He is labouring for this, and with divine skill accomplishes it, by the testimonies of their own law and prophets. Those who have had and exercised much patience already must have and exercise more till they die. Actually, he is saying we should gather together all the more as we see the day of the Lord approaching. But notice we are to hold fast the profession of our hope because "he is faithful" that promised. 1:16 in my chains, and # Matt. The day of the Lord will come. His purpose utterly failed to secure the blessing for his profane but favourite son. True belief is shown by the way in which one lives. . I speak, of course, of our entrance there only in spirit. It is very likely that the writer to the Hebrews did not know any Hebrew at all and therefore it is the Septuagint that he uses. Its force implies that it is not merely what He did once, but what He is also doing still. We are not those that draw back. Reason is ever drawing conclusions; God is, and reveals what is. 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. They wouldn't have to offer animals every day. If one lives by faith during times of duress, then he will receive reward from God. Verse 36. Read full chapter Hebrews 10:36 in all English translations Hebrews 9 Hebrews 11 King James Version (KJV) Public Domain Bible Gateway Recommends A priest, as such, could no more draw near into the presence of God in the holiest than any of the common people. It was, parabolically, like that of Christ himself. [Note: Thomas, p. 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. Observe, [1.] . The writer concluded his warning by reminding his readers of their former faithfulness when tempted to encourage them to endure their present and future tests (cf. We have many precious promises made us in the word of grace, of glory, and of outward things; of some of which we find as yet but slender performance, and of others no visible probability of their future performance; these we have need of patience to expect: 5. For indeed He was a man as really as any other, though infinitely above man. This, managed with a true gospel spirit, would be the best and most cordial friendship. Ed. Because His people had no heart for His promises, He imposed a system of law and ordinances that was unjudged in them, which provoked the sin. We belong to the holiest of all, and we act upon it, if we iet rightly, when we worship God; nay, when we draw near to God in prayer at all times. 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. He is my sin offerer. He taketh away the first, that he might establish the second ( Hebrews 10:8-9 ). "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 . In its ordinary usage, it has a much deeper force. In the time we have it is our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can. He had beyond all mere men known sorrow and rejection in Israel; yet he himself not only mounted the throne of Jehovah, but raised up His people to. In its essence sacrifice was a noble thing. That is to say, let us remember that we are Christians not only for our own sake but also for the sake of others. Not of course that one denies that He has His own proper place, for all is perfect as to each person of the Trinity and all else, but never to this end. It was only owing to the blindness of Israel. But having done this, He points us to the place of Christ without the camp. Remember how, after you had been enlightened, you had to go through a hard struggle of suffering, partly because you yourselves were held up to insult and involved in affliction and partly because you had become partners with people whose life was like that. No man ever saved his soul who devoted his whole time and energy to saving it; but many a man has saved it by being so concerned for others that he forgot that he himself had a soul to save. We hear of sanctification often, but even what is thus spoken of throughout is rather in connection with separation to God and the work of Christ, than the continuous energy of the Holy Ghost, except, as far as I remember, in one practical passage "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." We do not know the steps of His work, until we come to the preparation of an abode for man. 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. It is a better substance than any thing they can have or lose here. 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. His is no external purification; by his presence and his Spirit he cleanses the inmost thoughts and desires of a man until he is really clean. 6:9, 10 recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: 33 partly while you were made # 1 Cor. He is talking about a heart that is void of hypocrisy and deceit. 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." (Verses 8-22.). As it was God's will and the work of Christ, so the Holy Ghost is He who witnesses to the perfectness of it. Patience and perseverance are nearly the same. Few writers have such a sense of the sheer horror of sin. So little was it a question, that our Lord could appeal to its acknowledged meaning, and press the difficulty His person created for unbelief. He is all the way through, interwoven in all of the types, in all of the shadows, in all of the books. He declared, "I have come. 38 And my righteous ones will live by faith. For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. 2Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been We are beset, surrounded with a world of temptations, assaulting us within and without, which we have need of patience to withstand; 3. 129.] The foundation is sacrifice; the Power is of the Holy Ghost. 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. "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, laying aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking off unto Jesus the captain and completer of faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.". 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. You are the one that puts the ending on the story. With the attribute of true patience, not only can one overcome spiritual afflictions but he can also experience these troubled times with joy. But if people and priest and king were proved thus vain, God was there, and His grace could not fail. The cleansing of our heart occurs when we receive our pardon and we are deemed pure by God. To the writer to the Hebrews the whole business of sacrifice was only a pale copy of what real worship ought to be. Had they been taunted with having no altar, possessing nothing so holy and so glorious in its associations? Then he adds: "And to myriads of angels, the general assembly" for such is the true way to divide the verse "and to the church of the firstborn," etc. You that go after the tabernacle (as he persists in calling it, even though now the temple) have no title to our altar, with its exhaustless supplies. Although the blood on which that covenant was founded may be now long shed, when the covenant comes into force for them will it not be as fresh as the day the precious Victim died and shed His blood? The appeal of the writer to the Hebrews is one that could be made to every man. It was only known by the biblical scholars. It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? When he punishes them by creatures, the instrument abates something of the force of the blow; but, when he does it by his own hand, it is infinite misery. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God." Those therefore that so translate our two verses have invented a meaning for the phrase, instead of accepting its legitimate sense as attested by all the monuments of the Greek tongue; whereas the moment that we give it the meaning assigned here rightly by the better translators, that is, the sense of "testator" and "testament," all runs with perfect smoothness, and with striking aptitude. Hebrews 10:23 2 nd "Let Us" [Heb 10:23 KJV] 23 Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith (hope) without wavering; (for he [is] faithful that promised;) Hope is important in the new and better covenant. I am accepted in Jesus Christ. The apostle does not dwell on the detailed application of His Melchisedec priesthood, as to the object and character of its exercise. Now the apostle, having given this general account of the way by which we have access to God, enters further into the particulars of it, Hebrews 10:20; Hebrews 10:20. The first chapters of Acts describe that thousands of Jews came to believe. Hannibal wintered his troops in Capua which he had captured, a city of luxury. You have sown a lot of happiness that way." And, (3.) Let men who can see only look there, and what will be found? What fellowship hath light with darkness? The first is, that in spirit the Christian is now brought by redemption, without spot or guilt, into the presence of God. 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. There was but one such Priest. It is fit that believers should know the honours and privileges that Christ has procured for them, that, while they take the comfort, they may give him the glory of all. Look unto Jesus. "Through faith he instituted the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. Certain things can be repeated; but all works of genius have a certain unrepeatable quality. 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. It was accomplished in Christ, exalted as the great Melchisedec in heaven. Hence, therefore, he now introduces us "to the spirits of just men made perfect." 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. "But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, nor by blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood entered in once into the holies, having obtained eternal redemption." But this essential difference separates between the city for which Abraham looked and the bride so symbolised in the Apocalypse. 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. We live here in a vale of misery, where we meet with a thousand petty crosses and vexations in the common road of our lives, which we have need of patience to digest; 2. (i) He stresses the achievement of Jesus. The latter is not referred to, because it represents the millennial glory; the former is, because it finds its proper fulfilment in that which is made good in the Christian scheme now. I am made righteous through Jesus Christ. In order that in this body, He might become the perfect, complete sacrifice for man. Observe, The greatest part of the saints' happiness is in promise. We enter into the presence of God by means of the veil, that is, by the flesh of Jesus. In heaven they shall have a better life, a better estate, better liberty, better society, better hearts, better work, every thing better. We can do it by reminding others of their traditions, their privileges, their responsibilities when they are likely to forget them. ", The next point proved is the indisputable superiority of the Melchisedec priesthood to that of Aaron, of which the Jews naturally boasted. After the Babylonian captivity, the Hebrew language was almost dead. 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. 2. 36.For ye have need of patience, etc. In the blood of the Lamb, sprinkled on the door-posts of Israel, we see the type of God's judgment of their sins; next, in the passage of the Red sea, the exhibition of His power, which, in the most conspicuous way, saved them, and destroyed for ever their enemies. ", Finally, he beseeches his brethren to hear the word of exhortation. The duty itself--to hold fast the profession of our faith, to embrace all the truths and ways of the gospel, to get fast hold of them, and to keep that hold against all temptation and opposition. 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. 36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. [ k] And to this the Holy Spirit is our witness, for after he has said: "This is the covenant I will make with them after these days, says the Lord. 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 ). Its greatest peril was from the possible evil living and apostasy of its members. Finally, on the third day the news went out that the prince has passed the crisis and would live. 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. They were to be cut off. But the apostle lets them know that if they understood their true blessing, this was the very part of it that was inseparably bound up with their present nearness to God, as set forth typically by the central and most important rite of the Jewish system. The shadow of Christ is there in the law and in the sacrifices. A lot of them had their possessions taken away, but they didn't care. This is talking to the Jew who is wavering in his faith in Jesus Christ and who is seeking to go back to the priest with a sin offering. And the apostle would that their work of watching might be done with joy, and not groaning for this would be unprofitable for the saints. The encouragement to persevere 10:32-39. Next the apostle, with increasing boldness, comes to the proof from the Old Testament that the legal institution as a whole was to be set aside. Jesus is everything to me. Why turn back to "meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein?". (iii) We must encourage one another. He shows them how necessary a grace the grace of patience is in our present state (Hebrews 10:36; Hebrews 10:36): You have need of patience, that after you have done the will of God you might receive the promise; that is, this promised reward. that after ye have done the will of God: there is the purposing will of God, which is done by himself; and there is his revealed will, touching the salvation of men, which is done by his Son; and there is his will of precept to be done by men; and which, when done aright, is done according to the rule of his word, in faith, from love, through the strength of Christ, and by the assistance of his Spirit and grace, with a view to his glory, and without any dependence on what is done: and the will of God regards suffering, as well as doing; for to that the saints are also called, to which patience is necessary: ye might receive the promise; that is, of eternal life; not the promise itself, which they had received already, but the thing promised; which is the sense, in which this word is often used in this book, Hebrews 6:12 which is so called, to show that it is not of works, for promise and merit do not agree together; but that it is of grace, and will certainly be enjoyed, but must be patiently waited for. So again, as so often in the New Testament, the exhortation of patience as we wait for the coming of Jesus Christ. 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." That can't be. For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.". And observe that it is assumed to be so common and obvious a maxim that it could not be questioned. I. Accordingly advantage is taken of an unquestionable meaning of the word for this added illustration, which is based on the death of Christ, "Where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator." All the people of the kingdom gathered in the great arena to hear the verdict against the princess. It may be observed, too, that the Holy Ghost appears but little in this epistle. 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. The writer to the Hebrews was not saying anything new when he said that obedience was the only true sacrifice. Accordingly, this is an appeal to the hearts. To their astonishment, they found that the princess was in good shape, still tied in the center of the pit. 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. You can see that they foreshadow Him, but they were only the shadow. Yet who beforehand would have anticipated either? Oh how happy is the man to whom God does not impute iniquity." Our way to heaven is by a crucified Saviour; his death is to us the way of life. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. "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.". That is precisely one of the noblest thoughts of the Old Testament men of God. For assuredly if Jewish children honoured their father and mother on legal grounds, much more ought Christian children on grounds of grace. They could not understand how it was they should come into greater trouble than before. ." He may try to be what Moffatt called "a pious particle," a Christian in isolation. 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. There, is no ground, in my judgment, for the thought of anything mysterious in the facts as to his person. with Him in this place of nearness. Every man carries with him his own secret shrine, but so many forget to enter it. He does not draw attention here to the account, that there was only blessing from man to God, and from God to man. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins." If it be not the truth, it would be the height of presumption indeed. But meanwhile, confessedly, the Spirit of God directs attention, not to the exercise, but to the order of the Melchisedec Priest. This is the great transgression: the apostle seems to refer to the law concerning presumptuous sinners, Numbers 15:30; Numbers 15:31. What mountain in the Old Testament so much speaks of grace, of God's merciful interference for His people when all was lost? There must be the death of him who so disposes of his property in order that the heir should take it under his testament. It endures for ever, because it has perfected for ever them that are sanctified. For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise. Christ Himself could not add to the perfectness of that sacrifice by which He has put away sin. 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. Their misapprehension might also have been due partially to the purposeful ambiguity of the scriptures relating to the second coming of the Lord. Have patience; He has a few more yet to save. 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