hebrews 10:36 studylight

hebrews 10:36 studylight

In the most admirable manner he proves that this was what God was all along waiting for. 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. Now those who know him who hath said, Vengeance belongeth to me, I will recompense, must needs conclude, as the apostle does (Hebrews 10:31; Hebrews 10:31): It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. As Paul points out, Christians need patience that they may do the will of God and that they "might receive the promise." He is my peace. Redemption was the first thought of God a counsel of His previous to the dealings with man which made the necessity of redemption felt. You're trying to bargain with God or come to God on your terms, and it can't be done. Remember the great reward it brings you! 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. A. He brought to God for men what no man had been able to bring--the perfect obedience, that was the perfect sacrifice. "Inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: (for those priests were made without an oath" no oath ushers in the sons of Aaron "but he with an oath by him that said as to him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) by so much was Jesus made a surety of a better covenant.". Hebrews 9:9,11,23 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; Colossians 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. A new covenant shows that the other must have thereby become old, and therefore is decaying and ready to vanish away. We enter into the presence of God by means of the veil, that is, by the flesh of Jesus. The apostle is dealing with the saints as to their walk; and as he had shown how Christ alone had purged the sins of the believer, and how He is on high, as the Priest in the presence of God, to intercede for them in their weakness and dangers; so now, when he is come to the question of the walk of faith, Christ is the leader of that, walk. Would he give up Isaac? There remains, therefore, a sabbath-keeping for the people of God. 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."' See how this word, this thought, always predominates in the epistle. The athlete will make his great effort because the goal beckons him on. It cost many of them their families. Let us next apply the word "covenant" here, and you will soon see the insuperable difficulties into which you are plunged. This, managed with a true gospel spirit, would be the best and most cordial friendship. Let us then seek to combine these two things perfect nearness to God, and the place of utter scorn in the presence of man. That is to say, let us never forget the duty of worship. His answer is that condemnation must necessarily follow, "and so much the more because thou hast read this book." 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. This is just the closing practical word of the epistle to the Hebrews. But mark another striking and instructive feature of this chapter. 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. It 'became Him that Christ should suffer. If we have to wait for the exercise at a future day, the order is as true and plain now as it ever can be. Had he merely referred to the covenant ( i.e. You can't go back to the old system. [Note: Cf. In heaven they shall have a better life, a better estate, better liberty, better society, better hearts, better work, every thing better. During a time of rebellion, she went out and lived in open adultery with the leader of the rebellion. This would be a day of dispersion and temptation to the chosen remnant. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? 24 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. The wise men of the present day are fast giving up the truth of creation. Hebrews 4:12-16; Hebrews 6:9-20). Since such a way of access and return to God is opened, it would be the greatest ingratitude and contempt of God and Christ still to keep at a distance from him. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.". All he does is to interpret that will, and to apply it to what was wrought on the cross. The motive or reason enforcing this duty: He is faithful that hath promised. This was the burnt offering, and it was symbolic of just consecrating my life to God. He proceeds to show the Hebrews the duties binding upon them on account of these privileges, which were conferred in such an extraordinary way, Hebrews 10:22; Hebrews 10:23, c. 1. 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. For although outwardly, no doubt, the prosperity lasted in the time of Solomon, it was mainly the fruit of David's suffering, and power, and glory. Jesus is everything to me. They were dead. The hill of Zion up to this time had been the constant menace of the enemy against the people of the Lord; but in due time, when David reigned, it was wrested out of the hands of the Jebusites, and became the stronghold of Jerusalem, the city of the king. (3.) But soon after persecutions started through their unbelieving, hardened compatriots ( Acts 8:1-3; Acts 11:19; Acts 12:1-3; compare 1 Thessalonians 2:14 ). Now he leaves it to the consciences of all, appeals to universal reason and equity, whether such aggravated crimes ought not to receive a suitable punishment, a sorer punishment than those who had died without mercy? They were afflicted in themselves. Hence the apostle takes care to keep up the real link with the past witnesses for God in faith and suffering, not in ordinances. But this becomes the occasion of a remarkable allusion, on which I must for a moment dwell. Hebrews 5:11-14)." How happy is the man whose sins and iniquities, God said, I will remember no more. Not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together,Hebrews 10:25; Hebrews 10:25. A high priest over the house of God, even this blessed Jesus, who presides over the church militant, and every member thereof on earth, and over the church triumphant in heaven. (3.) He begins by saying three things about Jesus. 6. 11.]. 129.] Here it is the grand truth itself in its own character. At the heart of Christianity there remains for ever a threat. Hebrews 10:26 the justice of which is argued from the less to the greater; that if the transgressors of the law of Moses had no mercy shown them, but died when there were proper and sufficient witnesses of their crimes, then such must be deserving of a far greater punishment, who treat with the greatest rudeness the person of the Son of God, and From their questions and their arguments and their criticisms he said that he had learned that "the greatest handicap the Church has is the unsatisfactory lives of professing Christians." In the first chapter we saw the seat of personal glory connected with atonement; in the eighth chapter it is the witness of His priesthood, and where it is. 39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. 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. Let us not abandon our meeting together--as some habitually do--but let us encourage one another, and all the more so as we see the Day approaching. (iii) We need the memory of the end. "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." (a) It could not be repeated. THE ONLY TRUE SACRIFICE ( Hebrews 10:1-10 ). Reason can appreciate not grace but law; and so people are apt, when things go wrong, to bring in the law. From the beginning to the end of it the Christian in Hebrews is not thus dealt with apart from the old nature, as we may see him regarded in the ordinary epistles of Paul, where the old and the new man are most carefully separated. For Christ, on whom the promises depend. So here he tells them to "follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: looking diligently lest any man lack the grace of God." There were five offerings that were made in the Old Testament. It echoes former warnings (cf. Thither they are to be brought, and there are means for the road to keep us moving onward. Here the meaning is the saving of one's daily life (He 10:32-39). "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. Thus Melchisedec, "whose descent is not of Aaron nor of Levi," like Jesus, "received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises!" From the methods of divine justice with those who despised Moses's law, that is, sinned presumptuously, despising his authority, his threatenings and his power. 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. They could not deny it to be written in the fortieth psalm. 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. What they say is that God wants not animal sacrifices but obedience to his will. "But now once in the consummation of the ages," this is the meaning of "the end of the world;" it is the consummation of those dispensations for bringing out what man was. And I sit down and eat with God the peace offering. Their misapprehension might also have been due partially to the purposeful ambiguity of the scriptures relating to the second coming of the Lord. "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. The two extremes, offensive to every lover of the vi media of religious rationalism, must be combined in Christianity and the Christian man, if he is to maintain it unimpaired and pure. On the other hand it is notoriously true, that in no case can a testament come into execution without the testator's death a figure that every man at once discerns. On these things I need not now dwell farther than to characterize all, from Abraham inclusively, as the patience of faith. 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. Verses 23-25. The Christian's present conflict may be sharp, but it will be soon over. "For by it the elders obtained a good report." It is not a question of justification here. Click to Sign Up Now! IV. 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. Let us hold fast to the undeviating hope of our creed, for we can rely absolutely on him who made the promises; and let us put our minds to the task of spurring each other on in love and fine deeds. [Note: Cf. Don't you see what a sacred thing it is?" Coming to the Father through the blood of Jesus Christ, I can enter into the Holy of Holies. From the dreadful doom of such apostates. But if people and priest and king were proved thus vain, God was there, and His grace could not fail. This statement is so much the more remarkable, because in the beginning of this epistle he had pointed out what became God. Second, he was sure that sin had become doubly serious because of the new knowledge of God and of God's will which Jesus had brought. ( Hebrews 10:2 ). We have the church, but even when the expression "church" occurs, it is the church altogether vaguely, as inHebrews 2:12; Hebrews 2:12, or viewed in the units that compose it not at all in its unity. Faith, again, is the only principle of walk with God; as it is, again, the only means of realizing the judgment of God coming on all around us. (4.) Jesus said, "In your patience, ye shall possess your souls" (Luke 21:19). Plug in, Turn on and Be En light ened! Ease had ruined them when struggle had only toughened them. Thus the cross and heavenly glory must go together. 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. And, (3.) So the three things: he's trodden under foot the Son of God, counted the blood of Christ as nothing, and has done despite to the Spirit of grace. Apply it to Christ's death as the testator, and nothing can be plainer or more forcible. There were some sins under the law for which no sacrifices were provided; but yet if those who committed them did truly repent, though they might not escape temporal death, they might escape eternal destruction; for Christ would come, and make atonement. 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. Jesus sits down in perpetuity. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. On the other hand, if the medicine is ineffective, every time he looks at the bottle he will be reminded that he is ill and that the recommended cure was useless. And so Paul warned the Corinthian believers concerning having a relations with a harlot. The happiness of the saints in heaven is substance, something of real weight and worth. He has nothing more to do with sin; He will judge man who rejects Himself and slights sin. As the result of enduring the cross, having despised the shame, the word for sitting down here has a remarkably beautiful shade of meaning different from what is given in all the other occurrences. Theirs is the position of a servant; his is the position of a monarch. Some think this refers to the dreadful destruction of the Jewish church and state; but certainly it refers also to the utter destruction that awaits all obstinate apostates at death and judgment, when the Judge will discover a fiery indignation against them, which will devour the adversaries; they will be consigned to the devouring fire and to everlasting burnings. Those who begin to waver in matters of Christian faith and practice are in danger of falling away. 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