The one who has patience has set his allegiance to faith and piety even during immense trials and afflictions. He does not think merely for the thrill of intellectual satisfaction but only that he may the more forcibly appeal to men to enter into the presence of God. As we have seen so often, the function of the priest was to build a bridge between man and God. So the writer to the Hebrews says with prophetic vehemence: "The sacrifice of animals is powerless to purify a man and give him access to God. (i) We need to keep our hope before us. 1. He made nothing of himself, because he knew they were God's people. Partly, while you were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, while you became companions of them that were so used ( Hebrews 10:33 ). But if people and priest and king were proved thus vain, God was there, and His grace could not fail. This is the fact. ( Hebrews 10:2 ). Look unto Jesus. In the Revised Standard Version, which is close to the original Hebrew, the passage runs: "Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire; Burnt-offering and sin-offering thou hast not required. Shall I give my, first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin, of my soul?" They may be in neighbourhoods where the social status has come down; and the members who have remained faithful to them would be as much embarrassed as delighted if the poor people in the area came flooding in. There remains, therefore, a sabbath-keeping for the people of God. The text explains wherein consists the perpetual efficacy of Christ's sacrifice, and the reason why it needs no repetition while the world lasts. I should like to ask whether (or how far) all the believers here assembled can take this as their place with simplicity. He is my sin offerer. 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. When it says that Abraham looked for the city, it means a blessed and ordered scene of glory on high, which eclipsed the Holy Land before his eyes. There is a wholeness about the life of Jesus that perhaps we ought to give more thought. This was in the ways of God the necessary moral consequence of his self-abnegation. (iii) Jesus is the one person who can really cleanse. For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise. ", Then he commends the saints to God. He declared, "I have come. 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. It is a living way. 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? 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. For men to enter into that presence the veil would have to be torn apart. 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? (2.) They could not understand how it was they should come into greater trouble than before. Those were now gone from the scene of their trials and labours, of "whom, considering the issue of their conversation, imitate the faith. To everyone it is sometimes given to mount up with wings as eagles; in the moment of the great effort everyone can run and not be weary; but the greatest gift of all is to walk and not to faint. 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. 1. Looking at Jesus, we can say: "That is what God is like." 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. He is only one of a series of existing objects, and consequently never can rise above that in his own nature. At that very moment therefore the tide begins to turn. 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. With the attribute of true patience, not only can one overcome spiritual afflictions but he can also experience these troubled times with joy. Which of these two most commends itself as the unforced meaning of the passage it is for the reader to judge. To remove that threat is to emasculate the faith. The Jews themselves acknowledge that Psalms 110:1-7 must be fulfilled in Christ, in His quality of Messiah. He will submit to the discipline of training because of the end in view. They must draw near in conformity to God, and communion with him, living under his blessed influence, still endeavouring to get nearer and nearer, till they come to dwell in his presence but they must see to it that they make their approach to God after a right manner. of God, rather than burnt offerings." This means that Jesus not only shows us the way to God but also when we get there introduces us to his very 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. But they are completely gone; and therefore at God's right-hand sits down He who is its witness. Had the energetic activity of faith been first noticed, it would have made more of man; but when the heart had been disciplined in quiet endurance, and lowly expectancy from God, then he could be clothed with the energy of the Spirit. (c) He may not go because of conceit. He beholds them with great displeasure; they are an offence to him. They must draw near by conversion, and by taking hold of his covenant. He reasons that, while our parents only chastise us the best way they can (for after all their judgment might not be perfect), the Father of spirits never fails. My trespasses have been put away. So the encouragement is to hold fast the profession; don't waiver. Few writers have such a sense of the sheer horror of sin. He had shown the work of Christ and His coming again in glory. The reasons will be given in a moment. Indeed, at no time will its order be more apparent than at present; for I think there can be little doubt to any unbiassed Christian who enters with intelligence into the Old Testament prophecies, that there is yet to be an earthly sanctuary, and, consequently, earthly priests and sacrifices for Israel in their own land; that the sons of Zadok, as Ezekiel lets us know, will perpetuate the line at the time when the Lord shall be owned to be there, in the person of the true David their King, blessing His people long distressed but now joyful on earth. For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. Verse 36 and through the end of this chapter conclude the fourth great exhortation of Hebrews. And if you are one with Christ then you are making Christ a partaker and bringing Him as one with a harlot." 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. As for the first Adam and all his race, their portion was only death and judgment, because he was a sinner. All he does is to interpret that will, and to apply it to what was wrought on the cross. God meant to have His will done, and thereby a people for Himself capable of enjoying His presence and His nature, where no question of sin or fall could ever enter. ." The writer to the Hebrews began this chapter speaking of faith in the present tense: Now faith is. This was the very difficulty that the Jew pleaded; but now, in point of fact, it was only what the Psalm of Messiah insisted on, the law itself bearing witness of a priest superior to any under the law. About 270 B.C. What was the necessity for a new covenant if the old one would do as well? See how this word, this thought, always predominates in the epistle. He may try to be what Moffatt called "a pious particle," a Christian in isolation. 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." From the dreadful doom of such apostates. For by one offering and for all time he perfectly gave us that cleansing we need to enter into the presence of God. Only Jesus can really cleanse a man. 4. The priests under the law were to wash, before they went into the presence of the Lord to offer before him. ( 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. It is no longer effective. It is the will of Christ that his disciples should assemble together, sometimes more privately for conference and prayer, and in public for hearing and joining in all the ordinances of gospel worship. The priests must go on with their weary routine of animal sacrifice; but the sacrifice of Christ was made once and for all. Unlike others in Genesis, neither parents are recorded, nor is there any hint of descent from him. "Your identification with Christianity really cost you a lot," and it did. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God ( Hebrews 10:6-7 ). 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." Before developing these, the apostle refers to the tabernacle itself in which these sacrifices were offered. That is precisely one of the noblest thoughts of the Old Testament men of God. The context of the New Testament, and the book of Hebrews, indicates that salvation cannot be lost (John 10:28-29). Sin is not disobedience to an impersonal law; it is the wrecking of a personal relationship and the wounding of the heart of the God whose name is Father. But here is One who proffers Himself to come, and does come. He presses them to perseverance by putting them in mind of their former sufferings for Christ: But call to mind the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions,Hebrews 10:32; Hebrews 10:32. I am hopelessly and helplessly lost apart from Jesus Christ. Then, having finished this part of the subject, the apostle turns to another characteristic in believers the mighty power of faith which knows how to draw on God, and breaks through all difficulties. The apostle concludes with declaring his good hope concerning himself and these Hebrews, that they should not forfeit the character and happiness of the just, and fall under the brand and misery of the wicked (Hebrews 10:39; Hebrews 10:39): But we are not, c. as if he had said, "I hope we are not of those who draw back. In all the covenants of scripture the man that makes it has never to die for any such end. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called holy of holies; which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold." He necessarily completes all as the pattern for the Christian. Jesus sits down in perpetuity. He understands our weaknesses: "Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. We may remember how the dying soldier lad looked up at Florence Nightingale and murmured: "You're Christ to me.". On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses he that is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness. He honours the work of Christ, according to His estimate of its efficacy, as it is only according to His counsels about us for Christ's glory. It would have been sufficient had they been able to perfect man. (3.) 5 . Accordingly observe the change of expression. (2.) kata sarka greek kata sarka greek. 4. James has said, "Have patience brethren; establish your souls for the Lord is waiting for the complete fruit of harvest" ( James 5:7 ). divers: Hebrews 11:36-Zechariah :, 1 Peter 1:6-Ruth :, 2 Peter 2:9, Revelation 2:10 Reciprocal: Judges 14:14 - Out of the eater 1 Kings 17:17 - the son of the woman Job 23:10 - he hath Proverbs 18:14 - spirit Proverbs 27:17 - so Proverbs 29:6 - but Ecclesiastes 7:3 - by Daniel 11:35 - to try Habakkuk 3:18 - I will rejoice Matthew 5:12 - Rejoice . Now the just shall live by faith: and if any man draw back, [God said] my soul shall have no pleasure in them. Sincerity is our gospel perfection, though not our justifying righteousness. The difference is very great. This one simple act to hear and or read with your heart the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and believe and trust you will receive the gift of faith that comes from God our Father (Romans 10:17 This text has been the occasion of great distress to some gracious souls they have been ready to conclude that every wilful sin, after conviction and against knowledge, is the unpardonable sin: but this has been their infirmity and error. So far from that, in them there is a year by year reminder of sin. 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." In every point of view, therefore, the superiority of the Melchisedec priest was demonstrated over the line of Aaron. Let us then seek to combine these two things perfect nearness to God, and the place of utter scorn in the presence of man. And this blessed person, single-handed but according to the will of God, accomplishes that will in offering Himself on the cross. (Verses 1-7.). It is implied here that this promise will not be received unless we are patient in our trials, and the prospect of this reward should encourage us to endure them. 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. 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. It is hard to keep clear of both. To profess this hope is to be saved. Those who know the joy that results from the favour of God can thereby judge of the power and dread of his vindictive wrath. Verses 19 to 21 tell us of the privileges we have as Christians: The way to God . This then is the monument for such as we are. Have done the will of God By keeping the faith, and patiently suffering for it. To mount Zion. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Do not throw away your confidence, for it is a confidence that has a great reward. "Every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever sat down on the right hand of God." This is the meaning of the blood carried within, and of the body burnt without. This is the point of the next chapters (He 11 and 12). But how? Let them not throw it away. He is labouring for this, and with divine skill accomplishes it, by the testimonies of their own law and prophets. Now the tone becomes bolder with them, and shows clearly that the Jew had but an empty form, a foreshadow of value once, but now superseded by the true antitype in the heavens. 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