, because He has purged us and He has purged these Hebrews of their sinfulness, He has caused them now to turn to the Living God instead of a dead religion. All right, verse 15 again: Hebrews 9:15 You remember, it’s as long as God lives! Eternity is as long as God will live. All right, so this whole transaction then of the Cross, the shed blood, has made possible an eternal inheritance. Hebrews 9:16 The one said that the word testament was totally out of order. It should be covenant all the way through, because testament was the Greek and the Roman concept. Whereas, covenant was the Hebrew concept. Hebrews 9:17 When you die. Now verse 18. Hebrews 9:18a "Whereupon, neither the first testament…" In my Bible, the word testament is in what? Verse 18 again. Hebrews 9:18 "Whereupon neither the first was dedicated without blood." Covenant! Now what covenant is Paul referring to? Law! It’s always involving blood. All right, chapter 9, right after the flood, verse 4, 6. Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed:…" Why the blood? Because ‘life is in the blood.’ The blood is the source of all living. It was constantly the animal sacrifices and the shedding of its blood. Well, that involved a lot of blood. "I never thought of that before." You see, as that Jewish family would bring that precious little lamb, and they would see that lamb give its life and its blood because of what? Their sin. The Lamb of God that took away the sin of the world. Man’s sin. Dies. New life. It’s the same way with the shed blood, see? When Christ shed His blood, it wasn’t just that alone, but it was the fact that His life was poured out and the shed blood epitomized that life and it became death and then out of that death came what? New life! We have eternal life because of that death of Christ. Because blood was the price of redemption as God had mandated from day one, that life was in the blood. And blood alone could be the price of redemption. Alright, come back to Hebrews again, chapter 9, verse 18: Hebrews 9:18 "Whereupon neither the first covenant (the covenant of Law) was dedicated without blood." Hebrews 9:19a had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood…" Hebrews 9:19b-20 "…the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, (that is the Book of Law) and all the people, 20. Saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God hath enjoined unto you." Now right from the very beginning of God’s dealing with the Nation of Israel in the matter of the Spirit, what is preeminent? The blood! The blood. Where? Without the blood, they were doomed. So the whole concept from the very beginning of the experience of the Nation of Israel is, you cannot make the first step toward God without the shedding of blood. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible