"Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.". 3. Accordingly the epistle to the Hebrews, while it does put the believer in association with Christ, does not, for all this, dissociate him from whatever is good in the saints of God in every age. If I know what Christ's redemption has accomplished for all who believe, I must know that God has given me this. Passage Lookup: Hebrews 9:4-: general search That is precisely one of the noblest thoughts of the Old Testament men of God. Best of all we can do that by setting the fine example. 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. To profess this hope is to be saved. 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. What is the value, the import., of the sacrifice of Christ viewed according to God, and as bearing on His ways? But he offered one single sacrifice for sin and then took his seat for ever at the right hand of God, and for the future he waits until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet. Redemption was the first thought of God a counsel of His previous to the dealings with man which made the necessity of redemption felt. Not Yet a Member? The manner in which scripture introduces him is such as to furnish a very striking type of Christ. I am accepted in Jesus Christ. Over a month, we're looking at verses 19 to 25. For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.". 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 ). 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. The greater the knowledge, the greater the sin. I should like to ask whether (or how far) all the believers here assembled can take this as their place with simplicity. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me ( Hebrews 10:5 ): Now this is a quotation from Psalm 46 . Thank God! Thus the Pentateuch and the Psalms bore their double testimony to a Priest superior to the Aaronic. Only Jesus can really cleanse a man. The third point is how to walk with God, and this again is by faith. Then he shows us others higher than these, by a divine call "and to the church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven." It is by a living Saviour, who, though he was dead, is alive; and it is a way that gives life and lively hope to those who enter into it. Do you not discern in this striking combination the distinctive features of Christianity? Christians ought to value their reputation; and they do so especially because the reputation of religion is concerned: this makes reproach a great affliction. Accordingly we find everything about Moses. [Note: Morris, pp. You're in no position to call the shots. And as we are both nourished by the same lamb, then I become a part of God and God becomes a part of me, and I have this fellowship.So God was tired. In Jesus' name. What the wise men of antiquity, the Platos and Aristotles, never knew what the modern sages blunder about, without the slightest reason, after all the word of God has made the possession of every child of His. ], "What they had endured for Christs sake entitled them to a reward. 65:17, Isaiah 66:22-24, 2 Peter 3:10-13, Revelation 21:1-7) to live with them (Hebrews 4:1-9, Hebrews 12:2-24), in all eternity in peace, love, and joy. I. In its ordinary usage, it has a much deeper force. Every morning and every evening a male lamb of one year old, without spot and blemish, was offered as a burnt-offering. Finally, as is his habit, the writer to the Hebrews clinches his argument with a quotation from scripture. "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.". The Christian's present conflict may be sharp, but it will be soon over. They from Italy salute you. You can have Cooper's Town and everything else. If only we were always at our best, life would be very different. It is still possible for a man to think that he is a Christian and yet abandon the habit of worshipping with God's people in God's house on God's day. Esau would have liked well to have got or regained the blessing; but this was given of God otherwise, and he had forfeited it himself. What had immediately preceded this, The cross. Often a man can meet with honour the great hour of testing and of trial; and yet lets the time of plain sailing sap his strength and emasculate his faith. This leads into the life of faith, which was a great stumbling-block to some of these Christian Jews. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God." It is sui generis; it is one of these masterpieces which can never be done again. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children." Barrie somewhere wrote to Cynthia Asquith: "Your first instinct is always to telegraph to Jones the nice thing Brown said about him to Robinson. There is then the solemn admonition of the account they are to render by-and-by. Here it is the grand truth itself in its own character. The mighty intervention of God in grace yea, more than that, forgiveness, deliverance, victory, glory, for the people of God. Heaven and earth have not been united, nor have they been in fact possessed for the blessing of man by the power of God, since sin severed between the earth and that which is above it, and the prince of the power of the air perverted all, so that what should have been, according to God's nature and counsels, the source of every blessing, became rather the point from which the guilty conscience of man cannot but look for judgment. "Be mindful of those in bonds, as bound with them; and of those which suffer adversity." The luxury so sapped the morale of the Carthaginian troops that when the spring came and the campaign was resumed they were unable to stand before the Romans. Perseverance is one of the great unromantic virtues. Attack by an enemy he could bear; attack by one whom he loved killed him. And during the night the tigers, drawn by the scent of human flesh, would come and devour the victims. And if you are one with Christ then you are making Christ a partaker and bringing Him as one with a harlot." Meanwhile Christianity gives the utmost force to every type and truth of God. We are not come to Sinai, the mountain that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and a voice more terrible than that of the elements. ( Hosea 6:6). He quotes Deuteronomy 32:35-36 where the sternness of God is clearly seen. Christendom precisely takes the middle ground of Judaism between these two extremes. the Bible StudyLight org. Impossible to rise higher than the Highest, whence therefore the apostle descends, to consequences. "And Samuel said, has the Lord as great delight in burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Chapter 6 warned about the consequences of falling into doubt and disbelief. He sat down there as of His own right and title, but nevertheless making a part of His divine glory to be witnessed in, as indeed His person was necessary to make His blood efficacious to the purging of our sins. There it was in the Psalms. That took a different type of a sacrifice. 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. But now God sends His final summons, founded on their own ritual, to His people who were hankering after the dead, instead of seeing the Living One on He as it were repeats, "Let the dead bury the dead." It ( ) means "testament" as well as "covenant." By that hope, then, "we draw nigh unto God. But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant." 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. He is the same unchangingly and evermore, as He has ever been. ." Dillow, p. The other descendants of Abraham honoured the house of Aaron as Levitical priests; but Abraham himself, and so Levi himself, and of course Aaron, in his loins honoured Melchisedec. The battle which Abraham fought, the first recorded one in scripture, is the type of the last battle of this age. There it was more particularly the activity of faith; here it is the suffering of faith. 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. Such has been the usual form in all countries not savage, and in all ages. 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. 2. Oh how happy is the man to whom God does not impute iniquity." Salute all your leaders, and all the saints. . 2. Therefore is it that men so naturally slip into, or rest on, second causes. The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God for ever after the order of Melchisedec. There is nothing more serious than to set grace against holiness. A. 5. 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. Holding fast the permanence of the blotting out of our guilt, may we nevertheless and besides own the need of such an One as Christ to intercede for us, and deal in grace with all our feebleness or faults. For if he were on earth, he should not even be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: who serve the representation and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was oracularly told when about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was shown to thee in the mountain. In their own persons; they were made gazing-stocks, spectacles to the world, angels, and men, 1 Corinthians 4:9. We can understand, therefore, both the delicacy that thus entreated them, and the meaning of the added words, "for also in few words I have written to you." Such is the true sense of the passage. I am not going to enter into any statement of facts as to this now, but there is no truth in its own place more important than that with which the apostle commences in this chapter, namely, that "through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God." They could not deny it to be written in the fortieth psalm. And, finally, he sums up the superiority of Christ in this, that "they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: but he, because of his continuing for ever, hath the priesthood intransmissible." And this blessed person, single-handed but according to the will of God, accomplishes that will in offering Himself on the cross. . . You can see that they foreshadow Him, but they were only the shadow. (1.) As to the pathway through the wilderness, it had been disposed of inHebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 4:1-16. Hebrews 10:36, NLT: Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise. And it's the theme of the verse we look at this morning. There is nothing to divert the heart from Christ, the great High Priest in the heavens. 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. But the higher the privilege, the greater the danger of either despising or perverting it. This means that Jesus not only shows us the way to God but also when we get there introduces us to his very presence. because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins." Then you will receive all that he has promised. Here ye must be workers together with God. "For a testament is of force after men are dead (or, in case of dead men, ): since it is never of force when the testator liveth. I refer to the fact just to exemplify on the one hand the true bearing of the epistle, and what I believe will be discovered in it, and on the other hand to guard against the mistake of importing into it, or trying to extract from it, what is not there. Anyone who regards the law of Moses as a dead letter dies without pity on the evidence of two or three witnesses. For we know who it was who said: "Vengeance belongs to me; it is I who will repay," and again: "The Lord will judge his people." 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. Christ with Belial and all." For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens." Please feel free to link to pages on this site, but do not copy articles without authors' permission. "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." The shadow, it's not the substance. It is possible that the word "worlds," which is a Hebraistic word, belonging to the Alexandrian Jews particularly, may embrace dispensations; but undoubtedly the material world is included in it. "Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, in virtue of the blood of the everlasting covenant, perfect you in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight "through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for the ages of the ages. This is the greatest truth of Christian faith. The last chapter (Hebrews 13:1-25) follows this up with some practical exhortations as to brotherly love continuing; then as to kindness to strangers, or hospitality; finally, as to pity for those in bonds. So, we have been sanctified through the body of Jesus Christ. All jokes aside, Hebrews 10:26 is an oft-abused scripture. It was the more urgent to insist on it, because the Jews, like others, would like to have been settled in rest here and now. None but a heavenly Priest would suffice for the counsels He has in hand. "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp." Where you've already had the remission once and for all, perfected in Christ, there is no need for any further offering for sin. For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. For in a short time, a very short time, "He who is to come will come and he will not delay. V. Having mentioned these means of establishment, the apostle proceeds, in the close of the chapter, to enforce his exhortations to perseverance, and against apostasy, by many very weighty considerations, Hebrews 10:26; Hebrews 10:27, c. 1. (1.) it has been said that a saint is someone in whom Christ stands revealed; we can seek ever to incite others to goodness by showing them Christ. But they are completely gone; and therefore at God's right-hand sits down He who is its witness. So you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.". (1.) Now, where there is forgiveness of these things, a sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary. He is all the way through, interwoven in all of the types, in all of the shadows, in all of the books. If you believe in Christ at all, such is your portion nothing less. Carefully observe that it is the tabernacle, never the temple. Lane entitled this warning passage "The Peril of Disloyalty to Christ." As in chapter 6 he declares that he is persuaded better things of them, than that they would abandon the Holy Ghost; so here he expected better things than that they would thus dishonour the sacrifice of Christ In that case, he says, God was not unrighteous to forget their work and labour of love; in this case, he lets them know that he had not forgotten the way in which they had suffered for Christ. It was hid in God from ages and generations. To have enduring faith in trials, remember how God worked in the past (10:32-34). This leads to another point; for the change of the priesthood imports a change of the law. But it is not possible to repeat the Fifth or the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven; no one else will ever write anything like them. The shadow of Christ is there in the law and in the sacrifices. 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. The door is open. There in the darkness a fierce battle ensued, until finally the princess could hear the death throes as the last bit of life was leaving, and then just the dripping of blood.As it became daylight, the men from the city came to take the remains of the princess and bury them. In other words, they would have done it once in Moses' day and that would have been it. "For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator." In essence the meaning is the same. 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