Thank God! . "Ye are come unto mount Zion," which was the highest Old Testament point of grace on earth. In short, Christians will never advance two paces without fainting, except they are sustained by patience. (2.) This is the meaning of the phrase, not that He will sit there throughout all eternity. (6) We are not of them that draw back to perdition but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. 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 ). [3.] For by one offering and for all time he perfectly gave us that cleansing we need to enter into the presence of God. Why turn back to "meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein?". For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God." For now God came out, so to speak, in His own power and grace, and, in the person of Christ on the cross, put away sin abolished it from before His face, and set the believer absolutely free from it as regards judgment. If it be not the truth, it would be the height of presumption indeed. From the dreadful doom of such apostates. Where is the mountain that could stand out so well against Sinai? They must draw near in conformity to God, and communion with him, living under his blessed influence, still endeavouring to get nearer and nearer, till they come to dwell in his presence but they must see to it that they make their approach to God after a right manner. "For by it the elders obtained a good report." This leads to another point; for the change of the priesthood imports a change of the law. Jesus said, "In your patience, ye shall possess your souls" (Luke 21:19). Before developing these, the apostle refers to the tabernacle itself in which these sacrifices were offered. But what at Zion? "" Be a Godly-trained disciple: (7) "Don't throw away your confidence" Hebrews 10:32-36 Pastor Florence Luo . In these consists our double present association by faith, while on the earth. That is, he sought carefully with tears the blessing given to Jacob; but there was no room left for repentance, simply in the sense of change of mind; for, I suppose, the word here has that sense, which sometimes, no doubt, it has. The priests must go on with their weary routine of animal sacrifice; but the sacrifice of Christ was made once and for all. What had immediately preceded this, The cross. III. It is the purpose of God that man should fellowship with Him. Now is it an axiom, that a covenant-maker must die to give it force? Rightly then we begin with Zion, and thence may we trace the path of glory up to God Himself, and down to the kingdom here below. It is a living way. which cleave to Christ the rejected King, and Holy Sufferer, who is now in glory above. They must draw near by conversion, and by taking hold of his covenant. Hence the right hand of the throne is introduced, but, besides, "of the Majesty in the heavens." And for this simple reason: no place is given herein to man's importance. "The worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins." The Hebrews were Jews in Palestine who had got converted upon the preaching of the apostles. If one member of the body suffers, all the rest suffer with it. 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. As to the outer man also, we must learn to what we are called now. It is just what he had been speaking of throughout, if covenant were still meant. The reason I take to be, that the apostle meets the Jewish believer where he is, as much as possible giving credit for what was really true in the Old Testament saints, and so in the Jewish mind. He sits there continually, in contrast with the Jewish priest, who was always rising up in order to do fresh work, because there was fresh sin; for their sacrifices never could absolutely put away sin. All through this, one thing comes out. II. 271.] Search Tools. That we should consider one another, to provoke to love and to good works. Most people can start well and almost everyone can be fine in spasms. With all this Christianity is contrasted. For if they could have been perfect sacrifices that had put away the sins then would they not have ceased to be offered? "For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator." We are not those that draw back. "By the which will" (not man's, which is sin, but God's) "we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.". Sin separates man from God. But whether the one or the other, all was by faith. I. What infinite thoughts are those that God's word gives; as glorifying for Himself as elevating for our souls! He brings proof. Thus another and a higher priesthood was incontestably acknowledged by the father of the faithful. These, when convicted by two or three witnesses, were put to death; they died without mercy, a temporal death. This was a final call; and how gracious! Then we have the other patriarchs introduced, yet chiefly as regards earthly hopes, but not apart from resurrection, and its connection with the people of God here below. It is "the blood that speaketh better than Abel." 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. 4. 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. 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 . Every now and again the writer to the Hebrews speaks with a sternness that is almost without parallel in the New Testament. He encourages them to this by assuring them that the reward of their holy confidence would be very great. Yet who beforehand would have anticipated either? Verse 36 and through the end of this chapter conclude the fourth great exhortation of Hebrews. (i) We need to keep our hope before us. Then you will receive all that he has promised. But have patience brethren, that after you've done the will of God you might receive the promise. It is impossible that they could actually take away your sins. Reason can appreciate not grace but law; and so people are apt, when things go wrong, to bring in the law. Ease had ruined them when struggle had only toughened them. There is no indulgence of human curiosity. Indeed both should die; for it usually consists of two parties who are thus bound, and therefore, were the maxim true, both ought to die, which is an evident absurdity. If life is only a day to day doing of the routine things, we may well sink into a policy of drift; but if we are on the way to heaven's crown, effort must always be at full pitch. "As it is appointed unto men once to die," wages of sin, though not all, "but after this the judgment," or the full wages of sin, "so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many;" this He has finished; "and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation." They had not made up their minds to suffer: to be despised was odious in their eyes. This shows that, beyond question, among the Jews of that day, Psalms 110:1-7 was understood to refer to the Christ alone. Salute all your leaders, and all the saints. Here the words "for us" had better be left out. If any man feels that he can do so let him remember that he comes to Church not only to get but to give. The addition of this last clause as a necessary condition confirms the sense assigned. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us (Romans 5:1-5). with. Theirs is the position of a servant; his is the position of a monarch. "For this he did once, when he offered up himself. The shadow of Christ is there in the law and in the sacrifices. Read full chapter Hebrews 10:36 in all English translations Hebrews 9 Hebrews 11 New International Version (NIV) For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will repay, saith the Lord. 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. Christ never needed this, but we do. The latter is not referred to, because it represents the millennial glory; the former is, because it finds its proper fulfilment in that which is made good in the Christian scheme now. For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. This epistle insists on the blood of Christ, making all to turn on that efficacious work for us. You have sown a lot of happiness that way." Here are Christians who were tempted to give up. Then he went on to say: "Behold, I come to do your will." For then would they not have ceased to be offered? They must draw near in holy dependence, and in a strict observance of the divine conduct towards them. But the Holy Ghost's testimony is not forgotten. Once He came they were no longer necessary, no longer necessary to have the shadows, for we now have the substance in Jesus. To mount Zion. 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. Nor is it pleasant to nature. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.". But they are trying to protect their national identity and they fight fiercely. They were completely ostracized. Without Him I have nothing. He uses in the most skilful manner the change of the priest, in order to bring along with it a change of the law, the whole Levitical system passing away "but [there is] the bringing in of a better hope." It made a covering for their sins, but it did not put their sins away. The appeal of the writer to the Hebrews is one that could be made to every man. From this practical lessons of great value are drawn. It is not mere rebelliousness against law; it is the wounding of love. The first is, that in spirit the Christian is now brought by redemption, without spot or guilt, into the presence of God. 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 A Church in such circumstances could not afford to carry members who were a bad advertisement for the Christian faith. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. So far from that, in them there is a year by year reminder of sin. There is no sanction here, of course, of the vulgar and outrageous error that pastors give an account of the souls of their flock. Of this we saw somewhat inHebrews 10:1-39; Hebrews 10:1-39. He begins by saying three things about Jesus. On these things I need not now dwell farther than to characterize all, from Abraham inclusively, as the patience of faith. Hebrews 10:23 2 nd "Let Us" [Heb 10:23 KJV] 23 Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith (hope) without wavering; (for he [is] faithful that promised;) Hope is important in the new and better covenant. Moffatt distinguishes three reasons which keep a man from worshipping with his fellow Christians. 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. Christ with Belial and all." THE FINALITY OF CHRIST ( Hebrews 10:11-18 ). "For how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?" In other words, they would have done it once in Moses' day and that would have been it. kata sarka greek kata sarka greek. The undivided place of Christ is more fully witnessed now, when there are no others to occupy the thought or to distract the heart from Him as seen by faith in glory on high. 3:4; Heb. (iii) We must encourage one another. For it is a good thing that the heart be established in grace." For indeed He was a man as really as any other, though infinitely above man. evil, learn to do good" ( Isaiah 1:11-20). 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 ). This is just the closing practical word of the epistle to the Hebrews. By His one offering we have been perfected forever. The manner in which we must do this--without wavering, without doubting, without disputing, without dallying with temptation to apostasy. His life is incomplete without his death; his death is incomplete without his resurrection; his resurrection is incomplete without his return to glory. But why should it be "testament" in these two verses alone, and "covenant" in all other places? [Note: Lane, Hebrews 9-13, p. Nothing but obedience could open the way to God; disobedience set up a barrier that no animal sacrifice could ever take away. Professors may go a great way, and after all draw back; and this drawing back from God is drawing on to perdition: the further we depart from God the nearer we approach to ruin. "And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better." Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God." None but a heavenly Priest would suffice for the counsels He has in hand. 10:32-39 Remember the former days. 11.]. Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? The cynical voices may try to take our faith away; the materialist and his arguments may try to make us forget God; the events of life may conspire to shake our faith. Every day, so long as the Temple stood, the following sacrifices had to be carried out ( Numbers 28:3-8). 7. As to the pathway through the wilderness, it had been disposed of inHebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 4:1-16. Thus the Pentateuch and the Psalms bore their double testimony to a Priest superior to the Aaronic. Thus, before he enters on the subject of the sacrifices at length, he takes notice of the covenants, and thence he draws a conclusion from the well-known prophecy in Jeremiah, where God declares that the days were coming when He would make a new covenant. Next, it is a " counting of the blood of the covenant an unholy thing .". Please feel free to link to pages on this site, but do not copy articles without authors' permission. But how? (1.) "Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. 65:17, Isaiah 66:22-24, 2 Peter 3:10-13, Revelation 21:1-7) to live with them (Hebrews 4:1-9, Hebrews 12:2-24), in all eternity in peace, love, and joy. General Search for 'Hebrews 9:4-:' within 'New American Standard Version' on StudyLight.org. Having once settled these great things between God and our souls, we must be stedfast and immovable. It is probably a bad translation. But far from this, it is the simple fact Of the gospel. The gracious Lord gives and designs that we should take His own place both in heaven and here. (3.) Thus the apostle closes this most striking and precious epistle, brimful to overflowing with that which had an especial and very touching interest to a Jew, but nevertheless needed as certainly by us, and as rich in instruction for us in this day as for those at any time that has passed away. It was only owing to the blindness of Israel. Instead of pining after that which is about to be destroyed, or repining at the call to go out to the place of Christ's shame on earth, Christianity, which replaces Judaism now, may well cause us to offer "the sacrifice of praise to God continually." THE THREAT AT THE HEART OF THINGS ( Hebrews 10:26-31 ). There remains no other sacrifice for your sins. Because His people had no heart for His promises, He imposed a system of law and ordinances that was unjudged in them, which provoked the sin. He may try to be what Moffatt called "a pious particle," a Christian in isolation. 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. Vindictive justice is a glorious, though terrible attribute of God; it belongs to him, and he will use and execute it upon the heads of such sinners as despise his grace; he will avenge himself, and his Son, and Spirit, and covenant, upon apostates. You've never understood that." (3.) Hebrews 10:36, NLT: Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. 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. If you believe in Christ at all, such is your portion nothing less. The reason is obvious because he is caused himself. In Hebrews 6:1-20, we saw that the Spirit of God brings in a most solemn warning for those who turn their back on the power and presence of the Holy Ghost, as bearing witness of Christianity. 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 Oh how happy is the man to whom God does not impute iniquity." He alludes, in the beginning of our chapter, to the historical facts of Genesis. One of the old divines wrote a kind of catechism. Hebrews 10:19-25 is an encouraging bridge between two major sections of the book of Hebrews. Let blinded Jews turn their sightless eyeballs to the mountain of Sinai. This then is brought before us. 26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. Now the just shall live by faith: and if any man draw back, [God said] my soul shall have no pleasure in them. This is the great transgression: the apostle seems to refer to the law concerning presumptuous sinners, Numbers 15:30; Numbers 15:31. IV. Thus it will be observed, at the end of all the moral and experimental dealings with the first man (manifested in Israel), we come to a deeply momentous point, as in God's ways, so in the apostle's reasoning. [All that remains is] the certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries ( Hebrews 10:27 ). In its ordinary usage, it has a much deeper force. Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, by a believing application of the blood of Christ to our souls. No attention is paid here to the march through the wilderness, any more than to the establishment in the land, still less to the kingdom. Which door? The doctrine follows: "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost." Now it is evident that in the Old Testament the distinction was not made between flesh and spirit in the way in which we have it brought out in the general doctrine of Christianity. Hodges, "Hebrews," p. 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. 36.For ye have need of patience, etc. Social snobbery is bad but spiritual and intellectual snobbery is worse. When the rebellion was subdued, the princess was brought to justice and the court decreed that she should die in the tiger's pit. The grounds why Canaan could not consistently be made prominent in this epistle as a present thing, but only as a hope, we have already seen. It is the only way; there is no way left but this. ( Heb 10:29) The Mosaic covenant was ratified with blood; and with that blood both the tabernacle with all its vessels, and the people who worshipped before it, were sanctified, and set apart as holy to the Lord. Every one can understand, when once we find that the word means almost always covenant," how great the temptation is to translate it so in but two other occurrences, especially as before and after it means "covenant" in the same passage. . If I have an indisputable present title of access into the holiest of all, I must not shrink from the place of ashes outside the camp. This then is the monument for such as we are. Accordingly, then, as suiting this pilgrim-path of the Christian, the tabernacle is referred to, and not the temple. The answer is, by sacrifice. 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 cannot receive the grace of Christ unless we have an unhesitating conviction. Hebrews 10:36-39. 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. Another great call was, to beware "lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright." 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. There is then the solemn admonition of the account they are to render by-and-by. How happy is the man whose sins and iniquities, God said, I will remember no more. The sacrifice of Jesus was made once and is effective for ever; the animal sacrifices of the priests must be made over and over again, and even then they are not effective in any real way. 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 ). 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. But the apostle goes farther, as indeed was due to truth. 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. There was also a drink-offering, which consisted of a quarter of a hin of wine. 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? The motive or reason enforcing this duty: He is faithful that hath promised. Verse 39. "Who needeth not daily," therefore says He, "as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's." So you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.". Now, this judgment and fiery indignation is going to take place, much of it, during the Great Tribulation. "With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself. His purpose utterly failed to secure the blessing for his profane but favourite son. Consequently, when He comes again to them that look for Him, it is simply to bring them into all the eternal results of that great salvation. 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