It is told that in the days of the Hitler terror there was a man in Germany who was arrested, tried, tortured and put into a concentration camp. "In the volume of the book it is written of me" a book which none ever saw but God and His Son. He is one of the deepest theologians in the New Testament but all his theology is governed by the pastoral instinct. The only effective sacrifice is the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The last chapter (Hebrews 13:1-25) follows this up with some practical exhortations as to brotherly love continuing; then as to kindness to strangers, or hospitality; finally, as to pity for those in bonds. (Compare Acts 15:22.) The end of the chapter reminds us that faith is and it is for we who follow in the footsteps of the faithful men and women of previous ages. 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." 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. But the apostle goes farther, as indeed was due to truth. Such was the Priest of whom God spoke. where one competent to take up that word "for ever"? As a Christian I am now free, by God's will, to go in peace and assurance of His love into the holiest of all yes, now. One of the old divines wrote a kind of catechism. Along with it there was offered a meat-offering, which consisted of one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of pure oil. There was but One that could do God's will in that which concerned man's deepest wants. In the time we have it is our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can. It is such a fidelity to the end that is urged by the author here. Therefore it is well to stand clear of all men's schemes and thoughts, ever rising up more and more presumptuously, because they mainly consist of some slight in one way or another on the word of God. It should be translated covered. kata sarka greek kata sarka greek. 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. . 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. Theirs is the position of a servant; his is the position of a monarch. No argument could be more distinct or conclusive. And yet, their rabbis have determined that to be a Jew and a Christian are mutually exclusive; you cannot be both. "Your identification with Christianity really cost you a lot," and it did. The apostle earnestly insists on them both. Hodges, "Hebrews," p. ], "The safeguard against degeneration, isolation, and consequent failure is to make progress in the Christian life, and to proceed from point to point from an elementary to the richest, fullest, deepest experience." The cleansing of our heart occurs when we receive our pardon and we are deemed pure by God. But they are trying to protect their national identity and they fight fiercely. The best that they could do was to give him a distant and spasmodic contact with God. He shows them how necessary a grace the grace of patience is in our present state (Hebrews 10:36; Hebrews 10:36): You have need of patience, that after you have done the will of God you might receive the promise; that is, this promised reward. As to the outer man also, we must learn to what we are called now. Our danger is that to become so involved in this world that we forget the other. The apostle tells us the way and means by which Christians enjoy such privileges, and, in general, declares it to be by the blood of Jesus, by the merit of that blood which he offered up to God as an atoning sacrifice: he has purchased for all who believe in him free access to God in the ordinances of his grace here and in the kingdom of his glory. 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. Faith puts life and vigour into them. 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. The time for the proper exercise of the Melchisedec priesthood of Christ is not yet arrived. . The happiness of the saints in heaven is substance, something of real weight and worth. "But now once in the consummation of the ages," this is the meaning of "the end of the world;" it is the consummation of those dispensations for bringing out what man was. A priest is always in connection with the people of God, never as such with those that are outside, but a positive known relation with God "seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. The grace or principle of patience comes from God; the use and exercise of that grace is of yourselves. that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise: The doing and the receiving Paul speaks of here are in the future, and both require the Christians patience and steadfastness in obedience to the will of God. 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. So here the Psalms acquire a meaning self-evidently true, the moment Christ is brought in, who is the truth, and nothing less. "The priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. He necessarily completes all as the pattern for the Christian. And if you are one with Christ then you are making Christ a partaker and bringing Him as one with a harlot." But even the apostle felt his own need of the prayers of the faithful, not because he had gone wrong, but because he was conscious of no hindrance to his work from a had conscience. For in a short time, a very short time, "He who is to come will come and he will not delay. It is hard to keep clear of both. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. 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. Thus the chain of blessedness is complete. He will have nothing more to do with sin. "Through faith he instituted the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God;" a simple but a most sublime truth, and one that man never really found out that we are entirely dependent on faith for after all. When Caesar was murdered he faced his assassins with almost disdainful courage. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. For it is deeply, deeply ingrained.So the time of the writing of the Hebrews, those who had made a profession of Christ, some of them sort going back. He satisfies us with the perfectness with which Christ has washed us from our sins in His blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father. Now, in looking at these words, two things are noteworthy. In short, there is. The reasons will be given in a moment. 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. ", This naturally leads the apostle to bring before them One that never ends "Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday, and today, and for ever." We hold this in the face of difficulties, doubts, and discouragements. He taketh away the first, that he might establish the second ( Hebrews 10:8-9 ). In the most admirable manner he proves that this was what God was all along waiting for. To mount Zion. There remains no other sacrifice for your sins. Let us not abandon our meeting together--as some habitually do--but let us encourage one another, and all the more so as we see the Day approaching. Holy Scripture then demanded that a man should sit down at the right hand of God. The favourite thought is "development;" and so they hold a development or genesis of matter, not a creation: matter continually progressing, in various forms, until at last it has progressed into these wise men of our day. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens." And during the night the tigers, drawn by the scent of human flesh, would come and devour the victims. Paul also reminds us that the day of the Lord is approaching, the day when Christ will return for His church and will establish His kingdom. Year by year the sacrifices of the Tabernacle and especially of the Day of Atonement go on. They were completely ostracized. They must draw near to God. Now is it an axiom, that a covenant-maker must die to give it force? She recognized him to be the prince, her husband that she had betrayed. In establishing of the new covenant, He has put away the first. For another thing, the life and death of Jesus was an act of perfect obedience and, therefore, the only perfect sacrifice. To have enduring faith in trials, remember how God worked in the past (10:32-34). For the law maketh men priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath which was since the law, a Son perfected (or consecrated) for ever." Where you've already had the remission once and for all, perfected in Christ, there is no need for any further offering for sin. And of what did Christianity speak? Oh how happy is the man to whom God does not impute iniquity." For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.". The writer here declares his confidence in them. Isn't that glorious? The gracious Lord gives and designs that we should take His own place both in heaven and here. It is not the case in the epistles of James and Peter, with which so far the epistle to the Hebrews agrees. He only removes obstructions, and maintains our communion with Himself; surely this ought to settle every question for the believer. Long before him the prophets had seen how sacrifice had degenerated and had told the people that what God wanted was not the blood and the flesh of animals but the obedience of a man's life. He's not some senile Santa in the sky. 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. Added to that there was the daily meat-offering of the High Priest; it consisted of one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with oil, and baked in a flat pan; half was offered in the morning and half in the evening. Of this we saw somewhat inHebrews 10:1-39; Hebrews 10:1-39. 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. Had they been taunted with having no altar, possessing nothing so holy and so glorious in its associations? We live here in a vale of misery, where we meet with a thousand petty crosses and vexations in the common road of our lives, which we have need of patience to digest; 2. They don't understand that to become a Christian is to become a completed Jew. How can such a consciousness as this be the portion of the Christian? The Jew never understood his law until the light of Christ on the cross and in glory shone upon it. The early Church lived in that expectation. 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." The greater part of the affections of the Christian are drawn out toward our Saviour by all this scene of sin and sorrow through which we are passing on to heaven. Then he descends to a new or fresh covenant (not , as elsewhere, but ), the recently inaugurated covenant for the two houses of the ancient people. To the writer to the Hebrews the whole business of sacrifice was only a pale copy of what real worship ought to be. This change was clearly taught in the book of Psalms. Accordingly we find everything about Moses. On the other hand, the priests, Aaron's family, among the sons of Levi, "have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham." (3.) (ii) We need fortitude. Cease to do. It's complete, the cleansing in the blood of Jesus Christ is complete, and the blood of Jesus Christ God's Son cleanses. 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. Even non-believing Jews keep Sabbath; eat kosher. Thither they are to be brought, and there are means for the road to keep us moving onward. By a testament, to be sure, as every one knows. This is natural and pleasant to the flesh, no doubt; but it is precisely what opposes the whole object of God in Christianity, since Christ went on high till He come again, and therefore the path of faith to which the children of God are called. Our way to heaven is by a crucified Saviour; his death is to us the way of life. As for the first Adam and all his race, their portion was only death and judgment, because he was a sinner. Hebrews 10:19-36 Dr. Grant C. Richison The most important principle of interpretation is the context. God honoured the son for the father's sake. 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