John Lennon

“Love, love, love.

All you need is love.

Love is all you need.”

Calvin Harris

“I need your love I need your time,

When everything’s wrong you

make it right.

I feel so high I come alive.

I need to be free with you tonight

I need your love”

© Carlos Delgardo, Used under a creative commons license

Looking for love…

• Intimacy

• Security

Getting our bearings…

• Our longing for love is not mere survival

instinct; it is a ‘homing instinct for God’

(Prof G. Harrison)

Getting our bearings…

• Our longing for love is not mere survival

instinct; it is a ‘homing instinct for God’

(Prof G. Harrison)

• The path into that relationship has been

revealed in two phases:

Old Testament – pictures & promise

New testament – fulfilment & reality

A better sacrifice

• Intimacy – the cross brings us near to God (1-14)

A better sacrifice

• Intimacy – the cross brings us near to God (1-14)

Worship in the old way – kept away from God's presence (1-10)

© Gabriel Fink, used under a creative commons license

© Gabriel Fink, used under a creative commons license

© Gabriel Fink, used under a creative commons license

© Gabriel Fink, used under a creative commons license

© David Iliff, used under a creative commons license

A better sacrifice

• Intimacy – the cross brings us near to God (1-14)

Worship in the old way – kept away from God's presence (1-10)

Worship in the new way – invited in to God's presence (11-14)

© Northern ireland office, used under a creative commons license

A better sacrifice

• Intimacy – the cross brings us near to God (1-14)

Worship in the old way – kept away from God's presence (1-10)

Worship in the new way – invited in to God's presence (11-14)

Hebs 10:19-22

Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have

confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood

of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through

the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a

great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near

to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance

that faith brings

A better sacrifice

• Intimacy – the cross brings us near to God (1-14)

Worship in the old way – kept away from God's presence (1-10)

Worship in the new way – invited in to God's presence (11-14)

High Priest’s sacrifices

• In an earthly tabernacle (11)

• Offered blood of animals (12)

• Offered year after year

• Offered sacrifices for his own sin (7)

• External cleansing (10)

Jesus’ sacrifice

• In heaven itself

• Offered his own blood

• Offered once and for all (12)

• Offered himself unblemished to God (14)

• Cleansing of our consciences (13)

A better sacrifice

• Intimacy – the cross brings us near to God (1-14)

Worship in the old way – kept away from God's presence (1-10)

Worship in the new way – invited in to God's presence (11-14)

A better sacrifice

• Intimacy – the cross brings us near to God (1-14)

Worship in the old way – kept away from God's presence (1-10)

Worship in the new way – invited in to God's presence (11-14)

• Security – the cross guarantees eternal life for us (15-28)

Tim Fargo

“Arrogance is the

camouflage of insecurity”

Dr. D.M Lloyd-Jones

“Most of the unhappiness in your life is because you

are listening to yourself instead of talking to

yourself”

A better sacrifice

• Intimacy – the cross brings us near to God (1-14)

Worship in the old way – kept away from God's presence (1-10)

Worship in the new way – invited in to God's presence (11-14)

• Security – the cross guarantees eternal life for us (15-28)

A better sacrifice

• Intimacy – the cross brings us near to God (1-14)

Worship in the old way – kept away from God's presence (1-10)

Worship in the new way – invited in to God's presence (11-14)

• Security – the cross guarantees eternal life for us (15-28)

The old way was guaranteed by the blood of animals (18-22)

A better sacrifice

• Intimacy – the cross brings us near to God (1-14)

Worship in the old way – kept away from God's presence (1-10)

Worship in the new way – invited in to God's presence (11-14)

• Security – the cross guarantees eternal life for us (15-28)

The old way was guaranteed by the blood of animals (18-22)

The new way is guaranteed by the blood of Jesus (23-28)