As far as the soul is concerned, Christ would not go up to heaven until sin was abrogated before God. Thus the Pentateuch and the Psalms bore their double testimony to a Priest superior to the Aaronic. Therefore, don't let any man judge you in respect of meat, or drink, or new moons, or holy days or Sabbath days, for these were all a shadow of things to come, but the substance is Christ.So Christ standing here in this point in history. Here the words "for us" had better be left out. The Hebrews were Jews in Palestine who had got converted upon the preaching of the apostles. In essence the meaning is the same. King James Bible Psalm Chapter 126 Sermon . To exhort one another, to exhort ourselves and each other, to warn ourselves and one another of the sin and danger of backsliding, to put ourselves and our fellow-christians in mind of our duty, of our failures and corruptions, to watch over one another, and be jealous of ourselves and one another with a godly jealousy. This is precisely what modern research amounts to. He acted in faith, not policy. He sat down there as of His own right and title, but nevertheless making a part of His divine glory to be witnessed in, as indeed His person was necessary to make His blood efficacious to the purging of our sins. In order that in this body, He might become the perfect, complete sacrifice for man. They do not belong to heaven like the angels; but God had an eternal purpose, which brought them by an extraordinary favour there. 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. 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 the grand truth itself in its own character. The classic example is what happened to the armies of Hannibal. 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. He saw his error at last, and put his seal on God's original appointment of the matter. 39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. The writer to the Hebrews makes a quotation from Habakkuk 2:3. It is not mere rebelliousness against law; it is the wounding of love. It is no definition of what it is to believe, but a description of the qualities of faith. 37 For, "But my righteous[ b] one will live by faith. For ye have need of patience - They were then suffering, and in all trials we have need of patience. I ask my brethren here if they are looking to God strenuously, earnestly, for themselves and for their children, not to allow but to oppose as their adversary every thing that tends to weaken either of these truths, which are our highest privilege and our truest glory as Christians here below. All that Christians can do in such cases is to be patient - to lie calmly in the hands of God, and submit to his will day by day, and year by year; see James 1:3-4; notes, Romans 5:4. Such is the emphasis. Hebrews 10:36, NASB: For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. The writer here declares his confidence in them. But the apostle takes all this difficulty by the horns, as good as telling them, that their having suffered all this was simply because it is the right road. Now this was under the old covenant, and had it been effective, once being cleansed, they should have no more conscience of sins. "God, I'll do this for You if You'll do this, this and this." 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. Sin separates man from God. Now, this judgment and fiery indignation is going to take place, much of it, during the Great Tribulation. (3.) And of what did Christianity speak? The third point is how to walk with God, and this again is by faith. Jesus said, "In your patience, ye shall possess your souls" (Luke 21:19). And then, in the centre of all, we have God Himself. In their own persons; they were made gazing-stocks, spectacles to the world, angels, and men, 1 Corinthians 4:9. Verse 36 and through the end of this chapter conclude the fourth great exhortation of Hebrews. That is a difficult thought, but what he means is this. Which door? The apostle earnestly insists on them both. It is told that in the days of the Hitler terror there was a man in Germany who was arrested, tried, tortured and put into a concentration camp. Those have done despite unto the Spirit of grace, the Spirit that is graciously given to men, and that works grace wherever it is,--the Spirit of grace, that should be regarded and attended to with the greatest care,--this Spirit they have grieved, resisted, quenched, yea, done despite to him, which is the highest act of wickedness, and makes the case of the sinner desperate, refusing to have the gospel salvation applied to him. "With Hebrews 10:19-39 the great central division of the sermon (Hebrews 5:11 to Hebrews 10:39) is drawn to a conclusion. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? All that such sacrifices can do is to remind a man that he is an uncured sinner and that the barrier of his sin is between himself and God." The battle which Abraham fought, the first recorded one in scripture, is the type of the last battle of this age. Hebrews 10:19-25 is an encouraging bridge between two major sections of the book of Hebrews. Observe, The greatest part of the saints' happiness is in promise. Accordingly, then, as suiting this pilgrim-path of the Christian, the tabernacle is referred to, and not the temple. What comes in between the two? 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. the book of Hebrews A W Tozer preached these messages as part of a 40 sermon series shortly before his death . It is by this way of "the will" that we have been purified through the once and for all offering of the body of Christ. Establish yourselves, for the Lord is waiting for the full fruit of harvest. 36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. In any event the meaning of the two phrases is the same. The writer to the Hebrews now comes to the practical implication of all that he has been saying. 271.] Heaven and earth have not been united, nor have they been in fact possessed for the blessing of man by the power of God, since sin severed between the earth and that which is above it, and the prince of the power of the air perverted all, so that what should have been, according to God's nature and counsels, the source of every blessing, became rather the point from which the guilty conscience of man cannot but look for judgment. [All that remains is] the certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries ( Hebrews 10:27 ). The rest of the chapter brings in, accordingly, the closing scene, when the Lord comes to shake everything, and establish that blessed day. It made a covering for their sins, but it did not put their sins away. At the end of his course there was a still heavier tax on him. This is the point of the next chapters (He 11 and 12). The two extremes, offensive to every lover of the vi media of religious rationalism, must be combined in Christianity and the Christian man, if he is to maintain it unimpaired and pure. Every man carries with him his own secret shrine, but so many forget to enter it. 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. Another great call was, to beware "lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright." Every morning and every evening a male lamb of one year old, without spot and blemish, was offered as a burnt-offering. Because the Holy Ghost bears this witness, and nothing less, to the perfectness of the work of Christ. From the dreadful doom of such apostates. Hebrews 10:36 King James Version 36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. Attention is drawn to the permanence of His position at the right hand of God. 36.For ye have need of patience, etc. Now the just shall live by faith: and if any man draw back, [God said] my soul shall have no pleasure in them. "For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator." If God had reserved the epistle to the Hebrews until after He sent forth His armies and burned up their city, destroying their polity root and branch, it might have been retorted that the Christians valued the Jewish ritual as loner as it was available, and only gave it up when earthly temple and sacrifice and priest were gone. He faced it all with gallantry and emerged erect and unbroken. Others doubtless could speak of their Ararat, their Olympus, their Etna; but which boasted of the true God that loved His people in the way that Zion could? Those who will not enter in this way exclude themselves for ever. From the description we have in the scripture of the nature of God's vindictive justice, Hebrews 10:30; Hebrews 10:30. And for this cause he is mediator of the new covenant, that by means of death, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance." He may be ashamed to be seen going to church. 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. Actually, the families would hold funerals for them. 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.". Those who begin to waver in matters of Christian faith and practice are in danger of falling away. Every now and again the writer to the Hebrews speaks with a sternness that is almost without parallel in the New Testament. On the other hand, if the medicine is ineffective, every time he looks at the bottle he will be reminded that he is ill and that the recommended cure was useless. The manner in which scripture introduces him is such as to furnish a very striking type of Christ. Read full chapter Hebrews 10:36 in all English translations Hebrews 9 Hebrews 11 King James Version (KJV) Public Domain Bible Gateway Recommends 2Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been But the higher the privilege, the greater the danger of either despising or perverting it. "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. 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. 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. If you have and prize one alone, you have only got the half of Christianity yea, of its foundations. The other descendants of Abraham honoured the house of Aaron as Levitical priests; but Abraham himself, and so Levi himself, and of course Aaron, in his loins honoured Melchisedec. He is my sin offerer. "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.". I am not going to enter into any statement of facts as to this now, but there is no truth in its own place more important than that with which the apostle commences in this chapter, namely, that "through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God." The business of religion was to bring a man into a close relationship with God and that is what these sacrifices could never do. This epistle insists on the blood of Christ, making all to turn on that efficacious work for us. What they say is that God wants not animal sacrifices but obedience to his will. This is the meaning of the phrase, not that He will sit there throughout all eternity. So it is said here, "Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. Let blinded Jews turn their sightless eyeballs to the mountain of Sinai. 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. Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 kata sarka greek kata sarka greek. They had not made up their minds to suffer: to be despised was odious in their eyes. If life is the road to Christ none can afford to miss it or to stop half-way. The shadow of Christ is there in the law and in the sacrifices. . In full assurance of faith, with a faith grown up to a full persuasion that when we come to God by Christ we shall have audience and acceptance. [Note: Cf. All within the kingdom rejoiced.In the meantime, the princess had again been incarcerated because the court's judgment had not been executed. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 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. They must draw near in all holy conversation, like Enoch walking with God. For assuredly if Jewish children honoured their father and mother on legal grounds, much more ought Christian children on grounds of grace. It is an idea that superstition hatched, for the purpose of spuriously exalting a clerical order. There are two kinds of sacrifice to which we are now called. 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 ). Next, it is a " counting of the blood of the covenant an unholy thing .". Christians should know this in themselves, they should get the assurance of it in themselves (the Spirit of God witnessing with their spirits), for the assured knowledge of this will help them to endure any fight of afflictions they may be encountered with in this world. For if they could have been perfect sacrifices that had put away the sins then would they not have ceased to be offered? 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. He who has promised is faithful. We must bear in mind that Melchisedec was a man like any other. At first it was (ver. You can have Cooper's Town and everything else. The duty itself--to hold fast the profession of our faith, to embrace all the truths and ways of the gospel, to get fast hold of them, and to keep that hold against all temptation and opposition. But let not the Gentile boast, no less unbelieving no less arrogant, against true Christianity. As the result of enduring the cross, having despised the shame, the word for sitting down here has a remarkably beautiful shade of meaning different from what is given in all the other occurrences. No doubt all will be good and right in its due season then. Man's worst sin culminated in the death of Christ who knew no sin; but in that very death He put away sin. 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. According, to the Jews it was quite impossible, if God had once established a covenant, He could ever change; but the apostle replies that their own prophet is against their theory. 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. Every night a thousand priestesses would come into the city of Corinth from the Acropolis above Corinth, the temple there of Aphrodite. Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? So far from that, in them there is a year by year reminder of sin. And to this the Holy Spirit is our witness, for after he has said: "This is the covenant I will make with them after these days, says the Lord. But what punishment can be sorer than to die without mercy? For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. But having done this, He points us to the place of Christ without the camp. The motive or reason enforcing this duty: He is faithful that hath promised. (2.) (ii) He stresses the exaltation of Jesus. How could this be disputed by one who simply believed Psalms 110:1-7? Perfection cannot be improved upon. He does not reason from the singular circumstance that there was no incense, any more than sacrifice. They were the only ones that used the Hebrew language. There are congregations which are as much clubs as they are churches. Here it is the proof of the perpetual efficacy of the sacrifice of Christ. How happy is the man whose sins and iniquities, God said, I will remember no more. By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And having a high priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart full of assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. We are those that believe to the salvation of our souls.Now the just shall live by faith, and as we go into chapter 11, we're going to get the hallmark of faith, the hall of fame for those who believe. The privileges are, 1. Here ye must be workers together with God. "Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience; in all things willing to live honestly. We have the means prescribed for preventing our apostasy, and promoting our fidelity and perseverance, Hebrews 10:24; Hebrews 10:25, c. He mentions several as, 1. About 270 B.C. Then you will receive all that he has promised. However, the latter part of the quotation, "a body thou hast prepared me," is not as your King James reads, but this was translated from the Septuagint version.The Septuagint version of the scriptures was a Hebrew to Greek translation of the Old Testament that was made by seventy scholars two hundred years before the birth of Christ. One, by your coming to Jesus Christ, they can be totally and completely washed away. Christians ought to value their reputation; and they do so especially because the reputation of religion is concerned: this makes reproach a great affliction. The terrors of the Lord are known both by revelation and reason. Then turning to the princess he said, "Over on your right there is a door, and behind that door there stands your husband, the prince, the one that you betrayed. "In the volume of the book it is written of me" a book which none ever saw but God and His Son. The Consecrated Way; Cautions against Apostasy; Perseverance Inculcated. "And unto the city of the living God, (not of dying David,) the heavenly Jerusalem" (not the earthly capital of Palestine). 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. 10:19-25 Since then, brothers, in virtue of what the blood of Jesus has done for us, we can confidently enter into the Holy Place by the new and living way which Jesus inaugurated for us through the veil-- that is, through his flesh--and since we have a great High Priest who is over the house of God, let us approach the presence of God with a heart wherein the truth dwells and with the full conviction of faith, with our hearts so sprinkled that they are cleansed from all consciousness of evil and with our bodies washed with pure water. The reasons will be given in a moment. 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