I. EXORDIUM:
Do we belong to this world?
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To show that we belong to the second covenant and we belong to GOD, not to this world.
IV. TEXT:
Hebrews 9:1 (Amplified Bible)
9:1 NOW EVEN the first covenant had its own rules and regulations for divine worship, and it had a sanctuary [but one] of this world.
V. THESIS:
Thank You very much LORD JESUS, for You have prayed for us, we are not of this world and we belong to You.
VI. TITLE:
The First Covenant
VII. EXPLICATION:
A. Date of writing: Before AD. 70
B. Style of writing: Best Greek style
C. Authorship: Not specific, but generally attributed to Apostle Paul. Can be also ascribed to Barnabas, Luke, Apollos
D. Audience: Hebrew Christians
E. Theme: Christ is superior to the prophets; Christ is superior to angels—J. Vernon McGee's Thru The Bible
F. Purpose: The chief doctrinal purpose of the writer was to show the transcendent glory of the Christian dispensation, as compared with that of the Old Testament.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines
VIII. MAIN BODY:
A. Rules and regulations for divine worship of the First Covenant
"NOW EVEN the first covenant had its own rules and regulations for divine worship,"
Hebrews 8:7 (Amplified Bible)
8:7 For if that first covenant had been without defect, there would have been no room for another one or an attempt to institute another one.
Hebrews 8:13 (Amplified Bible)
8:13 When God speaks of a new [covenant or agreement], He makes the first one obsolete (out of use). And what is obsolete (out of use and annulled because of age) is ripe for disappearance and to be dispensed with altogether.
Here are the rules and regulations for the divine worship in the First Covenant as highlighted from:
Exodus 25:10-40 (Amplified Bible)
25:10 They shall make an ark of acacia wood: two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
25:11 You shall overlay the ark with pure gold, inside and out, and make a gold crown, a rim or border, around its top.
25:12 You shall cast four gold rings and attach them to the four lower corners of it, two rings on either side.
25:13 You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold,
25:14 And put the poles through the rings on the ark’s sides, by which to carry it.
25:15 The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it [that the ark be not touched].
25:16 And you shall put inside the ark the Testimony [the Ten Commandments] which I will give you.
25:17 And you shall make a mercy seat (a covering) of pure gold, two cubits and a half long and a cubit and a half wide.
25:18 And you shall make two cherubim (winged angelic figures) of [solid] hammered gold on the two ends of the mercy seat.
25:19 Make one cherub on each end, making the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat, on the two ends of it.
25:20 And the cherubim shall spread out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, facing each other and looking down toward the mercy seat.
25:21 You shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony [the Ten Commandments] that I will give you.
25:22 There I will meet with you and, from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are upon the ark of the Testimony, I will speak intimately with you of all which I will give you in commandment to the Israelites.
25:23 Also, make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high [for the showbread].
25:24 You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a crown, a rim or molding, of gold around the top of it;
25:25 And make a frame of a handbreadth around and below the top of it and put around it a gold molding as a border.
25:26 You shall make for it four rings of gold and fasten them at the four corners that are on the table’s four legs.
25:27 Close against the frame shall the rings be as places for the poles to pass to carry the table [of showbread].
25:28 You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.
25:29 And you shall make its plates [for showbread] and cups [for incense], and its flagons and bowls [for liquids in sacrifice]; make them of pure gold.
25:30 And you shall set the showbread (the bread of the Presence) on the table before Me always.
25:31 You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of beaten and turned work shall the lampstand be made, both its base and its shaft; its cups, its knobs, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.
25:32 Six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the lampstand out of the one side and three branches out of its other side;
25:33 Three cups made like almond blossoms, each with a knob and a flower on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms on the other branch with a knob and a flower; so for the six branches coming out of the lampstand;
25:34 And on the [center shaft] itself you shall [make] four cups like almond blossoms with their knobs and their flowers.
25:35 Also make a knob [on the shaft] under each pair of the six branches going out from the lampstand and one piece with it;
25:36 Their knobs and their branches shall be of one piece with it; the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold.
25:37 And you shall make the lamps of the [lampstand] to include a seventh one [at the top of the shaft]. [The priests] shall set up the [seven] lamps of it so they may give light in front of it.
25:38 Its snuffers and its ashtrays shall be of pure gold.
25:39 Use a talent of pure gold for it, including all these utensils.
25:40 And see to it that you copy [exactly] their pattern which was shown you on the mountain.
And the last verse said that it was just a copy, no matter how many rules and regulations they have it's only a copy of the one shown them in the mountain, a shadow of the real one.
B. Sanctuary of the First Covenant
"and it had a sanctuary [but one] of this world"
Hebrews 9:10-11 (Amplified Bible)
9:10 For [the ceremonies] deal only with clean and unclean meats and drinks and different washings, [mere] external rules and regulations for the body imposed to tide the worshipers over until the time of setting things straight [of reformation, of the complete new order when Christ, the Messiah, shall establish the reality of what these things foreshadow—a better covenant].
9:11 But [that appointed time came] when Christ (the Messiah) appeared as a High Priest of the better things that have come and are to come. [Then] through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with [human] hands, that is, not a part of this material creation,
We are now in the better covenant where CHRIST is the High Priest, and we are the sanctuary that are of this world but don't belong to it.
1 Corinthians 3:16 (Amplified Bible)
3:16 Do you not discern and understand that you [the whole church at Corinth] are God’s temple (His sanctuary), and that God’s Spirit has His permanent dwelling in you [to be at home in you, collectively as a church and also individually]?
1 Corinthians 6:19 (Amplified Bible)
6:19 Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You are not your own,
Colossians 2:20-21 (Amplified Bible)
2:20 If then you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things and have escaped from the world’s crude and elemental notions and teachings of externalism, why do you live as if you still belong to the world? [Why do you submit to rules and regulations?—such as]
2:21 Do not handle [this], Do not taste [that], Do not even touch [them],
IX. CONCLUSION:
Thank You very much LORD JESUS, for You have prayed for us, we are not of this world and we belong to You.
John 17:14 (Amplified Bible)
17:14 I have given and delivered to them Your word (message) and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world [do not belong to the world], just as I am not of the world.
John 17:9 (Amplified Bible)
17:9 I am praying for them. I am not praying (requesting) for the world, but for those You have given Me, for they belong to You.
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