Actually, he is saying we should gather together all the more as we see the day of the Lord approaching. They had not made up their minds to suffer: to be despised was odious in their eyes. 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. How happy is the man whose sins and iniquities, God said, I will remember no more. They may enter into the gracious presence of God in his holy oracles, ordinances, providences, and covenant, and so into communion with God, where they receive communications from him, till they are prepared to enter into his glorious presence in heaven. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; for he is faithful that promised ( Hebrews 10:20-23 ); Notice now this new covenant: hold fast, hang on, don't worry, because God is faithful who made the promises. Jesus is the substance that casts the shadow. And again, pointing not to our faithfulness, but the faithfulness of God. "For how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?" "Thou hast given me an open ear," means, "You have so touched me that everything I hear I obey." Arranged all beforehand, neither Isaac's partiality nor Jacob's deceit was able to divert the channel. That is why he says as he enters the world: "You did not desire sacrifice and offering; it is a body you have prepared for me. Ed. It cost many of them their families. But why should it be "testament" in these two verses alone, and "covenant" in all other places? In Jesus' name. Further, that this Priest was to be a living one, in some most singular manner to be an undying Priest, was made evident beyond question, because in that Psalm it is said, "He testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry ( Hebrews 10:35-37 ). As, 1. Here is a summons never to be less than our best; and always to remember that the end comes. - Let us hold fast the confession (, see Hebrews 3:1, and ref. He knew that in Isaac his seed was to be called. The fact is, that love of uniformity may mislead some, as love of variety misled our English translators too often. He that possesses the one must not eschew the other. He exhorts them not to cast away their confidence, that is, their holy courage and boldness, but to hold fast that profession for which they had suffered so much before, and borne those sufferings so well. Christ with Belial and all." If He is to be often offered, He must also often suffer. "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. Carefully observe that it is the tabernacle, never the temple. He is thinking of the Second Coming of Christ when things as we know them will be ended. He has been proved to be a divine person, and the true royal priest of whom not Aaron only but Melchisedec was the type. It is one continuous story in the preparing of the hearts of man for the coming of the Messiah. Here the apostle sets forth the dignities of the gospel state. For not merely did David receive from Jehovah that throne, but never were the people of God lifted out of such a state of distress and desolation, and placed on such a height of firm and stable triumph as under that one man's reign. Over on your left is another door, behind which are several tigers. In the roll of the book it is written of me. Lane entitled this warning passage "The Peril of Disloyalty to Christ." To remove that threat is to emasculate the faith. This blood, being sprinkled on the conscience, chases away slavish fear, and gives the believer assurance both of his safety and his welcome into the divine presence. We do not know the steps of His work, until we come to the preparation of an abode for man. Indeed it is only the body that is here spoken of. Attack by an enemy he could bear; attack by one whom he loved killed him. By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned." 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. The sin here mentioned is a total and final falling away, when men, with a full and fixed will and resolution, despise and reject Christ, the only Saviour; despise and resist the Spirit, the only . But they are completely gone; and therefore at God's right-hand sits down He who is its witness. 24 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. Christ, therefore, goes into heaven, and will come again apart from sin. If by five o'clock this evening you do not go to the door on your right and enter that door declaring to all within the kingdom that from now on you will be a faithful and devoted wife, then the door on your left will be opened and the death which he almost died to save you from will come upon you, and this time without any hope of escape. This We Know to Be the Carnal Israel: Circumcision and the Erotic Life of God and Israel (Critical Inquiry 18). He spoke of faith in Hebrews 10:22 and developed it in chapter 11, hope in Hebrews 10:23 and developed it in Hebrews 12:1-13, and love in Hebrews 10:24 and developed it in Hebrews 12:14 to Hebrews 13:21. He begins by saying three things about Jesus. Please feel free to link to pages on this site, but do not copy articles without authors' permission. The veil is rent: the believer can draw near, as is shown in the next chapter; but meanwhile it is merely pointed out that there is no veil now, eternal redemption being obtained. That after ye have done the will of God - That is, in bearing trials, for the reference here is particularly to afflictions.Ye might receive the promise - The promised inheritance or reward - in heaven. It is a trial of the patience of Christians, to be content to live after their work is done, and to stay for the reward till God's time to give it them is come. The Christian spirit is a sympathizing spirit, not a selfish spirit, but a compassionate spirit; it makes every Christian's suffering our own, puts us upon pitying others, visiting them, helping them, and pleading for them. There is this purging. There remains no other sacrifice for your sins. But human nature being what it is it was easy for the idea to degenerate and for sacrifice to be thought of as a way of buying God's forgiveness. Another point follows, connected with what we have had before us, and demanding our attention. The context of the New Testament, and the book of Hebrews, indicates that salvation cannot be lost (John 10:28-29). You are to be one with God and if you then go out and sin you are making God a partner in your sin. After all, the telling fact was before them that, whoever wrote the epistle to the Hebrews, it was not a Christian who wrote the book of Genesis, but Moses; and Moses bears witness to the homage which Abram rendered to Melchisedec by the payment of tithes. If one lives by faith during times of duress, then he will receive reward from God. And now a tiger, drawn by the scent of human flesh, circling the pit, and then the fast footsteps as it approached and leaped into the pit. Accordingly we have a remarkable line of blessing pursued for our instruction here. But they had to be taken care of before I could have fellowship with God. The Old Testament is all about Jesus Christ. 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. On the other hand, the priests, Aaron's family, among the sons of Levi, "have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham." The NT does not reject the notion that Christians will receive rewards, though, of course, that is never the prime motive for service." 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 is given to every man to live in two worlds, this world of space and time, and the world of eternal things. We may remember how the dying soldier lad looked up at Florence Nightingale and murmured: "You're Christ to me.". "For," says he, "there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof (for the law made nothing perfect)." What comes in between the two? 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 Give them a chance too. Of Christ who was given up to death, who is risen and gone above, in whom we find all the blessing promised, and after a better sort. 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. "The worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen" which would not be the case if it was only a dispensation "were not made of things which do appear. It is "the blood that speaketh better than Abel." For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. This supposes the people of God not actually settled in the land, but still pilgrims and strangers on the earth; and the epistle to the Hebrews, we have already seen, looks emphatically and exclusively at the people of God as not yet passed out of the wilderness; never as brought into the land, though it might be on the verge; just entering, but not actually entered. the task of translating the Old Testament into Greek was begun in Alexandria in Egypt. 1:7 you became companions of those who were so treated; 34 for you had compassion on me # 2 Tim. All within the kingdom rejoiced.In the meantime, the princess had again been incarcerated because the court's judgment had not been executed. These two last verses bear witness to the grace of God in redemption. Hebrews 9:1-28 brings us into the types of the Levitical ritual, priesthood and sacrifice. Christ Himself could not add to the perfectness of that sacrifice by which He has put away sin. "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.". All jokes aside, Hebrews 10:26 is an oft-abused scripture. If you believe in Christ at all, such is your portion nothing less. If any man feels that he can do so let him remember that he comes to Church not only to get but to give. (iii) Sin is the insult to the Holy Spirit. If God had reserved the epistle to the Hebrews until after He sent forth His armies and burned up their city, destroying their polity root and branch, it might have been retorted that the Christians valued the Jewish ritual as loner as it was available, and only gave it up when earthly temple and sacrifice and priest were gone. Nor is it that redemption only is denied, but creation also; so that there is very great importance in maintaining the rights and the truth of God in creation. He says that patience is necessary, not only because we have to endure to the end, but as Satan has innumerable arts by which he harasses us; and hence except we possess extraordinary patience, we shall a thousand times be broken down before we come to the half of our course. This was the burnt offering, and it was symbolic of just consecrating my life to God. 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. And, (3.) These, when convicted by two or three witnesses, were put to death; they died without mercy, a temporal death. 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 . "God, I'll do this for You if You'll do this, this and this." In truth, the substratum was the same, and therefore it was not only quite lawful so to call it, but if he had not, the design would have been marred. Jesus was the perfect sacrifice because he perfectly did God's will. 4:9; Heb. This, he says, must be from a father who loves his true and faulty children: others enjoy no such care. If life is the road to Christ none can afford to miss it or to stop half-way. As a Christian I am now free, by God's will, to go in peace and assurance of His love into the holiest of all yes, now. In the most admirable manner he proves that this was what God was all along waiting for. Beyond question the Lord is regarded as the completer of the whole walk of faith in its deepest and, morally, most glorious form. In the early days of the gospel there was a very hot persecution raised up against the professors of the Christian religion, and the believing Hebrews had their share of it: he would have them to remember. Men who have seemed before to have the blood of Christ in high esteem may come to account it an unholy thing, no better than the blood of a malefactor, though it was the world's ransom, and every drop of it of infinite value. In its ordinary usage, it has a much deeper force. The first way to the tree of life is, and has been, long shut up. This means that Jesus not only shows us the way to God but also when we get there introduces us to his very presence. In doing so he points out the true nature of faith. And this is the more remarkable, because his language is essentially of the actual state of what was going on in the temple; but he always calls it the tabernacle. As to the outer man also, we must learn to what we are called now. The millennial day will see this. To trample upon an ordinary person shows intolerable insolence; to treat a person of honour in that vile manner is insufferable; but to deal thus with the Son of God, who himself is God, must be the highest provocation--to trample upon his person, denying him to be the Messiah--to trample upon his authority, and undermine his kingdom--to trample upon his members as the offscouring of all things, and not fit to live in the world; what punishment can be too great for such men? And so Paul warned the Corinthian believers concerning having a relations with a harlot. We have many duties required of us in our Christian callings, and in our particular vocation (for the honour of God, and the service of our brethren), which we have need of patience to go through (526). There was but one such Priest. I want to be listed in that hall of fame, those who believe in the promises God. Hence the apostle applies the type distinctly now, as far as the "order" of the priesthood goes. 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. He is "minister of the holies and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not of man." We are not men to shrink back from things and so to come to disaster, but we are men of a faith which will enable us to possess our souls. In fact, they'd probably become a better Jew than they ever were. The fact was plain that the priest was always doing and doing, his work being never done; whereas now there is manifested, in the glorious facts of Christianity, a Priest sat down at God's right hand, a Priest that has taken His place there expressly because our sins are blotted out by His sacrifice If there was any place for the priest, one might have supposed, to be active in his functions, it would be in the presence of God, unless the sins were completely gone. camp, bearing his reproach." And why? They may be cleansed from guilt, from filth, from sinful fear and torment, from all aversion to God and duty, from ignorance, and error, and superstition, and whatever evils the consciences of men are subject to by reason of sin. If one member of the body suffers, all the rest suffer with it. 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. It did not matter whether it was a priest or an Israelite. [Note: Cf. By faith we understand ( Hebrews 11:1 and 11:3 ). "He suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust," says another apostle, "that he might bring us" not to pardon, nor to peace, nor to heaven, but "to God." By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And having a high priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart full of assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Reason is ever drawing conclusions; God is, and reveals what is. 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. 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