Coachlight Bible
Study – Hebrews Chapter 8
The
The book of Hebrews begins in the first three chapters, demonstrating
the superiority of Christ, because of who He is. Chapters four through ten, show Christ’s
superiority because of His work. We studied about Christ’s work as our High
Priest in chapters four through seven, and in chapter eight, we will learn
about His new Covenant. The new Covenant
makes the old conditional Covenant, made with Moses, old and vanish away. We find that this New Covenant has been in
the plan of God since the beginning, and is really not “new” but rather an
extension of the unconditional Covenant made with Abraham, and we will see its
final fulfillment during the millennium.
Just as the Hebrews were susceptible to returning back to the religious
practices of Judaism, so are Christians today are exhorted, as we are told in
chapter three: “To hold fast the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the
end.” We are not to return to our old
religious ways, but to keep the vision of Christ’s return, (Hebrews
Hebrews 8:1 Now of
the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest,
who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
Hebrews 8:2 A
minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched,
and not man.
Hebrews 8:3 For every
high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of
necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
Hebrews 8:4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
A. Christ is at the right hand of the Father in heaven
1. Christ is our High Priest in this dispensation
2. Christ is in the true tabernacle
a. The heavenly tabernacle
b. The Lord built this tabernacle – Not man
B. Every priest offers gifts and sacrifices
1. Earthly priests made animal sacrifices
2. Christ’s sacrifice not mentioned here, but between two statements
a. Christ offered up Himself
Hebrews 7:27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up
sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did
once, when he offered up himself.
b. Eternal redemption is by His blood
Hebrews 9:12 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.
II. Levitical
Priesthood Only A Type Of The True High Priest
Hebrews 8:5 Who serve unto the example<5262> and
shadow<4639> of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he
was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things
according to the pattern<5179> shewed to thee in the mount.
5262 upodeigma hupodeigma hoop-od’-igue-mah from 5263; TDNT-2:32,141; n n
AV-example 4,
pattern 1, ensample 1; 6
1) a sign suggestive of anything, delineation of a thing,
representation, figure, copy
2) an example: for imitation
2a) of the thing to be imitated
2b) for a warning, of a thing to be shunned
4639 skia skia skee’-ah apparently a primary word; TDNT-7:394,1044;
shadow 7; 7
1) shadow
1a) shade caused by the interception of light
1b) an image cast by an object and representing the form of
that object
1c) a sketch, outline, adumbration
5179 tupov tupos too’-pos from 5180;
TDNT-8:246,1193; n m
ensample 5, print 2, figure 2, example 2, pattern 2,
fashion 1, manner 1, form 1; 16
1) the mark of a stroke or blow, print
2) a figure formed by a blow or impression
2a) of a figure or image
2b) of the image of the gods
A. The blueprint for the tabernacle given to Moses
1. Was a figure of the true
tabernacle in heaven
2. The heavenly tabernacle cast
a shadow - visible in the tabernacle built by Moses
B. The blueprint of the Levitical priesthood
1. Was a figure of the
Melchisedec Priesthood in God’s mind
2. The Melchisedec Priesthood cast
a shadow – visible in the earthly priesthood
C. The Mosaic tabernacle and priesthood, then, was a type
of the true tabernacle and High Priest
Synonyms Explaining Types Of The Tabernacle And
Priesthood |
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Synonym |
Levitical Priesthood |
Melchisedec Priesthood |
Example – <5262> upodeigma hupodeigma |
An Imitation of the real. Implied is that it is a copy or model of
the heavenly. Used again showing the
relationship of the tabernacle furniture to the heavenly (Hebrews |
The real thing. |
Shadow - 4639 skia skia |
Since a shadow requires the existence of
the real thing from the beginning.
Since a shadow adds depth and perspective to the real, so the ritual
of the Levitical priesthood was a shadow, but Christ is reality. (Colossians 2:16-17) |
Existed in God’s mind from the beginning |
Pattern - <5179> tupov tupos |
These types are revealed in the Old
Testament before their antitypes appear in the New Testament. The antitype existed from the beginning,
however. |
The heavenly provides the stamp or
imprint from which the earthly came. |
III. The True Ministry
Has A Better Covenant
Hebrews 8:6 But now
hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator
of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Hebrews 8:7 For if
that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought
for the second.
Hebrews 8:8 For
finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when
I will make a new covenant with the house of
Hebrews 8:9 Not
according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took
them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued
not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make
with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws
into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God,
and they shall be to me a people:
Hebrews 8:11 And they
shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying,
Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Hebrews 8:12 For I
will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities
will I remember no more.
A. The Law could not make a person “perfect” – Point made in chapter 7
Hebrews 7:11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood,
(for under it the people received the law,)what further need was there that
another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called
after the order of Aaron?
Hebrews
B. The Law could not justify
Romans
C. The Law could not sanctify
Romans
Romans
Romans
Romans
Romans
Romans
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,)dwelleth no good thing:
for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find
not.
Romans
Romans
Romans
Romans
Romans 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the
law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my
members.
Romans
Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made
me free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through
the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for
sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
D. The Law did not fail – It was not designed to save
1. It was designed to reveal sin
Romans
Romans
2. It was designed to make men aware of sin and condemnation
Romans
Deuteronomy 27:26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of
this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
3. It was designed to show the nature of sin
Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I
had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had
said, Thou shalt not covet. {lust: or, concupiscence}
Romans 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me
all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
Romans 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the
commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto
death.
Romans
Romans
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4. It was designed to show the extent of sin
Romans
5. It was designed to restrain sin
Galatians 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut
up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
I Timothy 1:9 Knowing this, that
the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient,
for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of
fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
I Timothy 1:10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with
mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any
other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
E. Because the people didn’t obey – Not the Law – A New Covenant
1. Verses 8-12 quote Jeremiah 31:31-34
2. Established with the house of
3. The New Covenant not written on stone as Mosaic covenant
Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I
put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I
will give you an heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to
walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Ezekiel 36:28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your
fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
II Corinthians 3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new
testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but
the spirit giveth life. {giveth life: or, quickeneth}
II Corinthians 3:7 But if the ministration of death, written and
engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of
II Corinthians 3:8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be
rather glorious?
II Corinthians 3:9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory,
much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
II Corinthians 3:10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory
in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
II Corinthians
II Corinthians 3:12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great
plainness of speech: {plainness: or, boldness}
II Corinthians 3:13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face,
that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which
is abolished:
II Corinthians 3:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day
remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which
vail is done away in Christ.
II Corinthians 3:15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the
vail is upon their heart.
II Corinthians 3:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the
vail shall be taken away.
II Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit
of the Lord is, there is liberty.
II Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass
the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory,
even as by the Spirit of the Lord. {by the…: or, of the Lord the Spirit}
II Corinthians 4:1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have
received mercy, we faint not;
II Corinthians 4:2 But have
renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor
handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth
commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
{dishonesty: Gr. shame}
IV. The New Covenant
replaces the old
Hebrews 8:13 In that
he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth
and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
A. The New Covenant replaces the Old Mosaic Covenant
B. The New Covenant is an extension of the Abrahamic Covenant
Relationships of The
Eternal Covenants of God with |
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Basic Covenant with
Abraham |
The Other Covenants |
Promise
of A Genesis 12:1; 13:14-15 & 17 |
Palestinian Covenant – gave
Israel assurance of final, permanent restoration to the land forever Deuteronomy 30:3-5; Ezekiel 20:33-37, 42-44 |
Promise
of Numerous Descendants – A Great Nation – (Seed) Genesis 12:3; |
Davidic Covenant – Dynasty,
Nation, Throne forever II Samuel 7:11, 13, 16 Jeremiah 33:20 & 21; 31:35-37 |
Promise
of Redemption – National and Universal – (Blessing) Genesis 12:3; |
New Covenant – Jeremiah 31:31-40; Hebrews 8:6-13 |
Christ and the Gentiles – Based not on birth but rather
rebirth Galatians 3:6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was
accounted to him for righteousness. {accounted: or, imputed} Galatians 3:7 Know ye therefore that they which are of
faith, the same are the children of Abraham. Galatians 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God
would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto
Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. Galatians 3:9 So then they which be of faith are blessed
with faithful Abraham. Galatians
3:29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according
to the promise. |