Have firm a foundation,

Ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Have you heard about the new and living way by which we can come into God's presence?

Well, that's what we're talking about on Through the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee.

Let's pray.

Father, thank you for providing a new and living way to a relationship with you through your son, Jesus Christ.

We ask that you would open our eyes to the mysteries and the beauty of your word.

In Jesus' name, amen. Here's Dr. J. Vernon

McGee with our study of Hebrews 10 on Through the Bible. Now, friends, here in this section of

Hebrews, we are seeing the greatest division that's being made in the word of God.

The fact of the matter is, it's like a Grand Canyon that is being put now down between the Old Testament and the New Testament, the Old Covenant and the New Covenant.

And let's remember, God gave both of them. But now he says this,

and I'm going to drop back to verse 9 to pick this up. He says, he taketh away the first, that is the

first covenant, that he may establish the second. Now, when the Lord Jesus Christ

died upon the cross, that was something that happened. The veil was rent and twain. No longer were

men to come by the sacrifice of the blood of bulls and goats. But now the Lord Jesus has done something

in his own body for you and me. Verse 10, by the which will we are sanctified through the offering

of the body of Jesus Christ once.

Now, not for all, it was for all, but the emphasis, he did it one time so that sacrifices are to end.

And it's been interesting that ever since the destruction of the temple in 70 AD by Titus, there has been no bloody sacrifice offered there. And there's not one being offered today, and the prospects for one to be offered

is very dim at the present moment. So that he took away the first, that he might establish the second. Now, I do not know how to

overemphasize this, because I don't think it can be overemphasized. You see, with that first covenant,

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