Hebrews Ten- No further Sacrifice

By itself the phrase, "There threrefore remaineth no further sacrifice" to them that willfully sin, was very troubling.  When you place that phrase in the context of the entire chapter it is not talking about a loss of salvation but the loss of the ability to go offer the life of another lamb to cover sin.  Christ's sacrifice offered "once for all"  was final.  It not only covered sin but made the sinner perfect.  When we sin we come back to that final sacrifice and state of perfectness with the serious consideration that we are in the hands of the "living God".  Instead of finding lostness we are enjoined to "cast not away your confidence".  Our confidence is in a finished act, and an indwelling Power in place of a new sacrifice.  Thus we draw near to the holy of holies where before only the Priest could enter behind the veil and even then with a rope on his leg in case his corpse had to be drug out.  The act of celebrating communion is to remember that blood of the covenant and who we really are.

Hbr 10:26

¶ For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

Death in Us- Life in You

It was Christ's intention that we continually return to his death- "As oft as ye meet".  To remember Him- "Do this in remembrance of me."  More specifically to remember His broken body and the new covenant in His blood.  I believe it was His intent that we not forget that in his economy we only find life and reproduce life by submitting to the dying process.  Only in brokenness to we find wholeness that is God's.  This is reflected clearly in the teaching of Paul.  Look at II Cor. 4:10  "

Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh So then death worketh in us, but life in you." So we are living paradoxes of a dual process as long as we are in the flesh.  There is a dying process and a new life process.  An arrangement that through brokenness and dying we exchange our old nature for His life.

The Heavens Declare the Glory of God

It occurred to me that the word "declare" in Ps 19 must be quite a word because those "heavens" are quite a sight.  The word is an accounting word that means numerate.  The Psalmist is focusing on the sheer number of the stars.  In contrast he uses a word for hand needle point for "the earth showeth His handiwork".  Here we have a God who displays His vastness on the one hand and on the other orders the tiniest details of the here and now.

"Much More Then"

Another future sermon to flesh out is the occurrence four times in Roman's chapter five the phrase "much more then".  This chapter goes a long ways toward answering the enigma relating to why God would make Adam knowing he was going to fail.  The answer from Romans is that God had an ultimate purpose that elevated man to a state much higher than the state of innocence that Adam was created with.  This gives definition and glory to the redemption process and the misery we endure in the meantime.