Verse 36 and through the end of this chapter conclude the fourth great exhortation of Hebrews. with. Read full chapter Hebrews 10:36 in all English translations Hebrews 9 Hebrews 11 New International Version (NIV) Nor is it that redemption only is denied, but creation also; so that there is very great importance in maintaining the rights and the truth of God in creation. Sin separates man from God. Scripture: Hebrews 10:23-25. Thus the cross and heavenly glory must go together. 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. 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. There remains no other sacrifice for your sins. They were the only ones that used the Hebrew language. They were to leave the dead to bury their dead; and they did so. Condemnation, darkness, death. If that does not take place, then the second thing that will happen concerning your sins is that you will stand before God and be judged, and your sins will condemn you.Years ago, I was told the story of a wonderful prince, the heir to the kingdom, who had married a wife who proved to be undeserving of him and of his love. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called holy of holies; which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold." It is a trial of the patience of Christians, to be content to live after their work is done, and to stay for the reward till God's time to give it them is come. And why? Now the just shall live by faith: and if any man draw back, [God said] my soul shall have no pleasure in them. He encourages them to this by assuring them that the reward of their holy confidence would be very great. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. Now this was under the old covenant, and had it been effective, once being cleansed, they should have no more conscience of sins. This We Know to Be the Carnal Israel: Circumcision and the Erotic Life of God and Israel (Critical Inquiry 18). First, He makes a scene where sin enters at once. 39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved. We do not know the steps of His work, until we come to the preparation of an abode for man. Are they both true of you? And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 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. If He is to be often offered, He must also often suffer. 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. He is one of the deepest theologians in the New Testament but all his theology is governed by the pastoral instinct. It is easy to drift into a kind of selfish Christianity; but a selfish Christianity is a contradiction in terms. He is my sin offerer. Accordingly it is shown that such an one becomes an adversary of the Lord, and God will deal with him as such. Paul tells us this in Colossians, chapter 2, where Christ through His death blotted out the handwriting and the ordinances that were against us, nailing them to His cross and triumphing over them in it. He had shown the work of Christ and His coming again in glory. Notice it is going to devour God's adversaries. If we examine the historical facts as found in the Old Testament story, what is it rises up before all eyes as to Zion? Our way to heaven is by a crucified Saviour; his death is to us the way of life. Endurance is essential, since there must always be some waiting time before a promise can be fulfilled. 3. In short, Christians will never advance two paces without fainting, except they are sustained by patience. This leads him, from speaking of Esau's case, to add as a known fact, that afterward, when he desired to have inherited the blessing he was rejected (for he found no place of repentance), though he sought it carefully with tears. All that we can expect is to wait in terror for judgment and for that flaming wrath which will consume the adversaries of God. 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. After the Babylonian captivity, the Hebrew language was almost dead. All within the kingdom rejoiced.In the meantime, the princess had again been incarcerated because the court's judgment had not been executed. A Church in such circumstances could not afford to carry members who were a bad advertisement for the Christian faith. The wise men of the present day are fast giving up the truth of creation. To make his point and to explain what is in his mind, Hebrews takes a quotation from Psalms 40:6-9. 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? In Jesus' name. 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. It is a new way, both in opposition to the covenant of works and to the antiquated dispensation of the Old Testament; it is via novissima--the last way that will ever be opened to men. No other seat was suitable to such a One. Do not throw away your confidence, for it is a confidence that has a great reward. The motive or reason enforcing this duty: He is faithful that hath promised. "It's a fearful thing to fall in the hands of a living God.". (2.) By faith we understand ( Hebrews 11:1 and 11:3 ). And the story ended, which door?But as you see the story, you realize that we are the guilty princess, and that we rebelled against the Lord, who loved us so much that He came to prove His love by dying in our place. But if people and priest and king were proved thus vain, God was there, and His grace could not fail. But then comes far more definite instruction, and, beginning with Abraham, the details of faith. "Through faith he instituted the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. But the Holy Ghost's testimony is not forgotten. Thus the first part of the chapter shows us simply what God holds out to the new man; but the epistle to the Hebrews never looks at the Christian simply in the new man, but rather as a concrete person. In truth, the substratum was the same, and therefore it was not only quite lawful so to call it, but if he had not, the design would have been marred. To profess this hope is to be saved. But having done this, He points us to the place of Christ without the camp. He doesn't have to do it every day. ", Then he commends the saints to God. Of how much worse punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant [this new covenant], wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite to the Spirit of grace? 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. The severest and final trial of Abraham's faith was giving up the son, in whom all the promises were infolded, to receive him back on a resurrection ground in figure. It often means one who arranged or disposed of property, or anything else, such as a treaty or covenant. "The priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. Christianity is stamped by this, that, in virtue of the blood of Christ, once for all for every believer the way is made manifest into the holiest of all. May you be blessed of the Lord and strengthened in every good work for the glory of Jesus Christ. 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. God bless you. The third point is how to walk with God, and this again is by faith. (i) Sin is to trample Christ under foot. You cannot come to God by the first covenant.There are always those who want to come to God on their terms. It is the setting aside of God, and the setting up of man; it is the precursor of the apostasy that is coming, which again will issue in man taking the place of God, and becoming the object of worship, instead of the true Creator. This is just the closing practical word of the epistle to the Hebrews. Hence the right hand of the throne is introduced, but, besides, "of the Majesty in the heavens." Compare alsoEphesians 2:1-22; Ephesians 2:1-22. He is only one of a series of existing objects, and consequently never can rise above that in his own nature. Such is the true sense of the passage. 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 That may have a higher character, these a lower; but even the highest is never to supersede or make us forgetful of the lowest. Those who will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution. That after ye have done the will of God - That is, in bearing trials, for the reference here is particularly to afflictions.Ye might receive the promise - The promised inheritance or reward - in heaven. In this phrase there is no allusion whatever to the church; nor indeed anywhere in the Hebrews is there any reference to its distinctive portion in union with its Head. I could now be made one with God. It is not so much the glory of a promising start that the Lord desires as it is the glory of a faithful finish. 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. Indeed we may say that the whole epistle to the Hebrews is just this: we start from the foundation of grace up to God Himself in the heavens; and thence springs the certainty that the stream of grace is not exhausted, and that undoubtedly it will issue in unceasing blessing by-and-by for the earth, and for the people of Israel above all, in the day of Jehovah. Can there be a doubt that Christianity is meant? He presses them to perseverance by putting them in mind of their former sufferings for Christ: But call to mind the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions,Hebrews 10:32; Hebrews 10:32. The fact is, that love of uniformity may mislead some, as love of variety misled our English translators too often. Ease has ruined far more men than trouble ever did. 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. The duty itself--to hold fast the profession of our faith, to embrace all the truths and ways of the gospel, to get fast hold of them, and to keep that hold against all temptation and opposition. [4.] God then has provided some better thing for us. Actually, the families would hold funerals for them. Who ever walked in faith as He? 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. Here are Christians who were tempted to give up. Verse 36. Then he shows us others higher than these, by a divine call "and to the church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven." 5 . They were necessary to bring man into fellowship with God. But have patience brethren, that after you've done the will of God you might receive the promise. This would be a day of dispersion and temptation to the chosen remnant. Holding fast the permanence of the blotting out of our guilt, may we nevertheless and besides own the need of such an One as Christ to intercede for us, and deal in grace with all our feebleness or faults. Those therefore that so translate our two verses have invented a meaning for the phrase, instead of accepting its legitimate sense as attested by all the monuments of the Greek tongue; whereas the moment that we give it the meaning assigned here rightly by the better translators, that is, the sense of "testator" and "testament," all runs with perfect smoothness, and with striking aptitude. King James Bible Psalm Chapter 126 Sermon . (196) Or, patient waiting, as rendered by Erasmus and Stuart, and not perseverance, as rendered by Macknight. it is not the dulness of Jewish prejudice only, but exactly what is denied by every system of which men boast in Christendom. [ k] How happy is the man whose sins and iniquities, God said, I will remember no more. What comes in between the two? But now God sends His final summons, founded on their own ritual, to His people who were hankering after the dead, instead of seeing the Living One on He as it were repeats, "Let the dead bury the dead." This one simple act to hear and or read with your heart the ospel of our Lord Jesus g Christ and The writer to the Hebrews finishes his appeal with a threat. Through that the way was once and for all opened up for us. Here observe, A natural state is a dark state, and those who continue in that state meet with no disturbance from Satan and the world; but a state of grace is a state of light, and therefore the powers of darkness will violently oppose it. But now those under the gospel who will not accept of Christ, that they may be saved by him, have no other refuge left them. No figure therefore would be more natural than that, if God intended certain persons called to have an inheritance, there should be a testament about the matter. It echoes former warnings (cf. 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. But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased." To what then are we come? that good portion which shall not be taken away from those who cleave to the Crucified, who is now exalted in heaven? Then we hear of "Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant" the pledge of Israel's full and changeless blessing. 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." Then you may bless God that He has so blessed you, and given you to know as true of yourself that which, if not so known, effectually prevents one from having the full joy and bearing the due witness as an unworldly and simple-hearted servant of Christ here below. Looking at Jesus, we can say: "That is what God is like." Thus you see, either corrupt passion on the one hand or profanity on the other, are unsparingly condemned by the grace of God. The discovery broke him and he died. Nothing produces a shudder like sacrilege. Thus does the apostle reason on it: "For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh" (which the Jew would not contest): "how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to do religious service to the living God? The Greek word parresia, which appears in Hebrews 10:19 ("confidence") and in Hebrews 10:35 ("confidence"), frames the section and forms an inclusio tying the thought together. Fully does He allow, as connected with this, that the chastening seems not joyous but grievous. Attention is drawn to the permanence of His position at the right hand of God. Those have done despite unto the Spirit of grace, the Spirit that is graciously given to men, and that works grace wherever it is,--the Spirit of grace, that should be regarded and attended to with the greatest care,--this Spirit they have grieved, resisted, quenched, yea, done despite to him, which is the highest act of wickedness, and makes the case of the sinner desperate, refusing to have the gospel salvation applied to him. The meaning is, that spiritual guides shall give an account of their own behaviour in watching over other souls; for it is a work that calls for much jealousy over self, patience with others, painstaking labour, lowliness of mind, and that hearty love which can bear all, endure all, believe all. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry ( Hebrews 10:35-37 ). 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