Greatest Sacrifice | Jim Putman

Main message: Jesus is the once-for-all, superior sacrifice who establishes a new covenant with better promises; believers must receive that covenant by faith and not drift back into the old system or worldliness.

Key points:

• The Old (Mosaic) covenant showed God's holiness: sin equals death and required blood sacrifices as a substitute to maintain relationship with God.
• The sacrificial system and temple rites were copies pointing forward to the true, final sacrifice the Messiah would provide.
• Jesus, fully God and fully man, is the perfect, valuable sacrifice and high priest who entered heaven with his own blood—His one death accomplishes what repeated animal sacrifices could not.
• The new covenant brings better promises and access to God's throne: repent, believe, and receive mercy and grace rather than trying to earn forgiveness.
• Practical call: remember Christ’s sacrifice (communion), hold firmly to the faith, and do not “shrink back” or drift into the old ways.

Scriptures mentioned: Hebrews 4, Hebrews 8, Hebrews 9:22, Leviticus 17, Isaiah 53, John 1:29, John 14:6, Acts 2 (esp. 36–38), Genesis, Revelation 20:14–15