Today Our Daily Bread Hebrews 10 (oops did today's yesterday, so a doing yesterday's today)

The scripture passages were taken from Rock Church's suggested daily reading schedule for the month of October. Comments are from, ~ Lena's Journalin' ~ which are Lena's own personal notations on each day’s passages.
(Oops- I misread what should have been for today-yesterday, so I’ll read yesterday’s today….)
Hebrews 10:1-39
Animal Sacrifices Insufficient
Justified by Faith in Christ's Sacrifice
1 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. 2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. 3But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.
Christ's Death Fulfills God's WillR8
5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me. 6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. 7Then I said, "Behold, I have come-- In the volume of the book it is written of Me-- To do Your will, O God."' F31 8Previously saying, "Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them" (which are offered according to the law), 9then He said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God." F32 He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Christ's Death Perfects the Sanctified
11 And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, 13from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. 14For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. 15But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before, 16"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them," F33 17then He adds, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more." F34 18Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.
Hold Fast Your Confession
19 Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, 21and having a High Priest over the house of God, 22let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. 24And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
The Just Live by Faith
26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," F35 says the Lord. F36 And again, "The LORD will judge His people." F37 31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 32But recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: 33partly while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you became companions of those who were so treated; 34for you had compassion on me F38 in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your goods, knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves in heaven. F39 35Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. 36For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise: 37"For yet a little while, And He F40 who is coming will come and will not tarry. 38Now the F41 just shall live by faith; But if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him." F42 39But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.
Footnotes
F31: 10:7 Psalm 40:6-8
F32: 10:9 NU-Text and M-Text omit O God.
F33: 10:16 Jeremiah 31:33
F34: 10:17 Jeremiah 31:34
F35: 10:30 Deuteronomy 32:35
F36: NU-Text omits says the Lord.
F37: Deuteronomy 32:36
F38: 10:34 NU-Text reads the prisoners instead of me in my chains.
F39: NU-Text omits in heaven.
F40: 10:37 Or that which
F41: 10:38 NU-Text reads My just one.
F42: 10:38 NU-Text reads My just one.
Show cross-references
R8: cf. Ps. 40:6-8
~Lena’s Journalin’~
Why would God set up such "impossibility"?
So that man could see his great need for salvation and for God’s Divine intervention on the matter of sin and unrighteousness. So man could sense the severity of eternity without God’s loving and saving presence.
When one shed’s blood, all of a sudden things get a bit more final, more outside of this world minded. The view changes from "right here right now", to, "what happens later?" Questions begin to arise, a seriousness is felt, and God is usually sought after like never before. We have to know that being without God while here is one matter, but being without His presence for eternity is a whole ‘nother matter and a very serious one at that. Really eternity began before we began and it is in our hearts everyday. Whether we face it or not may present itself daily, so God helps us to see it. He leads us towards its desire and plan.
These sacrifices made it evident. They showed us how we must continually depend on God to be clean and to stay clean. That if we do not continuously come, living a sacrificial lifestyle, we will remain in sin, or fall back into old patterns of sin (who’s goal is to separate us from God both here and now, and later on, after our earthly death). Doesn’t it make you cringe to think of the slaying of even animals in that form? That must have been some sight, and the smell was probably unforgettable, which is precisely the point! Why would we want to forget our need for God, His love for us, and that He’s drawing us even by the law which proves to us our lack from being without Him? The only reason to forget would be, satan’s ploy against us and God, to make us forget, so we can’t or won’t participate!
Think of Jesus on the cross now. Then go before that, where He sat with His disciples and took the bread and ate it, took the cup of blood and drank it. He was saying-" I’m so willing to do this thing for you, YOU ARE THIS important to My Father!, It will be gruesome, it will smell like hell come to earth, it will be hard to look upon and be present for and hear the cries of, but I want you to remember it forever- at least until you die, so you will know that what you see here is nowhere near what hell smells, tastes, looks, sounds and feels like, and does not at all compare to an eternity without God's love. PLEASE don’t allow satan to make you forget- Remember ME!" "Take the bread, drink the cup and remember ME. It’s nothing, really, it’s nothing." ( Now we know it is/was everything, but in light of the eternal doom we could now choose, He’d do it again if it were required, BUT praise God ALL that is required is a free-will response to the action of love taken by Jesus- he laid down His life for us, and we also ought to lay ours down for others!)
OK, what does that mean lay down your life for others? Does it mean go back to the same place He was, be beaten, spit upon, hated, mocked, torn apart, whipped, marred (in reputation) and killed by torture and torment of enemies and friends alike? Well, not physcally speaking so much, but do you see any similarities here to everyday life and the walk of faith and of giving the message of God’s love to a hurt, dying, oppressed world, who is hostile to God by nature of their father whom they presently serve? Would you subject yourself to risk your reputation to say you belong to Him? He did. Would you become a bit uncomfortable and allow people who hate God to tell you about it for a bit, venting the lies they’ve been told, so you could love them to God? What about being a part of a church fellowship and it’s kingdom work on earth which the world relates to hypocricy and double standards and mocks it? Would you spend your time on something like that, when you could be having fun or just resting on Sunday’s, Wednesdays, Bible Study group days, prayer meeting days, church picnic and helping out in the community or other called by the church assembly days? THOSE kinds of things are the laying down of a regular daily life for the people God loves. S 5 sacrifice and offering You did not desire….that means he doesn’t want us to gie all of this, our time , our reputation, our lies- because we HAVE TO, we’re made to. He wants us to gie it and make sacrifices, because we are alive unto Hi and we are expressing our heartfelt thankfulness to Him and His by revelation of what was done for us and for others like us. He wants us to love Him so much that we cannot help but become a participator in His body and we are compelled by His passion to live out our faith as a part of His living body of believers who assemble unto Him on earth. These are heart responses from a hearing ear.
What on earth is worth anything? Possessions and the time spend to gather and keep them? NO, NO, NO, it is people that mean everything to God and should become everything to us as we respond to His great love. Anything else is a waste of this precious time we have here. Why do you think we struggle everyday to want more, get more, be more? So we’ll get unfocussed, distracted and FORGET. REMEMBER what and who is important. Give this love to yourself from God, and to your own family in demonstration, and even if you are perfecting that, don’t stop there! Go and take your beautiful family into the house of God regularly and show them what is truly important and how to join in the work of God, then go into the earth and serve people with the gospel message. Bring your life to a hurt and dying world who has been so deceived and lied to they don’t even remember their need for God’s love and grace and salvation! I beg you believers in the house of God, – GO! I beg you, who do not yet know Him- COME to Him, I beg you who do so many others things,- COME into the house of the Lord, regularly, Come into the fields of harvestors lay down what seemed important in life to you and give your lives to God’s work, to what is important to Him.
One little thing and I’ll stop. Our daughter is in a Youth Pastoring Internship program in another state. She called and told me of a prayer and a prophecy she’d had spoken over her life. She said she took it to the Lord (as we all should prophecy spoken over us. She started to think, "Lord, every word ever spoken over me is about Dreaming Bigger. So I start to think bigger, I think about going to nations, like China, I even leave home and my job of 4 years and my friends, and I go to another state to learn to minister further, I always think about Your kingdom coming and how I fit into that picture, why do they always say, dream bigger, that’s not big enough- Jazz, etc.?" She said, she instantly got the answer, "Have you asked about My big dreams and what I’d like to do and how I’d like to do it?" "Have you asked me who and what is on My heart today? Just for today?". She realized the Big dreams were God’s dreams come true, not just the ones about her and how she fits and where she’s to go etc. The bigger dream is to know His, and of course to make His dreams come true how He desires. Those may not seem a whole lot different from one another, but sometimes, we are so busy, saying, Lord, tell me where to go and what to do and show me this or that about my own life and plans, God Bless all of my plans, and off we go to do stuff that we think at least has God involved, and so should bless Him, but we didn’t specifically ask Him, what He’d like done or accomplished.
Dream Big?YES, Dream God!

Romans 16:19-20 19 For your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf; but I want you to be wise in what is good, and simple concerning evil. 20 And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
Acts 17:6 But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.