By a testament, to be sure, as every one knows. David has been happy to be part of the Blue Letter Bible . Before Jesus came, there was no question of it among the Jews. Christ never needed this, but we do. But the apostle goes farther, as indeed was due to truth. "By the which will" (not man's, which is sin, but God's) "we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.". 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. This We Know to Be the Carnal Israel: Circumcision and the Erotic Life of God and Israel (Critical Inquiry 18). "For how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?" ", 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. ( Hebrews 12:1) Application of the demonstrations of enduring faith in Hebrews 11 . If he thinks that the Church has faults, it is his duty to come in and help to mend them. There is no indulgence of human curiosity. For if they could have been perfect sacrifices that had put away the sins then would they not have ceased to be offered? They watch as those that shall give an account. 279.]. 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 ). That is precisely one of the noblest thoughts of the Old Testament men of God. So it is said here, "Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. It is a living way. 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. It is easy to drift into a kind of selfish Christianity; but a selfish Christianity is a contradiction in terms. 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. So that, let the Jews say what they might, there was only found what answered to their own scriptures, and what proved the incontestable superiority of the great Priest whom Melchisedec shadowed out, and of whom it was now for the Christian justly to boast. But have patience brethren, that after you've done the will of God you might receive the promise. 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 ). 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. The end of the chapter reminds us that faith is and it is for we who follow in the footsteps of the faithful men and women of previous ages. 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. Few writers have such a sense of the sheer horror of sin. The Jews, themselves, usually spoke the Koine or they spoke Greek, but Hebrew was only for biblical scholars. "What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? Instead he exhorted his readers to endure rather than apostatize. 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Finally, the writer to the Hebrews says that our Christian duty to each other is all the more pressing because the time is short. But we are not of those who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul ( Hebrews 10:38-39 ). The Day is approaching. You have sown a lot of happiness that way." For then would they not have ceased to be offered? In short, there is. One of the old divines wrote a kind of catechism. 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. Hebrews Series (10:26-36) Based upon Ron Philips book "Hebrews: Finding the Better Way" June 10, 2014 Chester FBC Chester, IL Dr. Mike Fogerson, Speaker Introduction: A Tonight, we will discover the fourth of five warnings given .read more Scripture: Hebrews 10:26-36 Denomination: Baptist Turning Back Unto Destruction Hence in Hebrews we never find the body of Christ as such referred to. Here, (1.) In its ordinary usage, it has a much deeper force. 36 Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. And then, in the centre of all, we have God Himself. 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. Faith brings God into everything. The word he uses is eikon ( G1504) , which means a complete representation, a detailed reproduction. Thus you see, either corrupt passion on the one hand or profanity on the other, are unsparingly condemned by the grace of God. 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. You can see that they foreshadow Him, but they were only the shadow. Accordingly we have the third use of the seat Christ has taken. He has nothing more to do with sin; He will judge man who rejects Himself and slights sin. Which door? 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. The Greek word parresia, which appears in Hebrews 10:19 ("confidence") and in Hebrews 10:35 ("confidence"), frames the section and forms an inclusio tying the thought together. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word. What fellowship hath light with darkness? But they had to be taken care of before I could have fellowship with God. It is true that victims were sometimes slain in ratifying a covenant, and thus were the seal of that covenant; but, first, they were not essential; and, secondly and chiefly, , the covenanter or contracting party had in no case to die in order to make the contract valid. Showing that it did not bring that to them under the old covenant, however, the glorious thing is that in this new covenant through Jesus Christ, once being purged, we really should not have any more consciousness of sins. 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. All through this, one thing comes out. It is the setting aside of God, and the setting up of man; it is the precursor of the apostasy that is coming, which again will issue in man taking the place of God, and becoming the object of worship, instead of the true Creator. "In those sacrifices," referring to the law to which some Hebrew Christians were in danger of going back, "there is a remembrance made again of sins every year. He may be ashamed to be seen going to church. The reason appears to be, because he is going to tell us of the Old Testament saints. Through that the way was once and for all opened up for us. 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. Not Yet a Member? 2. 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. IV. Here, it is plain, we have the chief lineaments of revealed truth. They knew in themselves that they had in heaven a better and a more enduring substance. And what is the effect of it? For whom it may be is another thing, of which he will speak by-and-by. Every one can understand, when once we find that the word means almost always covenant," how great the temptation is to translate it so in but two other occurrences, especially as before and after it means "covenant" in the same passage. How dreadful is the case when not only the justice of God, but his abused grace and mercy call for vengeance! There must be a due preparation for making our approaches to God. Jesus Christ has made the way whereby we can come into the presence of God and fellowship with Him.And so, "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,". Every night a thousand priestesses would come into the city of Corinth from the Acropolis above Corinth, the temple there of Aphrodite. And so Paul warned the Corinthian believers concerning having a relations with a harlot. There remains, therefore, a sabbath-keeping for the people of God. Those who have had and exercised much patience already must have and exercise more till they die. The content of our hope is our complete salvation in Christ. Our writer goes further--he says that all they are is a reminder of sin. 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. 3:4; Heb. The sacrifice of Jesus was made once and is effective for ever; the animal sacrifices of the priests must be made over and over again, and even then they are not effective in any real way. We are not told the details of what preceded the great week when God made the man and the woman. The business of religion was to bring a man into a close relationship with God and that is what these sacrifices could never do. "It's a fearful thing to fall in the hands of a living God.". There is nothing here below so difficult for the natural mind; and for the simple reason that man can never rise above that which is caused. "Then would they not have ceased to be offered?". Now, where there is forgiveness of these things, a sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary. 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. One of the highest of human duties is that of encouragement. The first covenant that God established with man is over. Meanwhile we are told that He has obtained (not a temporary, but) "eternal redemption." Eliphaz unwillingly paid Job a great tribute. 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. 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. The first chapters of Acts describe that thousands of Jews came to believe. But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions ( Hebrews 10:32 ); Remember what you went through in the beginning of your faith. We are brought, then, washed from our sins, to God, and, according to this epistle, into the holiest of all, where He displays Himself. Hey, you're not calling the shots! But far from this, it is the simple fact Of the gospel. Again and again the High Priest bathed himself in the laver of clear water. An effective thing does not need to be done again; the very fact of the repetition of these sacrifices is the final proof that they are not purifying men's souls and not giving full and uninterrupted access to God. To disregard these voices is to insult the Spirit and to grieve the heart of God. This, he says, must be from a father who loves his true and faulty children: others enjoy no such care. Click to Sign Up Now! NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Hebrews 10:1-10 1For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near. It is the only way; there is no way left but this. In all the covenants of scripture the man that makes it has never to die for any such end. Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, a. "For this he did once, when he offered up himself. We cannot receive the grace of Christ unless we have an unhesitating conviction. Our danger is that to become so involved in this world that we forget the other. The best that they could do was to give him a distant and spasmodic contact with God. The veil in the tabernacle and temple signified the body of Christ; when he died, the veil of the temple was rent in sunder, and this was at the time of the evening sacrifice, and gave the people a surprising view into the holy of holies, which they never had before. In the pit was a post, and those victims, who were so executed, were tied to the post. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. It is just what he had been speaking of throughout, if covenant were still meant. What, then, is man's actual estate? "In the volume of the book it is written of me" a book which none ever saw but God and His Son. Hannibal wintered his troops in Capua which he had captured, a city of luxury. The tapestry must be looked on as a whole before the full greatness is disclosed. "The juxtaposition of Hebrews 10:26-35 suggests that it may have been the experience of suffering, abuse, and loss in the world that motivated the desertion of the community acknowledged in Hebrews 10:25 and a general tendency to avoid contact with outsiders observed elsewhere in Hebrews (see . They were afflicted in themselves. God's purpose is that man should know Him, that he should fellowship with Him and that he might cooperate with God in the accomplishing of God's purposes here on the earth.Now sin creates a breach between man and God. Christendom precisely takes the middle ground of Judaism between these two extremes. Jesus is everything to me. The undivided place of Christ is more fully witnessed now, when there are no others to occupy the thought or to distract the heart from Him as seen by faith in glory on high. The doctrine follows: "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost." 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. But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. You cannot come to God by the first covenant.There are always those who want to come to God on their terms. A good example given to others is the best and most effectual provocation to love and good works. He argues that the word "new" puts the other out of date, and this to make room for a better. Another point follows, connected with what we have had before us, and demanding our attention. He is only one of a series of existing objects, and consequently never can rise above that in his own nature. "And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better." As to the outer man also, we must learn to what we are called now. Be assured it is of the deepest possible moment to cherish the activity of Christ's present love and care for us, the activity of that priesthood which is the subject of this epistle. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God for ever after the order of Melchisedec. There must be the death of him who so disposes of his property in order that the heir should take it under his testament. "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.". As it was God's will and the work of Christ, so the Holy Ghost is He who witnesses to the perfectness of it. 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