Once Christ had come, the awfulness of sin lay not in its breaking of the law but in its trampling of the love of Christ under foot. Every hour a bulletin went out throughout the kingdom telling of the condition of the prince as he fought the battle for life. From theology he turns to practical exhortation. (a) He may not go to church because of fear. Jesus is the substance that casts the shadow. If you say," For where a covenant is, there must also of necessity be the death of the covenanter" the person. But if people and priest and king were proved thus vain, God was there, and His grace could not fail. [1.] None but a heavenly Priest would suffice for the counsels He has in hand. They were to be cut off. He is the same unchangingly and evermore, as He has ever been. Because the Holy Ghost bears this witness, and nothing less, to the perfectness of the work of Christ. The doctrine follows: "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost." But the apostle lets them know that if they understood their true blessing, this was the very part of it that was inseparably bound up with their present nearness to God, as set forth typically by the central and most important rite of the Jewish system. The father of the faithful was the one first called out by promise. If only we were always at our best, life would be very different. 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. Barrie somewhere wrote to Cynthia Asquith: "Your first instinct is always to telegraph to Jones the nice thing Brown said about him to Robinson. Accordingly, this is an appeal to the hearts. 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. Thus it is evident that the introduction of the last trial of Abraham was of all possible moment to every one that stood in the place of a son of Abraham. Dillow, p. What the wise men of antiquity, the Platos and Aristotles, never knew what the modern sages blunder about, without the slightest reason, after all the word of God has made the possession of every child of His. Then turning to the princess he said, "Over on your right there is a door, and behind that door there stands your husband, the prince, the one that you betrayed. He has been proved to be a divine person, and the true royal priest of whom not Aaron only but Melchisedec was the type. Hebrews 10:36, NASB: For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. (Verses 1-7.). In full assurance of faith, with a faith grown up to a full persuasion that when we come to God by Christ we shall have audience and acceptance. It was not so of old, when the Israelite brought his goat or calf. In order that in this body, He might become the perfect, complete sacrifice for man. . Notice it is going to devour God's adversaries. This is taken out of Psalms 94:1, Vengeance belongs unto me. Show 12 24 36 per page Preaching Use Your Head 5 24 2030 Tozer on August 7th, 2018 - Preaching Use . They had not made up their minds to suffer: to be despised was odious in their eyes. A man might be able to direct an enquirer to Buckingham Palace and yet be very far from having the right to take him into the presence of the Queen; but Jesus can take us the whole way. Consider each other to provoke each other to love, to good works, and then not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, in order that we might receive exhortation. He may have friends who have no use for that kind of thing and may fear their criticism and contempt. In Hebrews 10:1-39 he applies the matter to the present state of the believer. There in the darkness a fierce battle ensued, until finally the princess could hear the death throes as the last bit of life was leaving, and then just the dripping of blood.As it became daylight, the men from the city came to take the remains of the princess and bury them. The "confession" here is our trust in God's promises, of what God eternallyaffords the believer. Baptizing by the disciples - This was done apparently under the direction of Christ ( John 3:26; 4:2 ). He knew that in Isaac his seed was to be called. Our writer goes further--he says that all they are is a reminder of sin. 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. He understands our weaknesses: "Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. The sacrifice acceptable to, God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou, "For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge. Lane entitled this warning passage "The Peril of Disloyalty to Christ." Looking at Jesus, we can say: "That is what God is like." In the Greek, it is present perfect tense. The death of Christ is sufficient once and for all. "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.". He says that they do not give a real image. That is a difficult thought, but what he means is this. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 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. (b) He may not go because of fastidiousness. 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. Hebrews 3:6; Hebrews 4:16; Hebrews 10:19). That is to say, God is owned in His glory, as Creator of all by His word. For ye have need of patience - They were then suffering, and in all trials we have need of patience. This, he says, must be from a father who loves his true and faulty children: others enjoy no such care. In fact, they'd probably become a better Jew than they ever were. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry ( Hebrews 10:35-37 ). 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. There must be the death of him who so disposes of his property in order that the heir should take it under his testament. The Hebrews were Jews in Palestine who had got converted upon the preaching of the apostles. The fact was plain that the priest was always doing and doing, his work being never done; whereas now there is manifested, in the glorious facts of Christianity, a Priest sat down at God's right hand, a Priest that has taken His place there expressly because our sins are blotted out by His sacrifice If there was any place for the priest, one might have supposed, to be active in his functions, it would be in the presence of God, unless the sins were completely gone. Stevenson said that he so believed in the ultimate decency of things that if he woke up in hell he would still believe in it; and we must have a grip on the faith that nothing can loosen. It owns the creation; it recognizes sacrifice as the only righteous means of being accepted with God the only means of approaching Him worthily. To exhort one another, to exhort ourselves and each other, to warn ourselves and one another of the sin and danger of backsliding, to put ourselves and our fellow-christians in mind of our duty, of our failures and corruptions, to watch over one another, and be jealous of ourselves and one another with a godly jealousy. And I sit down and eat with God the peace offering. Christ has obtained redemption, and this is witnessed by the token of the veil rent from top to bottom. There is a wholeness about the life of Jesus that perhaps we ought to give more thought. Be assured it is of the deepest possible moment to cherish the activity of Christ's present love and care for us, the activity of that priesthood which is the subject of this epistle. Jesus' flesh is what veiled his godhead. This leads to a further contrast with the action of the Aaronic priest. Hebrews 10:19-25 is an encouraging bridge between two major sections of the book of Hebrews. We have a great high priest.The danger was these Jews who had received Jesus, returning back to Judaism, taking a lamb, dragging a lamb to the priest again to make a sin offering for them. They had never known so great and frequent and constant trial. "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." A man is ill. A bottle of medicine is prescribed for him. Have done the will of God By keeping the faith, and patiently suffering for it. But whether the one or the other, all was by faith. He is my sin offering. 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. Our being brought to God supposes, and is founded on the fact, that our sins are gone perfectly by His one offering; otherwise no madness is greater than indulging such a thought. "Conscience of sins" means a dread of God's judging one because of his sins. Read full chapter Hebrews 10:36 in all English translations Hebrews 9 Hebrews 11 New International Version (NIV) The greatest context of any book of the Bible is the "argument of the book." For example, the argument of Romans is "the righteousness of God." In various forms the root dike(right) occurs 60 times. His shadow was cast over the past history. We are not told the details of what preceded the great week when God made the man and the woman. Hebrews 10:36-39. If, therefore, when you find the word "testament" anywhere else in the authorized version, you turn it into "covenant" in my opinion you will not do amiss. Outside of the city, in a clearing in the forest, a pit had been dug. They must draw near to God, and that in a right manner. the sense of the word which had been used before), what would be the aim of the "also?" All things here are but shadows. Ed. And the apostle shows that we need not only a perfect pattern in the walk of faith, but chastenings by the way. The day of the Lord will come. "" Be a Godly-trained disciple: (7) "Don't throw away your confidence" Hebrews 10:32-36 Pastor Florence Luo . 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