Rightly then we begin with Zion, and thence may we trace the path of glory up to God Himself, and down to the kingdom here below. To profess this hope is to be saved. Actually, the families would hold funerals for them. iii. "Inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: (for those priests were made without an oath" no oath ushers in the sons of Aaron "but he with an oath by him that said as to him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) by so much was Jesus made a surety of a better covenant.". God furnishes the grace; you must exercise it. "Conscience of sins" means a dread of God's judging one because of his sins. She turned on him in anger saying, "What have you done? In other words, they would have done it once in Moses' day and that would have been it. "The juxtaposition of Hebrews 10:26-35 suggests that it may have been the experience of suffering, abuse, and loss in the world that motivated the desertion of the community acknowledged in Hebrews 10:25 and a general tendency to avoid contact with outsiders observed elsewhere in Hebrews (see . When first they had become Christians they had known persecution and plundering of their goods; and they had learned what it was to become involved with those under suspicion and unpopular. "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp." So little was it a question, that our Lord could appeal to its acknowledged meaning, and press the difficulty His person created for unbelief. He is "minister of the holies and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not of man." Hebrews 4:12-16; Hebrews 6:9-20). where one competent to take up that word "for ever"? Thus does the apostle reason on it: "For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh" (which the Jew would not contest): "how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to do religious service to the living God? Jesus said, "In your patience, ye shall possess your souls" (Luke 21:19). 271.] For assuredly if Jewish children honoured their father and mother on legal grounds, much more ought Christian children on grounds of grace. [Note: Cf. Christ has gone into the presence of God," having obtained eternal redemption." Not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together,Hebrews 10:25; Hebrews 10:25. Now he leaves it to the consciences of all, appeals to universal reason and equity, whether such aggravated crimes ought not to receive a suitable punishment, a sorer punishment than those who had died without mercy? (iii) Sin is the insult to the Holy Spirit. It is an idea that superstition hatched, for the purpose of spuriously exalting a clerical order. Thus the Pentateuch and the Psalms bore their double testimony to a Priest superior to the Aaronic. In their own persons; they were made gazing-stocks, spectacles to the world, angels, and men, 1 Corinthians 4:9. Observe, The greatest part of the saints' happiness is in promise. Of course it is true that Jesus took His seat there, but more is conveyed in the true form of the text ( ) here. There is no further sacrifice. And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest." The Christians gained Him in a far more excellent way after the pattern of resurrection, as Abraham at the close received Isaac as it were from the dead. If by five o'clock this evening you do not go to the door on your right and enter that door declaring to all within the kingdom that from now on you will be a faithful and devoted wife, then the door on your left will be opened and the death which he almost died to save you from will come upon you, and this time without any hope of escape. The fact was plain that the priest was always doing and doing, his work being never done; whereas now there is manifested, in the glorious facts of Christianity, a Priest sat down at God's right hand, a Priest that has taken His place there expressly because our sins are blotted out by His sacrifice If there was any place for the priest, one might have supposed, to be active in his functions, it would be in the presence of God, unless the sins were completely gone. Are they both true of you? Finally, the writer to the Hebrews says that our Christian duty to each other is all the more pressing because the time is short. Our way to heaven is by a crucified Saviour; his death is to us the way of life. Impossible to rise higher than the Highest, whence therefore the apostle descends, to consequences. Sin is not disobedience to an impersonal law; it is the wrecking of a personal relationship and the wounding of the heart of the God whose name is Father. If we have to wait for the exercise at a future day, the order is as true and plain now as it ever can be. "Through faith he instituted the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. Every morning and every evening a male lamb of one year old, without spot and blemish, was offered as a burnt-offering. (3) The Christians who received this epistle had already endured great hardship and suffering and should not throw all that away by becoming indifferent. Why should His saints be carried away with questions about meats and drinks? The writer to the Hebrews finishes his appeal with a threat. These evidently are the elders of olden times. He is the same unchangingly and evermore, as He has ever been. But this man [Jesus Christ], after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God ( Hebrews 10:12 ); It's complete. A. The Jews would not have Him living. If you have and prize one alone, you have only got the half of Christianity yea, of its foundations. I've consecrated my life and my service to God, and now I come into oneness with God and I offer the peace offering. Don't you see what a sacred thing it is?" (a) He may not go to church because of fear. 'It was therefore a crisis after the most painful accumulation of evils that weighed on the heart of Israel. It is I likely that the Hebrew believers were somewhat unruly. He necessarily completes all as the pattern for the Christian. Those who are tempted to go back to Judaism are reminded that apart from Christs work there is no way of salvation. He alludes to several facts, but leaves them. For ye have need of patience: Every Christian needs patience to be able to endure physical, mental, or spiritual difficulties. The point there is personal glory. He had beyond all mere men known sorrow and rejection in Israel; yet he himself not only mounted the throne of Jehovah, but raised up His people to. So, we have been sanctified through the body of Jesus Christ. Added to that there was the daily meat-offering of the High Priest; it consisted of one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with oil, and baked in a flat pan; half was offered in the morning and half in the evening. As in chapter 6 he declares that he is persuaded better things of them, than that they would abandon the Holy Ghost; so here he expected better things than that they would thus dishonour the sacrifice of Christ In that case, he says, God was not unrighteous to forget their work and labour of love; in this case, he lets them know that he had not forgotten the way in which they had suffered for Christ. He shows them how necessary a grace the grace of patience is in our present state (Hebrews 10:36; Hebrews 10:36): You have need of patience, that after you have done the will of God you might receive the promise; that is, this promised reward. Reason is ever drawing conclusions; God is, and reveals what is. This text has been the occasion of great distress to some gracious souls they have been ready to conclude that every wilful sin, after conviction and against knowledge, is the unpardonable sin: but this has been their infirmity and error. Here the meaning is the saving of one's daily life (He 10:32-39). Then there was the meal offering, which was the consecration of my service to God as I brought the grain that I had cultivated and grown. This was a final call; and how gracious! It meant that a man was taking something dear to him and giving it to God to show his love. Yet who beforehand would have anticipated either? These characteristics he proves to be really found in Christ Himself. We have need of it because there is in us so much disposition to complain and repine; because our nature is liable to sink under sufferings; and because our trials are often protracted. It was not the church, I repeat, but what God prepares above for those who love Him. as He will appear to the salvation of His own people. "With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself. Thank God! of God, rather than burnt offerings." Of how much worse punishment, do you think, that man will be deemed worthy who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, who has failed to regard the blood of the new covenant, with which he was made fit for God's presence, as a sacred thing, and who has insulted the Spirit through whom God's grace comes to us? 2Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been What is the inference from that? The encouragement to persevere 10:32-39. Have done the will of God By keeping the faith, and patiently suffering for it. For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. Hebrews 10:19-25 is an encouraging bridge between two major sections of the book of Hebrews. 39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved. Paul also reminds us that the day of the Lord is approaching, the day when Christ will return for His church and will establish His kingdom. He will soon come to them at death, and put an end to all their sufferings, and give them a crown of life. They are kept busy all day long offering one sin offering after another; one meal offering after another as the various people came in. And for this simple reason: no place is given herein to man's importance. And that is the hall of fame that I want to appear in. He has so absolutely swept it away for those who believe on Him, that when He comes again, them will be no question of judgment, as far as they are concerned, but only of salvation, in the sense of their being cleared from the last relic or result of sin, even for the body. Hence, therefore, he now introduces us "to the spirits of just men made perfect." How happy is the man whose sins and iniquities, God said, I will remember no more. Ye have need of patience Having so great a fight of sufferings to pass through, and they of so long continuance. And the apostle would that their work of watching might be done with joy, and not groaning for this would be unprofitable for the saints. Such was the Priest of whom God spoke. It is the obedient car of which the psalmist is thinking. And this blessed person, single-handed but according to the will of God, accomplishes that will in offering Himself on the cross. For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. After the people had been tried and found wanting; after the priests had wrought, if possible, greater corruption; after the king of Israel's choice had reduced them to the lowest degradation. The reference here I cannot but regard as exclusively to the two houses of Israel. That is still true. For another thing, the life and death of Jesus was an act of perfect obedience and, therefore, the only perfect sacrifice. The sacrifice of Jesus Christ is complete. The one is what may be called the objective glory; the other is the subjective condition of those that compose the bride, the Lamb's wife. (1.) with. That is to say, God is owned in His glory, as Creator of all by His word. Verse 39. New Living Translation Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. They had met that situation with gallantry and with honour; and now, when they were in danger of drifting away, the writer to the Hebrews reminds them of their former loyalty. such power and prosperity as, was never reached again. Every one can understand, when once we find that the word means almost always covenant," how great the temptation is to translate it so in but two other occurrences, especially as before and after it means "covenant" in the same passage. To remove that threat is to emasculate the faith. They do not believe that God called all things into being. Verse 36 and through the end of this chapter conclude the fourth great exhortation of Hebrews. The meaning is, that spiritual guides shall give an account of their own behaviour in watching over other souls; for it is a work that calls for much jealousy over self, patience with others, painstaking labour, lowliness of mind, and that hearty love which can bear all, endure all, believe all. that good portion which shall not be taken away from those who cleave to the Crucified, who is now exalted in heaven? But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions ( Hebrews 10:32 ); Remember what you went through in the beginning of your faith. The shadow, it's not the substance. Would he give up the one that was the type of the true Seed, the progenitor, and the channel of the promised blessing, yea, of the Blesser? By His one offering we have been perfected forever. It is very likely that the writer to the Hebrews did not know any Hebrew at all and therefore it is the Septuagint that he uses. First of all, as has been hinted, that which suggests "testament" is the end of verse 15 "They which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance." Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God." This leads to a further contrast with the action of the Aaronic priest. Their expectations were founded on a misinterpretation of the scriptures, but it was none the less a real disappointment. We are not those that draw back. They must draw near in humble adorations, worshipping at his footstool. Hebrews 10:36, NLT: Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. There must be a due preparation for making our approaches to God. "Thou hast given me an open ear," means, "You have so touched me that everything I hear I obey." Christ Himself could not add to the perfectness of that sacrifice by which He has put away sin. 37 "For in just a little while, the Coming One will come and not delay. There are two kinds of sacrifice to which we are now called. There is nothing more simple; at the same time it is just one of those questions that God has answered, and this so as to settle the mind perfectly, and fill the heart with praise. And here we are favoured with a magnificent picture of Christianity in contrast with Judaism. It is an enduring substance, it will out-live time and run parallel with eternity; they can never spend it; their enemies can never take it from them, as they did their earthly goods. The Romans will do the last sad offices. Thus it is evident that the introduction of the last trial of Abraham was of all possible moment to every one that stood in the place of a son of Abraham. With Zion then the apostle justly begins. Further, that this Priest was to be a living one, in some most singular manner to be an undying Priest, was made evident beyond question, because in that Psalm it is said, "He testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." Heaven, therefore, by man's own conviction, must be arrayed in justice against earth because of sin, But the day is coming when Israel shall be no more rebellious, and the nations shall be no longer deceived, and Satan shall be dethroned from his bad eminence, and all idols shall flee apace, and God shall be left the undisputed and evidently Most High, the possessor of heaven and earth. (iii) He stresses the final triumph of Jesus. It is a better substance than any thing they can have or lose here. To mark that as yet the veil was unrent. Salute all your leaders, and all the saints. the task of translating the Old Testament into Greek was begun in Alexandria in Egypt. 25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage .read more. Its greatest peril was from the possible evil living and apostasy of its members. Hence throughout this epistle the utmost stress is laid on His being exalted in heaven Yet there was no excuse for a difficulty on this score. Dick Sheppard spent much of his life preaching in the open air to people who were either hostile or indifferent to the Church. But Christendom has wholly failed to profit by the call, and is doomed to perish by a judgment yet more solemn and wide-spread than that which swept away the ancient temple. They may enter into the gracious presence of God in his holy oracles, ordinances, providences, and covenant, and so into communion with God, where they receive communications from him, till they are prepared to enter into his glorious presence in heaven. He is showing us the efficacy of Christ's death. Jesus Christ has made the way whereby we can come into the presence of God and fellowship with Him.And so, "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,". before God on high? The unrent veil bore evidence on its front that man could not yet draw near into the holiest that he had no access into the presence of God. Those who will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution. If they reject him, they can expect only judgment (26-27). Moffatt speaks of "the levitical drudges" who, day in day out, kept offering these sacrifices. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary. From the description he gives of the sin of apostasy. Both are true; and Moses is the type of the latter, as Abraham of the former. This exhortation is a good summary of the whole message of Hebrews. Over a month, we're looking at verses 19 to 25. All he does is to interpret that will, and to apply it to what was wrought on the cross. To disregard these voices is to insult the Spirit and to grieve the heart of God. Passage Lookup: Hebrews 9:4-: general search But God took care to summon His children outside to abandon the whole system before it was destroyed. Theirs is the position of a servant; his is the position of a monarch. 2. In the roll of the book it is written of me. Let them not throw it away. We know that he has said, Vengeance is mine. Such is a main point, not ofHebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 4:1-16 only, but of the epistle. Every man carries with him his own secret shrine, but so many forget to enter it. Over on your left is another door, behind which are several tigers. The one who has patience has set his allegiance to faith and piety even during immense trials and afflictions. They needed to persevere, to keep on keeping on. . The hill of Zion up to this time had been the constant menace of the enemy against the people of the Lord; but in due time, when David reigned, it was wrested out of the hands of the Jebusites, and became the stronghold of Jerusalem, the city of the king. The grace or principle of patience comes from God; the use and exercise of that grace is of yourselves. It may be observed, too, that the Holy Ghost appears but little in this epistle. The early Church lived in that expectation. Totally forgiven through Him, accepting this new covenant that God has established, your sins are completely put away. In the blood of the Lamb, sprinkled on the door-posts of Israel, we see the type of God's judgment of their sins; next, in the passage of the Red sea, the exhibition of His power, which, in the most conspicuous way, saved them, and destroyed for ever their enemies. But even the apostle felt his own need of the prayers of the faithful, not because he had gone wrong, but because he was conscious of no hindrance to his work from a had conscience. He has not been of by the reader before; he is never heard of again in history. When does it first appear? If life is only a day to day doing of the routine things, we may well sink into a policy of drift; but if we are on the way to heaven's crown, effort must always be at full pitch. You took no pleasure in whole burnt-offerings and in sin-offerings. But this time is not yet come. 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