It is probably a bad translation. 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." Thus, before he enters on the subject of the sacrifices at length, he takes notice of the covenants, and thence he draws a conclusion from the well-known prophecy in Jeremiah, where God declares that the days were coming when He would make a new covenant. It remained for a brief season; but even then it soon began to show rents down. We are not come to Sinai, the mountain that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and a voice more terrible than that of the elements. This, managed with a true gospel spirit, would be the best and most cordial friendship. 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. 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. God is the searcher of hearts, and he requires truth in the inward parts. "And, as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, paid tithes in Abraham. Ye have need of patience Having so great a fight of sufferings to pass through, and they of so long continuance. This shows that, beyond question, among the Jews of that day, Psalms 110:1-7 was understood to refer to the Christ alone. Such is pre-eminently the bearing of this epistle to those who had no such frequent opportunities of profiting by his teaching as the Gentile churches. 8) but the promise of a land; but when in the land he received the promise of a better country, that is, a heavenly, which raised his eyes to the city on high, in express contrast with the earthly land. Christians must be on their guard and persistent in prayer if they are to endure firmly to the end ( Luke 21:36 ; Colossians 4:2 ). 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. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God." They watch as those that shall give an account. Those were now gone from the scene of their trials and labours, of "whom, considering the issue of their conversation, imitate the faith. There was a day approaching, a terrible day to the Jewish nation, when their city should be destroyed, and the body of the people rejected of God for rejecting Christ. He taketh away the first" (that is, the law), "that he may establish the second" (that is, God's will, often unintelligently confounded by men with the law, which is here set in the most manifest contradistinction). Hebrews 3:6 b and Hebrews 10:23; and Hebrews 3:17 and Hebrews 10:26). How can such a consciousness as this be the portion of the Christian? Not of course that one denies that He has His own proper place, for all is perfect as to each person of the Trinity and all else, but never to this end. 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. divers: Hebrews 11:36-Zechariah :, 1 Peter 1:6-Ruth :, 2 Peter 2:9, Revelation 2:10 Reciprocal: Judges 14:14 - Out of the eater 1 Kings 17:17 - the son of the woman Job 23:10 - he hath Proverbs 18:14 - spirit Proverbs 27:17 - so Proverbs 29:6 - but Ecclesiastes 7:3 - by Daniel 11:35 - to try Habakkuk 3:18 - I will rejoice Matthew 5:12 - Rejoice . (iii) Sin is the insult to the Holy Spirit. (Verses 8-22.). The real presumption, therefore, is to pretend to be a Christian, and yet to doubt the primary fundamental truth of Christianity as to this. There were in the apostles' times, and should be in every age, Christian assemblies for the worship of God, and for mutual edification. He is evidently gone into the holiest of all in His own person. Observe here, What will be the eternal misery of impenitent sinners and apostates: they shall fall into the hands of the living God; their punishment shall come from God's own hand. Now those who know him who hath said, Vengeance belongeth to me, I will recompense, must needs conclude, as the apostle does (Hebrews 10:31; Hebrews 10:31): It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Hence, therefore, he now introduces us "to the spirits of just men made perfect." (i) Let us approach the presence of God. The burnt offerings were offerings of consecration where I would consecrate my life to God. For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. 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. The answer is, that the language is peculiar and precise in these same two verses, requiring not a covenant but a testament, and therefore the sense of testament here is the preferable one, and not covenant. There is an appointed time for both, and beyond that time he will not tarry, Habakkuk 2:3. To what, then, is the allusion to the sanctuary applied? Look unto Jesus. ; also Hebrews 4:14) of our hope without wavering (, agreeing with "confession"); for he is faithful that promised: and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works; not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one . It was the more urgent to insist on it, because the Jews, like others, would like to have been settled in rest here and now. They do not belong to heaven like the angels; but God had an eternal purpose, which brought them by an extraordinary favour there. Redemption was the first thought of God a counsel of His previous to the dealings with man which made the necessity of redemption felt. His deliverance was strange; still more his decision and its results. 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. And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works ( Hebrews 10:24 ): And so that's as we're together exhorting each other for a greater love and good works. It is no longer effective. 3. Give them a chance too. General Search for 'Hebrews 9:4-:' within 'New American Standard Version' on StudyLight.org. It is called the Septuagint. Those who will not enter in this way exclude themselves for ever. He will soon come to judgment, and put an end to the sufferings of the whole church (all his mystical body), and give them an ample and glorious reward in the most public manner. So you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.". In the first chapter we saw the seat of personal glory connected with atonement; in the eighth chapter it is the witness of His priesthood, and where it is. 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. But far from this, it is the simple fact Of the gospel. The unrent veil bore evidence on its front that man could not yet draw near into the holiest that he had no access into the presence of God. Having once settled these great things between God and our souls, we must be stedfast and immovable. "In those sacrifices," referring to the law to which some Hebrew Christians were in danger of going back, "there is a remembrance made again of sins every year. Those who have had and exercised much patience already must have and exercise more till they die. (i) Sin is to trample Christ under foot. But winter came and the campaign had to be suspended. At the end of the day it is not all one for the good and the bad man alike. Then, consequent on the fall, comes the ground of the believer's acceptance; then his walk with God, and deliverance from His judgment of the whole scene, in the midst of which we actually are. Observe, Wise governors should be careful to keep up the credit of their government and the authority of the laws, by punishing presumptuous offenders; but then in such cases there should be good evidence of the fact. Again and again the High Priest bathed himself in the laver of clear water. Yet it also anticipates what is to come by introducing the triad of Christian virtues, which the writer developed in chapters 11-13 (cf. I say not absolutely all its great truths. He does not draw attention here to the account, that there was only blessing from man to God, and from God to man. God is willing to dwell with men on earth, and to have them dwell with him in heaven; but fallen man cannot dwell with God without a high priest, who is the Mediator of reconciliation here and of fruition hereafter. He acted in faith, not policy. He awaits the final subjugation of his enemies; in the end there must come a universe in which he is supreme. For if these sacrifices could achieve that, would they not have stopped being brought because the worshipper had been once and for all brought into a state of purity and no longer had any consciousness of sin? 3. As it was God's will and the work of Christ, so the Holy Ghost is He who witnesses to the perfectness of it. One can well understand that the apostle would leave his readers to gather thus generally what it must have been. Meanwhile we are told that He has obtained (not a temporary, but) "eternal redemption." First of all, it is love that calls us to the path that Christ trod; next, it is love that chastens us. he's pointing out these offerings cannot take away sins. Instead of having one person illustrating one thing, another person another, the Lord Jesus sums up the perfection of all trial in His own pathway, not as Saviour only, but in the point of view of bearing witness in His ways for God here below. 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. In essence the meaning is the same. For indeed He was a man as really as any other, though infinitely above man. Commentary on Hebrews 10:26-31. [Note: Lane, Hebrews 9-13, p. If God's word be true, and to this the Spirit adheres, the blood of Christ has thus perfectly washed away the sins of the believer. This is a different way of looking at His session there. But the apostle takes all this difficulty by the horns, as good as telling them, that their having suffered all this was simply because it is the right road. (iii) We need the memory of the end. Faith brings God into everything. It seemed as if everything went against them. They may enter into the gracious presence of God in his holy oracles, ordinances, providences, and covenant, and so into communion with God, where they receive communications from him, till they are prepared to enter into his glorious presence in heaven. To make his point and to explain what is in his mind, Hebrews takes a quotation from Psalms 40:6-9. God brings forward His choice, David, when the miserable end of Saul and Jonathan saw the Philistines triumphant, and Israel disheartened as they had scarce been beyond that moment. This is, as is well known, the special characteristic of the millennium. 297. Then we have the other patriarchs introduced, yet chiefly as regards earthly hopes, but not apart from resurrection, and its connection with the people of God here below. This, however, does not mean the church, but rather the future seat of general heavenly bliss for the glorified saints. What they suffered: they endured a great fight of afflictions, many and various afflictions united together against them, and they had a great conflict with them. 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. They could not understand how it was they should come into greater trouble than before. After the Babylonian captivity, the Hebrew language was almost dead. Christianity. He necessarily completes all as the pattern for the Christian. Now is it an axiom, that a covenant-maker must die to give it force? What was the necessity for a new covenant if the old one would do as well? ", But again the solemn notice of Jehovah's oath is enlarged on. You're in no position to call the shots. If only we were always at our best, life would be very different. From henceforth [or from now on] just waiting until his enemies be made his footstool. And my just man shall live by faith; but if he shrinks back, my soul will not find pleasure in him." Those who begin to waver in matters of Christian faith and practice are in danger of falling away. It is still possible for a man to think that he is a Christian and yet abandon the habit of worshipping with God's people in God's house on God's day. 2. "With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself. 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. Shall I give my, first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin, of my soul?" Here, it is plain, we have the chief lineaments of revealed truth. Every day, so long as the Temple stood, the following sacrifices had to be carried out ( Numbers 28:3-8). 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. 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 19 Therefore, brothers,[ a] since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance . This then is brought before us. The encouragement to persevere 10:32-39. If one lives by faith during times of duress, then he will receive reward from God. Thenceforward how it figures in the Psalms and prophets! He does not think merely for the thrill of intellectual satisfaction but only that he may the more forcibly appeal to men to enter into the presence of God. In these consists our double present association by faith, while on the earth. ." 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. In burnt offerings [the Lord said in Psalms] and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. It is wise and necessary to examine closely what they mean. He has set His mind upon making us, patterns of His holiness. There is a wholeness about the life of Jesus that perhaps we ought to give more thought. He sits there continually, in contrast with the Jewish priest, who was always rising up in order to do fresh work, because there was fresh sin; for their sacrifices never could absolutely put away sin. 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. That is precisely one of the noblest thoughts of the Old Testament men of God. The discovery broke him and he died. as He will appear to the salvation of His own people. NASB Compact Reference Bible 9780310918868 ? (2.) InHebrews 1:1-14; Hebrews 1:1-14 it is written, that "having by himself made purification of our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high." Perseverance is one of the great unromantic virtues. So I don't know how we can do any more than we are every night of the week around here and during the day, but anyhow . At the beginning of this passage he says: "You did not desire sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt-offerings and sin-offerings and you took no pleasure in them," and it is such offerings as these that the law prescribes. That is, he sought carefully with tears the blessing given to Jacob; but there was no room left for repentance, simply in the sense of change of mind; for, I suppose, the word here has that sense, which sometimes, no doubt, it has. Its force implies that it is not merely what He did once, but what He is also doing still. 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? Outside of the city, in a clearing in the forest, a pit had been dug. No attention is paid here to the march through the wilderness, any more than to the establishment in the land, still less to the kingdom. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin. It carries a present reward in it, in holy peace and joy, and much of God's presence and his power resting upon them; and it shall have a great recompense of reward hereafter. The first was the sin offering, which is sins general. Accordingly it is shown that such an one becomes an adversary of the Lord, and God will deal with him as such. Our bodies washed with pure water, that is, with the water of baptism (by which we are recorded among the disciples of Christ, members of his mystical body), or with the sanctifying virtue of the Holy Spirit, reforming and regulating our outward conversation as well as our inward frame, cleansing from the filthiness of the flesh as well as of the spirit. 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. They were the only ones that used the Hebrew language. the sense of the word which had been used before), what would be the aim of the "also?" For ye have need of patience - They were then suffering, and in all trials we have need of patience. 2. 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. Even if the sermon be poor and the worship tawdry, the church service still gives us the chance to show to men what side we are on. Their misapprehension might also have been due partially to the purposeful ambiguity of the scriptures relating to the second coming of the Lord. Accordingly, this is an appeal to the hearts. . 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. 65:17, Isaiah 66:22, -2 Peter 3:1024 -Revelation 21:13, 1-7) to live with them (Hebrews 4:1-9, Hebrews 12:2 -24), in all eternity in peace, love, and joy. I mean his sins now; not sin as a principle, but in fact, though it be only for faith. For it is a good thing that the heart be established in grace." He beholds them with great displeasure; they are an offence to him. Accordingly observe the change of expression. You're trying to bargain with God or come to God on your terms, and it can't be done. Verses 23-25. and made it still more manifest and heinous. So before fellowship can be experienced, sin has to be put away.In the first covenant there were two of the offerings that dealt with sin. Lastly, he points "to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better than Abel:" the assurance that the earth shall be delivered from its long sorrow and slavery. Now, where there is forgiveness of these things, a sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary. There were five offerings that were made in the Old Testament. These priestesses in the temple of Aphrodite were prostitutes. The reference is therefore plain and sure. 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. Grace be with you all. For assuredly if Jewish children honoured their father and mother on legal grounds, much more ought Christian children on grounds of grace. At that very moment therefore the tide begins to turn. If you believe in Christ at all, such is your portion nothing less. This blood, being sprinkled on the conscience, chases away slavish fear, and gives the believer assurance both of his safety and his welcome into the divine presence. And he is a living God; he lives for ever, and will punish for ever. (1.) He saw his error at last, and put his seal on God's original appointment of the matter. And they baked it into bread and offered it unto God.Finally, I could offer the peace offering, which was communion. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? It would have been sufficient had they been able to perfect man. But having looked up to Him who is above all, he speaks of the highest group next to God in His judicial character, namely, the Old Testament saints. The privileges are, 1. 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