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He is warning against these things. As they are companions, so do they test a walk with God; one is faith, the other is suffering. Thither they are to be brought, and there are means for the road to keep us moving onward. Of Christ who was given up to death, who is risen and gone above, in whom we find all the blessing promised, and after a better sort. Man's worst sin culminated in the death of Christ who knew no sin; but in that very death He put away sin. Commentary on Hebrews 10:26-31. Jesus' flesh is what veiled his godhead. Jesus is the substance that casts the shadow. It is possible to repeat the popular tunes of the day ad infinitum; to a great extent one echoes another. Hebrews 3:6; Hebrews 4:16; Hebrews 10:19). Having once settled these great things between God and our souls, we must be stedfast and immovable. For it is deeply, deeply ingrained.So the time of the writing of the Hebrews, those who had made a profession of Christ, some of them sort going back. There was no end to this process and it left men still conscious of their sin and alienated from God. Our spiritual enemies will do what they can to wrest our faith, and hope, and holiness, and comfort, out of our hands, but we must hold fast our religion as our best treasure. Such is the true sense of the passage. The difference is very great. As far as the soul is concerned, Christ would not go up to heaven until sin was abrogated before God. Read xodo 40:5 bible commentary from Treasury of Scripture Knowledge by Samuel Bagster FREE on BiblePortal.com In addition to giving his people the promise of his power, God demands that they exercise self-discipline and effort. [2.] Social snobbery is bad but spiritual and intellectual snobbery is worse. General Search for 'Hebrews 9:4-:' within 'New American Standard Version' on StudyLight.org. When Caesar was murdered he faced his assassins with almost disdainful courage. You ought to have the consciousness that there is no judgment for you with God by-and-by, however truly He, as a Father, judges you now on earth. This, he maintains, has always been so; it is no novelty he is preaching. All his life showed God; but it was on the Cross that God's love really was revealed. It was not only that there had been at the beginning such a priest, but that fact became the form of a glorious anticipation which the Holy Ghost holds out for the latter day. On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses he that is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness. The Lord forbid that anything should enfeeble our sense of the value and necessity of such daily grace, There may be that which calls for confusion of face in us, but there is unceasing ground also for thanksgiving and praise, however much we have to humble ourselves in the sight of God. We hear of sanctification often, but even what is thus spoken of throughout is rather in connection with separation to God and the work of Christ, than the continuous energy of the Holy Ghost, except, as far as I remember, in one practical passage "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." 19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21 And having a high priest over the house of God; 22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. There we find these two facts. (ii) We need fortitude. Esau would have liked well to have got or regained the blessing; but this was given of God otherwise, and he had forfeited it himself. He says that they do not give a real image. They may be in neighbourhoods where the social status has come down; and the members who have remained faithful to them would be as much embarrassed as delighted if the poor people in the area came flooding in. But winter came and the campaign had to be suspended. It 'became Him that Christ should suffer. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompence of reward. And a thousand of them, a thousand streetwalkers in the city every night. But then comes far more definite instruction, and, beginning with Abraham, the details of faith. He has set His mind upon making us, patterns of His holiness. All scripture, at its deepest, declares that the only sacrifice God desires is obedience; and in the life and death of Jesus that is precisely the sacrifice that God received. [1.] Boldness to enter into the holiest. He saw his error at last, and put his seal on God's original appointment of the matter. "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the. But it is the language for us to learn and speak, as we are called to rest on God and not on the creature. Accordingly observe the change of expression. I answer, To die by mercy, by the mercy and grace which they have despised. A Church in such circumstances could not afford to carry members who were a bad advertisement for the Christian faith. When the apostle Paul, speaks of "the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem," he means the scene of future heavenly blessedness; whereas when John speaks of the new Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God, he means, not where but what we are to be. There is then the solemn admonition of the account they are to render by-and-by. He is only one of a series of existing objects, and consequently never can rise above that in his own nature. That may have a higher character, these a lower; but even the highest is never to supersede or make us forgetful of the lowest. ], "The safeguard against degeneration, isolation, and consequent failure is to make progress in the Christian life, and to proceed from point to point from an elementary to the richest, fullest, deepest experience." Hence, therefore, he now introduces us "to the spirits of just men made perfect." We hear first of Melchisedec (King of righteousness), next of Salem or peace; without father, without mother, without genealogy. But this shows the main object of the Spirit of God in directing us for the type that applies to the believer now to an unsettled pilgrim-condition, not to Israel established in the land of promise. And so Paul warned the Corinthian believers concerning having a relations with a harlot. "A body you have prepared for me," really means, "You created me that in my body and with my body I should do your will." And as we are both nourished by the same lamb, then I become a part of God and God becomes a part of me, and I have this fellowship.So God was tired. The sacrifice of Jesus Christ is complete. "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, laying aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking off unto Jesus the captain and completer of faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.". He said, "You can't do that. Have you come to mock me because of the fate that I have?" In the time we have it is our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can. As we have seen so often, the function of the priest was to build a bridge between man and God. 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. You, as a Christian, ought to have the calm settled consciousness that God, looking on you, discerns not one spot or stain, but only the blood of Jesus Christ His Son that cleanses from all sin. The grace or principle of patience comes from God; the use and exercise of that grace is of yourselves. StudyLght.org. "Through faith he instituted the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. 1:7 you became companions of those who were so treated; 34 for you had compassion on me # 2 Tim. Not of course that one denies that He has His own proper place, for all is perfect as to each person of the Trinity and all else, but never to this end. 39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved. There had been a time when those to whom this letter was written had been up against it. 35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works ( Hebrews 10:24 ): And so that's as we're together exhorting each other for a greater love and good works. We have a great high priest.The danger was these Jews who had received Jesus, returning back to Judaism, taking a lamb, dragging a lamb to the priest again to make a sin offering for them. True, the apostle John uses this very city as the figure of the bride. Jeremiah, speaking of the new covenant which will not be imposed on a man from outside but which will be written on his heart, ends: "I will remember their sin no more" ( Jeremiah 31:34). First of all, "Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. The Full Assurance of Faith. Meanwhile we are told that He has obtained (not a temporary, but) "eternal redemption." Meanwhile Christianity gives the utmost force to every type and truth of God. The shadow, it's not the substance. He will soon come to them at death, and put an end to all their sufferings, and give them a crown of life. Here the words "for us" had better be left out. no mention of family or ancestors, "having neither beginning of days, nor end of life" neither is recorded in scripture; "but made like unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually. (2.) But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant." "As it is appointed unto men once to die," wages of sin, though not all, "but after this the judgment," or the full wages of sin, "so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many;" this He has finished; "and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation." For assuredly if Jewish children honoured their father and mother on legal grounds, much more ought Christian children on grounds of grace. It is no longer effective. This will make a rich amends for all they can lose and suffer here. During a time of rebellion, she went out and lived in open adultery with the leader of the rebellion. In Hebrews 6:1-20, we saw that the Spirit of God brings in a most solemn warning for those who turn their back on the power and presence of the Holy Ghost, as bearing witness of Christianity. For ye have need of patience - They were then suffering, and in all trials we have need of patience. Again he insists upon the honour and purity of the marriage tie, and the abhorrence that God has for those that despise and corrupt it, and the sure judgment which will come upon them. It was for all men, not only for the respectable classes, that Christ died. (3.) Let men who can see only look there, and what will be found? [4.] "Every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever sat down on the right hand of God." They are kept busy all day long offering one sin offering after another; one meal offering after another as the various people came in. He taketh away the first, that he might establish the second ( Hebrews 10:8-9 ). 32 But # Gal. "Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. I give Him His portion to eat, the best part of it, being a gracious host, and I then partake of the rest and we eat together. "Whereupon neither the first [covenant] was dedicated without blood. In Jesus' name. The Christian stands between the cross and the glory of the Lord Jesus. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. And the apostle shows that we need not only a perfect pattern in the walk of faith, but chastenings by the way. Those who are tempted to go back to Judaism are reminded that apart from Christs work there is no way of salvation. Not so Moses. This exhortation is a good summary of the whole message of Hebrews. It was, parabolically, like that of Christ himself. So, we have been sanctified through the body of Jesus Christ. There is no man who can live the Christian life and neglect the fellowship of the Church. And observe that it is assumed to be so common and obvious a maxim that it could not be questioned. Here the meaning is the saving of one's daily life (He 10:32-39). Hebrews 10:36 "For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise." King James Version (KJV) < Previous Verse Next Verse > View Chapter Hebrews 10:36 Context . Such is a main point, not ofHebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 4:1-16 only, but of the epistle. When they had suffered: In former days, after they were illuminated; that is, as soon as God had breathed life into their souls, and caused divine light to spring up in their minds, and taken them into his favour and covenant; then earth and hell combined all their force against them. Be assured it is of the deepest possible moment to cherish the activity of Christ's present love and care for us, the activity of that priesthood which is the subject of this epistle. Their own Psalm, in its grand prophetic sweep, and looking back on the law, pointed to the place in which Christ is now seated above; and where it is of necessity He should be, in order to give Christianity its heavenly character. The writer to the Hebrews was not saying anything new when he said that obedience was the only true sacrifice. It remains. Observe, The greatest part of the saints' happiness is in promise. The apostle argues that, just as the blood of the beast was brought into the holiest of all, while the body of the same animal was taken outside the camp and burnt, so this too must be made good in our portion. For you have need of patience, and after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise. Verse 36. Such is the emphasis. Those who begin to waver in matters of Christian faith and practice are in danger of falling away. If, therefore, when you find the word "testament" anywhere else in the authorized version, you turn it into "covenant" in my opinion you will not do amiss. The best that they could do was to give him a distant and spasmodic contact with God. It is hard to keep clear of both. Then we hear of "Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant" the pledge of Israel's full and changeless blessing. In this phrase there is no allusion whatever to the church; nor indeed anywhere in the Hebrews is there any reference to its distinctive portion in union with its Head. A new covenant shows that the other must have thereby become old, and therefore is decaying and ready to vanish away. On the other hand, the priests, Aaron's family, among the sons of Levi, "have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham." ", Having laid this as the first application of faith, the next question is when man fell, how was he to approach God? It endures for ever, because it has perfected for ever them that are sanctified. But it is not possible to repeat the Fifth or the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven; no one else will ever write anything like them. Which of these two most commends itself as the unforced meaning of the passage it is for the reader to judge. Will the Lord be pleased with thousands, of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Nothing but obedience could open the way to God; disobedience set up a barrier that no animal sacrifice could ever take away. it is not the dulness of Jewish prejudice only, but exactly what is denied by every system of which men boast in Christendom. Jeremiah positively declares that God will make a new covenant. But this becomes the occasion of a remarkable allusion, on which I must for a moment dwell. He rests confidingly on the cross, that only valid moral basis before God; at the same time he is waiting for the glory that is to be revealed. And as thus were shown the people immutably blessed (for salt shall not be wanting to that covenant) in the scene that will soon come, we finally hear of the earth itself joyful in the curse removed for ever. The appeal of the writer to the Hebrews is one that could be made to every man. Once again the writer to the Hebrews is drawing a series of implicit contrasts between the sacrifice that Jesus offered and the animal sacrifices that the priests offer. Impossible to rise higher than the Highest, whence therefore the apostle descends, to consequences. (3.) 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. The luxury so sapped the morale of the Carthaginian troops that when the spring came and the campaign was resumed they were unable to stand before the Romans. . Here observe, (1.) [Note: Ibid., p. He necessarily completes all as the pattern for the Christian. Establish yourselves, for the Lord is waiting for the full fruit of harvest. to the foundations, which became apparent too, too quickly in Solomon's son. The priests must go on with their weary routine of animal sacrifice; but the sacrifice of Christ was made once and for all. They must draw near by conversion, and by taking hold of his covenant. His faithfulness should excite and encourage us to be faithful, and we must depend more upon his promises to us than upon our promises to him, and we must plead with him the promise of grace sufficient. Second, he was sure that sin had become doubly serious because of the new knowledge of God and of God's will which Jesus had brought. I mean his sins now; not sin as a principle, but in fact, though it be only for faith. But it is . Thus in every case it is faith. The third point is how to walk with God, and this again is by faith. ", Finally, he beseeches his brethren to hear the word of exhortation. (196) Or, patient waiting, as rendered by Erasmus and Stuart, and not perseverance, as rendered by Macknight. (ii) We must worship together. His purpose utterly failed to secure the blessing for his profane but favourite son. This section is meant to inspire Christians to be confident, courageous, and uplifted in living out their faith. 65:17, Isaiah 66:22, -2 Peter 3:1024 -Revelation 21:13, 1-7) to live with them (Hebrews 4:1-9, Hebrews 12:2 -24), in all eternity in peace, love, and joy. Vindictive justice is a glorious, though terrible attribute of God; it belongs to him, and he will use and execute it upon the heads of such sinners as despise his grace; he will avenge himself, and his Son, and Spirit, and covenant, upon apostates. That is to say, God is owned in His glory, as Creator of all by His word. Observe here, What will be the eternal misery of impenitent sinners and apostates: they shall fall into the hands of the living God; their punishment shall come from God's own hand. But this time is not yet come. Then you will receive all that he has promised. In that day it will be the joy of Him who is the true Melchisedec, to bring out not the mere signs, but the reality of all that can be the stay and comfort of man, and all that sustains and cheers, the patent proof of the beneficent might of God, when "no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.". You can see that they foreshadow Him, but they were only the shadow. For it is a good thing that the heart be established in grace." For the law maketh men priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath which was since the law, a Son perfected (or consecrated) for ever." StudyLght.org. The only way you can come to God is as a guilty sinner and cast yourself upon His mercy and grace and just ask for mercy and grace. When he dwelt in Mesopotamia, he had a promise to bring him into Canaan; and when he got there, he had a promise of what was higher to lead his heart above. Thenceforward how it figures in the Psalms and prophets! 37 "For in just a little while, the Coming One will come and not delay. From theology he turns to practical exhortation. You're trying to bargain with God or come to God on your terms, and it can't be done. It is Jesus Christ and him crucified for the forgiveness of sins who will save those who believe and repent, and who will return again in glory to judge the living and the dead. The writer to the Hebrews says in effect: "Look at what has been done for you; look at the shed blood and the broken body of Christ; look at what your new relationship to God cost; can you treat it as if it did not matter? I want to be listed in that hall of fame, those who believe in the promises God. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children." Remember how, after you had been enlightened, you had to go through a hard struggle of suffering, partly because you yourselves were held up to insult and involved in affliction and partly because you had become partners with people whose life was like that. For if they could have been perfect sacrifices that had put away the sins then would they not have ceased to be offered? It is not merely that which goes on quietly waiting for the accomplishment of the counsels of God. The Christian's present conflict may be sharp, but it will be soon over. This, however, does not mean the church, but rather the future seat of general heavenly bliss for the glorified saints. They must first do the will of God before they receive the promise; and, after they have done the will of God, they have need of patience to wait for the time when the promise shall be fulfilled; they have need of patience to live till God calls them away. Yet it also anticipates what is to come by introducing the triad of Christian virtues, which the writer developed in chapters 11-13 (cf. That was their danger.Don't underestimate how deeply rooted traditions are, especially among the Jewish people, and even to the present day. "Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, in virtue of the blood of the everlasting covenant, perfect you in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight "through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for the ages of the ages. Can there be a doubt that Christianity is meant? 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. It became us to have a Priest, "holy, harmless, undefiled, made higher than the heavens.". God was going openly to set aside the Jewish system, as it had already been judged morally in the cross of Christ. It is just what he had been speaking of throughout, if covenant were still meant. For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins ( Hebrews 10:26 ). The foundation is sacrifice; the Power is of the Holy Ghost. He brought to God for men what no man had been able to bring--the perfect obedience, that was the perfect sacrifice. And if you are one with Christ then you are making Christ a partaker and bringing Him as one with a harlot." "Then would they not have ceased to be offered?". Think of the shaking of heaven and earth being a promise! We have many precious promises made us in the word of grace, of glory, and of outward things; of some of which we find as yet but slender performance, and of others no visible probability of their future performance; these we have need of patience to expect: 5. If he thinks that the Church has faults, it is his duty to come in and help to mend them. Hebrews 10:23 2 nd "Let Us" [Heb 10:23 KJV] 23 Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith (hope) without wavering; (for he [is] faithful that promised;) Hope is important in the new and better covenant. But what at Zion? So then I said: 'So then I come--in the roll of the book it is written of me--to do, O God, your will."' These are not Christians falling from grace into damnation; rather, these are believers failing to obey and suffering the consequences. There remains no other sacrifice for your sins. New Living Translation Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. He has shown its the symbolic mount Of grace in Zion, contrasted with Sinai the mountain of law. This then is brought before us. 6:9, 10 recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: 33 partly while you were made # 1 Cor. 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