I am made righteous through Jesus Christ. Every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins ( Hebrews 10:11 ): So they're busy. "Then would they not have ceased to be offered?". And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest." It is a new way, both in opposition to the covenant of works and to the antiquated dispensation of the Old Testament; it is via novissima--the last way that will ever be opened to men. He is thinking of the Second Coming of Christ when things as we know them will be ended. 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. Moffatt speaks of "the levitical drudges" who, day in day out, kept offering these sacrifices. with Him in this place of nearness. Then there was the meal offering, which was the consecration of my service to God as I brought the grain that I had cultivated and grown. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. They must draw near by conversion, and by taking hold of his covenant. It echoes former warnings (cf. (3.) For men to enter into that presence the veil would have to be torn apart. "He suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust," says another apostle, "that he might bring us" not to pardon, nor to peace, nor to heaven, but "to God." They must draw near in humble adorations, worshipping at his footstool. And again, pointing not to our faithfulness, but the faithfulness of God. For ye have need of patience: Every Christian needs patience to be able to endure physical, mental, or spiritual difficulties. the sense of the word which had been used before), what would be the aim of the "also?" And how dreadful then will their case be! This shows that, beyond question, among the Jews of that day, Psalms 110:1-7 was understood to refer to the Christ alone. "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp." Every hour a bulletin went out throughout the kingdom telling of the condition of the prince as he fought the battle for life. The conviction of the writer to the Hebrews was that, if under the old law, apostasy was a terrible thing, it had become doubly terrible now that Christ had come. Attack by an enemy he could bear; attack by one whom he loved killed him. Read xodo 40:5 bible commentary from Treasury of Scripture Knowledge by Samuel Bagster FREE on BiblePortal.com At that very moment therefore the tide begins to turn. 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." StudyLght.org. (1.) 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. And they baked it into bread and offered it unto God.Finally, I could offer the peace offering, which was communion. (i) He stresses the achievement of Jesus. They were afflicted in themselves. Jesus is everything to me. that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise: The doing and the receiving Paul speaks of here are in the future, and both require the Christians patience and steadfastness in obedience to the will of God. You can have Cooper's Town and everything else. Nothing but absolute establishment of heart in God's grace could have gazed on a destroyed universe, and yet call it a "promise." They were afflicted in their estates, by the spoiling of their goods, by fines and forfeitures. At the beginning of this passage he says: "You did not desire sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt-offerings and sin-offerings and you took no pleasure in them," and it is such offerings as these that the law prescribes. No other seat was suitable to such a One. 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. 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. Psalms 110:1-7, which, as all the Jews owned, spoke., throughout its greater part at least, of the Messiah and His times, shows us Jehovah Himself by an oath, which is afterwards reasoned on signifying that another priest should arise after a different order from that of Aaron. 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. (i) Jesus is the living way to the presence of God. (Even though chapter 11 is primarily exposition, it is full of application.) Accordingly, then, as suiting this pilgrim-path of the Christian, the tabernacle is referred to, and not the temple. 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. Along with it there was offered a meat-offering, which consisted of one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of pure oil. Were it a question of the mystery of Christ the Head, and of the church His body, this would not be proved from the Old Testament, which does not reveal it at all. He draws attention to the well-known rites of the atonement day; at any rate, if not of that day exclusively, wherever there was a beast the body of which was burnt without the camp, and the blood carried within the veil. 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. the Bible StudyLight org. If God's word be true, and to this the Spirit adheres, the blood of Christ has thus perfectly washed away the sins of the believer. They were to leave the dead to bury their dead; and they did so. That we should observe the approaching of times of trial, and be thereby quickened to greater diligence: So much the more, as you see the day approaching. THE THREAT AT THE HEART OF THINGS ( Hebrews 10:26-31 ). (1.) The NT does not reject the notion that Christians will receive rewards, though, of course, that is never the prime motive for service." A man might be able to direct an enquirer to Buckingham Palace and yet be very far from having the right to take him into the presence of the Queen; but Jesus can take us the whole way. Apply it to Christ's death as the testator, and nothing can be plainer or more forcible. He may try to be what Moffatt called "a pious particle," a Christian in isolation. [Note: Thomas, p. Patience and perseverance are nearly the same. "For how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?" On these things I need not now dwell farther than to characterize all, from Abraham inclusively, as the patience of faith. It is true, He does not always call at once into the place of reproach and suffering. 37 "For in just a little while, the Coming One will come and not delay. Therefore all such recurring sacrifices only call sins to remembrance; but what the blood of Christ has done is so completely to blot them out, that God Himself says, "I will remember them no more. Condemnation, darkness, death. Of this destruction God gives some notorious sinners, while on earth, a fearful foreboding in their own consciences, a dreadful looking for it, with a despair of ever being able either to endure or escape it. ", The next point proved is the indisputable superiority of the Melchisedec priesthood to that of Aaron, of which the Jews naturally boasted. Thus God ordained in Moses's law; and hence the apostle infers the heavy doom that will fall upon those that apostatize from Christ. no mention of family or ancestors, "having neither beginning of days, nor end of life" neither is recorded in scripture; "but made like unto the Son of God, abideth a priest continually. He is showing us the efficacy of Christ's death. One of the highest of human duties is that of encouragement. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. It became God that Christ should go down to the uttermost; it became us that He should be exalted to the highest. He is evidently gone into the holiest of all in His own person. Let men who can see only look there, and what will be found? If you say," For where a covenant is, there must also of necessity be the death of the covenanter" the person. The lamb will do nothing. From this point on in the epistle the writer made application from the great truths concerning Jesus Christ that he had now finished explaining. (4.) 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 (3.) There it was more particularly the activity of faith; here it is the suffering of faith. Christians ought to observe the signs of the times, such as God has foretold. 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. But if people and priest and king were proved thus vain, God was there, and His grace could not fail. Christendom precisely takes the middle ground of Judaism between these two extremes. Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? The writer here declares his confidence in them. (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. "" Be a Godly-trained disciple: (7) "Don't throw away your confidence" Hebrews 10:32-36 Pastor Florence Luo . It is quite legitimate to employ it in an fortiori way, as the apostle does in Ephesians 6:1-24. The epistle sets before us the seat of glory prepared on high; the Revelation speaks of the bride represented as a glorious golden city with figures beyond nature. 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. They must draw near in all holy conversation, like Enoch walking with God. Now the just shall live by faith: and if any man draw back, [God said] my soul shall have no pleasure in them. They would not even recognize them on the street as existing. 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. In short, Christians will never advance two paces without fainting, except they are sustained by patience. In these consists our double present association by faith, while on the earth. ( 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. The cynical voices may try to take our faith away; the materialist and his arguments may try to make us forget God; the events of life may conspire to shake our faith. It is "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us (Romans 5:1-5). 10:1-10 Because the law is only a pale shadow of the blessings which are to come and not a real image of these things, it can never really fit for the fellowship of God those who seek to draw near to his presence with the sacrifices which have to be brought year by year and which go on for ever. So, we have been sanctified through the body of Jesus Christ. 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. Patience is stressed as the opposite of that impatience which began to develop in the hearts of many who expected that the Lord should have come already. It was not only that there had been at the beginning such a priest, but that fact became the form of a glorious anticipation which the Holy Ghost holds out for the latter day. In its ordinary usage, it has a much deeper force. Actually, he is saying we should gather together all the more as we see the day of the Lord approaching. There we find these two facts. The wise men of the present day are fast giving up the truth of creation. It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Up to this time man was the object of those ways; it was simply, and rightly of course, a probation. ", Having laid this as the first application of faith, the next question is when man fell, how was he to approach God? 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. 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. Here it is the proof of the perpetual efficacy of the sacrifice of Christ. He said, "No, I have come to prove to you how much I've always loved you. (iii) Jesus is the one person who can really cleanse. He necessarily completes all as the pattern for the Christian. Nothing but stupid, obstinate, unbelieving prejudice, after the appearance of the Lord Jesus, could have suggested any other application of the Psalm. You took no pleasure in whole burnt-offerings and in sin-offerings. He may infer that there must be; but he never can say that there is. 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."' 1. It is possible to repeat the popular tunes of the day ad infinitum; to a great extent one echoes another. 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. 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. In their names and reputations (Hebrews 10:33; Hebrews 10:33), by many reproaches. But Christendom has wholly failed to profit by the call, and is doomed to perish by a judgment yet more solemn and wide-spread than that which swept away the ancient temple. Do you not discern in this striking combination the distinctive features of Christianity? He is my righteousness. (ii) He stresses the exaltation of Jesus. With a true heart, without any allowed guile or hypocrisy. In Jesus there is at one and the same time the perfect revelation of God and the perfect offering of obedience. Christians are one body, are animated by one spirit, have embarked in one common cause and interest, and are the children of that God who is afflicted in all the afflictions of his people. First of all, "Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. They can trust God, and live upon him, and wait his time: and, as their faith maintains their spiritual life now, it shall be crowned with eternal life hereafter. 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. We are not told the details of what preceded the great week when God made the man and the woman. Would he give up the one that was the type of the true Seed, the progenitor, and the channel of the promised blessing, yea, of the Blesser? Finally, the writer to the Hebrews says that our Christian duty to each other is all the more pressing because the time is short. Obviously far more people in the ancient world read Greek than Hebrew. We hear first of Melchisedec (King of righteousness), next of Salem or peace; without father, without mother, without genealogy. Such is a main point, not ofHebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 4:1-16 only, but of the epistle. Ease has ruined far more men than trouble ever did. 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. 'It was therefore a crisis after the most painful accumulation of evils that weighed on the heart of Israel. From the description we have in the scripture of the nature of God's vindictive justice, Hebrews 10:30; Hebrews 10:30. What it was that enabled them thus to bear up under their sufferings. 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. They wouldn't have to offer animals every day. The manner in which scripture introduces him is such as to furnish a very striking type of Christ. What a glorious thing, that continual cleansing by Jesus Christ. Lane entitled this warning passage "The Peril of Disloyalty to Christ." Then follows the heavenly glory, to which grace naturally leads; then the natural inhabitants of the heavenly land, namely, the angels "and to myriads of angels, the general assembly." 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. Nor is it pleasant to nature. This would be a day of dispersion and temptation to the chosen remnant. But in chapter 8. If, therefore, when you find the word "testament" anywhere else in the authorized version, you turn it into "covenant" in my opinion you will not do amiss. THE FINALITY OF CHRIST ( Hebrews 10:11-18 ). NASB Compact Reference Bible 9780310918868 ? Lectionary Calendar. That after ye have done the will of God - That is, in bearing trials, for the reference here is particularly to afflictions.Ye might receive the promise - The promised inheritance or reward - in heaven. It meant that a man was taking something dear to him and giving it to God to show his love. What fellowship hath light with darkness? And one winter in Capua did what the Roman legions had not succeeded in doing. This is taken out of Psalms 94:1, Vengeance belongs unto me. 37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. It is no definition of what it is to believe, but a description of the qualities of faith. Perseverance is one of the great unromantic virtues. When the apostle Paul, speaks of "the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem," he means the scene of future heavenly blessedness; whereas when John speaks of the new Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God, he means, not where but what we are to be. But this time is not yet come. As a Christian I am now free, by God's will, to go in peace and assurance of His love into the holiest of all yes, now. If the law could show little mercy in such a case, the grace of God views all sin as intolerable. (1.) . Click to Sign Up Now! Here ye must be workers together with God. As the crier stepped forth, he said, "Hear ye, hear ye, the decision of the supreme council." "Conscience of sins" means a dread of God's judging one because of his sins. The "confession" here is our trust in God's promises, of what God eternallyaffords the believer. It became God to give Him to die; for such was our estate by sin that nothing short of His atoning death could deliver us; but, having delivered us, God would make us to be heavenly. Here, (1.) What they say is that God wants not animal sacrifices but obedience to his will. - Let us hold fast the confession (, see Hebrews 3:1, and ref. 4. The shadow, it's not the substance. Amen.". "For every high priest is constituted to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. The answer is, by sacrifice. After all, the telling fact was before them that, whoever wrote the epistle to the Hebrews, it was not a Christian who wrote the book of Genesis, but Moses; and Moses bears witness to the homage which Abram rendered to Melchisedec by the payment of tithes. There is an appointed time for both, and beyond that time he will not tarry, Habakkuk 2:3. (ii) Jesus is the High Priest over God's house in the heavens. By abandoning meeting together, believers can drift away and cease to thrive. He may be ashamed to be seen going to church. It is perfectly true that, if we think of Christ, He was here below absolutely without sin; but He who was without sin in His person, and all His life, had everything to do with sin on the cross, when God made Him to be sin for us. If we live by faith, and die in faith, our souls will be safe for ever. This baptism appears specific to John the Baptist. Accordingly we have the third use of the seat Christ has taken. 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