The Last Sacrifice

• Text: Mar 14:24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
• Pray
• God demands blood in sacrifices – blood has to be involved

Hebrews 9:22-23 (New Living Translation) ²²And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. ²³ That is why the Tabernacle and everything in it, which were copies of things in heaven, had to be purified by the blood of animals. But the real things in heaven had to be purified with far better sacrifices than the blood of animals

• God set system of sacs. for children of Israel so they could stay in  relationship with Him. Sacrifices were  temp. until  He solved permanently disobedience prob. / Jesus. This system set in place as soon as man sinned  -  Gen. 3:9
  And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

a)  Goats, lambs, bulls, pigeons – remission of sins

Praise, food (grain) – worship / special ceremony, balance diet priests

b)   Circumcision – blood rite / signify God’s 1^st covenant : Gen. 17:10-11

c)   Heb 10:1-13 Message  Bible

1.    Jesus was last sac.

¹ The old system under the law of Moses was only a shadow, a dim preview of the good things to come, not the good things themselves. The sacrifices under that system were repeated again and again, year after year, but they were never able to provide perfect cleansing for those who came to worship. ² If they could have provided perfect cleansing, the sacrifices would have stopped, for the worshipers would have been purified once for all time, and their feelings of guilt would have disappeared. ³ But instead, those sacrifices actually reminded them of their sins year after year. ⁴ For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. ⁵ That is why, when Christ^[a] came into the world, he said to God, “You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings. But you have given me a body to offer”.
 ⁶ You were not pleased with burnt offerings or other offerings for sin.”
 ⁷ Then I said, ‘Look, I have come to do your will, O God—
      as is written about me in the Scriptures.’”^[b] 8 First, Christ said, “You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings or burnt offerings or other offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them” (though they are required by the law of Moses). ⁹ Then he said, “Look, I have come to do your will.” He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second into effect. ¹⁰ For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.¹¹ Under the old covenant, the priest stands and ministers before the altar day after day, offering the same sacrifices again and again, which can never take away sins. ¹² But our High Priest offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then he sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand. ¹³

·        He pd. Price or debt for us – Colossians 2:11-15 (Message)

             ¹¹ When you came to Christ, you were “circumcised,” but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision—the cutting away of your sinful nature.^{[c] 12} For you were buried with Christ when you were baptized. And with him you were raised to new life because you trusted the mighty power of God, who raised Christ from the dead. ¹³ You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. ¹⁴ He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. ¹⁵ In this way, he disarmed^[d] the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross.

·        Pd our ransom (definition) – redemption of prisoner or kidnapped person, redeem from punishment (set captives free)

Jesus called Lamb Of God – John 1:29, Ezekial  45:15,

Rev.7:10 (KJV)

 ¹⁰And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb

• Lambs always are sacrificed when mentioned in Bible

• Jesus’ call was to be the last sac. – to be redeemer – reconcile man back to God – Scripture on Blood Of Christ (at least 25 direct)

1. God can’t be around sin -
2. if God’s Kingdom in man’s heart, that man must accept perfect sac. Of Jesus and have Him (who knew no sin) live in them

a)            for gift to be complete, must be accepted

b)            a gift must be free – salvation is ; Eph 2:8,9

3. Shed blood of Jesus then washes away their sin – God made sure;

 John 3:16 – For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life,

Romans 8:38 NLT ³⁸ And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[a] neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.

Christ was the last sacrifice needed by God – he paid the price (forgiveness for our sins of the past, present and future

Romans 12:1-2

Rom 12:1-2  21^st Century  KJV

 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

 2 And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God

Beseech – Call near , invite, ask, call you to, intreat, call for, pray, beg, implore urgently

            Rom 15:30,

                       

·         Paul invites us to think about, by begging (he must think what he is saying is important) us in an urgent manner and tells us to listen to his message.

Therefore – so, hence, then

Bretheren –

 1) a brother, whether born of the same two parents or only of the same father or mother

2) having the same national ancestor, belonging to the same people, or countryman

3) any fellow or man

4) a fellow believer, united to another by the bond of affection

5) an associate in employment or office

6) brethren in Christ

a) his brothers by blood

b) all men  - don’t forget “God would that all men be saved”   1Ti 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

c) apostles

d) Christians, as those who are exalted to the same heavenly place

Mercies  –  God’s mercy / save sinners by re-establishing His Kingdom. Gal 2:8-9

1.	compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence: Have mercy on the poor sinner.

2.	the disposition to be compassionate or forbearing: an adversary wholly without mercy.

3.	the discretionary power of a judge to pardon someone or to mitigate punishment, esp. to send to prison rather than invoke the death penalty.

4.	an act of kindness, compassion, or favor: She has performed countless small mercies for her friends and neighbors.

5.	something that gives evidence of divine favor; blessing: It was just a mercy we had our seat belts on when it happened.

6.

at the mercy of, entirely in the power of; subject to: They were at the mercy of their captors.   Also, at one's mercy.  Present        1. to furnish or endow with a gift - esp. with a formal act        2. to represent, impersonate or act         3. a thing presented as a gift        4. to hand over or submit

 Lets take a look at Old Testament sacrifices and it will become clear the sacrifice is   a gift. 

•  Leviticus 16:7New International Version (NIV)    ⁷ Then he is to take the two goats and present  them before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting

·         The idea here is to make a gift of something, to give something, a gift is always free – or at least it is supposed to be. In this case a sacrifice to the Living God, a gift from a man.

·          What do we call gifts (Christmas, birthday presents – spelled the same way). Remember God’s free Gift in salvation (undeserved) He – presented or gave  to us?

·         We can never out give God, in the old test. He put in place a series of animal sacrifices because He had not sent His Son yet to be a perm. Sac for us. Think of that he sent His Son not only to re-establish His Kingdom here on earth but through His Son, a permanent sacrifice or gift was given to each on of us

your body -  a temple -  1 Cor. 6:19 – A temple is where sacs were made

a living sacrifice – your reasonable service  - acceptable to God

Rom 15:16, Gal 2:20, – after what He has done for us it’s the least we can do for Him.

We are Crucified with Him – if we are joint heirs with Him Rom 8:17

Like any father all God wants for us is the best for us (His Children)

1.   He thru Paul, tells us to give ourselves over to Him and His way of thinking, His service (by working for Him, in our church, by helping and building each other up, etc. what ever He wants you to do specifically) He speaks to us most of time thru His Word, Pray – listen/spend time being quiet specifically to listen to God.  

2.   He tells us not to be like the unbelieving world but transform or change your thinking to the way He thinks. (He says that the least we can do) – when we do that (the more we think like Him. Or our thoughts line up with His, then it’s easier to discern His voice)

3.   We learn what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God the more we meditate on His Word. It’s a circle of Gods Love toward us: The more we meditate on His Word the more He reveals to us and the more He reveals to us, the more we meditate on His Word.

Consider this in-light of understanding through daily meditation of               God’s Word:

Luke 8:18New International Version (NIV)   ¹⁸ Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they think they have will be taken from them.”

4.   . The more we learn about Him the more we will want to learn - for who can resist then The God of the universe?

(read)  Isaiah 28: 9&10 “line upon line, precept upon precept”

5.   Paul telling us to meditate (think about, mull over, kick around) The Word

6.   When we do this, our view of situations – good or bad, begins to change to the way God see them. This is what He wants for us and tells us to meditate on His Word in many places in the Bible.

The Blood

Text - Leviticus 17:11 (NASB)

 'For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.'

• God gave the people of Israel all kinds of rules to live by – called “Law Of Moses”
• Leviticus 17: 15 says

  'Anyone, whether native-born or alien, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then he will be clean.

            Make mental note that part of the process of becoming clean was to wash with water

• He knew the people could not keep The Law – His purpose was to show that. When The Messiah would come He would fulfill Law  -

Matthew. 5:17
"Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.

Acts 13:39
and through Him everyone who believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses.

He would re-establish God’s Kingdom and bring with Him and give freely (Ephesians 2:8-9) God’s Salvation and everything that is perfect.

·        John 1:17
For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

• God’s Plan was, and is being carried out now, that Jesus would (and is) our permanent sacrifice.  

John 1:29   The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

• note: John was baptizing when he saw Jesus. It is no accident that Jesus set the example of baptism for us and requires it of believers who are “born again” (interesting that John was baptizing – symbolic cleansing of old nature – by going under water & coming up clean)

• Note also that John called Jesus “The Lamb Of God” in old testament the lamb always died
  
  
• Ephesians 5:26

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

·        Jesus is The Word.  John 1:1, 14

·        John 2  1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: 2 and Jesus also was bidden, and his disciples, to the marriage. 3 And when the wine failed, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine

 

·        Before Jesus was crucified at Last Supper he gave thanks and gave instruction:

Mark 14: 22 While they were eating, He took some bread, and after a ^(R)blessing He broke it, and gave it to them, and said, "Take it; this is My body."

23 And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

 24 And He said to them, "This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many

·       Jesus is telling us that HE is the lifeblood we need

·       Jesus is telling us that His blood is the lifeblood of our salvation

·       Jesus is telling us that until we drink of His blood that He sacrificed for us, we will not have life.

·        HE is telling us to accept the Free Gift He is offering!