At first it was (ver. And for this cause he is mediator of the new covenant, that by means of death, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance." They would not even recognize them on the street as existing. Jesus said, "In your patience, ye shall possess your souls" (Luke 21:19). He may shrink from contact with people who are "not like himself." (196) Or, patient waiting, as rendered by Erasmus and Stuart, and not perseverance, as rendered by Macknight. They knew in themselves that they had in heaven a better and a more enduring substance. 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. The reference is therefore plain and sure. That is a difficult thought, but what he means is this. But this man [Jesus Christ], after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God ( Hebrews 10:12 ); It's complete. 39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. 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. We can understand, therefore, both the delicacy that thus entreated them, and the meaning of the added words, "for also in few words I have written to you." He is suddenly ushered upon the scene. with Him in this place of nearness. Here's a letter to help them keep going. Bible Study Tools. The sin here mentioned is a total and final apostasy, when men with a full and fixed will and resolution despise and reject Christ, the only Saviour,--despise and resist the Spirit, the only sanctifier,--and despise and renounce the gospel, the only way of salvation, and the words of eternal life; and all this after they have known, owned, and professed, the Christian religion, and continue to do so obstinately and maliciously. The promise is good, but the . ], "What they had endured for Christs sake entitled them to a reward. They had never known so great and frequent and constant trial. Here the meaning is the saving of one's daily life (He 10:32-39). He requires also profession or confession, for it is not true faith except it shows itself before men. 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. [Note: Cf. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God ( Hebrews 10:6-7 ). He is not simply a saint who lived a lovely life; not simply a martyr who died an heroic death; not simply a risen figure who returned to company with his friends. 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." In the Hebrew, kophar, which is translated atonement. You ought to have the consciousness that there is no judgment for you with God by-and-by, however truly He, as a Father, judges you now on earth. "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 . So, we have been sanctified through the body of Jesus Christ. Click to Sign Up Now! If one lives by faith during times of duress, then he will receive reward from God. Please feel free to link to pages on this site, but do not copy articles without authors' permission. All the effort of Christendom is first to deny the one, and then to escape from the other. 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. "By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, confessing his name. with. So far from purifying a man, they remind him that he is not purified and that his sins still stand between him and God. 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. What infinite thoughts are those that God's word gives; as glorifying for Himself as elevating for our souls! Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.". But He that shall come will come and will not tarry. I refer to the fact just to exemplify on the one hand the true bearing of the epistle, and what I believe will be discovered in it, and on the other hand to guard against the mistake of importing into it, or trying to extract from it, what is not there. Often a man can meet with honour the great hour of testing and of trial; and yet lets the time of plain sailing sap his strength and emasculate his faith. But the writer to the Hebrews goes on to outline our duty to others in the most practical way. From their questions and their arguments and their criticisms he said that he had learned that "the greatest handicap the Church has is the unsatisfactory lives of professing Christians." "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. Christ's baptism ( Matthew 3) - This was specific to Jesus and His anointing (commission) to be our Savior and the associated testimony of the Holy Spirit and God. 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. It should be translated covered. For by one offering and for all time he perfectly gave us that cleansing we need to enter into the presence of God. It was hid in God from ages and generations. If we are ever to have fellowship with God, obedience is the only way. (iii) We need the memory of the end. 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. 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 real presumption, therefore, is to pretend to be a Christian, and yet to doubt the primary fundamental truth of Christianity as to this. 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. The gracious Lord gives and designs that we should take His own place both in heaven and here. But the higher the privilege, the greater the danger of either despising or perverting it. 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. (4) Patience should be exercised in order to win the crown of life. I may, of course, see what is before my eyes, and. Sinful man cannot have fellowship with a holy God. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. It would be well if we remembered that, apart from anything else, to go to church is to demonstrate where our loyalty lies. In essence the meaning is the same. Hannibal wintered his troops in Capua which he had captured, a city of luxury. First, they were to remember those that once ruled them. The apostle is dealing with the saints as to their walk; and as he had shown how Christ alone had purged the sins of the believer, and how He is on high, as the Priest in the presence of God, to intercede for them in their weakness and dangers; so now, when he is come to the question of the walk of faith, Christ is the leader of that, walk. The day of the Lord will come. Establish yourselves, for the Lord is waiting for the full fruit of harvest. We are not those that draw back. Perfection cannot be improved upon. It may mean the worlds governed by dispensations; but still that the idea of the whole universe is in it cannot be fairly contested by competent minds. They could not understand how it was they should come into greater trouble than before. These things were only foreshadowing His coming. All the people of the kingdom gathered in the great arena to hear the verdict against the princess. The first covenant that God established with man is over. The fulfilment of the Melchisedec Order is found in Christ, and in Him alone. He has but one settled purpose of goodness about us; He watches and judges for our good, and nothing but our good. That is often true of Christian life. Every believer struggles daily against sin, not always victoriously. Remember how, after you had been enlightened, you had to go through a hard struggle of suffering, partly because you yourselves were held up to insult and involved in affliction and partly because you had become partners with people whose life was like that. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word. He is labouring for this, and with divine skill accomplishes it, by the testimonies of their own law and prophets. He may live or work among people who laugh at those who do so. And during the night the tigers, drawn by the scent of human flesh, would come and devour the victims. At that very moment therefore the tide begins to turn. Jesus' flesh is what veiled his godhead. The Lord is going to come again. 5. He does not reason from the singular circumstance that there was no incense, any more than sacrifice. "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, laying aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking off unto Jesus the captain and completer of faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.". Hebrews 10:3,4,11-18 It is possible to repeat the kind of poetry that is written in sentimental journals and on Christmas cards; but not to repeat the blank verse of Shakespeare's plays or the hexametres of Homer's Iliad. ", This naturally leads the apostle to bring before them One that never ends "Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday, and today, and for ever." Let men who can see only look there, and what will be found? 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. This was a final call; and how gracious! Eliphaz unwillingly paid Job a great tribute. The unsatisfactory Christian undermines the very foundations of the Church. No man can evade the fact that in the end judgment comes. For it is a good thing that the heart be established in grace." When the apostle Paul, speaks of "the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem," he means the scene of future heavenly blessedness; whereas when John speaks of the new Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God, he means, not where but what we are to be. 4. This then is the monument for such as we are. Click to Sign Up Now! No man ever saved his soul who devoted his whole time and energy to saving it; but many a man has saved it by being so concerned for others that he forgot that he himself had a soul to save. 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