Good morning and welcome to our second service on Sunday mornings. We have two services,

the first of which is our Bible prophecy update that we do weekly. And then second service is our

verse by verse study through the Word of God. And we are currently going through the book of Hebrews.

And we finished off in chapter 9 last week. We're going to pick it up in chapter 10,

and Lord willing, we'll make it through 2, verse 22. So I'll ask those of you that are here to

stand. If you're able, if not where you're seated is fine. You can follow along as I read.

Beginning in verse 1, the writer of Hebrews by the Holy Spirit writes,

The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming, not the realities themselves.

For this reason, it can never, by the same sacrifices, repeated endlessly year after year,

make perfect those who draw near to worship. Otherwise, verse two, would they not have stopped being offered?

For the worshippers would have been cleansed once for all,

and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of

sins. It is impossible, verse 4, for the blood of bulls and goats

to take away sins. Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said, sacrifice and offering

you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me with burnt

offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.

Then I said, verse 7, here I am.

It is written about me in the scroll, I have come to do your will, my God.

First he said, verse 8, sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings, and sin offerings.

You did not desire, nor were you pleased with them, though they were offered in accordance with the law.

Then he said, here I am. I have come to do your will. He sets aside the first to establish

the second. And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ

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