They knew they had possessions that no man could take away, the enduring substance in heaven. 4:9; Heb. And it's the theme of the verse we look at this morning. Christianity. Accordingly it is shown that such an one becomes an adversary of the Lord, and God will deal with him as such. Yet who beforehand would have anticipated either? Observe, [1.] [2.] Before developing these, the apostle refers to the tabernacle itself in which these sacrifices were offered. It is so deeply a part of their tradition that they guard it fiercely. The writer to the Hebrews says in effect: "Look at what has been done for you; look at the shed blood and the broken body of Christ; look at what your new relationship to God cost; can you treat it as if it did not matter? "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. Here observe, A natural state is a dark state, and those who continue in that state meet with no disturbance from Satan and the world; but a state of grace is a state of light, and therefore the powers of darkness will violently oppose it. For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will repay, saith the Lord. Notice it is going to devour God's adversaries. 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. In addition there was an offering of incense before these offerings in the morning and after them in the evening. You're trying to bargain with God or come to God on your terms, and it can't be done. Thus the chain of blessedness is complete. (Read Hebrews 10:26-31) The exhortations against apostacy and to perseverance, are urged by many strong reasons. It is the assembly composed of certain individuals that make it up, regarded either as brethren, as in the second chapter ("In the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee"), or as the church of the first-born ones, as in Hebrews 12:1-29, persons who drew their title from Christ the first-born Heir. You that go after the tabernacle (as he persists in calling it, even though now the temple) have no title to our altar, with its exhaustless supplies. James has said, "Have patience brethren; establish your souls for the Lord is waiting for the complete fruit of harvest" ( James 5:7 ). Baptizing by the disciples - This was done apparently under the direction of Christ ( John 3:26; 4:2 ). Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He may infer that there must be; but he never can say that there is. may so far have sensible evidence of what exists now; but it is only God who can tell me that He in the beginning caused to be that which now is. He describes Him thus in His judicial character. Holy Scripture then demanded that a man should sit down at the right hand of God. What is the value, the import., of the sacrifice of Christ viewed according to God, and as bearing on His ways? It remained for a brief season; but even then it soon began to show rents down. Click to Sign Up Now! StudyLght.org. (6) We are not of them that draw back to perdition but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. Ease has ruined far more men than trouble ever did. [Note: Ibid., p. 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. Christ is doing nothing there to take away sin; nor when He comes again will He touch the question of sin, because it is a finished work. Hebrews 10:36 King James Version 36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. The shadow, it's not the substance. 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. Ed. 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 Man's worst sin culminated in the death of Christ who knew no sin; but in that very death He put away sin. That we should observe the approaching of times of trial, and be thereby quickened to greater diligence: So much the more, as you see the day approaching. But what punishment can be sorer than to die without mercy? [Note: Lane, Hebrews 9-13, p. A man is ill. A bottle of medicine is prescribed for him. Observe, The greatest part of the saints' happiness is in promise. Then, consequent on the fall, comes the ground of the believer's acceptance; then his walk with God, and deliverance from His judgment of the whole scene, in the midst of which we actually are. We hear first of Melchisedec (King of righteousness), next of Salem or peace; without father, without mother, without genealogy. There are certain surroundings which indicate to the competent eye when the word "covenant" is right and when the word "testament" is better. At the beginning of this passage he says: "You did not desire sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt-offerings and sin-offerings and you took no pleasure in them," and it is such offerings as these that the law prescribes. By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned." David has been happy to be part of the Blue Letter Bible . First, he lived in a day when the Church had been under attack and would be under attack again. It is the obedient car of which the psalmist is thinking. And I sit down and eat with God the peace offering. Had the energetic activity of faith been first noticed, it would have made more of man; but when the heart had been disciplined in quiet endurance, and lowly expectancy from God, then he could be clothed with the energy of the Spirit. But whether we look at the heavenly supremacy of Christ over the universe, which is the highest part of the mystery, or at the church associated with Him as His body, composed of both Jew and Gentile, where all distinction is gone, no wit of man ever did or could possibly draw this beforehand from the Old Testament. I will put my laws upon their hearts; and I will write them upon their minds," he goes on to say: "And I will not remember any more their sins and their breaches of the law." But this time is not yet come. The Christian stands between the cross and the glory of the Lord Jesus. But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased." Thus the first part of the chapter shows us simply what God holds out to the new man; but the epistle to the Hebrews never looks at the Christian simply in the new man, but rather as a concrete person. it is not the dulness of Jewish prejudice only, but exactly what is denied by every system of which men boast in Christendom. The apostle takes particular notice how they had sympathized with him (Hebrews 10:34; Hebrews 10:34): You had compassion on me in my bonds. Christianity turns everything to account. THE THREAT AT THE HEART OF THINGS ( Hebrews 10:26-31 ). of God, rather than burnt offerings." Jesus was the perfect sacrifice because he perfectly did God's will. 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. Before Jesus came, there was no question of it among the Jews. It is not the case in the epistles of James and Peter, with which so far the epistle to the Hebrews agrees. At that very moment therefore the tide begins to turn. 3. 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. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompence of reward. The Consecrated Way; Cautions against Apostasy; Perseverance Inculcated. "Into the second [goes] the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way of the holies was not yet made manifest, while as yet the first tabernacle was standing: which is a figure for the present time according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not, as pertaining to the conscience, make him that did the religious service perfect; which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation." Here the meaning is the saving of one's daily life (He 10:32-39). "The priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. If we live by faith, and die in faith, our souls will be safe for ever. As he exhorts here the Jews to persevere, he mentions hope rather than faith; for as hope is born of faith, so it is fed and sustained by it to the last. He brings proof. ; also Hebrews 4:14) of our hope without wavering (, agreeing with "confession"); for he is faithful that promised: and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works; not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one . But we are not of those who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul ( Hebrews 10:38-39 ). Sincerity is our gospel perfection, though not our justifying righteousness. The first was the sin offering, which is sins general. Patience and perseverance are nearly the same. 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. It is no longer effective. 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. So that, let the Jews say what they might, there was only found what answered to their own scriptures, and what proved the incontestable superiority of the great Priest whom Melchisedec shadowed out, and of whom it was now for the Christian justly to boast. They really mar the sense, because they draw attention not to the truth in itself so much as its application to us, which is not the point in Hebrews 9:1-28, but rather ofHebrews 10:1-39; Hebrews 10:1-39. This is of the deepest importance. Thus Melchisedec, "whose descent is not of Aaron nor of Levi," like Jesus, "received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises!" Totally forgiven through Him, accepting this new covenant that God has established, your sins are completely put away. Who was this One? Satan craftily suggests every kind of trouble in order to discourage us. 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. 279.]. God has made great and precious promises to believers, and he is a faithful God, true to his word; there is no falseness nor fickleness with him, and there should be none with us. "That is, Jesus, when He came into the world, God prepared a body for Him. They had never known so great and frequent and constant trial. This change was clearly taught in the book of Psalms. Look unto Jesus. It is one continuous story in the preparing of the hearts of man for the coming of the Messiah. "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. Verse 36 and through the end of this chapter conclude the fourth great exhortation of Hebrews. "And Samuel said, has the Lord as great delight in burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? I may, of course, see what is before my eyes, and. (2) Willful sin shall certainly result in eternal destruction. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins." Here the apostle warns those that turn their back on Christ's one sacrifice. Have patience; He has a few more yet to save. We cannot receive the grace of Christ unless we have an unhesitating conviction. 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. (3) The Christians who received this epistle had already endured great hardship and suffering and should not throw all that away by becoming indifferent. That is to say, let us remember that we are Christians not only for our own sake but also for the sake of others. He took himself and said to God: "Do with me as you will." and made it still more manifest and heinous. 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. 39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved. NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Hebrews 10:1-10 1For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near. There must be a due preparation for making our approaches to God. "For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator." 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. There we find these two facts. Again, she was brought to trial and now the verdict was to be given. So the encouragement is to hold fast the profession; don't waiver. . So far from that, in them there is a year by year reminder of sin. He quotes Deuteronomy 32:35-36 where the sternness of God is clearly seen. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 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. He is only one of a series of existing objects, and consequently never can rise above that in his own nature. His is no external purification; by his presence and his Spirit he cleanses the inmost thoughts and desires of a man until he is really clean. The lamb will do nothing. With Zion then the apostle justly begins. In his perfect manhood he offered the perfect sacrifice of the perfect obedience. It should be translated covered. Thus does the apostle reason on it: "For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh" (which the Jew would not contest): "how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to do religious service to the living God? This is taken out of Psalms 94:1, Vengeance belongs unto me. You cannot come to God by the first covenant.There are always those who want to come to God on their terms. Perseverance is one of the great unromantic virtues. May you be blessed of the Lord and strengthened in every good work for the glory of Jesus Christ. His answer is that condemnation must necessarily follow, "and so much the more because thou hast read this book." 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. And there is no further sacrifice that can be offered, of a goat or a lamb or a calf or anything else. In their names and reputations (Hebrews 10:33; Hebrews 10:33), by many reproaches. Oh how happy is the man to whom God does not impute iniquity." In other cases the epistle to the Hebrews speaks of sanctification by God's call, and Christ's blood. It cost many of them their families. Attention is drawn to the permanence of His position at the right hand of God. When the Messiah was crucified, Judaism was in principle a dead thing: if it was in any sense kept up, it was no more than a decent time before its burial. 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. They must draw near to God. If one lives by faith during times of duress, then he will receive reward from God. Every morning and every evening a male lamb of one year old, without spot and blemish, was offered as a burnt-offering. 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. Moffatt distinguishes three reasons which keep a man from worshipping with his fellow Christians. The father of the faithful was the one first called out by promise. For the sacrifice of Jesus Christ is complete. This is the great transgression: the apostle seems to refer to the law concerning presumptuous sinners, Numbers 15:30; Numbers 15:31. It is a new way, both in opposition to the covenant of works and to the antiquated dispensation of the Old Testament; it is via novissima--the last way that will ever be opened to men. We enter into the presence of God by means of the veil, that is, by the flesh of Jesus. And why? Arranged all beforehand, neither Isaac's partiality nor Jacob's deceit was able to divert the channel. It carries a present reward in it, in holy peace and joy, and much of God's presence and his power resting upon them; and it shall have a great recompense of reward hereafter. where one competent to take up that word "for ever"? A priest, as such, could no more draw near into the presence of God in the holiest than any of the common people. ( Micah 6:6-8). Best of all we can do that by setting the fine example. The reason is obvious because he is caused himself. ", 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. First of all, it is love that calls us to the path that Christ trod; next, it is love that chastens us. And we'll get an interesting listing of these men of faith as we move on into chapter 11, the glorious chapter on faith.And now may the Lord be with you, watch over and keep you in His love as you walk in faith in Him. The fact is, that love of uniformity may mislead some, as love of variety misled our English translators too often. For if they could have been perfect sacrifices that had put away the sins then would they not have ceased to be offered? The severest and final trial of Abraham's faith was giving up the son, in whom all the promises were infolded, to receive him back on a resurrection ground in figure. The point to which he directs the reader is the evident and surpassing dignity of the case the unity too of the Priest and the priesthood; and this for an obvious reason. He would not accept anymore of these sacrifices. 'It was therefore a crisis after the most painful accumulation of evils that weighed on the heart of Israel. The apostle earnestly insists on them both. I am alienated from God. (1.) Apply it to Christ's death as the testator, and nothing can be plainer or more forcible. To help their patience, he assures them of the near approach of Christ's coming to deliver and to reward them (Hebrews 10:37; Hebrews 10:37): For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. But these things were ineffective to remove the real pollution of sin. "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. Christ Himself could not add to the perfectness of that sacrifice by which He has put away sin. First, in God's counsels it was always before Him to have One more than man though a man to deal with this greatest of all transactions. For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. that good portion which shall not be taken away from those who cleave to the Crucified, who is now exalted in heaven? The "confession" here is our trust in God's promises, of what God eternallyaffords the believer. He is the same unchangingly and evermore, as He has ever been. 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. He is my righteousness. "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. 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