Hebrews 10:11-25

Ministry Ain't Easy

Ministry is arduous.  While it is difficult to deal with the day-in, day-out dramas that can come from dealing with people, imagine the grind of constantly sacrificing animals and doing the ritual cleaning and wardrobe-exchanging necessary to just go back and do the same thing again.  If you’ve been preaching from Hebrews in this season and you haven’t done so already, then you would do well to read Leviticus 16 and the tedious process of sacrifice in the tabernacle.  Imagine what it would be like to do that, knowing all the while that these sacrifices “can never take away sins.”  Now, imagine people preferring that to the once-for-all sacrifice of Jesus!

It’s a wonder that the Jewish priests did not immediately convert to…