What does it mean to follow God? | September 15, 2026

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What does “following God” mean according to Hebrews 10?

Randy Spacht 0:00

Today is September the 15th. What does it mean to follow God? Well, let's keep reading in Hebrews. This is what he talks about next. Hebrews 10, we'll read from 1 to 18. Since the law is only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who approach. Otherwise, they would have ceased being offered since the worshipers, cleansed once for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sin. But in these sacrifices, there's a reminder of their sin year after year. It's impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins consequently. When Christ came into the world, he said, sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,

Randy Spacht 0:59

But a body you have prepared for me, and burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.

How does the author explain why animal sacrifices can’t remove sin?

Randy Spacht 1:06

Then I said, See, I have come to do your will, O God. In the scroll of the book it was written of me. When he said, You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings, and burnt offerings and sin offerings, these are offered according to the law. Then he added, See, I've come to do your will. He abolishes the first in order to establish the second. It's by God's will that we've been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again and again the same sacrifices that can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God.

Randy Spacht 2:03

Since then he's been waiting until his enemies would be made a footstool for his feet. for by a single offering he's perfected for all time those who are sacrificed. And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us after saying, this is the covenant that I'll make with them after those days, says the Lord.

Why does Christ’s single sacrifice replace the Old Testament sacrificial system?

Randy Spacht 2:25

I'll put my laws in their hearts. I'll write them on their minds. And he adds, I'll remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more. where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin. Now, here the author continues to present Jesus' death as the sacrifice for our sins. The Old Testament system of sacrifices offered year after year after year never truly gave freedom from sin. We were never purified. Rather, the sacrifice reminds us of our sin. The blood of bulls and goats doesn't remove the sin. Then the author of Hebrews quotes Psalm 40. Let's read Psalm 40.

Emily Herrera 3:26

psalm forty to the leader of david a psalm i waited patiently for the lord he inclined to me to hear my cry he drew me up from the desolate pit out of my merry bog and set my feet upon a rock making my steps secure he put a new song in my mouth a song of praise to our god

What does Psalm 40 teach about trusting God and doing His will?

Emily Herrera 3:45

many will see and fear and put their trust in the lord happier those who make the lord their trust who do not turn to the proud to those who go astray after false gods you have multiplied o lord my god your wondrous deeds and your thoughts towards us none can compare with you were i to proclaim and tell them they would be more than can be counted sacrifice and offering you do not desire but you have given me an open ear burnt offering and sin offering you have not required then i said here i am in the scroll of the book it is written to me i delight to do your will o my god your law is within my heart i have told the glad news of deliverance to the great congregation see i have restrained my lips as you know o lord i have not hidden your saving help within my heart i have spoken of your faithfulness of your salvation i have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation

Emily Herrera 4:48

do not o lord withhold your mercy from me let your steadfast love and your faithfulness keep me safe forever for evils have encompassed me without number my iniquities have overtaken me i cannot see they are more than the hairs on my head and my heart fails me be pleased o lord to deliver me o lord make haste to help me Let all those be put to shame and confusion who seek to snatch away my life.