
Sermon: “Hosanna in the Highest!”
Hebrews 10:1-18
Rev. Mike Werkheiser
Outline
1) He Came: The Wonder of the Incarnation (Hebrews 10:1-10; Psalm 40:6-8; Psalm 118:26-27)
2) He Conquered: The Glory of the Resurrection (Hebrews 10:11-18; Jeremiah 31:33-34; Psalm 118:19-25)
Quotes
Oh, what love! Christ would not entrust our redemption to angels, to millions of angels; but he would come himself, and in person suffer; He would not give a low and a base price for us clay. He would buy us with a great ransom, so as He might over-buy us, and none could over-bid Him in his market for souls. If there had been millions of more believers, and many heavens, without any new bargain His blood should have bought them all, and all these many heavens should have smelled one rose of life; Christ should have been one and the same tree of life in them all. Oh, we under-bid, and undervalue that Prince of love, who did overvalue us; we will not sell all we have to buy Him; He sold all he had, and Himself too, to buy us. — Samuel Rutherford
For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified. — Flannery O’Connor
The incarnation is a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers.. […] Until we too have taken the idea of the God-man seriously enough to be scandalized by it, we have not taken it as seriously as it demands to be taken. — Frederick Buechner
Dead men cannot take effective action; their power of influence on others lasts only till the grave. Deeds and actions that energise others belong only to the living. Well, then, look at the facts in this case. The Saviour is working mightily among men, every day He is invisibly persuading numbers of people all over the world, both within and beyond the Greek-speaking world, to accept His faith and be obedient to His teaching. Can anyone, in face of this, still doubt that He has risen and lives, or rather that He is Himself the Life? Does a dead man prick the consciences of men? — St. Athanasius
Christian holiness consists not of trying as hard as we can to be good but of learning to live in the new world created by Easter, the new world we publicly entered in our baptism. — N.T. Wright