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What mountain in the Old Testament so much speaks of grace, of God's merciful interference for His people when all was lost? It endures for ever, because it has perfected for ever them that are sanctified. The day of execution came and she was led into the woods and tied securely to the post there in the bottom of the pit and was left to her fate.As it grew darker, she heard the crunching of gravel above her head. It only covered their sins. 1. 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. 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. 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. 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. Thus you see, either corrupt passion on the one hand or profanity on the other, are unsparingly condemned by the grace of God. That is to say, let us remember that we are Christians not only for our own sake but also for the sake of others. (iii) He stresses the final triumph of Jesus. May you be blessed of the Lord and strengthened in every good work for the glory of Jesus Christ. What was the necessity for a new covenant if the old one would do as well? As for the first Adam and all his race, their portion was only death and judgment, because he was a sinner. He would not accept anymore of these sacrifices. Oh how happy is the man whose sins are covered. There, is no ground, in my judgment, for the thought of anything mysterious in the facts as to his person. It is quite legitimate to employ it in an fortiori way, as the apostle does in Ephesians 6:1-24. The wisest man is a fool in the sight of God; and the strongest man is weak in the moment of temptation. Brought nigh to God by the blood of Jesus, we have perfect access, so that there is nothing between God and us; for Christ suffered once to bring us to God, as He intercedes that we may have communion. It is not implied that they may not sin, or that they have no consciousness of their failure, either past or present. In short, there is. The reason appears to be, because he is going to tell us of the Old Testament saints. A. 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. 806. In my judgment it is correct to translate it both ways, never arbitrarily, but according to context. Of course it is true that Jesus took His seat there, but more is conveyed in the true form of the text ( ) here. The battle which Abraham fought, the first recorded one in scripture, is the type of the last battle of this age. Will the Lord be pleased with thousands, of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Now, where there is forgiveness of these things, a sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary. And there is no further sacrifice that can be offered, of a goat or a lamb or a calf or anything else. And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest." "Promise" (epaggelia) refers to "the blessing promised by my Father" (Thayer 227), that is, eternal life in heaven with all the blessings associated with it. The only way you can come to God is as a guilty sinner and cast yourself upon His mercy and grace and just ask for mercy and grace. "He taketh away the first." Of how much worse punishment, do you think, that man will be deemed worthy who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, who has failed to regard the blood of the new covenant, with which he was made fit for God's presence, as a sacred thing, and who has insulted the Spirit through whom God's grace comes to us? [Note: Cf. He may be ashamed to be seen going to church. Thus another and a higher priesthood was incontestably acknowledged by the father of the faithful. They can trust God, and live upon him, and wait his time: and, as their faith maintains their spiritual life now, it shall be crowned with eternal life hereafter. Let him learn his error. If the one figured the imposed measure of man's responsibility, which can only but most justly condemn him, in the other we behold the mountain of God's grace after all was lost. They watch as those that shall give an account. These two last verses bear witness to the grace of God in redemption. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. But what punishment can be sorer than to die without mercy? I may, of course, see what is before my eyes, and. They were afflicted in the afflictions of their brethren: Partly while you became companions of those that were so used. 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. By their own confession the application of that Psalm was to the Messiah, and the very point that Jesus urged upon the Jews of His day was this how, if He were David's Son, as they agreed, could He be his Lord, as the Psalmist David confesses? This We Know to Be the Carnal Israel: Circumcision and the Erotic Life of God and Israel (Critical Inquiry 18). But meanwhile, confessedly, the Spirit of God directs attention, not to the exercise, but to the order of the Melchisedec Priest. For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. In short, the word in itself may mean either; but this is no proof that it may indifferently or without adequate reason be translated both ways. 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. 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 ). 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. (3.) None but a heavenly Priest would suffice for the counsels He has in hand. 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. It would be death to attempt to come to God in the way of the covenant of works; but this way we may come to God, and live. (iii) Let us put our minds to the task of taking thought for others. And they baked it into bread and offered it unto God.Finally, I could offer the peace offering, which was communion. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? And he is a living God; he lives for ever, and will punish for ever. "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. 4. 2. 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. David cried out, "Oh how happy is the man whose transgressions are forgiven. With the attribute of true patience, not only can one overcome spiritual afflictions but he can also experience these troubled times with joy. Patience and perseverance are nearly the same. If the writers concern had been the salvation of those readers who were unbelievers, this would have been an opportune time for him to exhort them to believe in Christ. He took himself and said to God: "Do with me as you will." Up to this time man was the object of those ways; it was simply, and rightly of course, a probation. 35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. Outside of the city, in a clearing in the forest, a pit had been dug. "If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?" Those who will not enter in this way exclude themselves for ever. They must draw near in all holy conversation, like Enoch walking with God. Choose a verse from 'Hebrews 10' to begin your 'Verse-by-Verse' study of God's Word using the more than 100 commentaries available on StudyLight.org. 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. Sinful man cannot be one with a holy God.Paul, writing to the Corinthians, who lived in that city that was so debauched, that the word Corinthian became a synonym for a totally debauched person. 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. And observe that it is assumed to be so common and obvious a maxim that it could not be questioned. In addition there was an offering of incense before these offerings in the morning and after them in the evening. "By faith Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain.". It was therefore necessary that the representations of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. When first they had become Christians they had known persecution and plundering of their goods; and they had learned what it was to become involved with those under suspicion and unpopular. For another thing, the life and death of Jesus was an act of perfect obedience and, therefore, the only perfect sacrifice. because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins." But this becomes the occasion of a remarkable allusion, on which I must for a moment dwell. They wouldn't have to offer animals once a year in the Holy of Holies. 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. Show 12 24 36 per page Preaching Use Your Head 5 24 2030 Tozer on August 7th, 2018 - Preaching Use . In Jesus' name. He could have written, "For you have need of regeneration." At first sight every one may have been surprised, especially those that read the New Testament in the language in which God wrote it, at the double meaning of the word which is here translated "covenant." He is thinking of the Second Coming of Christ when things as we know them will be ended. [2.] For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. (2) Willful sin shall certainly result in eternal destruction. It is easy to laugh at men's ideals, to pour cold water on their enthusiasm, to discourage them. Those who have been kept faithful in great trials for the time past have reason to hope that the same grace will be sufficient to help them still to live by faith, till they receive the end of their faith and patience, even the salvation of their souls. "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.". When the rebellion was subdued, the princess was brought to justice and the court decreed that she should die in the tiger's pit. ", 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. Here the apostle warns those that turn their back on Christ's one sacrifice. "Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience; in all things willing to live honestly. He may have friends who have no use for that kind of thing and may fear their criticism and contempt. They have persevered through insults, violence, imprisonments and robberies, because of their confidence of a lasting reward (32-35). Now the apostle puts them upon observing what signs there were of the approach of such a terrible day, and upon being the more constant in meeting together and exhorting one another, that they might be the better prepared for such a day. Give them a chance too. Then we hear of "Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant" the pledge of Israel's full and changeless blessing. 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. But the bodies of those beasts were burnt without the camp: my place, so far as I in the body am concerned, is one of shame and suffering in this world. It is a truth of life that in many ways it is easier to stand adversity than to stand prosperity. Every night a thousand priestesses would come into the city of Corinth from the Acropolis above Corinth, the temple there of Aphrodite. There it was in the Psalms. "With Hebrews 10:19-39 the great central division of the sermon (Hebrews 5:11 to Hebrews 10:39) is drawn to a conclusion. The Lord is going to come again. Shall I give my, first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin, of my soul?" He always keeps up the evidence of the utter inferiority of the Jewish priest, as well as of the accompanying state of things, to that of Christianity. 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. 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? 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. That is still true. The burnt offerings were offerings of consecration where I would consecrate my life to God. Perseverance is one of the great unromantic virtues. Thus the cross and heavenly glory must go together. The "confession" here is our trust in God's promises, of what God eternallyaffords the believer. You took no pleasure in whole burnt-offerings and in sin-offerings. [All that remains is] the certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries ( Hebrews 10:27 ). What fellowship hath light with darkness? 2. The exhortation is based on a number of considerations, among which are these: (1) We have a great high priest who has opened up the new and living way through the veil, that is to say, his flesh. Hebrews 2:1-4 and Hebrews 10:28-31; and Hebrews 6:4-8 and Hebrews 10:26-31) and repeats characteristic expressions (cf. Sin separates man from God. To everyone it is sometimes given to mount up with wings as eagles; in the moment of the great effort everyone can run and not be weary; but the greatest gift of all is to walk and not to faint. This was in the ways of God the necessary moral consequence of his self-abnegation. He is one of the deepest theologians in the New Testament but all his theology is governed by the pastoral instinct. "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 . 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. If we live by faith, and die in faith, our souls will be safe for ever. "A body you have prepared for me," really means, "You created me that in my body and with my body I should do your will." He awaits the final subjugation of his enemies; in the end there must come a universe in which he is supreme. 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. "For how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?" to the foundations, which became apparent too, too quickly in Solomon's son. Verse 38. The Jews, themselves, usually spoke the Koine or they spoke Greek, but Hebrew was only for biblical scholars. Jesus said, "In your patience, ye shall possess your souls" (Luke 21:19). "For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator." 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. [4.] This was a final call; and how gracious! The Hebrews were Jews in Palestine who had got converted upon the preaching of the apostles. The motive or reason enforcing this duty: He is faithful that hath promised. Every change of mind is far from being repentance, which doctrinally means that special and profound revolution in the soul when we take God's part against ourselves, judging our past ways, yea, what we are in His sight. Holy Scripture then demanded that a man should sit down at the right hand of God. Man was tried by all sorts of tests from time to time God knew perfectly well, and even declared here and there, the end from the beginning; but He would make it manifest to every conscience, that all He got from man in these His varied dealings was sin. The encouragement to persevere 10:32-39. He has so absolutely swept it away for those who believe on Him, that when He comes again, them will be no question of judgment, as far as they are concerned, but only of salvation, in the sense of their being cleared from the last relic or result of sin, even for the body. Matthew 1-10 Matthew 11-28 Mark Luke John 1-7 John 8-21 Acts Romans 1, 2 Corinthians Galatians-Ephesians Philippians-Colossians-1, 2 Thessalonians 1, 2 Timothy-Titus-Philemon Hebrews James-1, 2 Peter 1,2,3 John-Jude Revelation 1-5 Revelation 6-22 . There are congregations which are as much clubs as they are churches. My trespasses have been put away. But in our way there are many hindrances and difficulties, which not only delay us, but which would also stop our course altogether, except we had great firmness of mind to pass through them. They were to suffer patiently their trials, looking forward to their termination; and in order to encourage them patiently to endure, he reminds them in the next verse that it will only be for a very short time. Which of these two most commends itself as the unforced meaning of the passage it is for the reader to judge. Apply it to Christ's death as the testator, and nothing can be plainer or more forcible. 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