The Epistle to the Hebrews part CCCII

Hebrews 12:24
"And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, …"
There’s the 6th item. It’s in the realm of the spiritual. It’s not a physical mountain like Sinai. It’s not thunder and lightening and voices like they heard. But these are all things taken and kept, that we take in by His faith. So the fact that He is the mediator of this new arrangement, this New Covenant as Paul uses the word right here. The New Testament is the word that we’re accustomed to hearing though Covenant and Testament are inter changeable. We have the promised New Covenant as our resource and Christ's working out within us, through His Grace activity, of its promised benefits. By the dynamic ontological Life of God in Christ Jesus and then Christ's ontological dynamic Life restored to receptive man or humanity. In the humanity of God's original intent and for His purposes. As Grace is the personage of the resurrected Christ, in the person of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is composed of Elohim or God the Father of spirits, God the Son of spirits and God the Spirit of spirits. Grace through faiths receptivity is to function moment by moment within us just as He did in Jesus as the Son of man. Through whom Grace and Truth was given and revealed to all mankind.

Hebrews 12:24
"And to Jesus the mediator …"
We’ve used it before so let’s use it again. Come back to 1 Timothy, chapter 2, because I prefer to let the Scripture do the talking. I think we’ll just start with verse 1 so we can pick up the flow - and of course this is Paul admonishing his son in the faith, Timothy. And so he says:

I Timothy 2:1-2a
"I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings,…"
That’s why I’m always stressing, you pray for the president and all those in authority every day. You pray for him and all men that they'd come to the knowledge of Christ and faith in Him and Him alone. Because the worlds churches, or governments and denominations will not save any one. For they are all but the work of the deceptive one and are but pones of his destructive nature. Because the Scriptures instructs us to.

I Timothy 2:2-5a
"For kings, and for all that are in authority; (and the end result is for our own pursuit of happiness, as our Constitution puts it) that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, (God’s not willing that any should perish) and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.. For there is one God,…"
One! Not several! Just as there is only one way to God's intended end and that is through the cross and the risen Christ Jesus. Don’t you believe this old hogwash that you can pick and choose and take or make your own way. There is only One. Someone said to me one time that we're teaching an exclusive gospel. At first I didn’t know what he meant, but I do now. And when I say exclusive, I mean there is no other. The Scriptures are full of it – "There is no other name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved." Paul says in I Corinthians, "Lord I have laid the foundation. There is no other foundation, but Christ Jesus and the Way of the Cross." Here it is again.

I Timothy 2:5
"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;"
Remember, as we’ve come through Hebrews, Paul has been stressing the position of God the Son. The Son, but He was a man, He was human, He walked, He talked, He ate; but He never stopped being God. As such then, He can be the mediator between men and the invisible God. Alright, so read it again, verse 5: "There is one God, one mediator between that one God and man, and it’s the man Christ Jesus." Which of course, comes back to the fact that as a member of the Trinity (Elohim), God the Son (Yehovah) is just as much God, as God the Father; and in their Triune headship, they are one. But nevertheless, Jesus the Christ (Yeshua or Yehovah) is the Mediator between man and God. Yehovah remember was the one who revealed Himself to Enoch, Methuselah, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and at times and in various ways to the prophets of old. He has always been the active communicator between El and man. Alright, back to Hebrews chapter 12. And so this is one other part of the seven attributes there in the spiritual realm:

Hebrews 12:24a
"And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling,…" That we already saw referenced in Romans chapter 3, that it is the blood that was the price of redemption that had to be paid for the satisfaction of our sin debt. That it is through the flesh and blood of Christ we're to pass in the likeness of His physical and spiritual death and all its ramifications, the mystery which had been hid in God's heart until the day of Christ. His first visitation and departure.

Hebrews 12:24b
"…that speaketh better things than that of Abel."
The blood of Christ is far Better than that animal sacrificial blood and the blood of Abel. I would hope you haven’t been misled in Sunday school or anywhere else - that the comparison here is between the blood of Christ and the blood of Abel, who was murdered. That’s not what this is teaching. That has nothing to do with it whatsoever. What we’re saying is that the blood of Christ was so far better than the animal blood that, of course, which was used by Abel? It had to be. Animal blood was the requirement in all the Old Testament economy. Remember, just back up a page or two and we’ll see how God was satisfied with that animal sacrifice offered by Abel, Because it is what was required at that time Yehovah Himself set the standard as recorded in Genesis 3:21. And that’s in Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 4:

Hebrews 11:4a
"By faith (because this is what God instructed Adam and that’s what Abel did, he applied action to the which was known) Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain,…"
Now we are not going to take time to go back to Genesis, but why was Abel’s more excellent than Cain’s? Abel brought the firstling of his flock, which implies (it doesn’t say it was a lamb, but) that it was a lamb. Maybe a goat, but I prefer to think it was a lamb. Whereas you see, Cain brought of that which grew out of the ground, a bloodless offering, and God rejected it. Because Cains heart was not right in God's sight. Abel applied trust to his action of obedience, the action warranted. Alright, now, so the comparison is, here the blood of Christ is so far above the animal blood of the sacrifice that Abel offered, because of what God has now done. It reaches over the blood which the Hebrews spilled throughout the years of animal sacrifice. Let’s look at it and we’ll move on.

Hebrews 12:24
"And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel."
The blood that He shed, is from the perfect Lamb of God. It is far better than the blood sacrifice that Abel offered. Now let’s go on to verse 25. Now, this is a warning, and remember who He’s talking to. These verses are written first and foremost to Hebrew-Christians who were having a hard time breaking away from Judaism. He’s not talking so much to us Gentiles, as we said at the beginning of the study of Hebrews. This is primarily to Hebrew-Christians who were fighting the battle of making the break from religious legalism and Judaism and the Temple forms of worship. Remember, the Temple is still going, and they had to step out of all that into this glorious Age of Grace. That’s the whole purpose of this Epistle of Hebrews. But, as we’ve seen now in the last 12 chapter, there is so much for us to learn. My, I’ve learned, I hope you have. I’ve learned as I’ve prepared these lessons out of this Epistle of Hebrews, even though it is not directly written to me, it’s written to the Hebrew-Christians. Yet, oh, how we learn. In our quest for more of Him. He has shown us many who have received the revelation of this epistle, which we have drawn from their wisdom and understanding.

We study the Old Testament on the same basis. The Old Testament isn’t written to us. When the Old Testament speaks of sacrifices and offerings and so forth, we don’t do that. But we certainly learn from it. And that’s the purpose. Well, the same way in the Four Gospels. Our Gospel of Grace isn’t found in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John - you can’t find it, their all part and parcel of the history of the Hebrews. Does that mean we throw it away? No! My goodness, we can learn so much of Christ’s compassion, of His power, and of His miracle working. And His hostility toward the Jewish religionists of His day. Remember that they finally realized that His parables and metaphors were directed toward them and revealed their true nature and God's anger towards or with them. This should not have been a surprise to them as the Prophets had all spoken of and revealed this long before Jesus or John the baptist came on the scene. And they're all for the purpose of instruction and proofing of His deity, being housed in human form as prophesied. But that’s not the plan of salvation. It’s just simply things for our learning, that prepare us, then, for this apostle of Grace who brings these thing out. Then, this glorious Gospel of Grace in I Corinthians 15:1-4, and Romans 10:9-10 and many other places in his writings. And John's Revelation of God and His Christ verses Religion and the diabolical schemes of the evil one that are taking place during the enigma of the interim until the day of the LORD. So now then, verse 25. The warning is to these Hebrew-Christians, to these Hebrew-Christians who were having a hard time making the break.