Beautiful Bloody Religion - Hebrews 9:15-22

Scripture

• Hebrews 9:15–22

About this sermon

Critics of Christianity have referred to it as a bloody religion. Barbaric they say. Superstitious. What kind of approach to God could be based on death? What kind of religion would require the sacrifice of someone to purchase the release of others? What kind of theory would require the Creator making an entrance not the world that He made, and taking to Himself a human nature, and dying on a cross? It is a stumbling block to Jews and nonsense to Gentiles. What critics do not see, what they cannot understand, is that Christianity presents the truth of what God has chosen to do - in His infinite wisdom, to save a people who were under the sentence of death. The dilemma introduced by man’s sin is how God can now be both just and the justifier of the ungodly. The gospel to them seems unreasonable to them, harsh, barbaric, because they don’t under the seriousness of man’s crimes against God. There had to be a remedy for man’s sins and guilt that actually matched what man’s sins deserved. Today’s study of Hebrews 9 is about the beauty of Christianity.