1. “Change is Never Easy But Oh So Necessary!”
Hebrews 7:11-19

2. Two caterpillars were crawling along when a butterfly flew over them…

3. The point being, change is never easy, but, often it is so necessary!

4. Purpose:
To see our need to change from the works system of salvation to the grace system of salvation

5. Not a person present that doesn’t wrestle with this very issue day in and day out. How we need to change in our thinking the very idea that we can do anything to earn, deserve, or buy heaven.

6. I The Levitical Priesthood Was DEFICIENT (v 11)
A. “Perfection” It Did Not Bring
B. “Perfection” and Its Meaning Here

7. Hebrews 10:1
“For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.”

8. Hebrews 10:2-3
“Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins? But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year.”

9. Hebrews 10:4
“For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.”

10. II The Law Has Been ABROGA- TED (vv 12-18)
A. Change in the Priesthood Signaled a Change in the Law

11. Hebrews 7:24
“But Jesus, on the other hand, because He continues forever, holds His priesthood permanently.”

12. II The Law Has Been ABROGA- TED (vv 12-18)
A. Change in the Priesthood Signaled a Change in the Law
B. With Change in Priesthood, the Law is Abrogated

13. Literally means: “abrogated or replaced by something better.”
metaqesis
Literally means: “abrogated or replaced by something better.”

14. Galatians 5:4
“You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.”

15. III There is a BETTER HOPE (v 19)
A. There is Hope to Draw Near to God

16. Hebrews 1:4
“Having become as much better than the angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they.”

17. Hebrews 7:22
“So much the more also Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.”

18. III There is a BETTER HOPE (v 19)
A. There is Hope to Draw Near to God
B. Christ’s Priesthood is the Basis of that Hope

19. Hebrews 4:16
“Let us therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help in time of need.”

20. …As he showed a prospective buyer the property, he took pains to say that he would replace the broken windows… The buyer responded, “Forget abut the repairs…I don’t want the building, I want the site!”

21. Conclusion and Summary:
That, dear brethren and friend, is God’s message to us. Compared with the renovation God has in mind, our efforts to improve our lives are as trivial as sweeping a warehouse slated for the wrecking ball. When one becomes God’s again, the old life is over. God makes all things new. All God wants is the SITE and the permission to build…