The reference is therefore plain and sure. For indeed He was a man as really as any other, though infinitely above man. Now accordingly, by virtue of His death which rent the veil, God and man stand face to face. 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. Thus you see, either corrupt passion on the one hand or profanity on the other, are unsparingly condemned by the grace of God. He had shown the work of Christ and His coming again in glory. In truth, the substratum was the same, and therefore it was not only quite lawful so to call it, but if he had not, the design would have been marred. 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. 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. Here is a summons never to be less than our best; and always to remember that the end comes. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching ( Hebrews 10:25 ). As to the pathway through the wilderness, it had been disposed of inHebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 4:1-16. Nothing but absolute establishment of heart in God's grace could have gazed on a destroyed universe, and yet call it a "promise." 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. There were in the apostles' times, and should be in every age, Christian assemblies for the worship of God, and for mutual edification. This is the point of the next chapters (He 11 and 12). And again, The Lord shall judge his people. They were completely ostracized. When the Messiah was crucified, Judaism was in principle a dead thing: if it was in any sense kept up, it was no more than a decent time before its burial. Christianity is stamped by this, that, in virtue of the blood of Christ, once for all for every believer the way is made manifest into the holiest of all. But now those under the gospel who will not accept of Christ, that they may be saved by him, have no other refuge left them. 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. "God, I'll do this for You if You'll do this, this and this." So the three things: he's trodden under foot the Son of God, counted the blood of Christ as nothing, and has done despite to the Spirit of grace. They wouldn't have to offer animals once a year in the Holy of Holies. For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. The tapestry must be looked on as a whole before the full greatness is disclosed. 5 . If I have an indisputable present title of access into the holiest of all, I must not shrink from the place of ashes outside the camp. But they are completely gone; and therefore at God's right-hand sits down He who is its witness. He is one of the deepest theologians in the New Testament but all his theology is governed by the pastoral instinct. His deliverance was strange; still more his decision and its results. 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. 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.". But He that shall come will come and will not tarry. 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. He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what, does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love. The prophecies, the hopes, all prefigured there in the Old Testament.He speaks here of the burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. (ii) Jesus is the High Priest over God's house in the heavens. 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." ( Hosea 6:6). Jesus alone. Language Tools. He says that they do not give a real image. ( Hebrews 10:1) The law as boldly used here indicates that it is not merely certain types of offering and sacrifices, or selected regulations concerning priests, nor some limited portion of the old covenant that was abrogated by Christ, but the entire system. 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."' This is the meaning of the blood carried within, and of the body burnt without. We can do it by reminding others of their traditions, their privileges, their responsibilities when they are likely to forget them. This is natural and pleasant to the flesh, no doubt; but it is precisely what opposes the whole object of God in Christianity, since Christ went on high till He come again, and therefore the path of faith to which the children of God are called. This blood, being sprinkled on the conscience, chases away slavish fear, and gives the believer assurance both of his safety and his welcome into the divine presence. Hebrews 4:12-16; Hebrews 6:9-20). At first sight every one may have been surprised, especially those that read the New Testament in the language in which God wrote it, at the double meaning of the word which is here translated "covenant." It is not a question of justification here. It is so deeply a part of their tradition that they guard it fiercely. Of this we saw somewhat inHebrews 10:1-39; Hebrews 10:1-39. The death of Christ is sufficient once and for all. God brings forward His choice, David, when the miserable end of Saul and Jonathan saw the Philistines triumphant, and Israel disheartened as they had scarce been beyond that moment. The motive or reason enforcing this duty: He is faithful that hath promised. This, managed with a true gospel spirit, would be the best and most cordial friendship. Let him learn his error. Those who begin to waver in matters of Christian faith and practice are in danger of falling away. A man is ill. A bottle of medicine is prescribed for him. 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. When you spread forth your hands. 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. . 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." In its essence sacrifice was a noble thing. What is the value, the import., of the sacrifice of Christ viewed according to God, and as bearing on His ways? Why turn back to "meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein?". Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God." They must draw near to God, and that in a right manner. 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. There is no further sacrifice. Hebrews 10:36, NLT: Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. Here the apostle warns those that turn their back on Christ's one sacrifice. Verse 36. And I sit down and eat with God the peace offering. All this is a gradual undermining the wall until the whole structure is overthrown. They do not believe that God called all things into being. Here observe, A natural state is a dark state, and those who continue in that state meet with no disturbance from Satan and the world; but a state of grace is a state of light, and therefore the powers of darkness will violently oppose it. (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. 39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. He saw the hypocrisy of their hearts then; and he is greatly provoked when their formality in religion ends in an open apostasy from religion. 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. He does not require to add more to the person and facts of Christ than the Old Testament furnishes, to prove the certainty of Christianity and all its characteristic truths with which he occupies himself in this epistle. There remains no other sacrifice for your sins. Think of the shaking of heaven and earth being a promise! 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. Here, it is plain, we have the chief lineaments of revealed truth. Consider each other to provoke each other to love, to good works, and then not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, in order that we might receive exhortation. So it is said here, "Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. Christ's baptism ( Matthew 3) - This was specific to Jesus and His anointing (commission) to be our Savior and the associated testimony of the Holy Spirit and God. He is not simply a saint who lived a lovely life; not simply a martyr who died an heroic death; not simply a risen figure who returned to company with his friends. For let me say this as a parting word, and I say it advisedly, because of circumstances that might well be before our hearts, no deliverance, however enjoyed, no place of death to law, world, or sin, no privilege of union with Christ, will enable a soul to dispense with the truths contained in this epistle to the Hebrews. If only we were always at our best, life would be very different. He chose "rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward." If the writers concern had been the salvation of those readers who were unbelievers, this would have been an opportune time for him to exhort them to believe in Christ. We begin with His love, and shall end in it without end. The answer is, by sacrifice. If we formed our Christian character practically on such epistles as those to the Ephesians and Colossians alone, depend on it there may not be the hard lines of the law, but there will be very far from the fervent affections which become him who feels the grace of Christ. 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. Christ, therefore, goes into heaven, and will come again apart from sin. Before that he served as director and teacher at Calvary Chapel Bible College, Germany, following more than 20 years of pastoral ministry. During a time of rebellion, she went out and lived in open adultery with the leader of the rebellion. Here observe, (1.) New Living Translation Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. So here he tells them to "follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: looking diligently lest any man lack the grace of God." Finally, the writer to the Hebrews says that our Christian duty to each other is all the more pressing because the time is short. To what then are we come? (Even though chapter 11 is primarily exposition, it is full of application.) We must thankfully acknowledge the compassions our Christian friends have shown for us under our afflictions. Faith brings God into everything. It is not so much the glory of a promising start that the Lord desires as it is the glory of a faithful finish. 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