1/14/26

Several years ago I was the new and only employee out of the West TN office of the company I worked for. I received one day from my boss in Atlanta an installation order for a store. It had to be done in two days for one of our larger accounts. I was already very busy but I spent a day of hard work getting everything ready and loaded for this install. Servicing the equipment. Making sure it worked properly. Checking and cleaning the pumps and preparing all the point of sale. Preparing all the products for the equipment and getting everything loaded. It was a full day's work. Then the next morning I headed out. It was a two-hour drive to the location, then it would take about 2-3 hours to install, and then two hours back. When I arrived the place was not ready. Other equipment was in the place where our equipment was to go. This would add another couple of hours of work. I talked to the worker at the location, and I went to work moving things. After getting all their old equipment removed, the location manager showed up and asked what I was doing. He called the area manager and said he didn't want our equipment. I had to stop my work just after I had unloaded all of my equipment and products. There were several calls between the customer and my boss in Atlanta, during which they decided that I needed to put all their old equipment back, hook it all up again, and reload mine to take back to my office. After doing this I had already had a long day and was two days behind on my regular work with nothing accomplished. I was so aggravated as I headed home. Then they called me and decided they wanted the equipment in a different location tomorrow, and another day was shot. As the only employee, I felt as if everything I had done over the past three days was wasted, and I would never catch up on the three days I was behind. I felt wasted and overwhelmed and I was ready to just give up. That is until I was sent a worker from Atlanta to help me get caught up.

Our text today says, Hebrews 9:14 NASB95 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

All my effort and striving to do a good job were wasted. It was DEAD WORK. I had wasted my effort. This is what so many people do in life attempting to earn their way to heaven. There was nothing I could do to fix the situation I was in. It took someone else. The same goes for our efforts to work our way to eternal life. We will fail, but one is capable and willing.

The priest had sacrificed every year, and they kept having to do it over and over, but it never succeeded. However, when Christ came He completed the work once for all and forever.

Stop trying to earn your way to heaven. You will fail and fall. Instead, rely on Jesus. Your works are Dead works. They through living effort, bring nothing but death, but His works through death bought life eternal.

Only the living work of Christ will succeed where the Dead Works of man fail.

Trust in Christ!

Love Bro. Scott