In short, the word in itself may mean either; but this is no proof that it may indifferently or without adequate reason be translated both ways. (i) We need to keep our hope before us. It is a living way. ". Professors may go a great way, and after all draw back; and this drawing back from God is drawing on to perdition: the further we depart from God the nearer we approach to ruin. David has been happy to be part of the Blue Letter Bible . Consequently, when He comes again to them that look for Him, it is simply to bring them into all the eternal results of that great salvation. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is witness to us: for after he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their hearts, and their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more ( Hebrews 10:15-17 ). But this essential difference separates between the city for which Abraham looked and the bride so symbolised in the Apocalypse. He abolishes the kind of offerings referred to in the first quotation in order to establish the kind of offering referred to in the second. Before Jesus came, there was no question of it among the Jews. He may, therefore, try to be a secret disciple; but it has been well said that this is impossible because either "the discipleship kills the secrecy or the secrecy kills the discipleship." When you spread forth your hands. And they baked it into bread and offered it unto God.Finally, I could offer the peace offering, which was communion. I am accepted in Jesus Christ. But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased." The writer to the Hebrews has taken the words of the psalm and put them into the mouth of Jesus. The sacrifice acceptable to, God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou, "For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge. This was in the ways of God the necessary moral consequence of his self-abnegation. For there is seen not only the proof that the Messiah is the One whom God pronounced by an oath "a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec," but the glorious seat He has taken at the right-hand of God is now worked into this magnificent pleading. Thus the power of what Christ had wrought was now brought in for future ends; it was not merely retrospective, but above all in present efficacy while the Jews refuse Christ. It only covered their sins. 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." Totally forgiven by your commitment of your life to Jesus Christ, or if you fail, then the death from which He died to save you will come and there will be no hope of any escape. Every man carries with him his own secret shrine, but so many forget to enter it. But the higher the privilege, the greater the danger of either despising or perverting it. To those who believe this he will be precious. Through that the way was once and for all opened up for us. It is sinning wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, sinning wilfully against that truth of which we have had convincing evidence. 1:16 in my chains, and # Matt. Verse 36 and through the end of this chapter conclude the fourth great exhortation of Hebrews. Attention is drawn to the permanence of His position at the right hand of God. It was for all men, not only for the respectable classes, that Christ died. So really, you have to put the ending on the story yourself. This was the very thing that these Jewish Christians were shrinking, from, if not rebelling against. Viewed from the perspective of the homiletical and literary structure of Hebrews, this concluding exhortation is symmetrical with the preliminary exhortation found in Hebrews 5:11 to Hebrews 6:20 . And observe that it is assumed to be so common and obvious a maxim that it could not be questioned. 2. 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. 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. 36 Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. 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.". 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. They must draw near in holy dependence, and in a strict observance of the divine conduct towards them. True, the apostle John uses this very city as the figure of the bride. ", But now, returning from this striking instance of Paul's habit of going off at a word ( ), let us resume the regular course of the apostle's argument. 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. "There was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called holy. Christ Himself could not add to the perfectness of that sacrifice by which He has put away sin. The sin here mentioned is a total and final falling away, when men, with a full and fixed will and resolution, despise and reject Christ, the only Saviour; despise and resist the Spirit, the only . This will make a rich amends for all they can lose and suffer here. 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. Perfection cannot be improved upon. 36.For ye have need of patience, etc. So here the Psalms acquire a meaning self-evidently true, the moment Christ is brought in, who is the truth, and nothing less. 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 They may be cleansed from guilt, from filth, from sinful fear and torment, from all aversion to God and duty, from ignorance, and error, and superstition, and whatever evils the consciences of men are subject to by reason of sin. Nor is it that redemption only is denied, but creation also; so that there is very great importance in maintaining the rights and the truth of God in creation. He will soon come to them at death, and put an end to all their sufferings, and give them a crown of life. Christianity turns everything to account. But over in the corner, and almost drowned in his own blood, was their beloved prince, and next to him a tiger that had been killed.They lifted him out of the pit and carried him back to town and called the best physicians in the kingdom. All through this, one thing comes out. Since such a way of access and return to God is opened, it would be the greatest ingratitude and contempt of God and Christ still to keep at a distance from him. It is evident that in these we have the two main parts of Christianity. It is not only that we believe it, but we understand it thereby. He is faithful to us-ward, he is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" ( 2 Peter 3:9 ). They are kept busy all day long offering one sin offering after another; one meal offering after another as the various people came in. The appeal of the writer to the Hebrews is one that could be made to every man. 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. 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. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word. Few writers have such a sense of the sheer horror of sin. such power and prosperity as, was never reached again. If we examine the historical facts as found in the Old Testament story, what is it rises up before all eyes as to Zion? . This leads him, from speaking of Esau's case, to add as a known fact, that afterward, when he desired to have inherited the blessing he was rejected (for he found no place of repentance), though he sought it carefully with tears. The fact is, that love of uniformity may mislead some, as love of variety misled our English translators too often. ( 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. He has not been of by the reader before; he is never heard of again in history. Once He came they were no longer necessary, no longer necessary to have the shadows, for we now have the substance in Jesus. Hebrews 10:26 the justice of which is argued from the less to the greater; that if the transgressors of the law of Moses had no mercy shown them, but died when there were proper and sufficient witnesses of their crimes, then such must be deserving of a far greater punishment, who treat with the greatest rudeness the person of the Son of God, and Thus the only time when he comes into notice he is acting in the double capacity here spoken of: King of righteousness as to his name, King of Salem as to his place, blessing Abraham on his return from the victory over the kings of the Gentiles in the name of the Most High God, and blessing the Most High God the possessor of heaven earth in the name of Abraham. His deliverance was strange; still more his decision and its results. "For how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?" They had not made up their minds to suffer: to be despised was odious in their eyes. The answer is, that the language is peculiar and precise in these same two verses, requiring not a covenant but a testament, and therefore the sense of testament here is the preferable one, and not covenant. The reference is therefore plain and sure. (3.) And here we are favoured with a magnificent picture of Christianity in contrast with Judaism. Anyone who regards the law of Moses as a dead letter dies without pity on the evidence of two or three witnesses. For what did the Jews wait in hope? before God on high? It is not merely that which goes on quietly waiting for the accomplishment of the counsels of God. The apostle takes particular notice how they had sympathized with him (Hebrews 10:34; Hebrews 10:34): You had compassion on me in my bonds. iii. Sin is the failure to realize the sacredness of that sacrifice upon the Cross. The burnt offerings were offerings of consecration where I would consecrate my life to God. 25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage .read more. ( 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. If that does not take place, then the second thing that will happen concerning your sins is that you will stand before God and be judged, and your sins will condemn you.Years ago, I was told the story of a wonderful prince, the heir to the kingdom, who had married a wife who proved to be undeserving of him and of his love. He is my sin offerer. 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. And I know many, many Jews that would become Christians, but they are afraid they would no longer be a Jew. Grace be with you all. 34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. His purpose utterly failed to secure the blessing for his profane but favourite son. IV. I may, of course, see what is before my eyes, and. These things stand alone. That may have a higher character, these a lower; but even the highest is never to supersede or make us forgetful of the lowest. 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? To the writer to the Hebrews life was a thing that was on its way to the presence of Christ. II. 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. When first they had become Christians they had known persecution and plundering of their goods; and they had learned what it was to become involved with those under suspicion and unpopular. 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. None but a heavenly Priest would suffice for the counsels He has in hand. Apostasy is the mark and the brand of those in whom God takes no pleasure; and it is a cause of God's severe displeasure and anger. 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. The writer to the Hebrews makes a quotation from Habakkuk 2:3. There are congregations which are as much clubs as they are churches. They had looked for advance and triumph and peace and prosperity everywhere; on the contrary, they had come into reproach and shame, partly in their own persons, partly as becoming the companions of others who so suffered. And is he better or safer that slights the sacrifice of the Son of God, and goes back either to earthly sacrifices or to lusts of flesh, giving a loose rein to sin, which is expressly what the Son of God shed His blood to put away? It was accomplished in Christ, exalted as the great Melchisedec in heaven. 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. and made it still more manifest and heinous. Let us hold fast to the undeviating hope of our creed, for we can rely absolutely on him who made the promises; and let us put our minds to the task of spurring each other on in love and fine deeds. The severest and final trial of Abraham's faith was giving up the son, in whom all the promises were infolded, to receive him back on a resurrection ground in figure. The Holy Spirit speaks within us, telling us what is right and wrong, seeking to check us when we are on the way to sin and to spur us on when we are drifting into lethargy. But then comes far more definite instruction, and, beginning with Abraham, the details of 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. . 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. With the attribute of true patience, not only can one overcome spiritual afflictions but he can also experience these troubled times with joy. Before that he served as director and teacher at Calvary Chapel Bible College, Germany, following more than 20 years of pastoral ministry. In the volume of the book it is written of Me." 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. Plug in, Turn on and Be En light ened! It's complete, the cleansing in the blood of Jesus Christ is complete, and the blood of Jesus Christ God's Son cleanses. These, when convicted by two or three witnesses, were put to death; they died without mercy, a temporal death. Thus does the apostle reason on it: "For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh" (which the Jew would not contest): "how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to do religious service to the living God? Hebrews 6:10-12). 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. For not merely did David receive from Jehovah that throne, but never were the people of God lifted out of such a state of distress and desolation, and placed on such a height of firm and stable triumph as under that one man's reign. Thus it is evident that the introduction of the last trial of Abraham was of all possible moment to every one that stood in the place of a son of Abraham. They have access to God, light to direct them, liberty of spirit and of speech to conform to the direction; they have a right to the privilege and a readiness for it, assistance to use and improve it and assurance of acceptance and advantage. ( Micah 6:6-8). But if people and priest and king were proved thus vain, God was there, and His grace could not fail. The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God for ever after the order of Melchisedec. The text explains wherein consists the perpetual efficacy of Christ's sacrifice, and the reason why it needs no repetition while the world lasts. 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. General Search for 'Hebrews 9:4-:' within 'New American Standard Version' on StudyLight.org. They really mar the sense, because they draw attention not to the truth in itself so much as its application to us, which is not the point in Hebrews 9:1-28, but rather ofHebrews 10:1-39; Hebrews 10:1-39. All the effort of Christendom is first to deny the one, and then to escape from the other. If you believe in Christ at all, such is your portion nothing less. He may believe that he does not need the Church or that he is intellectually beyond the standard of preaching there. As, 1. Here ye must be workers together with God. As they are companions, so do they test a walk with God; one is faith, the other is suffering. 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. (2.) This is a different way of looking at His session there. "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holies by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; and having an high priest over the house of God; 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. As the rending of the Tabernacle veil opened the way to the presence of God, so the rending of the flesh of Christ revealed the full greatness of his love and opened up the way to him. These two last verses bear witness to the grace of God in redemption. I mean his sins now; not sin as a principle, but in fact, though it be only for faith. But notice we are to hold fast the profession of our hope because "he is faithful" that promised. He said, "No, I have come to prove to you how much I've always loved you. Here's a letter to help them keep going. By abandoning meeting together, believers can drift away and cease to thrive. The hill of Zion up to this time had been the constant menace of the enemy against the people of the Lord; but in due time, when David reigned, it was wrested out of the hands of the Jebusites, and became the stronghold of Jerusalem, the city of the king. It was therefore never something that could be allowed to drift; it was its end which made the process of life all important, and only the man who endured to the end would be saved. 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. He has brought in redemption in present accomplishment, and at the same time He has given scope for a brighter hope, founded on His mighty work on the cross, measured by Christ's glory as its present answer at the right hand of God. 10:11-18 Again, every priest stands every day engaged upon his service; he stands offering the same sacrifices over and over again, and they are sacrifices of such a kind that they can never take away sins. He is only one of a series of existing objects, and consequently never can rise above that in his own nature. Then he shows us others higher than these, by a divine call "and to the church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven." The addition of this last clause as a necessary condition confirms the sense assigned. [2.] [All that remains is] the certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries ( Hebrews 10:27 ). 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. In the most admirable manner he proves that this was what God was all along waiting for. It is not implied that they may not sin, or that they have no consciousness of their failure, either past or present. 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. 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. He took himself and said to God: "Do with me as you will." Then he descends to a new or fresh covenant (not , as elsewhere, but ), the recently inaugurated covenant for the two houses of the ancient people. This is the point of the next chapters (He 11 and 12). The first chapters of Acts describe that thousands of Jews came to believe. It is not so much the power but the love of God which must conquer in the end. The wise men of the present day are fast giving up the truth of creation. [Note: Ibid., p. The grace or principle of patience comes from God; the use and exercise of that grace is of yourselves. 4. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Hebrews 10:19-36 Dr. Grant C. Richison The most important principle of interpretation is the context. The gracious Lord gives and designs that we should take His own place both in heaven and here. The greater part of the affections of the Christian are drawn out toward our Saviour by all this scene of sin and sorrow through which we are passing on to heaven. 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. 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