Their expectations were founded on a misinterpretation of the scriptures, but it was none the less a real disappointment. Christians must be on their guard and persistent in prayer if they are to endure firmly to the end ( Luke 21:36 ; Colossians 4:2 ). The NT does not reject the notion that Christians will receive rewards, though, of course, that is never the prime motive for service." [Note: Lane, Hebrews 9-13, p. Sinful man cannot have fellowship with a holy God. Observe, There is a kind of sanctification which persons may partake of and yet fall away: they may be distinguished by common gifts and graces, by an outward profession, by a form of godliness, a course of duties, and a set of privileges, and yet fall away finally. Our being brought to God supposes, and is founded on the fact, that our sins are gone perfectly by His one offering; otherwise no madness is greater than indulging such a thought. 5. It is not so much the power but the love of God which must conquer in the end. His shadow was cast over the past history. And it seems even in those times there were some who forsook these assemblies, and so began to apostatize from religion itself. But having looked up to Him who is above all, he speaks of the highest group next to God in His judicial character, namely, the Old Testament saints. 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. It seemed as if everything went against them. They from Italy salute you. the task of translating the Old Testament into Greek was begun in Alexandria in Egypt. Showing that it did not bring that to them under the old covenant, however, the glorious thing is that in this new covenant through Jesus Christ, once being purged, we really should not have any more consciousness of sins. Because of Jesus the barrier of sin is for ever taken away. . And that is the hall of fame that I want to appear in. 1:16 in my chains, and # Matt. The gracious Lord gives and designs that we should take His own place both in heaven and here. Compare alsoEphesians 2:1-22; Ephesians 2:1-22. Although the blood on which that covenant was founded may be now long shed, when the covenant comes into force for them will it not be as fresh as the day the precious Victim died and shed His blood? The Christian's present conflict may be sharp, but it will be soon over. There were in the apostles' times, and should be in every age, Christian assemblies for the worship of God, and for mutual edification. Those who have been kept faithful in great trials for the time past have reason to hope that the same grace will be sufficient to help them still to live by faith, till they receive the end of their faith and patience, even the salvation of their souls. 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 awaits the final subjugation of his enemies; in the end there must come a universe in which he is supreme. He currently serves now as the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara. "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." But whether we look at the heavenly supremacy of Christ over the universe, which is the highest part of the mystery, or at the church associated with Him as His body, composed of both Jew and Gentile, where all distinction is gone, no wit of man ever did or could possibly draw this beforehand from the Old Testament. And we'll get an interesting listing of these men of faith as we move on into chapter 11, the glorious chapter on faith.And now may the Lord be with you, watch over and keep you in His love as you walk in faith in Him. What it was that enabled them thus to bear up under their sufferings. How dreadful is the case when not only the justice of God, but his abused grace and mercy call for vengeance! "The worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins." For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry ( Hebrews 10:35-37 ). So whenever you read of the Septuagint version, that is what it is, a translation by seventy scholars of the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek two hundred years before the birth of Jesus Christ.This quotation, as do others in the New Testament, come from the Septuagint version, and interestingly enough, "Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not," or you don't care for, "but you have prepared a body for me. The tapestry must be looked on as a whole before the full greatness is disclosed. The writer to the Hebrews was not saying anything new when he said that obedience was the only true sacrifice. That may have a higher character, these a lower; but even the highest is never to supersede or make us forgetful of the lowest. It's complete, the cleansing in the blood of Jesus Christ is complete, and the blood of Jesus Christ God's Son cleanses. There are certain surroundings which indicate to the competent eye when the word "covenant" is right and when the word "testament" is better. He has been proved to be a divine person, and the true royal priest of whom not Aaron only but Melchisedec was the type. (3.) Sinful man cannot be one with a holy God.Paul, writing to the Corinthians, who lived in that city that was so debauched, that the word Corinthian became a synonym for a totally debauched person. The apostle tells us the way and means by which Christians enjoy such privileges, and, in general, declares it to be by the blood of Jesus, by the merit of that blood which he offered up to God as an atoning sacrifice: he has purchased for all who believe in him free access to God in the ordinances of his grace here and in the kingdom of his glory. It echoes former warnings (cf. God is the searcher of hearts, and he requires truth in the inward parts. evil, learn to do good" ( Isaiah 1:11-20). He that possesses the one must not eschew the other. Jesus said, "In your patience, ye shall possess your souls" (Luke 21:19). God can strengthen his suffering people with all might in the inner man, to all patience and long-suffering, and that with joyfulness, Colossians 1:11. Instead he exhorted his readers to endure rather than apostatize. Reason can appreciate not grace but law; and so people are apt, when things go wrong, to bring in the law. Baptizing by the disciples - This was done apparently under the direction of Christ ( John 3:26; 4:2 ). Accordingly we find everything about Moses. as He will appear to the salvation of His own people. To have enduring faith in trials, remember how God worked in the past (10:32-34). He is suddenly ushered upon the scene. The wisest man is a fool in the sight of God; and the strongest man is weak in the moment of temptation. For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise. Its greatest peril was from the possible evil living and apostasy of its members. ." It is quite evident, on the contrary, that this is not only not the truth which all recognize when stated, but altogether inconsistent with the Bible, with all books, and with all experience. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. They would not even recognize them on the street as existing. We have the church, but even when the expression "church" occurs, it is the church altogether vaguely, as inHebrews 2:12; Hebrews 2:12, or viewed in the units that compose it not at all in its unity. The death of Christ is sufficient once and for all. The word he uses is skia ( G4639) , the Greek for a shadow, and it means a nebulous reflection, a mere silhouette, a form without reality. Hebrews 10:36 New International Version 36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. 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 a similar reason we never find life treated in the epistle, nor righteousness. Hey, you're not calling the shots! Christ is doing nothing there to take away sin; nor when He comes again will He touch the question of sin, because it is a finished work. In these consists our double present association by faith, while on the earth. This new covenant is predicated upon the promises of God, and God is faithful who has made these promises to you. The world is full of discouragers; we have a Christian duty to encourage one another. The grounds why Canaan could not consistently be made prominent in this epistle as a present thing, but only as a hope, we have already seen. But here is One who proffers Himself to come, and does come. Moffatt speaks of "the levitical drudges" who, day in day out, kept offering these sacrifices. 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. It was therefore necessary that the representations of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the Holy of Holies by the blood of Jesus ( Hebrews 10:19 ), I can enter in where He entered in, right in to the presence of the Father. And if you are one with Christ then you are making Christ a partaker and bringing Him as one with a harlot." We can understand, therefore, both the delicacy that thus entreated them, and the meaning of the added words, "for also in few words I have written to you." [Note: Cf. The promise is good, but the . "Through faith he instituted the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. Before the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle hung the veil to screen off the presence of God. It is the assembly composed of certain individuals that make it up, regarded either as brethren, as in the second chapter ("In the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee"), or as the church of the first-born ones, as in Hebrews 12:1-29, persons who drew their title from Christ the first-born Heir. But instead of leaping upon the princess, it met the unsheathed sword of the prince. Language Tools. He does not mean by this the worst of sinners, but saving believers to the uttermost, bringing through every difficulty those "that come unto God by him." He encourages them to this by assuring them that the reward of their holy confidence would be very great. 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 may then be stated summarily, in few words, unless I am greatly mistaken, that the word should always be translated "covenant" in every part of the New Testament, except in these two verses; namely, Hebrews 9:16-17. God honoured the son for the father's sake. "But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, nor by blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood entered in once into the holies, having obtained eternal redemption." But although it will be the shaking of all things, not of earth only but also heaven, yet, marvellous to say, such confidence of heart does grace give, that this, which may be regarded as the most awful threat, turns into a blessed promise. You are the one that puts the ending on the story. Jesus is the substance that casts the shadow. The first chapters of Acts describe that thousands of Jews came to believe. Show 12 24 36 per page Preaching Use Your Head 5 24 2030 Tozer on August 7th, 2018 - Preaching Use . There had been a time when those to whom this letter was written had been up against it. Over a month, we're looking at verses 19 to 25. It carries a present reward in it, in holy peace and joy, and much of God's presence and his power resting upon them; and it shall have a great recompense of reward hereafter. None but the Old Testament saints, as a class, can all be in the separate state: not the church, or New Testament saints, for we shall not all sleep; nor the millennial saints, for none of them will die. He presses them to perseverance, by telling them that this is their distinguishing character and will be their happiness; whereas apostasy is the reproach, and will be the ruin, of all who are guilty of it (Hebrews 10:38; Hebrews 10:39): Now the just shall live by faith, c. As far as the soul is concerned, Christ would not go up to heaven until sin was abrogated before God. Those who begin to waver in matters of Christian faith and practice are in danger of falling away. Oh how happy is the man to whom God does not impute iniquity." It is a fearful thing to fall in the hands of the living God ( Hebrews 10:30-31 ). (196) This then is the only way or means by which we can firmly and constantly advance; we shall not otherwise obey God, nor even enjoy the promised inheritance, which is here by metonymy called the promise. In short, Christians will never advance two paces without fainting, except they are sustained by patience. There was but one such Priest. Such is the emphasis. This is precisely what modern research amounts to. When does it first appear? To profess this hope is to be saved. These things stand alone. Plug in, Turn on and Be En light ened! It should be translated covered. You're trying to bargain with God or come to God on your terms, and it can't be done. 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. The Lord has waited, but the days of waiting are almost over. In this passage his thoughts are going back to the grim instruction in Deuteronomy 17:2-7. it is there laid down that, if any person shall be proved to have gone after strange gods and to have worshipped them, "you shall bring forth to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones. For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself, and all the people, saying, "This [is] the blood of the covenant which God hath enjoined unto you. (2.) He presses the fact of a new principle, as well as an institution established on better promises, upon the Jews. NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Hebrews 10:1-10 1For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near. 129.] The favourite thought is "development;" and so they hold a development or genesis of matter, not a creation: matter continually progressing, in various forms, until at last it has progressed into these wise men of our day. 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. To what, then, is the allusion to the sanctuary applied? For assuredly if Jewish children honoured their father and mother on legal grounds, much more ought Christian children on grounds of grace. If you believe in Christ at all, such is your portion nothing less. As to the outer man also, we must learn to what we are called now. It is no longer effective. Nor does it seem so natural for any as the great apostle to inform them of his child and fellow-labourer: "Know that the brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come pretty soon, I will see you. To "hold unswervingly" to this hope is to live according to it. The reference here I cannot but regard as exclusively to the two houses of Israel. Hence they apply some terms to the work of God in nature similar to what they apply to His work in grace. Thus Melchisedec, "whose descent is not of Aaron nor of Levi," like Jesus, "received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises!" He sits there not merely as the proof of the perfectness with which He has purged our sins by Himself alone, but as the Priest; and accordingly it is not merely said "on high," but "in the heavens." By abandoning meeting together, believers can drift away and cease to thrive. If you have and prize one alone, you have only got the half of Christianity yea, of its foundations. They must draw near to God. I am accepted in Jesus Christ. He presses them to perseverance by putting them in mind of their former sufferings for Christ: But call to mind the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions,Hebrews 10:32; Hebrews 10:32. Stevenson said that he so believed in the ultimate decency of things that if he woke up in hell he would still believe in it; and we must have a grip on the faith that nothing can loosen. They were the only ones that used the Hebrew language. These, when convicted by two or three witnesses, were put to death; they died without mercy, a temporal death. He has nothing more to do with sin; He will judge man who rejects Himself and slights sin. We are not come to Sinai, the mountain that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and a voice more terrible than that of the elements. And then, in the centre of all, we have God Himself. Here, (1.) But he offered one single sacrifice for sin and then took his seat for ever at the right hand of God, and for the future he waits until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet. (ii) We need fortitude. Its purpose is not . To mount Zion. It is once and for all. And the apostle shows that we need not only a perfect pattern in the walk of faith, but chastenings by the way. He is "minister of the holies and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not of man." 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. Hebrews 9:9,11,23 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; Colossians 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. V. Having mentioned these means of establishment, the apostle proceeds, in the close of the chapter, to enforce his exhortations to perseverance, and against apostasy, by many very weighty considerations, Hebrews 10:26; Hebrews 10:27, c. 1. God alone who spake it into being can pronounce upon it. 36 Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. In addition to giving his people the promise of his power, God demands that they exercise self-discipline and effort. camp, bearing his reproach." The reason I take to be, that the apostle meets the Jewish believer where he is, as much as possible giving credit for what was really true in the Old Testament saints, and so in the Jewish mind. How they had suffered. Let them not throw it away. For it is a good thing that the heart be established in grace." But then comes far more definite instruction, and, beginning with Abraham, the details of faith. These characteristics he proves to be really found in Christ Himself. The writer to the Hebrews quotes it differently and in the second line he has: The explanation is that he was not quoting from the original Hebrew but from the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament. 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? Had he merely referred to the covenant ( i.e. Lectionary Calendar. Click to Sign Up Now! Ease has ruined far more men than trouble ever did. Men who have seemed before to have the blood of Christ in high esteem may come to account it an unholy thing, no better than the blood of a malefactor, though it was the world's ransom, and every drop of it of infinite value. [1.] it has been said that a saint is someone in whom Christ stands revealed; we can seek ever to incite others to goodness by showing them Christ. But these things were ineffective to remove the real pollution of sin. 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. They felt that the people should have the Bible in a language they could understand, and so they translated the Old Testament scriptures into Greek. This I take to be a general description of the scene of glory for which Abraham looked. The victory comes only to the man who holds on. There we find these two facts. He uses in the most skilful manner the change of the priest, in order to bring along with it a change of the law, the whole Levitical system passing away "but [there is] the bringing in of a better hope." 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