Please stand if you're able for the reading of God's Holy Word, starting Hebrews chapter 9 at verse 1, then down to verses 7 and 8, and concluding with verses 12 through 15. Hear now the Word of Almighty God, inspired by His Spirit, and profitable for us, Hebrews 9, starting at verse 1. Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine worship and a worldly sanctuary, verse 7. But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the errors of the people, the Holy Ghost, this signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest while as the first tabernacle was yet standing, verse 12. neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifyeth to the purging of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this cause he is the mediator of the New Testament. that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first Testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Thus far, the reading of God's inspired word from the epistle to the Hebrews, chapter nine, verses one, seven, eight, and 12 through 15. May the Lord bless us in the reading and hearing, and now in the preaching and hearing of his sacred word. Let's pray toward that end. Our Father in heaven, we thank you for your Son, Jesus Christ. We thank you for his grace, for the redemption we have through faith in his blood. We pray that you might meet with us as we consider these words, that they may be profitable unto us, unto our salvation, for it's in Christ's name we pray, amen. Please be seated. Our communion meditation today concerns redemption. Redemption. Verse 12, we'll consider in particular. Neither by the blood of goats and calves. These were the ordinances of divine service offered within the worldly sanctuary mentioned in verse 1. Sometimes the word worldly is used for those things that are ungodly or sinful. That's not how it's used here. Here, worldly refers to that which is of this world, not the world in heaven, but the world on earth. We are told that the blood was taken into the second tabernacle once a year, verse 7. We also saw that all of this signified to us that the holiest of all, the heavenly sanctuary, was yet to be opened to the people of God. It was shut out. So during that time, when people were shut out from the worship in heaven, you had an earthly tabernacle. And once a year, the priest would go in with the blood of bulls and of goats. Please open to Exodus chapter 30 verse 10 concerning this very thing. The holy apostle is referring us back to the law of Moses. So let us briefly consider what the Lord instituted through his servant Moses. Exodus chapter 30 verse 10 page 96 of your pew Bibles and Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it, that is the altar, once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements. Once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations. It is most holy unto the Lord. Notice Aaron and his sons after him. once in a year are to go into this altar in the holiest of all. The outer tabernacle was holy, it was the holy place. Then the inner tabernacle within the tabernacle is the holiest of all. That's where the ark was. That's where it's telling him once a year to go. The Jews call this Yom Kippur. Now they can't have it anymore. Jesus made sure of that through the Romans destroying the temple. This day of atonement requires a Levitical priest from the line of Aaron in the place of the tabernacle in the holiest of all with the ark of the covenant and blood. Do they have that? No, no, no, no, no. No, they don't. God was showing them at that time that the way to the holiest of all was not yet opened. What happens now? Well, it has been opened. So the other is gone, no longer necessary, not just dead, but deadly. Leviticus 16. Leviticus 16. concerning these bulls, these calves, these goats. Verse two, page 130 of your Pew Bibles. Leviticus 16.2. And the Lord said unto Moses, speak unto Aaron thy brother. That he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil before the mercy seat. That's the holiest of all. The mercy seat is on the ark of the covenant. That's what he's talking about. Don't come in at all times, tell your brother this. Which is upon the ark, that he die not. For I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat. Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place with what? a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen miter shall he be attired. These are holy garments. Therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on. And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, one ram for a burnt offering. And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself and for his house. Verse 11. And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself, verse 15, then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat and before the mercy seat, and he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions and all their sins. And so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness. Notice, what do you have? Bulls, goats, a holy place inside of the tabernacle. Only come there once a year, God says, for I'll be there on my cloud and I'll kill you if you come in too often, he says. So you come once a year and with what? Blood. Blood from what? First, the bullock, right? The word in the Septuagint is maskan, tanmaskan, the bullock, the calf, the little beast, the steer, the little one. Bring that one in for yourself, he says. For you, Aaron, are a sinner, and you are in need of atonement, and so is your household. You're not so far above everyone else that you don't need atonement. In fact, you need a bigger animal than the goat You see, a bullock is bigger than a goat. A calf is bigger than a goat. Just watch them after they're born. And within the first year, the yearling, which one's bigger? Well, you need a bigger sacrifice, Aaron, for you have a bigger responsibility and therefore more sins. So you make atonement for yourself and for the people with a goat. God ordained these types and shadows of the gospel in the law of Moses. Hebrews refers to this very passage with the calves and the goats and says, look, worldly sanctuary, imperfect priest who offers for himself, then for the people. This tells you something, he says, that the way to the holiest of all above is yet to be opened and that this sacrifice is imperfect. Why? Well, how many times did they offer it? Once? Once for all, that's it? No. Once a year, every year, remind yourself in the seventh month that you are a sinful people, that your priest is a sinner, that he needs forgiveness, that when you come into my house you are unclean and you defile it, therefore offer up these offerings. A temporary redemption through a sinful priest with irrational animals in a place built by the hands of men. Please turn back to Hebrews chapter 9. Again, verse 12. For neither by the blood of goats and calves... Notice the difference. That's what Aaron had, right? Calves, or bullocks, and goats. That's all he had. That's what he came in for. With their blood, not his own, but the blood of irrational beasts. but by his own blood. Verse 12 tells us, but is adversative. Unlike this over here, unlike Aaron and these irrational beasts, here comes our Lord Jesus Christ. He did not take the blood of others, these irrational beasts, he brought his own blood His suffering and death was all His own. He was the priest. He was the sacrifice. He took His own blood, the blood of God, as Paul calls it. Not the blood of an irrational beast, not the lowest, but the highest blood, the blood of God in the flesh. He entered in once into the holy place. The holy place on earth? No, verse 7. But in to that true holy place which now through his crucifixion is made manifest, verse 8, but then was not made manifest. The greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, not earthly, not of this building below, verse 11 told us. Not only was the priest different, the sons of Aaron versus the son of God and the son of David. Not only was the offering different, bulls and goats versus the blood of God, Acts 20 verse 28. Not only was the place different, earthly man-made holy places versus the heavenly God-made holy place. But also note the frequency. Aaron's sons offered their blood of bulls and of goats in a man-made tabernacle once a year in perpetuity. Every year in the seventh month, Yom Kippur, the day of atonement. How often did Christ enter in to the holy place to offer himself? Once. In fact, in the Greek it's even more emphatic. There is a word in Greek, hapax. It means once, just one time. Now in the Greek New Testament, they have something called a hapax legomena. Something said or written, but one time. A word that only appears once. Hapax. This word is f-hapax. Upon the once. Intensively once. Once for all. Never to be repeated. Aaron, once a year. Christ, once for all. See the difference? One has the perpetuity of about a year, and it lasts, and then it expires. Why? Imperfect priest, imperfect place, imperfect sacrifice. When our Lord offered up himself, did he have any of those flaws? Imperfect priest? No, perfect priest. Imperfect place? No, perfect place, heavenly sanctuary. Imperfect sacrifice? No. The blood of God. To take away our sins. The Son of God Himself shedding His blood for us. How many times do you think that needs to be repeated? Never. Not once. Once and for all. On the cross, what did He say? It stands finished. Tetelestai. Perfect tense. It has been completed and remains so forever. That's what it means. The debt is paid. The work is done. Once. Ephahpachs. For all. Once and only once. Once for all. Freiberg says in his lexicon concerning Ephapox, once for all, a religious technical term, for the uniqueness and singularity of Christ's death and the resultant redemption once and for all. Not temporary, not earthly, not beastly. Once for all, with eternal effect, presented in the heavenly tabernacle with the blood of God. What more could be added to this? How many times must it be repeated? How many times must the body and blood of Christ be presented as a sacrifice for the sins of the dead and the living? Ephah pox, once and once only. Look back at verse 12, please. "...neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered into the holy place, once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." Now, the word order is out of order in Greek, for emphasis. Eternal redemption, emphatically, having obtained. drawing our minds and our attention to the contrast with the temporary redemption of Aaron. repeated every year in the seventh month on the day of atonement, where he went in only once to that holy place on the earth and sprinkled the blood, not his own, but of irrational beasts, calves and goats. Contrast that with the redemption you have in Christ, eternal redemption emphatically having obtained. Now there are eternal things that start at a point and go on forever. God is not so. His eternity is from eternity to eternity. Thou art God, Psalm 90. But this redemption begins at a point in time and has eternal effect. It goes on forevermore. As eternal life and eternal death, it starts at a point of time and goes on forever, so eternal redemption. It begins at this once for all and goes on forevermore. Not transitory redemption, not temporary redemption, no need of repetition. No need to be re-presented in the mass, but everlasting in its effect, never to be repeated. Eternal redemption. Now, we do have a memorial of it, do we not? That's why it's called, Do This In What? In Remembrance of Me. Call to your minds what I did how many times? Once for all. Do this in remembrance of my once for all obtaining eternal redemption. Now this word redemption is very important. It means to release or to set free. With the implied analogy to the process of freeing a slave. to set free, to liberate, to deliver, liberation or deliverance. That's the idea here of redemption. Here you are a slave in bondage. Someone comes and pays a price to release you from your chains, to bring you out from the judgment under which you sit. This is redemption. Please open to Leviticus chapter 25, if you would. Leviticus 25. Page 142 of your Pew Bibles. The book of Hebrews draws our minds back to the priesthood of Aaron. It helps us to see the types and shadows of the law of Moses, preparing us for the gospel of Christ. The things of the gospel are so far removed from what we think about naturally, that God started with little bits of truth to prepare our minds for something greater that was yet to come. So the law of Moses, the priesthood of Aaron. Leviticus 25 verse 25. If thy brother be waxen poor and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem it that which his brother sold. And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it, then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it, that he may return unto his possession." Notice, redemption, inheritance, ransom. Ransom is the price, the lutron. Pay this price. Then you get this thing that is under bondage of debt. What do you get it? You get it back. For what? for your inheritance. You have debt, bonds, payment, redemption. That's the idea of scripture. There's bondage brought, forgive us our what? Our debts. Bondage is brought, brought under that bondage but released through the payment of some ransom. Then you have inheritance and redemption through the payment of that price, you see. Numbers chapter 18. Page 174, concerning this concept and doctrine of redemption in the word of God. Numbers 18 verse 15, everything that openeth the matrix, that's the womb where you go, when you're a little tiny baby before you're born, everything that openeth the matrix in all flesh which they bring unto the Lord, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine. He's talking to Aaron. You're going to own these things. They'll be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem. And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty geras." Notice, there is a sentence of death that resides over all the firstborn. Do you know why? Back to Egypt, back to the Passover, back to the redemption of the people of God, where God said, your firstborn son, the strength of your family deserves what? Death. And all of your animals, the firstborn of your animals, what do they deserve? Death. So now, since we do not permit human sacrifice, you have to do what to remove that bonds of death from the son? You have to redeem him. You have to pay a price. Once the price is paid, the banishment of death is removed and he may live. You see, redemption. You must redeem the firstborn, both of your unclean animals, which you cannot present to a priest, a dog, let's say. You have to redeem your firstborn dog. You can't present it to Aaron and his sons because it's unclean. Your humans, you may not do human sacrifice, thou shalt not kill, and therefore you present a price of redemption, namely five shekels, as God designed. Redemption of the firstborn. Psalm 49. Page 614 of your Pew Bibles. Psalm 49, verses 6 through 9. Talking about devas. They that trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches, none of them can by any means redeem his brother nor give to God a ransom for him. For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth forever." Notice, redemption, ransom, and a price. You think your money can pay God back for the sins of your brother? You think, realistically, that just because you could purchase your firstborn son for five shekels that his soul could be bought with that money? Wrong. The soul's redemption is precious. So in the Old Testament, we have redemption from the bonds of debt, Leviticus 25, redemption from sacrificial death, Numbers 18, redemption from eternal death, Psalm 49. Psalm 49. This is the teaching of the Old Testament, now open to the new. Matthew chapter 20, if you would please. Redemption in our Lord Jesus Christ. Redemption through our Lord Jesus Christ, verse 27. Matthew 20, 27, page 985. Whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant. Even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life, what? Loutron is the Greek word. A ransom. The price paid to redeem. The soul's redemption, Psalm 49 told us, is what? Precious. Very costly. It ceaseth forever. No way you can do it. Who did it? Christ did. He paid the Lutron. He paid the redemption. He gave the ransom. What did He pay? His life. His life as the payment of that ransom. Luke 1, verse 67. Luke 1, verse 67. The father of John, Zacharias, filled with the Holy Ghost and prophesied, saying, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited and what? Redeemed his people. How does he know that? Well, the forerunner of the price of our redemption has come. The forerunner of the ransom who would give his life a ransom. He had come preparing the way for the Lord God in the flesh to offer his blood as a ransom. Luke 2, verse 36. Next page over. And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Asser. She was of a great age and had lived with a husband seven years from her virginity. And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers day and night. And she, coming in that instance, gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of Him to all that looked for what? Redemption in Jerusalem. Here he is. She's saying, you're all looking and waiting for redemption that God promised through his holy prophets that God prophesied in these types and shadows of the law of Moses here in our temple. Here he is. He's here. The Redeemer has come. The price of our ransom is at hand. Turn over to chapter 24, the road to Emmaus. The irony is thick in this passage, verse 19. Jesus asks these two disciples what things, and they said unto him, concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified Him, and we trusted that it had been He which should have what? Well, He just told us that He redeemed Israel. We thought it would be Him that would redeem Israel. And beside all this, today is the third day since these things were done. Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre, and they didn't find His body. Time out. You hoped He would redeem you. You just told us He was crucified and He rose from the dead according to witnesses. Doesn't it set in? No, their eyes were blinded. So our Lord explains to them. Verse 25. Then said He unto them, O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory? What is that? Redemption. The price paid. He has redeemed his people by the very sufferings and resurrection which you just described. I redeem the people. Acts chapter 7, verse 35, we'll not turn there. Moses is called the Redeemer, the Deliverer, the one who brought them out. Loutrotes, the one who accomplishes the redemption as a type and shadow of Christ. Romans chapter 3, please. Page 1136. Romans chapter 3. After having detailed the depravity of all men, Jews and Gentiles, the hopelessness of being justified by your works, he says this, verse 24, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God hath set forth to be the propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. Notice, the redemption. Through what? Where is it? Where can I find it? Well, it's in Christ. In Christ Jesus Himself. Everything you need is there. How? Through the shedding of His blood, He says. Justification, redemption, propitiation, believing in His blood, the righteousness of God through the remission of sins, through God's forbearance. This is redemption. This is in Christ. Now this word, redemption, is apa-lutrosis. Apa, being away from, and lutrosis being a redemption. To redeem away from, or in other words, to pay the very price so as to redeem, Thayer says in his lexicon. Romans 8.13 refers to the redemption of our bodies, the same verb, apolutrosis, or noun. This redemption, the full paying of a price so that we may have our bodies glorified. Please open to 1 Corinthians 1, verses 27 through 31. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. And God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty, and base things of the world, and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not to bring to naught things that are. that no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption, that according as it is written, he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. Notice, Christ is made unto you who believe in his name redemption. the payment of the price, so that your debts, so that your bonds, so that your servitude, so that your death, so that your eternal damnation is removed, the price has been paid. Ephesians chapter 1, redemption in the New Testament. Ephesians chapter 1, page 1179. Verse six of chapter one, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved in whom that is in his beloved son, in whom we have what redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. Verse 13. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. In whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession unto the praise of his glory. Christ paid the price. He reserved for all of His saints heavenly glory, an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away. How are we going to know that we inherit? God gave us His Spirit. God gave us the Arabon in Greek, the down payment. I'm serious, God says. I'm so serious, I will give you of my Spirit that you might believe in my Son. And when you have possession of my Son, you will know that He who purchased your redemption and inheritance, He will keep you to the end. Why? To the praise of His glory. The redemption we have in Christ, His beloved Son, is to the glory of His grace, wherein He made us accepted. You may also see Colossians 1, 14 for a parallel passage. Ephesians 4, verse 30. Ephesians 4, verse 30. and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of what? When you inherit all things, redemption. When your body is released from the bondage of sin and corruption and death. When you come into the glorious day of the liberty of the sons of God, that is a day of redemption. For the wicked, what is it? New bonds, second death. Sulfur-burning heat, fire and outer darkness, weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. But that day to us is not that. It is a day of redemption. And the Spirit of God, whom we have of God as the earnest of our inheritance, who sealed us, sealed us unto that day. The day of redemption. 1 Timothy 2. 1 Timothy 2. Verse 6, "...who gave himself concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time." This word is antilutron. Anti means in the place of, and the lutron is the redemption price, the payment. Here's the price of your payment put in place of you. He gave himself as that auntie Lutros, that ransom payment for all of God's people to be testified in due time. Titus chapter two, Titus chapter two, page 1204, verse 13. Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us, that he might do what? Redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works. You see, the bonds of sin and death are not just the judgment of damnation. It's also the power and the pollution of sin. And Jesus gave himself to redeem us, not merely from the guilt of our sin, but also from the practice, the love, the bonds of sin that keep us doing those things that God hates, so that we might be a holy people who love what God loves, that we may be zealous, boiling up for good works, he says. We are redeemed to that end. 1 Peter chapter 1, our final chapter, our final reference here. 1 Peter 1 verses 14 through 19, page 12, 22 of your pew Bibles. Verse 14, as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance, but as he which hath called you is holy, So be ye holy in all manner of conversation, because it is written, be ye holy, for I am holy. And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear. For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers, but, with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. Here, notice, the price of your redemption is the blood of Jesus Christ. It's not some perishable shekel, gold or silver. You weren't bought out of literal chains that held onto your hands and your feet. You were held by something much worse than that. the vain traditions of your forefathers handed down to you, he redeemed you from those things by the precious, the valuable, the ever blessed blood of Christ as a lamb, like in the Old Testament, without blemish and without spot, perfect in every way. Eternal redemption emphatically, Having obtained, please turn back to Hebrews chapter 9, page 1212 of your pew Bibles. Verse 12, neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. Now this phrase, having obtained, describes for us how Christ entered in. That's how he entered into the holy place. That's how he came in once for all, because he had already accomplished this other thing. It's a participle describing the main verb, entered. Furthermore, this participle is in the middle voice, having obtained for himself, with reference to himself, for his own glory, for his own body. The obtaining of redemption was an act Christ did upon himself because his people are united to him as a head and a body. You see, So the King James properly adds the words for us. He obtained eternal redemption for his body, for his people, to those united to him as one flesh. We are flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone. Just as Aaron and his sons went into the holy place with what upon their chest? Twelve stones with the names of the twelve tribes. They bore them upon their own body. They represented them as we read in Exodus 28 verse 21. And this act of obtaining was done as our Lord went in. He finished the work of redemption. Then he went in to sprinkle his own blood upon the heavenly sanctuary, accomplished on earth, sprinkled in heaven. I note then this doctrine. Christ as our high priest has purchased eternal redemption for his people by his own blood. Christ, as our High Priest, has purchased eternal redemption for His people by His own blood. Christ's priesthood greater than Aaron's. Christ's redemption goes on forevermore, never to be repeated. as the Christianized Jews pretend. His redemption was not with temporary beast-like animals, the blood of goats, the blood of bulls, but with the very blood of God. His blood and his redemption are the antitype of all the blood spilt of bulls and of goats under the law of Moses. His holy place was greater than Aaron's. His blood greater than that of irrational beasts. Christ's life or His soul was given as the price of our redemption. The Lutron in Matthew 20, verse 28. God blessed His people. He visited and redeemed them. Luke 1, verse 68. Though the disciples on the road to Emmaus were dismayed and they thought it would be He who would redeem them, they described in that very same breath the acts of their redemption, His crucifixion, His betrayal, His rising again from the dead. Luke 24, verses 21 and following. Our redemption was paid by the blood of God, Acts 20, verse 28, unto our free justification, appeasing the wrath of God with propitiation, remitting all of our sins, Romans 3, 24 and 25. This redemption is finalized on the day of redemption at the resurrection of the body, Romans 8, verse 13, and Ephesians 4, verse 30. This redemption is for the praise of God's glorious grace through the blood of Christ, resulting in the forgiveness of our sins, and is according to the riches of His grace, Ephesians 1, 6 and 7. Christ Himself came in our place to offer Himself a payment or a ransom, 1 Timothy 2, verse 6. In exhortation then. receive the redemption of Christ Jesus, better than errands, more enduring than the day of atonement, which lasted about a year, more precious than the blood of bulls and goats, of gold or silver. This redemption was made upon a bedder, a heavenly altar, in a heavenly house, once for all, at a singular event with the blood of God." Receive the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, another exhortation. Do not just receive this redemption, rejoice in this redemption. The children of Israel, redeemed out of bondage in Egypt, were glad when they left. They thanked God when they left. And though they were fearful at the Red Sea, when they saw all their adversaries destroyed and themselves brought across, what did they do? They rejoiced, they gave thanks, they delighted in God. Rejoice in the redemption you have in Christ Jesus. Your conscience has been cleansed, not merely the flesh as under the laws of Moses. This redemption glorifies the grace of God freely bestowed upon us. It cleanses us from our sins. It leads unto holiness and zeal for good works. Rest your conscience in Christ's blood. Be zealous for good works. Give the glory and the praise to God for his grace and thus far the exposition of the doctrine of redemption from Hebrews chapter nine. Let's pray.