Of this we saw somewhat inHebrews 10:1-39; Hebrews 10:1-39. To profess this hope is to be saved. Then he shows us others higher than these, by a divine call "and to the church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven." 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. God brings forward His choice, David, when the miserable end of Saul and Jonathan saw the Philistines triumphant, and Israel disheartened as they had scarce been beyond that moment. 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. Let us then seek to combine these two things perfect nearness to God, and the place of utter scorn in the presence of man. Instead he exhorted his readers to endure rather than apostatize. There remains for them only a certain fearful looking for of judgment, Hebrews 10:27; Hebrews 10:27. But in those sacrifices there was a reminder again made for sins every year ( Hebrews 10:3 ). He is only one of a series of existing objects, and consequently never can rise above that in his own nature. Here the meaning is the saving of one's daily life (He 10:32-39). God alone who spake it into being can pronounce upon it. Where you've already had the remission once and for all, perfected in Christ, there is no need for any further offering for sin. He's not some senile Santa in the sky. Every year when the priest would go in, you'd be reminded again of your guilt and of your sin. Over a month, we're looking at verses 19 to 25. When Caesar was murdered he faced his assassins with almost disdainful courage. Here it is the grand truth itself in its own character. "By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, confessing his name. 3. But the apostle takes all this difficulty by the horns, as good as telling them, that their having suffered all this was simply because it is the right road. It made a covering for their sins, but it did not put their sins away. It is one continuous story in the preparing of the hearts of man for the coming of the Messiah. "Be mindful of those in bonds, as bound with them; and of those which suffer adversity." There it was written, "Lo, I come to do thy will, O God." In the Greek, it is present perfect tense. Jesus said, "In your patience, ye shall possess your souls" (Luke 21:19). 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? "For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. The consequence is, that many have tried (and I remember making efforts of that kind myself, until convinced that it could not succeed) to give , in the English Bible rightly rendered "the testator," the force of the covenanting victim. As for the first Adam and all his race, their portion was only death and judgment, because he was a sinner. He is everything. Those who begin to waver in matters of Christian faith and practice are in danger of falling away. He is thinking of the Second Coming of Christ when things as we know them will be ended. The unsatisfactory Christian undermines the very foundations of the Church. And their relation to their leaders he puts forward in various forms. When it says that Abraham looked for the city, it means a blessed and ordered scene of glory on high, which eclipsed the Holy Land before his eyes. Are those two things true of you? Where could they find such a Priest? Indeed, not being revealed of old, according to the apostle, it is altogether a mistake to go to the Old Testament for that truth. The other quotation is from Deuteronomy 32:36, The Lord will judge his people; he will search and try his visible church, and will discover and detect those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are of the synagogue of Satan; and he will separate the precious from the vile, and will punish the sinners in Zion with the greatest severity. As Paul points out, Christians need patience that they may do the will of God and that they "might receive the promise." It is the purpose of God that man should fellowship with Him. There is nothing more simple; at the same time it is just one of those questions that God has answered, and this so as to settle the mind perfectly, and fill the heart with praise. But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased." . In this passage his thoughts are going back to the grim instruction in Deuteronomy 17:2-7. it is there laid down that, if any person shall be proved to have gone after strange gods and to have worshipped them, "you shall bring forth to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones. On these things I need not now dwell farther than to characterize all, from Abraham inclusively, as the patience of faith. But why should it be "testament" in these two verses alone, and "covenant" in all other places? Because the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins ( Hebrews 10:2 ). They from Italy salute you. He said, "You can't do that. The shadow, it's not the substance. There we have those that compose the church, in allusion to Christ, contrasted with the position of Israel as a nation, because of the nearness which they possess by the grace of Christ known on high. He is my peace. A new covenant shows that the other must have thereby become old, and therefore is decaying and ready to vanish away. So hold fast this profession of faith. It is not implied that they may not sin, or that they have no consciousness of their failure, either past or present. . You can't go back to the old system. Alas! Language Tools. It is the same Jesus who lived and died and rose again and is at the right hand of God. During a time of rebellion, she went out and lived in open adultery with the leader of the rebellion. In point of fact the English translators did not know what to make of the matter; for they give sometimes one, sometimes the other, without any apparent reason for it, except to vary the phrase. with Him in this place of nearness. We have the means prescribed for preventing our apostasy, and promoting our fidelity and perseverance, Hebrews 10:24; Hebrews 10:25, c. He mentions several as, 1. We are beset, surrounded with a world of temptations, assaulting us within and without, which we have need of patience to withstand; 3. 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. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.". Attention is drawn to the permanence of His position at the right hand of God. The Lord forbid that anything should enfeeble our sense of the value and necessity of such daily grace, There may be that which calls for confusion of face in us, but there is unceasing ground also for thanksgiving and praise, however much we have to humble ourselves in the sight of God. Through that the way was once and for all opened up for us. He only removes obstructions, and maintains our communion with Himself; surely this ought to settle every question for the believer. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching ( Hebrews 10:25 ). Nothing but absolute establishment of heart in God's grace could have gazed on a destroyed universe, and yet call it a "promise." 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. In effect, he says: "Be what you were at your best." Every believer struggles daily against sin, not always victoriously. There is nothing to divert the heart from Christ, the great High Priest in the heavens. 39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved. The death of Christ, both in the sense of a victim sacrificed, and of a testator, though a double figure, is evident to all, and tends to the self-same point. He that despised Moses' law [that is, the first covenant that has been set aside] died without mercy under two or three witnesses ( Hebrews 10:28 ): Very severe punishment, capital punishment for those who despised the first covenant that God established through Moses. With all this Christianity is contrasted. 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. Christ Himself could not add to the perfectness of that sacrifice by which He has put away sin. 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 "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.". They have access to God, light to direct them, liberty of spirit and of speech to conform to the direction; they have a right to the privilege and a readiness for it, assistance to use and improve it and assurance of acceptance and advantage. THE ONLY TRUE SACRIFICE ( Hebrews 10:1-10 ). Thus you see, either corrupt passion on the one hand or profanity on the other, are unsparingly condemned by the grace of God. 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. They knew they had possessions that no man could take away, the enduring substance in heaven. ], "What they had endured for Christs sake entitled them to a reward. It is an enduring substance, it will out-live time and run parallel with eternity; they can never spend it; their enemies can never take it from them, as they did their earthly goods. (iii) He stresses the final triumph of Jesus. Indeed we may say that the whole epistle to the Hebrews is just this: we start from the foundation of grace up to God Himself in the heavens; and thence springs the certainty that the stream of grace is not exhausted, and that undoubtedly it will issue in unceasing blessing by-and-by for the earth, and for the people of Israel above all, in the day of Jehovah. 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. Psalms 110:1-7, which, as all the Jews owned, spoke., throughout its greater part at least, of the Messiah and His times, shows us Jehovah Himself by an oath, which is afterwards reasoned on signifying that another priest should arise after a different order from that of Aaron. Moffatt distinguishes three reasons which keep a man from worshipping with his fellow Christians. Here observe, (1.) Thus Melchisedec, "whose descent is not of Aaron nor of Levi," like Jesus, "received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises!" For assuredly if Jewish children honoured their father and mother on legal grounds, much more ought Christian children on grounds of grace. It was only known by the biblical scholars. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do, thy will, O God." "And unto the city of the living God, (not of dying David,) the heavenly Jerusalem" (not the earthly capital of Palestine). But the writer to the Hebrews goes on to outline our duty to others in the most practical way. To remove that threat is to emasculate the faith. We have need of it because there is in us so much disposition to complain and repine; because our nature is liable to sink under sufferings; and because our trials are often protracted. Looking at Jesus, we can say: "That is what God is like." In establishing of the new covenant, He has put away the first. In that day it will be the joy of Him who is the true Melchisedec, to bring out not the mere signs, but the reality of all that can be the stay and comfort of man, and all that sustains and cheers, the patent proof of the beneficent might of God, when "no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.". God honoured the son for the father's sake. It is continually cleansing us from all sins. They were afflicted in their estates, by the spoiling of their goods, by fines and forfeitures. Here it is the proof of the perpetual efficacy of the sacrifice of Christ. It is probably a bad translation. Let blinded Jews turn their sightless eyeballs to the mountain of Sinai. For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins ( Hebrews 10:26 ). This was a final call; and how gracious! Every man carries with him his own secret shrine, but so many forget to enter it. In order that in this body, He might become the perfect, complete sacrifice for man. Again and again the High Priest bathed himself in the laver of clear water. "Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Charles Wesley in his great hymn appealed to men: It was when the flesh of Christ was rent upon the Cross that men really saw God. This is, as is well known, the special characteristic of the millennium. It became us to have a Priest, "holy, harmless, undefiled, made higher than the heavens.". Fully does He allow, as connected with this, that the chastening seems not joyous but grievous. Meanwhile Christianity gives the utmost force to every type and truth of God. The apostle concludes with declaring his good hope concerning himself and these Hebrews, that they should not forfeit the character and happiness of the just, and fall under the brand and misery of the wicked (Hebrews 10:39; Hebrews 10:39): But we are not, c. as if he had said, "I hope we are not of those who draw back. (iii) We must encourage one another. 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. Then comes forth the wondrous counsel that was settled before either the sin of man, or the promises to the fathers, or the law which subsequently put man to the test. And one winter in Capua did what the Roman legions had not succeeded in doing. 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. 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. 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. He does not require to add more to the person and facts of Christ than the Old Testament furnishes, to prove the certainty of Christianity and all its characteristic truths with which he occupies himself in this epistle. The athlete will make his great effort because the goal beckons him on. For one thing, the sacrifice of Jesus perfectly shows the love of God In that life of service and in that death of love, there stands fully displayed the heart of God. Once He came they were no longer necessary, no longer necessary to have the shadows, for we now have the substance in Jesus. Thenceforward how it figures in the Psalms and prophets! For then would they not have ceased to be offered? (2) Willful sin shall certainly result in eternal destruction. He quotes Deuteronomy 32:35-36 where the sternness of God is clearly seen. 10:32-39 Remember the former days. He uses two words to indicate what he means. But this becomes the occasion of a remarkable allusion, on which I must for a moment dwell. "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." We are those that believe to the salvation of our souls.Now the just shall live by faith, and as we go into chapter 11, we're going to get the hallmark of faith, the hall of fame for those who believe. Again, she was brought to trial and now the verdict was to be given. He describes Him thus in His judicial character. For in a short time, a very short time, "He who is to come will come and he will not delay. 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 answer is, that the language is peculiar and precise in these same two verses, requiring not a covenant but a testament, and therefore the sense of testament here is the preferable one, and not covenant. You cannot come to God by the first covenant.There are always those who want to come to God on their terms. 38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. "Whereupon neither the first [covenant] was dedicated without blood. II. Then follows the heavenly glory, to which grace naturally leads; then the natural inhabitants of the heavenly land, namely, the angels "and to myriads of angels, the general assembly." 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. 4. But these things were ineffective to remove the real pollution of sin. They had not made up their minds to suffer: to be despised was odious in their eyes. But the answer to this is, that there is not a single writer in the language, not sacred only but profane, who employs it in such a sense. If one lives by faith during times of duress, then he will receive reward from God. Paul writes about the peace one has with God through His grace: Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Show 12 24 36 per page Preaching Use Your Head 5 24 2030 Tozer on August 7th, 2018 - Preaching Use . The writer here declares his confidence in them. Such is the true sense of the passage. 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. Satan craftily suggests every kind of trouble in order to discourage us. You've never understood that." 7. 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. The conviction of the writer to the Hebrews was that, if under the old law, apostasy was a terrible thing, it had become doubly terrible now that Christ had come. Man never did nor could settle it without the word of God. A simple word of scripture settles a thousand questions. It is also founded on one of their own prophets. If life is the road to Christ none can afford to miss it or to stop half-way. And for this simple reason: no place is given herein to man's importance. This is of the deepest importance. "Now of the things that are being spoken of this is a summary: We have such an high priest, who is set down on [the] right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; a minister of the holies, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man." Not Yet a Member? (See under 10:25.) And is he better or safer that slights the sacrifice of the Son of God, and goes back either to earthly sacrifices or to lusts of flesh, giving a loose rein to sin, which is expressly what the Son of God shed His blood to put away? The communion of saints is a great help and privilege, and a good means of steadiness and perseverance; hereby their hearts and hands are mutually strengthened. For if they could have been perfect sacrifices that had put away the sins then would they not have ceased to be offered? (iii) Let us put our minds to the task of taking thought for others. In burnt offerings [the Lord said in Psalms] and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. "Through faith he instituted the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. So, we have been sanctified through the body of Jesus Christ. This warning passage is in a sense central to all the hortatory passages in Hebrews. does not express eternity (which would be , or some such form of words) but "for continuance." So here the Psalms acquire a meaning self-evidently true, the moment Christ is brought in, who is the truth, and nothing less. 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