you know more
regarding the new testament
sacrifice of jesus and what he went
through on the cross
because of isaiah 53
than any other chapter of the bible you
know there's more information isaiah 53
about what jesus went through than what
is revealed in the four gospels did you
know that
for months now or maybe i don't know how
long it's been has it been a year or two
how long we've been in this book
we have been learning the fact that
commentators and expositors
talk about isaiah as being the
evangelical prophet of the old testament
and the reason is
isaiah's quoted more in the gospels than
any other old testament book
jesus quoted deuteronomy more than any
other book
seemed to be his favorite book
but the gospel writers quote isaiah more
than any other book
and for good reason and tonight we're
going to see
some of those tremendous reasons
so tonight we're looking at a message
entitled the price he paid to buy
you
back
did you know that title is appropriate
that's doctrine that's that's biblical
truth the price he paid to buy you not
just by you
but to buy you back
isaiah 53 is all about a chapter of
atonement
and redemption
sacrifice and salvation unlike any other
book of the bible
isaiah
isaiah is so
direct
about whom he's speaking of
that up until about the 12th century all
the rabbis knew
that isaiah 53 was speaking about
israel's messiah it wasn't until recent
centuries that the more liberal jews
began to reinterpret isaiah 53 and say
it cannot be jesus
it's got to be something else and they
most recently have declared that isaiah
53 is actually the nation
of israel and they make that argument
it's actually an incredibly ignorant
argument because number one how can the
nation of israel die for the sins of the
world
and how can the nation of israel be pure
and sinless
when it's not
the rest of the old testament narrative
is all about god sending his messiah to
save the nation of israel from their
peril from their
plight right
no you see when you look at the chapter
and you begin to look at it carefully
you come away with the fact that god is
prophesying in the word about the
messiah the very savior and the one who
buys you
back and buys you back means that god
owned you
by giving you life did you know that god
owned you
by giving you life
listen your mom and your dad your
biological
parents
they went through the acts of biology
and the outcome of that biology was
a
chemical uh
process by which we would say a miracle
happened we say a miracle happened and
in a sense it it is but it's also very
predictable uh the sperm
encountered the egg and there was an
explosion of information that is housed
in both of those living entities and
from two separate living beings came one
incredible miraculous explosion of
reality and that was you at conception
and god says i did that
god says i did that conception according
to the bible's a miracle
it's a scientific miracle it's awesome
and the moment that happened the bible
declares that god has given you life the
bible says in psalm 139 that the lord
assembled you in the secret dark places
where nobody is at and he wove you
together in your mother's womb is that
awesome that's the god of the bible
that's how he works
and he created you and listen the bible
tells us that we being fallen in nature
it's sad but true come on you can
fess up and own this one
i got a darling little grandson he's the
cutest little guy he's just he's i
forget how old he is but he's like one
he's a little over one maybe close to
one and a half almost sort of
and he he's
he's just
a tornado
uh in fact if he keeps on this level of
activity
uh we need to put him in u.s special
forces because there's not a terrorist
that could deal with them
i mean he's like a little storm coming
in okay
and uh cute as a button but he's a
little sinner
he is
he's a sinner he has within them all of
the decision-making processes and the
attitudes of a sinner
you tell him no and he does exactly that
in fact you can be fine with him and
everything's just great and you can just
say don't touch this over here whatever
you do don't touch this as soon as you
say don't touch this now you've raised
the attention bar to the fact that
nothing else exists in the world but
that thing he's got to have it
just like god's saying adam and eve go
have a ball and it must have been
amazing right think about them running
around the garden
naked
i mean that had to be great
clothes are a result of the fall
they're running around adam and eve
imperfection having a wonderful time
and god says oh by the way you can have
everything just don't touch that tree
over there
and dog gone if eve didn't
one day stroll on over there
just like any kid does when you cross
when you draw a line in the sand the
little one just goes puts their foot
right over and just checking to see what
the authority and the life is going to
do about it
in that moment the bible says sin
happened and all of us who have had kids
and all of us who know ourselves we know
that's true of us we can get we don't
need satan to get us in trouble
we're very well equipped to get in
trouble on our own
that's in us
and god in his word says i've come to
buy you back and that's what isaiah 53
is all about i've come to buy you back
look at chapter 53 look at verse one
with me by the way keep this in mind if
you're a note taker you got a highlight
you got a pen
handy remember this isaiah 53 is
remarkable it's a poem
it's prophetic
it's not poet listen it's not a poem in
the sense of it's something made up no
no no it's 100
prophecy but it's structured in a poetic
presentation there's a rhythm
there's a
an intelligence to it and it's
structured and as you look at this i'm
going to point them out to you so if
you're a note taker verses one two and
three form a box in your mind think of
that chapter 53 verses 1 to 3 is the
first triune
the first triune you might want to write
that down if you care it's kind of cool
so watch verse 1 who has believed our
report this is god speaking through
isaiah
so who has believed our report
and this plays right off the heels of
what we studied last time isaiah 52
in those last three verses who has
believed our report verses 13 14 and 15
of chapter 52 makes that statement
and then isaiah now breaks on the scene
and it's picked up in the english bible
in verse 1 where it says here who has
believed our report the ques the
questions being asked and the answer is
feel
the word implies it's shocking
it's like can you believe this have you
said that before haven't you can you
believe what happened
that kind of a statement isaiah's saying
who's believed our report
and to whom has the arm of the lord
been revealed
verse 2 for he shall grow up speaking of
the messiah before him that is god as a
tender plant
very very
humble
very infant in fact some of your bible
study bibles have in the margins where
it says tender plant
in the hebrew it means as an infant
helpless
now that's an amazing word if you're
jewish tonight listen up
the messiah of israel is going to come
sent by god and is going to grow up as
an infant
from infancy that should get your
attention and as a root out of dry
ground this is an amazing word and we'll
look at it carefully in a moment but it
means that out of the barrenness of
unbelief one will come forth that will
be the actual focal point of belief
and i find that very comforting out of
the midst of darkness the light rises
are you with me out of the midst of
hopelessness what would arise what you
need to arise in hopelessness say it
hope
out of all the things of life maybe
you're here tonight or you're watching
tonight and you're thinking my life is
over out of death
god sends life
there's no reason for me to continue any
longer when you've come to the end god
says i can now turn it around we can
just begin
god is eternally optimistic not because
he's a positive thinker it's because he
has the answer and the ability to redeem
and to restore that's what he does he's
the one who buys you back
and he does it by virtue of the fact of
his own son jesus
it is the blood of christ that empowers
the very doctrines of salvation
it's all based upon his performance
listen church
don't think for a moment and if you've
ever felt like this then i'm sorry but i
want to never impose upon you a feeling
or a concept that you need to do
something to make god happy if i've ever
portrayed that i would be wrong
you do not do anything as a believer to
make god happy because you are a
believer in the lord jesus christ
god is calling and inviting you to join
him in his efforts you don't do anything
to make god happy
and thereby earn his favor
you don't have to do things for god and
thereby keep your salvation no
because you are his child the holy
spirit is at work within you and
whenever you hear a verse when you read
your bible when you hear a sermon that
is like a
think of fumes uh
in the air like gasoline fumes or
kerosene fumes that's a scary one
kerosene fumes and you strike a match
you can't even see those fumes you
strike a match of kerosene and you could
blow yourself up i know i did that once
in sequoia i almost blew up the whole
campground i put i took a i took a can
of kerosene poured it on the campsite
and uh i went and took the can i thought
well you know once this fire gets going
i'm gonna i better move the can and set
it over here i put the can about 10 15
feet away from the fire i turned around
and i was going to strike the match and
throw it into the fire from a distance
let me tell you something
kerosene burns without you being able to
see kerosene
and i went
and every campsite
in sequoia
saw this
man standing like this
i mean to tell you it was a white flash
and for a while i couldn't see a thing
the heat was awesome it was incredible
and boom i tell you let there be light
and there was lights
and uh
man the the catalyst of that the
explosion of that
god's word when the holy spirit is
introduced to a situation
god
infuses
exactly what needs to happen
and there's a spark of hope or a spark
of optimism or a spark of light or a
spark of peace in whatever the situation
is it's what god does
he's precious out of a dry rotten
nation of unbelief israel was an
unbelieved 2000 years ago
this root would come up
for that matter in a dry and lost world
the messiah would come
it goes on to say in verse 2
that he has no form or comeliness that
is that he has no particular human
attributes this is a very comforting
statement it it means that the messiah
jesus how you would recognize him would
not be by what he looked like but by
what he said and did i like that don't
you like that because we have a tendency
to deify
and make idols out of things that are
impressive
we have a tendency to always pick the
most the more supreme looking individual
to be the icon for the corporation have
you noticed a lot of corporate
executives are tall
imposing looking human beings have you
noticed that it's a fact
but it's not true it doesn't work
according to that statement the messiah
when he would walk among other men
he wouldn't glow in the dark jesus
didn't walk
six inches off the ground
he didn't you know walk like rembrandt's
got him walking with all the disciples
with that funny little finger like that
and the halo
he was normal looking
he wasn't exceptionally handsome he
wasn't exceptionally not handsome he
wasn't exceptionally tall he wasn't
exceptionally short he was normal
representing the human race i'm
comforted by that
and the word says that there is no
beauty that we should even desire him
verse two ends remarkable statement
this is common
verse three this is the last verse of
the first triune
he has he is despised and rejected by
men so israel was given this prophecy by
isaiah the messiah will be despised and
rejected by men listen i don't know who
you are in here but if you have the most
basic new testament understanding you
know that jesus was despised and
rejected by
humans by men
his own people
a man of sorrows and acquainted with
grief
and we hid as it were this is an amazing
statement
we hid as it were
our faces from him what does that mean
we hit as that word the word means to
turn your face away in shame have you
ever seen someone have you ever it's a
very uncomfortable moment it's rare
but it's horrible you know when somebody
really radically embarrasses you
or they are there they are themselves
very embarrassing
what do you do when that happens
say it
turn away and why would you turn away
you turn away because you don't want
anyone to know
that you know them or that they know you
it's a natural human response did you
know that you don't train anybody to do
that now look when somebody embarrasses
themselves really bad or you turn away
in total absolute disgust it's gonna
it's gonna happen automatically
you know when you do something dumb like
you're you embarrass your wife you don't
mean to but you did and it's like what
and she just goes oh
that's it
it means i'm ashamed
the bible says that jesus would come he
would be this one and that those who he
went to save
to buy back
they would be ashamed of him
if you doubt that today again you can go
to israel with us and you can stand on
the street corner some way somewhere and
start preaching jesus you're gonna get
in trouble
it's illegal
they don't want to hear his name still
21 centuries later
evangelism in israel is illegal
you can't go preach the gospel
it's illegal
they're embarrassed of him they'll say
jesus was a false prophet
then they turn their face away
why because the prophet said that's
exactly what would happen
he was despised and we did not esteem
him
that word imply implies that when the
messiah would come to israel they would
miss him they would completely miss the
effort you know what's beautiful as
before we go on to the
the second triune on this is the fact
that it says here
in verse one that who has believed or
reported to whom has the what the arm of
the lord been revealed this is regarding
salvation i don't know if this excites
you at all but i think it's kind of cool
i love it
psalm 8 verse 3 says when i consider
your heavens and the work of your
fingers
the moon and the stars which you are
ordained or made watch church when god
made the universe and all that's
material how did he do it the work of
his what fingers
isn't that great
jupiter there
earth over here mars there
milky way
isn't that cool
fingers
in his creation
what else
exodus 13 verse 3 says
and moses said to the people remember
this day in which you went out of egypt
out of the house of bondage by strength
of hand of the lord who brought you out
of this place strength of hand not
fingers this time god delivered the
israelites from egypt with the strength
of not fingers but hand i love this up
listen i i can't prove what i'm about to
say but it seems like it's nothing for
god to make the incredible
universes that exist just whoop with his
finger
when he's going to deliver israel out of
egypt that takes a little bit more of an
effort
it's his strong hand that brought them
out right
but when it comes to salvation
what does it say the bible tells us that
it cost him his own life
that's how valuable you are that it
it's easier apparently now all things
you know god is god he can do anything i
don't think there's any extra effort to
god but he's trying to communicate to us
i can make the worlds jack with my
finger and i can redeem israel out of
the bondage of pharaoh with my with my
arm
but when it comes to saving your soul
i had to go to work for that
and the work was me putting on
not just a uniform
of skin and hair and bone and flesh
because you know the bible says god is
spirit did you know that
it was a big deal for him to become a
human
imagine you i don't let's pretend maybe
you do maybe you don't but let's say you
have this really precious little dog at
home or dog or a german shepherd or
whatever it's just a darling dog you
just love your dog
but it's a dog
you're a human creating the image of god
but what if you gave your life for your
dog
or what if the opportunity was to you
that to save your dog at the vet you
have you would have to become a dog
to save your dog
would you do that
i love my little dog but i wouldn't do
that
god listen jesus became human forever
to save you to save me
the bible says in second corinthians 5
verse 9
that is that god was in christ
reconciling the world to himself not
imputing their trespasses to them
and has committed to us the word of
reconciliation
god did that john listen to this first
john 3 16.
first john 3 16. by this we know love
because he laid down his life for us
now that is awesome
church listen i
this should be i i know this sounds
incredibly rude and mean and
and ugly and
whatever but
i think that should be in
in every
school class room
i think that every kid should say by
this we know love
because he laid down his life
for us do you know what that would mean
to a five-year-old
why did he why did he lay down his life
for me for us
and
and i should love one another
teacher we should love each other
and and and he laid down his life for us
do you know what kind of self-worth that
would give a kid
no we can't have that we have to tell
them that they they've climbed out of a
primordial mud hole
rubbed their fins together and wound up
growing two eyeballs in the front of
their face and then eventually got
feathers and flew out of the mud hole
and got into a tree and turned into a
monkey and
now pays taxes and drives on the freeway
you laugh but
that's what we're telling her and then
when our kids act like animals then we
ask him what are you doing why are you
acting like that
because you told me i'm an animal for 12
years
it's amazing
john 12 37 begins there john 12 37 says
but although he had done so many signs
before them that is the nation they did
not believe in him
that the word of isaiah the prophet
might be fulfilled which he spoke lord
who has believed our report and to whom
has the arm of the lord been revealed
wow
therefore
they could not believe because isaiah
said again he has blinded their eyes and
hardened their hearts lest they should
see with their eyes lest they should
understand with their hearts and turn so
that
i should heal them they would not
believe and god set them in the concrete
of unbelief it's what they wanted it's
where they stayed
so now we go to the second church mark
it down the second
triune that is the second collection of
three verses that appear in this chapter
verse 4
surely he has borne our griefs and
carried our sorrows yet we esteemed him
stricken
smitten by god
and afflicted
but he was wounded for our
transgressions
wow
he was bruised for our iniquities
the chastisement for our peace that's an
awesome statement
the only way that it means the only way
that we can have peace is if he takes
the beating the chastisement for our
peace was upon him
and by his stripes we are healed
all we like sheep have gone astray
we have turned everyone to his own way
and the lord laid on him
the iniquity
what does it say
how many who what
all
all of us who are you tonight
you're part of the all
tonight you god had his son on the cross
dying in your place and in my place
and laid all of your sin and my sin look
you can be here you can be here tonight
and you can you can be a non-believer
did you know something jesus christ died
for your sins
you can be a full-blown absolute atheist
jesus christ died for your sins oh i
don't believe it
are you tough you're so funny just
because you don't believe it doesn't
make it true then doesn't make it false
just because you don't believe it that's
your problem
he still did it
it's regardless what you think
here's the deal
nobody goes to hell because of all their
sins nobody
jesus paid for all the sins of the world
you go to hell for one big big sin one
big one
the big one is not believing in the lord
jesus christ did you know that
well what about remember when i was 13
and i did this thing out there behind
the barn with betty and
i don't know whatever and that's not
going to send you down
nope that's not going to pull you down
that's not going to grab you by the
ankles and suck you into the pit that's
not going to do it what's going to do it
is you not coming to jesus because he
died for that sin
he died for the sins of the entire world
paul wrote to timothy and said jesus
christ died for the sins of the entire
world
so think about the person who rejects
that offer think about how incredibly
insane they are and i do mean insane
because i forget who it was some very
famous person could have been noah
webster said that to be insane is to
have your mind absent
of god
i like that
why would you reject that offer
well the same reason why others do you
dig your heels in and you'll have
nothing to do with them
don't do that
remarkable
he goes on to say but he was wounded for
our transgressions he was bruised for
our iniquities the chastising the peace
was upon him by his stripes we're healed
all we like sheep have gone astray we
have turned everyone to his door to his
own way and the lord has laid on him the
iniquity of us all it sounds just like
psalm 22 does it not
verses 6 through 8.
on the cross by the way this is cool
this is a a psalm written by david 1 000
years before jesus was on the cross
and jesus is crucified and jesus begins
to shout out the first verse of psalm 22
my god my god elohim
and i my god my god why is thou forsaken
me and a lot of scholars believe that
though that's the only statement
recorded
from psalm 22 in the gospels on the
cross by jesus many scholars believe
that jesus literally recited the entire
22nd psalm because it fits to perfect
now listen to this
psalm 22 verse 6
i am a worm
say what
circle the word worm
and no man
a reproach of men and despised by the
people
all those who see me ridicule me did
that happen on the cross
they shoot out the lip they shake the
head saying he trusted in the lord let
him rescue him let him deliver him since
he delights and was that verbatim what
the scribes and pharisees said at the
cross
they didn't even realize it coming right
out of their mouth
and this book was in their synagogue on
that
day of crucifixion
this is awesome
because the word worm
is the hebrew word tola
it's not even a worm this is it says
warm in english tola this is a very ugly
thing do you know does anybody know what
a grub is
they're gross
worms are okay you know you can play
with worms worms are fine
i've seen kids eat worms
worms are not going to kill you
but do you know what a grub looks like
a grub looks like something from mars i
mean if mars had grubs it would be
they're gross looking
and the middle east has a grub
it lives in the earth
like old grubs do
but the tola does something unusual the
tollah
comes up out of the ground
and crawls up a tree
and it's amazing because this is you
know how god engineered nature
it goes up a tree not facing north
not facing
west not facing south
what does it what does the tola do it
goes up the tree and faces east
then it fastens itself to the bark of
the tree
and it waits
and it waits and as the middle east
sun begins to rise in the east
the day begins to heat up and the sun
hits the tola
and it starts to quiver
starts to shake
and it starts to vibrate
and then as it's reached its maximum
temperature
and intensity it explodes
and it leaves this huge red splat on the
tree
red
and when it explodes it sends out all of
its eggs
into the earth
and it repopulates the earth from one
david
the psalmist prophesies and said of the
messiah amatola
i'm going to go up a tree
i'm going to turn it red
but from that sacrifice
my offspring
will cover the earth
is that amazing you can look that up
later if you say i don't believe it look
it up later you'll see it it's you can
read about it there you can look at
those ugly things
they're also referred to as the crimson
grub
because they're red when they explode
quite remarkable
by the way um first peter chapter 2
verse 23 first peter 2 23 says who then
when he was reviled did not revile in
return that means jesus from the cross
or even while he was beaten
and judged never spoke a word in defense
when he suffered he did not threaten but
committed himself to him who judges
righteously he who himself that is jesus
bore our sins in his own body on the
tree
that he having died to sin might live
for righteousness
by whose stripes we are healed
sounds like isaiah right
for you were all sheep or like sheep
we've gone astray but have now returned
to the shepherd
and overseer of our souls did you hear
peter lifting from isaiah
remarkable
the third triune is in verses seven to
nine
verses seven eight and nine the third
triune he was oppressed and he was
afflicted and yet he opened not his
mouth
he was led as a lamb to the slaughter
and as a sheep before it shears a
silence so he opened not his mouth
never defended himself verse 8 he was
taken from prison and from judgment and
who will declare his generation
for he was cut off
you see the word two words there in
english cut off
for he was cut off that's daniel chapter
9 verses 24 to 27 the messiah and every
jew knows this daniel chapter 9 verses
24 to 27 agrees with isaiah 53 8 the
messiah must be cut off out of the land
of the living
your jewish friends do not know that
today
i've been asked to uh
i don't know
i've been asked to pray at a jewish
event
an event that's
assembled and created by
jewish people and they've asked me to
come and pray
and they're very smart people they know
the words
now they've asked me to come and pray so
i don't know if my prayer is going to be
an evangelistic prayer you know what i
mean
i'm praying about that about the prayer
or
lord i'm saying
have me sit down next to somebody
but i thought it was kind of cool that
this jewish based organization would ask
a gentile christian to come and pray
the jews know the scriptures they just
need to believe in their own scriptures
it's crystal clear in their bible
it's all there
and so in matthew
or excuse me getting back to isaiah
53
it says for he's cut off out of the land
of the living for the here's the reason
why for the transgressions of my
people he was stricken
so that now removes israel from being
the
the center point of the chapter right
it can't be israel being the
messiah it's someone else because
he's going to pay the price for the
transgressions of my people
and they made his grave with the wicked
but with the rich at his death because
he had done no violence nor was any
deceit
in his mouth
joseph of arimathea the rich man
buried him in his rich man's tomb
and yet jesus was crucified between
two wicked men
matthew chapter 20 are you guys okay
we're almost done you all right
matthew chapter 26 verse 62 says and the
high priest arose and said to him do you
not answer nothing they were demanding
that jesus speak and he didn't speak
didn't defend himself now watch this by
the way
do you not answer nothing the priest
said
what is it these men testify against you
but jesus kept silent
and the high priest watched everybody
answered and said to him
i put you under oath by the living god
oh guess what
who's the living god
yahweh the living god now even though a
godless unbelieving priest
is trying to get jesus
to speak and he's having no success
he drops the ultimate bomb between jew
and jew
and that is i adjure you by the living
god speak to me now guess what jesus
must speak
he has to speak he cannot refuse and the
priest knew that that was quite slick
don't you think jesus has to answer
jesus has to answer because jesus cannot
avoid that
that challenge it's impossible i put you
under oath he had that authority he was
the priest
you got to speak to me by the living god
tell us if you are the christ the son of
god
verse 64. jesus said to him it is
as you say
or it is as you said
wow
and with that of course you know their
beanies flew off their eyeballs popped
out
and
they went about to fulfill the rest of
god's word the fourth triune
the fourth triune we might make it
tonight this is remarkable this would be
a world's record
i feel kind of bad about going so fast
the fourth triune is this isaiah 53
verses 10 11-12 yet it pleased the lord
to bruise him is that amazing it pleased
the father
to bruise the word bruise is to crush
him
it pleased the father to crush the son
he has put him to grief
when you make his soul and offering for
sin
watch he shall see his seed
this is the messiah shall see his
offspring
oh wait a minute remember the torah
by the death of the tolah the offspring
goes into the earth
did you know that as a jewish
man to not have children is a curse did
you know that
a jewish man is to have kids for a
jewish man to die without children it's
a curse
jesus died without children
or did he
it depends on what reality you're
talking about
right
according to the bible he shall see his
seed
interesting
you know that means
how many of you believe in jesus christ
tonight you are his offspring
he said i now call you brethren i now
call you friends
wow
he shall prolong his days that's an
awesome statement my goodness people
mark it down it means that whoever this
is the messiah is going to die but he's
going to get his days back again
that's an awesome statement write that
down show that to your friends
whoever this is we know it's jesus
whoever the messiah is he's going to die
but god's going to give him back his
days that means you've got to be
resurrected from the dead is there a
rumor going around town that jesus was
resurrected from the dead
remarkable and the pleasure of the lord
shall prosper in his hand verse 11 he
shall see the labor that is yahweh shall
see the labor of his soul
and be satisfied
by his that's by yahweh's knowledge my
righteous servant shall justify many
for he shall bear their iniquities
thank the lord for that statement
therefore i god this is yahweh this is
god speaking i will divide him a portion
with the great and he shall divide the
spoil with the strong because he poured
out his soul unto death and he was
numbered with the transgressors he bore
the sin of many and made intercession
for the transgressors
let me listen don't leave yet but stand
i want you to stand we're done but i
want you to hear this he will make the
messiah will make this is nearly a 3 000
year old prophecy from tonight 2000
hundred
and forty plus years from tonight back
this is what god's word says that the
messiah will pour out his soul unto
death
but look he's gonna die
how can somebody intercede for somebody
else if you're dead
he's going to pour out his soul unto
death
but he's going to intercede for the
transgressors
how many of you can hear me right now
raise your hands
you are a transgressor
means you're a sinner
listen because you've sinned you need an
intercessor
now listen to this
and i want this to wash over you as you
stand
i'm going to read it to you
hebrews 8.
now this is the main point of the things
that we are saying
we have such a high priest who is seated
at the right hand of
the throne of the majesty in the heavens
a minister of the sanctuary and of the
true tabernacle which the lord erected
and not man for every high priest is
appointed to offer both gifts and
sacrifices therefore it is necessary
that this one also
have
something to offer for if he were on
earth he would not be a priest since
there are priests who offer the gifts
according to the law who served the copy
and shadow of the heavenly things as
moses was divinely instructed when he
was about to make the tabernacle for he
said quote
see that you make all things according
to the pattern shown you on the mountain
verse six
but now he has ordained a more excellent
ministry in as much as he that's jesus
is also mediator of a better covenant
which was established on better promises
for if that covenant had been faultless
that's the old testament the ten
commandments
then no place would have been sought for
a second
because finding fault with them he says
behold the days are coming says the lord
when i will make a new covenant with the
house of israel and with the house of
judah that's quoting jeremiah 31 by the
way not according to the covenant that i
made with their fathers in the day that
i took them by the hand and led them out
of the land of egypt because they did
not continue in my covenant
and i disregarded them says the lord
for this is the covenant that i will
make with the house of israel after
those days says the lord i here it is
this is the born-again experience right
here
i will put my laws in their mind
and i will write them in their hearts
and i will be their god and they shall
be my people none of them shall teach
his neighbor and none of them his
brother saying no the lord for all shall
know me from the least of them to the
greatest of them verse 12 for i will be
merciful to their unrighteousness and
their sins and their lawless deeds i
will remember no more
in that he says a new covenant he has
made the first is obsolete now what is
becoming obsolete and growing old is
ready to vanish away
that is paul why that is the author of
the book of hebrews talking about what
isaiah prophesied friend tonight
why in the world would you leave this
building tonight with any guilt or shame
upon your heart any longer
jesus christ died for you he knew you
because he's god he knew you before you
were ever born he knew all the sin that
you would have committed mine too and he
went to the cross and died for us anyway
it's the only way out of this
this world is on fire morally
it's burning up
every day you're closer to the end
and the question is are you saved
i'm going to ask you to close your eyes
we're going to pray and if this is your
prayer make it your own
tonight
father we come to you this evening
we invite you to search our hearts
we ask of you almighty god
for those of us who know you
and are known by you
encourage us lord with your word
remind us that we have been washed as
white as snow
to the man to the woman tonight the boy
or the girl listening
if your holy spirit is speaking to them
then friends say to god say to him
tonight lord forgive me of my sins
come into my life
transform me lord jesus by your
resurrection power
i give you my adultery i give you my
drunkenness i give you my arrogance i
give you my pride i give you my lust i
give you my violence
i give you my insecurities i give you my
timidity i give you my fears i give you
my worries my anxieties
i give you all my sins
god i hate them they plague me they they
grab me by the throat they lead me
around every day they go before me
everywhere i go and i'm sick of it god i
want to be free
i want to live life i want to live the
life that you know i'm supposed to live
i don't want religion i want to know god
so lord take my life now
and live your life through me
i want to know forgiveness
i want you to be my lord and savior
father tonight i pray
for each and every one that would be
praying this prayer tonight in jesus
name and all god's people said