You can’t use an external, physical cure for an essentially internal, spiritual problem.
John 8:32
32 You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
Hebrews 10:1–4
10 Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come, and not the reality itself of those things, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year. 2 Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, purified once and for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? 3 But in the sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year. 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
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Jesus died for me, so I could be free to
And Jesus rose again, so I could
Matthew 10:39
39 Anyone who finds his life will lose it, and anyone who loses his life because of me will find it.
Hebrews 10:5–10
5 Therefore, as he was coming into the world, he said: You did not desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me. 6 You did not delight in whole burnt offerings and sin offerings. 7 Then I said, “See— it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to do your will, God.”, 8 After he says above, You did not desire or delight in sacrifices and offerings, whole burnt offerings and sin offerings (which are offered according to the law), 9 he then says, See, I have come to do your will. He takes away the first to establish the second. 10 By this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time.
A surrendered life is
John 14:10–11
10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who lives in me does his works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Otherwise, believe because of the works themselves.
Romans 12:1–2
12 Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Hebrews 10:7
7 Then I said, “See— it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to do your will, God.”,
Jesus surrendered His life for us to be
Hebrews 10:10
10 By this will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time.
Joyful sacrifice is giving up something you love for something you love
Hebrews 10:11–18
11 Every priest stands day after day ministering and offering the same sacrifices time after time, which can never take away sins. 12 But this man, after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God., 13 He is now waiting until his enemies are made his footstool. 14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are sanctified. 15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. For after he says: 16 This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, the Lord says, I will put my laws on their hearts and write them on their minds, 17 and I will never again remember their sins and their lawless acts., 18 Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
We can
This week I will:
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Memorize: Hebrews 10:10
Next Sunday: Hebrews 10:19-39