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. iii. Certain things can be repeated; but all works of genius have a certain unrepeatable quality. Now this was under the old covenant, and had it been effective, once being cleansed, they should have no more conscience of sins. There it was more particularly the activity of faith; here it is the suffering of faith. He will have nothing more to do with sin. D. The Danger of Willful Sinning (The Fourth Warning) 10:19-39. Dillow, p. 1. It is not implied that they may not sin, or that they have no consciousness of their failure, either past or present. Accordingly, then, as suiting this pilgrim-path of the Christian, the tabernacle is referred to, and not the temple. it is not the dulness of Jewish prejudice only, but exactly what is denied by every system of which men boast in Christendom. Christ never needed this, but we do. These are not Christians falling from grace into damnation; rather, these are believers failing to obey and suffering the consequences. He quotes Deuteronomy 32:35-36 where the sternness of God is clearly seen. And is he better or safer that slights the sacrifice of the Son of God, and goes back either to earthly sacrifices or to lusts of flesh, giving a loose rein to sin, which is expressly what the Son of God shed His blood to put away? Here the words "for us" had better be left out. 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. Its purpose is not . (b) It need not be repeated. In its ordinary usage, it has a much deeper force. You've got to come on His terms, and His terms are that you come through Jesus Christ.The Old Covenant is disannulled; it's passed away. On the other hand it is notoriously true, that in no case can a testament come into execution without the testator's death a figure that every man at once discerns. And if you are one with Christ then you are making Christ a partaker and bringing Him as one with a harlot." Here ye must be workers together with God. The addition of this last clause as a necessary condition confirms the sense assigned. (5) Christ is faithful and will surely come to reward his followers as he promised. This is the point of the next chapters (He 11 and 12). He presses them to persevere, from that recompense of reward that waited for all faithful Christians (Hebrews 10:35; Hebrews 10:35): Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. So you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.". She recognized him to be the prince, her husband that she had betrayed. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? He doesn't have to be crucified over and over. These things stand alone. 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. 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. They were to suffer patiently their trials, looking forward to their termination; and in order to encourage them patiently to endure, he reminds them in the next verse that it will only be for a very short time. Hence the apostle applies the type distinctly now, as far as the "order" of the priesthood goes. 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. 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. Why should His saints be carried away with questions about meats and drinks? The victory comes only to the man who holds on. 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. The motive or reason enforcing this duty: He is faithful that hath promised. We are brought, then, washed from our sins, to God, and, according to this epistle, into the holiest of all, where He displays Himself. He is describing, then, the indwelling of Christ by the Spirit, the recognition of an indwelling Christ who offers to clothe himself with our personality and is prepared to live his life over again in our circumstances, right where we are. Earlier verses completed a long, detailed explanation of why the new covenant is superior to the old covenant. The NT does not reject the notion that Christians will receive rewards, though, of course, that is never the prime motive for service." They made what they called the kophar for sins. 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. Observe, [1.] 12:4 a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while # Phil. So, taketh away the first that He might establish the second. It is a way that Christ has consecrated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh. Then follows the heavenly glory, to which grace naturally leads; then the natural inhabitants of the heavenly land, namely, the angels "and to myriads of angels, the general assembly." When first they had become Christians they had known persecution and plundering of their goods; and they had learned what it was to become involved with those under suspicion and unpopular. He presses them to perseverance, by telling them that this is their distinguishing character and will be their happiness; whereas apostasy is the reproach, and will be the ruin, of all who are guilty of it (Hebrews 10:38; Hebrews 10:39): Now the just shall live by faith, c. He argues that the word "new" puts the other out of date, and this to make room for a better. They wouldn't have to offer animals every day. with. "He suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust," says another apostle, "that he might bring us" not to pardon, nor to peace, nor to heaven, but "to God." Hebrews 10:36 New International Version 36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. God can strengthen his suffering people with all might in the inner man, to all patience and long-suffering, and that with joyfulness, Colossians 1:11. True, the apostle John uses this very city as the figure of the bride. The greater the knowledge, the greater the sin. 3. 10:26-31 For, if we deliberately sin after we have received full knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sin is left. We must be God's waiting servants when we can be no longer his working servants. [Note: Cf. There were five offerings that were made in the Old Testament. Nowhere does the apostle give the smallest occasion for such a thought. 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. Now he leaves it to the consciences of all, appeals to universal reason and equity, whether such aggravated crimes ought not to receive a suitable punishment, a sorer punishment than those who had died without mercy? Give them a chance too. For the martyred saint's blood the earth cried to God for vengeance; but Christ's blood proclaims mercy from God, and the millennial day will be the glorious witness of its depth, and extent, and stability, before the universe. So then I said: 'So then I come--in the roll of the book it is written of me--to do, O God, your will."' Christians ought to have a tender consideration and concern for one another; they should affectionately consider what their several wants, weaknesses, and temptations are; and they should do this, not to reproach one another, to provoke one another not to anger, but to love and good works, calling upon themselves and one another to love God and Christ more, to love duty and holiness more, to love their brethren in Christ more, and to do all the good offices of Christian affection both to the bodies and the souls of each other. Hence they apply some terms to the work of God in nature similar to what they apply to His work in grace. There is a wholeness about the life of Jesus that perhaps we ought to give more thought. IV. Of Christ who was given up to death, who is risen and gone above, in whom we find all the blessing promised, and after a better sort. (b) He may not go because of fastidiousness. Do not throw away your confidence, for it is a confidence that has a great reward. Attention is drawn to the permanence of His position at the right hand of God. The fulfilment of the Melchisedec Order is found in Christ, and in Him alone. Christians are one body, are animated by one spirit, have embarked in one common cause and interest, and are the children of that God who is afflicted in all the afflictions of his people. as well as done by him, extraordinary. He is my mediator. He goes out, deliberately and knowingly, just at the time of life when a man is most sensitive to the value of a grand sphere of influence, as well as exercise of his powers, wherein, too, he could have ordinarily exerted all in favour of his people. That is often true of Christian life. But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. So, we have been sanctified through the body of Jesus Christ. It is a living way. Thus distinctly have we set before us the general doctrine of the chapter, that Christ has suffered but once, and has been offered but once; that the offering cannot be severed from the suffering. And what is the effect of it? First of all, "Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. From the description he gives of the sin of apostasy. If you say," For where a covenant is, there must also of necessity be the death of the covenanter" the person. The wise men of the present day are fast giving up the truth of creation. The text explains wherein consists the perpetual efficacy of Christ's sacrifice, and the reason why it needs no repetition while the world lasts. 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 All I can say to that is, "Amen!" The battle which Abraham fought, the first recorded one in scripture, is the type of the last battle of this age. The priests stand offering sacrifice; Christ sits at the right hand of God. Therefore is it that men so naturally slip into, or rest on, second causes. 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. It was for all men, not only for the respectable classes, that Christ died. Jesus was the perfect sacrifice because he perfectly did God's will. If only we were always at our best, life would be very different. And a thousand of them, a thousand streetwalkers in the city every night. Now the apostle, having given this general account of the way by which we have access to God, enters further into the particulars of it, Hebrews 10:20; Hebrews 10:20. 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." I mean his sins now; not sin as a principle, but in fact, though it be only for faith. 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. Faith, again, is the only principle of walk with God; as it is, again, the only means of realizing the judgment of God coming on all around us. 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. To what then are we come? Such is the emphasis. Their abject ruin placed them just in the circumstances that suited the God of all grace. Indeed, at no time will its order be more apparent than at present; for I think there can be little doubt to any unbiassed Christian who enters with intelligence into the Old Testament prophecies, that there is yet to be an earthly sanctuary, and, consequently, earthly priests and sacrifices for Israel in their own land; that the sons of Zadok, as Ezekiel lets us know, will perpetuate the line at the time when the Lord shall be owned to be there, in the person of the true David their King, blessing His people long distressed but now joyful on earth. Hebrews 10:36 "For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise." King James Version (KJV) < Previous Verse Next Verse > View Chapter Hebrews 10:36 Context There were some amongst those to whom the writer of the Hebrews was writing who had abandoned the habit of meeting together. 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. There is no indulgence of human curiosity. This baptism appears specific to John the Baptist. "The worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen" which would not be the case if it was only a dispensation "were not made of things which do appear. 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." Here the meaning is the saving of one's daily life (He 10:32-39). Finally, the writer to the Hebrews says that our Christian duty to each other is all the more pressing because the time is short. 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. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary. The mighty intervention of God in grace yea, more than that, forgiveness, deliverance, victory, glory, for the people of God. This they shall have at God's hand, they shall lie down in sorrow; their destruction shall come from his glorious powerful presence; when they make their woeful bed in hell, they will find that God is there, and his presence will be their greatest terror and torment. (2.) But this essential difference separates between the city for which Abraham looked and the bride so symbolised in the Apocalypse. "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.

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