For this, knowing His grace in the work of Christ for them, they do not look; on the contrary, they rest in the assurance of the perfection with which their sins are effaced by the precious blood of Christ. It is no definition of what it is to believe, but a description of the qualities of faith. Then we have the other patriarchs introduced, yet chiefly as regards earthly hopes, but not apart from resurrection, and its connection with the people of God here below. There are certain surroundings which indicate to the competent eye when the word "covenant" is right and when the word "testament" is better. Anyone who regards the law of Moses as a dead letter dies without pity on the evidence of two or three witnesses. This I take to be a general description of the scene of glory for which Abraham looked. Here the meaning is the saving of one's daily life (He 10:32-39). may so far have sensible evidence of what exists now; but it is only God who can tell me that He in the beginning caused to be that which now is. It became us to have a Priest, "holy, harmless, undefiled, made higher than the heavens.". The greatest context of any book of the Bible is the "argument of the book." For example, the argument of Romans is "the righteousness of God." In various forms the root dike(right) occurs 60 times. He may believe that he does not need the Church or that he is intellectually beyond the standard of preaching there. He will soon come to judgment, and put an end to the sufferings of the whole church (all his mystical body), and give them an ample and glorious reward in the most public manner. Every night a thousand priestesses would come into the city of Corinth from the Acropolis above Corinth, the temple there of Aphrodite. That is, he sought carefully with tears the blessing given to Jacob; but there was no room left for repentance, simply in the sense of change of mind; for, I suppose, the word here has that sense, which sometimes, no doubt, it has. (4.) Verse 36. [3.] And observe that it is assumed to be so common and obvious a maxim that it could not be questioned. 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. So really, you have to put the ending on the story yourself. David Guzik is the pastor of Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara, California. The athlete will make his great effort because the goal beckons him on. At the end of the day it is not all one for the good and the bad man alike. It's complete, the cleansing in the blood of Jesus Christ is complete, and the blood of Jesus Christ God's Son cleanses. This is precisely what modern research amounts to. He beholds them with great displeasure; they are an offence to him. He is my sin offering. Hebrews 10:19-25 is an encouraging bridge between two major sections of the book of Hebrews. (2.) The difference is very great. It is a fearful thing to fall in the hands of the living God ( Hebrews 10:30-31 ). He faced it all with gallantry and emerged erect and unbroken. Thus Melchisedec, "whose descent is not of Aaron nor of Levi," like Jesus, "received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises!" 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. 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. For now God came out, so to speak, in His own power and grace, and, in the person of Christ on the cross, put away sin abolished it from before His face, and set the believer absolutely free from it as regards judgment. Here observe, (1.) What a glorious thing, that continual cleansing by Jesus Christ. So, we have been sanctified through the body of Jesus Christ. God is willing to dwell with men on earth, and to have them dwell with him in heaven; but fallen man cannot dwell with God without a high priest, who is the Mediator of reconciliation here and of fruition hereafter. 11.]. He does not draw attention here to the account, that there was only blessing from man to God, and from God to man. That was their danger.Don't underestimate how deeply rooted traditions are, especially among the Jewish people, and even to the present day. Then you will receive all that he has promised. Instead of pining after that which is about to be destroyed, or repining at the call to go out to the place of Christ's shame on earth, Christianity, which replaces Judaism now, may well cause us to offer "the sacrifice of praise to God continually." Looking up, she saw silhouetted in the evening sky not the form of a tiger, but of a man, who vaulted down into the pit. He may have friends who have no use for that kind of thing and may fear their criticism and contempt. There is nothing to divert the heart from Christ, the great High Priest in the heavens. 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. About 270 B.C. But the Holy Ghost's testimony is not forgotten. The lamb will do nothing. 3. That can't be. For the sacrifice of Jesus Christ is complete. It is no longer effective. In order that in this body, He might become the perfect, complete sacrifice for man. Hence, therefore, he now introduces us "to the spirits of just men made perfect." When Caesar was murdered he faced his assassins with almost disdainful courage. "With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself. 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. Then by accident he discovered who it was who had laid information against him--it was his own son. How much worse will be the punishment of those who have experienced the grace of God through Christ, yet deliberately reject and disown it (28-31).The writer encourages his readers not to forsake Christ, by reminding them of what they have suffered for his sake. ( Hebrews 10:29 ). First, in God's counsels it was always before Him to have One more than man though a man to deal with this greatest of all transactions. We hold this in the face of difficulties, doubts, and discouragements. In any event the meaning of the two phrases is the same. Earlier verses completed a long, detailed explanation of why the new covenant is superior to the old covenant. But how? In the beginning ofHebrews 11:1-40; Hebrews 11:1-40 we are told what faith is. From their questions and their arguments and their criticisms he said that he had learned that "the greatest handicap the Church has is the unsatisfactory lives of professing Christians." By His one offering we have been perfected forever. For it is a good thing that the heart be established in grace." ; also Hebrews 4:14) of our hope without wavering (, agreeing with "confession"); for he is faithful that promised: and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works; not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one . But if God has changed the heart and if His saving life is "in the vine," the person will repent, endure in faith, and bear fruit unto eternal life. It is the honourable character of just men that in times of the greatest affliction they can live by faith they can live upon the assured persuasion they have of the truth of God's promises. 37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. The Full Assurance of Faith. 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 ). Sinful man cannot have fellowship with a holy God. 23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) 24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Now it is evident that in the Old Testament the distinction was not made between flesh and spirit in the way in which we have it brought out in the general doctrine of Christianity. In its essence sacrifice was a noble thing. The value of the studying of Leviticus and the studying of the law, to the Christian, is that it foreshadows the work of Jesus Christ, the offering of Jesus Christ, and the high priestly nature of Jesus Christ. Social snobbery is bad but spiritual and intellectual snobbery is worse. 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. In fact, they'd probably become a better Jew than they ever were. This supposes the people of God not actually settled in the land, but still pilgrims and strangers on the earth; and the epistle to the Hebrews, we have already seen, looks emphatically and exclusively at the people of God as not yet passed out of the wilderness; never as brought into the land, though it might be on the verge; just entering, but not actually entered. . Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 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. Let him learn his error. He has been proved to be a divine person, and the true royal priest of whom not Aaron only but Melchisedec was the type. You could use this verse to present a "balanced" view of God, like this: "He is a God of grace and He is a God of judgment. 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. To the writer to the Hebrews life was a thing that was on its way to the presence of Christ. Of how much worse punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant [this new covenant], wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite to the Spirit of grace? What infinite thoughts are those that God's word gives; as glorifying for Himself as elevating for our souls! D. The Danger of Willful Sinning (The Fourth Warning) 10:19-39. 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. What, then, is man's actual estate? 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. When you spread forth your hands. 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 Lord is going to come again. [2.] He may shrink from contact with people who are "not like himself." At the same time he exhorts the believers as to their chiefs, that is, those who guided them spiritually. He is all the way through, interwoven in all of the types, in all of the shadows, in all of the books. They wouldn't have to offer animals once a year in the Holy of Holies. Our danger is that to become so involved in this world that we forget the other. From the description he gives of the sin of apostasy. Finally, on the third day the news went out that the prince has passed the crisis and would live. He presses them to persevere, from that recompense of reward that waited for all faithful Christians (Hebrews 10:35; Hebrews 10:35): Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. God then has provided some better thing for us. What fellowship hath light with darkness? With that, he waited silently in the pit until again there was crunching at the top of the pit. By their own confession the application of that Psalm was to the Messiah, and the very point that Jesus urged upon the Jews of His day was this how, if He were David's Son, as they agreed, could He be his Lord, as the Psalmist David confesses? 2. This was in the ways of God the necessary moral consequence of his self-abnegation. (2) Willful sin shall certainly result in eternal destruction. The Christian's present conflict may be sharp, but it will be soon over. There was but One that could do God's will in that which concerned man's deepest wants. Hence the apostle takes care to keep up the real link with the past witnesses for God in faith and suffering, not in ordinances. There remains for them only a certain fearful looking for of judgment, Hebrews 10:27; Hebrews 10:27. In the New Testament, patience is the quality of a person who is reliable and unshakable from his intended objective goals. ", This naturally leads the apostle to bring before them One that never ends "Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday, and today, and for ever." But the bodies of those beasts were burnt without the camp: my place, so far as I in the body am concerned, is one of shame and suffering in this world. And one winter in Capua did what the Roman legions had not succeeded in doing. 271.] We cannot receive the grace of Christ unless we have an unhesitating conviction. God never was pleased with the formal profession and external duties and services of such as do not persevere. No doubt all will be good and right in its due season then. We are brought, then, washed from our sins, to God, and, according to this epistle, into the holiest of all, where He displays Himself. Dick Sheppard spent much of his life preaching in the open air to people who were either hostile or indifferent to the Church. It would be death to attempt to come to God in the way of the covenant of works; but this way we may come to God, and live. He necessarily completes all as the pattern for the Christian. This epistle insists on the blood of Christ, making all to turn on that efficacious work for us. 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 ). One of the highest of human duties is that of encouragement. Attention is drawn to the permanence of His position at the right hand of God. ( Heb 10:29) The Mosaic covenant was ratified with blood; and with that blood both the tabernacle with all its vessels, and the people who worshipped before it, were sanctified, and set apart as holy to the Lord. There are types that suit the mystery when it is revealed, but of themselves they never could make it known, though illustrating particular parts when it is. 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. 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 ). These things stand alone. And my just man shall live by faith; but if he shrinks back, my soul will not find pleasure in him." 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. 4:9; Heb. (1.) We are not men to shrink back from things and so to come to disaster, but we are men of a faith which will enable us to possess our souls. He is evidently gone into the holiest of all in His own person. A good example given to others is the best and most effectual provocation to love and good works. He doesn't have to be crucified over and over. (6) We are not of them that draw back to perdition but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. ], Now was not the time to discard that confidence in a better reward (cf. The mighty intervention of God in grace yea, more than that, forgiveness, deliverance, victory, glory, for the people of God. (3.) There had been a time when those to whom this letter was written had been up against it. ", But again the solemn notice of Jehovah's oath is enlarged on. This is just the closing practical word of the epistle to the Hebrews. Nowhere does the apostle give the smallest occasion for such a thought. They were to be cut off. 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. You can't go back to the old system. (2.) "For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator." The privileges are, 1. It ( ) means "testament" as well as "covenant." Before that he served as director and teacher at Calvary Chapel Bible College, Germany, following more than 20 years of pastoral ministry. Christianity does not demand the impossible; but if we were always as honest, as kind, as courageous, as courteous as we can be, life would be transformed. This is the fact. . 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