Are You Willing to Pay the Price Hebrew 10:1-18

Read Scripture**You can't have your cake and eat it (too) The proverb literally means "you cannot simultaneously retain your cake and eat it".Once the cake is eaten, it is goneThe proverb's meaning is similar to the phrases "you can't have it both ways" and "you can't have the best of both worlds."There is always a price to everything, it doesn’t matter what it is. And when I talk about the Price, I am not only talking about money, I am referring to that thing that you have to give up in order to get something else- Those things that really matter to youWhen you say yes to one thing, you are saying no to another.Tonight – you are here The alarm tomorrow morning When you starting dating / Getting Married/ Having children the list goes on and on Our text tonight talks exactly about this conceptHebrews 10:5-7(NLT) That is why, when Christ[a] came into the world, he said to God, “You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings. But you have given me a body to offer. You were not pleased with burnt offerings or other offerings for sin. Then I said, ‘Look, I have come to do your will, O God (as is written about me in the Scriptures)

Jesus knew what was happening to the animals – How the animal sacrifice worked (Literally) The killing, the blood poured out, the attorning of sins He knew as this text tells us; He knew that His Body was given to Him as an offering He was going to pay the price for our sins and He agreed 

We read the Luke 22:41-42 (AMPC) - And He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and knelt down and prayed,  saying, “Father, if You are willing, remove this cup [of divine wrath] from Me; yet not My will, but [always] Yours be done.”We assume that reality hit for Him then, No sir- He knew what awaited Him- Yet He was willing to pay the price

Hebrews 10:8-9(NLT) First, Christ said, “You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings or burnt offerings or other offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them” (though they are required by the law of Moses). 9 Then he said, “Look, I have come to do your will.” He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second into effect.The tainted offering, whether is was the animals blood or the human sins- was not pleasing to God Yet in our culture today, we feel like it’s possible to literally have our cake and order Uber eat and continue to have one more This has spilled over to the Christian walk; we want to be part of the Jesus culture and not pay the price that it takes to be a member This Christianity is a costly journey and for a minute in our time, the price was low (Show up to Church e.t.c) but moving forward much MORE is requiredI was talking to one of my brother in Christ and he said “I am changing how I invite people to Church, before I just wanted to get them in the house of God and then they would hear the Word and be converted but what COVID-19 has taught me that some of these people never got saved, they came here and made it about friendship, leadership and never really got a heart change.They played to part, and looked the part but not willing to pay the price by giving up the old life ~ He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second into effect. 10 For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all timeThese paid a small price and ripped no benefits when those things they held on to were taken awayHe continues to remind me that in the story of the young ruler, Mark 10:17-27 (NLT) - 17 As Jesus was starting out on his way to Jerusalem, a man came running up to him, knelt down, and asked, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”  “Why do you call me good?” Jesus asked. “Only God is truly good. 19 But to answer your question, you know the commandments: ‘You must not murder. You must not commit adultery.