Washed Clean, Forever, by a Single Offering

—Heb 10:1–23

• Andrew Fountain – Feb 23, 2025

 
 
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Goal

• That we should:
  “draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings,
  because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from a burdened conscience
  and our bodies washed in pure water.”

Washed Clean, Forever, by a Single Offering — Heb 10:1–23 (pt.12)

1. Heb 10:1–23 and how it fits into the flow of Hebrews
2. The Core Teaching and the problem being addressed
3. Drinking Deeply this Amazing Truth

Chiastic Structure

• Are you coming to the beach?
  • I’m not sure
    • Is there a problem?
      • Will Maria be there?
        • Why do you ask?
          • I’m crazy about her
          • Wow, I never guessed it
        • So that’s why I’m asking
      • Yes, I know she will be there
    • That solves my problem!
  • Are you sure now?
• I’m definitely coming

Structure of Hebrews

✓✓ Jesus! his throne is forever and ever 1:5–14

Pay attention to what you hear, don’t drift away 2:1–4

Brothers & sisters of Jesus, living in his victory 2:5–18

Therefore: fix your thoughts on Jesus 3:1

O.T. warning—don’t follow negative examples 3:2–4:13

Approach God’s throne with confidence—find grace 4:14–16

New High Priest after order of Melchizedek 5–7:28

The point of what we’re saying: New Covenant 8

A New way to God and a New sacrifice 9:1-10-18

Draw near to God with sincere heart, full assurance 10:19–25

O.T. —be inspired by positive examples 10:26–39,11

Therefore: Let us fix our eyes on Jesus 12:1–2

God’s sons and daughters! live in New Covenant 12:3–24

Don’t refuse him who’s speaking and turn away 12:25

✓✓ Jesus! The same yesterday, today and forever 13:1–20

Structure of Hebrews
4:14–10:25

Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace 4:14–16

New High Priest after order of Melchizedek 5–7:28

The point of what we’re saying: New Covenant 8

A New way to come in to God’s presence 9
 +  A New sacrifice that completely cleanses from sin. 10–18

let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith: hearts cleansed and bodies washed 10:19–25

New Covenant:

• If you are a member of the New Covenant:

1. You have a new heart, that like a butterfly wants to soar
2. You are God’s beloved and he is your beloved. You are secure in the relationship
3. You relate to God directly, not through priests
4. You are totally forgiven and God is never judging you or condemning you

Washed Clean, Forever, by a Single Offering — Heb 10:1–23 (pt.12)

1. Heb 10:1–23 and how it fits into the flow of Hebrews
2. The Core Teaching and the problem being addressed
3. Drinking Deeply this Amazing Truth

Why does Hebrews focus on this?

1. It is core teaching if we want to grow in our relationship with God
2. He is addressing real problems then and now—how to quieten our condemning conscience
   1. Jewish rituals
   2. other rituals
   3. try to escape the conscience
   4. bring it to Jesus

Trying to escape the conscience

• Numbing by drugging:
  • alcohol, comfort-eating, sex-addiction, gambling, shopping
• Distraction:
  • social media, binge-watching
• Letting go of your values and falling away
  • deconstructing your faith
  • surrounding yourself only with people who have no problem with sin

Rituals Heb 13

9. Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.

Colossians 2

16. Therefore do not let anyone judge you with respect to food or drink, or in the matter of a feast, new moon, or Sabbath days —
17. these are only the shadow of the things to come, but the reality is Christ!
18. Let no one who delights in humility… pass judgment on you.…
23. Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and false humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body — a wisdom with no true value.

1 Timothy 4

1. Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings,
2. influenced by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are damaged.
3. They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
4. For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
5. For it is sanctified by God’s word and by prayer.

Washed Clean, Forever, by a Single Offering — Heb 10:1–23 (pt.12)

1. Heb 10:1–23 and how it fits into the flow of Hebrews
2. The Core Teaching and the problem being addressed
3. Drinking Deeply this Amazing Truth

Washed Clean in Pure Water

22. let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings,
    • because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from a burdened conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.
23. And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess,
    • for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.

Conclusion:

19. Therefore, brothers and sisters,
    since we have authorization for free access to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰by the fresh and living way that he opened up for us, through the curtain—that is through his flesh,
21. and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
22. let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings,
    • because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from a burdened conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.
23. And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.