Behold, I Am Making All Things New (Part 1) | Revelation 21:1-8 | Pastor Daniel Batarseh (10/4/26)

Good morning, church. Good to be in the house of the Lord again. Let us begin by reading from the epistle to the Hebrews chapter nine beginning in verse 11. But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands that is not of this creation, he entered once for all into the holy places. Not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood thus securing an eternal redemption.

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself without blemish to God purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. Therefore, he is the mediator of a new covenant so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance since death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. Let's go down to verse 22. Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. Thus, it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rights, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

For Christ has entered not into holy places made with hands which are the copies of the true things but into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly as the high priest entered the holy places every year with the blood not of his own for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And just as it is appointed for man to die once and after death comes judgment, so Christ having been offered once to bear the sins of many will appear a second time not to deal with sin but to to save those who have eagerly, who are eagerly waiting for him. Are you eagerly waiting for him?

If so, let us stand up to worship him.