"Conscience of sins" means a dread of God's judging one because of his sins. 25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage .read more. You are the one that puts the ending on the story. Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Paul writes about the peace one has with God through His grace: Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Nothing but obedience could open the way to God; disobedience set up a barrier that no animal sacrifice could ever take away. Click to Sign Up Now! It is the conflict which introduces the reign of peace founded on righteousness, when God will manifest Himself as the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth. Oh how happy is the man whose sins are covered. (196) This then is the only way or means by which we can firmly and constantly advance; we shall not otherwise obey God, nor even enjoy the promised inheritance, which is here by metonymy called the promise. I can come into the presence of God through Him. We have the means prescribed for preventing our apostasy, and promoting our fidelity and perseverance, Hebrews 10:24; Hebrews 10:25, c. He mentions several as, 1. "Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. He only removes obstructions, and maintains our communion with Himself; surely this ought to settle every question for the believer. It was, parabolically, like that of Christ himself. It would have been sufficient had they been able to perfect man. This, however, does not mean the church, but rather the future seat of general heavenly bliss for the glorified saints. The Romans will do the last sad offices. He has nothing more to do with sin; He will judge man who rejects Himself and slights sin. Verse 37. He may shrink from contact with people who are "not like himself." Hebrews 9:1-28 brings us into the types of the Levitical ritual, priesthood and sacrifice. "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holies by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; and having an high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 10:19-25 Since then, brothers, in virtue of what the blood of Jesus has done for us, we can confidently enter into the Holy Place by the new and living way which Jesus inaugurated for us through the veil-- that is, through his flesh--and since we have a great High Priest who is over the house of God, let us approach the presence of God with a heart wherein the truth dwells and with the full conviction of faith, with our hearts so sprinkled that they are cleansed from all consciousness of evil and with our bodies washed with pure water. Boldness to enter into the holiest. The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God for ever after the order of Melchisedec. Let him learn his error. 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. As they are companions, so do they test a walk with God; one is faith, the other is suffering. "And Samuel said, has the Lord as great delight in burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? This leads into the life of faith, which was a great stumbling-block to some of these Christian Jews. The Christians gained Him in a far more excellent way after the pattern of resurrection, as Abraham at the close received Isaac as it were from the dead. You're in no position to call the shots. And again, pointing not to our faithfulness, but the faithfulness of God. To the writer to the Hebrews life was a thing that was on its way to the presence of Christ. He begins by saying three things about Jesus. All this is a gradual undermining the wall until the whole structure is overthrown. God never was pleased with the formal profession and external duties and services of such as do not persevere. The athlete will make his great effort because the goal beckons him on. 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. And almost all things are according to the law purged with blood; and without shedding, of blood is no remission. In establishing of the new covenant, He has put away the first. He is my mediator. Will the Lord be pleased with thousands, of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? In its essence sacrifice was a noble thing. They don't understand that to become a Christian is to become a completed Jew. (i) We must spur each other to noble living. We must thankfully acknowledge the compassions our Christian friends have shown for us under our afflictions. He exhorts them not to cast away their confidence, that is, their holy courage and boldness, but to hold fast that profession for which they had suffered so much before, and borne those sufferings so well. 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. The letter of Hebrews was written to answer just that question. They must draw near to God. There is this purging. The second was the trespass offering where I had deliberately trespassed against the law of God. Hebrews 10:36, NLT: Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. 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. He had shown the work of Christ and His coming again in glory. The allusion in the last clause to the eternal inheritance (for everything is eternal in the Hebrews, standing in decided contrast with Jewish things which were but for a season) leads the Holy Spirit to take up the other meaning of the same word, which was and is rightly enough translated covenant. This change was clearly taught in the book of Psalms. It is wise and necessary to examine closely what they mean. All he does is to interpret that will, and to apply it to what was wrought on the cross. All that I have in my relationship with God today must and does come through Jesus Christ. "For a testament is of force after men are dead (or, in case of dead men, ): since it is never of force when the testator liveth. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? We hear of sanctification often, but even what is thus spoken of throughout is rather in connection with separation to God and the work of Christ, than the continuous energy of the Holy Ghost, except, as far as I remember, in one practical passage "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." For what did the Jews wait in hope? [Note: Ibid., p. The appeal of the writer to the Hebrews is one that could be made to every man. The writer to the Hebrews finishes his appeal with a threat. I. It is not only that we believe it, but we understand it thereby. And observe that it is assumed to be so common and obvious a maxim that it could not be questioned. Observe, The greatest part of the saints' happiness is in promise. This I take to be a general description of the scene of glory for which Abraham looked. The Lord is going to come again. He currently serves now as the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara. NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Hebrews 10:1-10 1For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near. Please feel free to link to pages on this site, but do not copy articles without authors' permission. But the bodies of those beasts were burnt without the camp: my place, so far as I in the body am concerned, is one of shame and suffering in this world. He says that they do not give a real image. When the apostle Paul, speaks of "the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem," he means the scene of future heavenly blessedness; whereas when John speaks of the new Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God, he means, not where but what we are to be. Christians ought to observe the signs of the times, such as God has foretold. She recognized him to be the prince, her husband that she had betrayed. This was also a grand point of distinction. Every day, so long as the Temple stood, the following sacrifices had to be carried out ( Numbers 28:3-8). They do not believe that God called all things into being. "With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself. But it is the language for us to learn and speak, as we are called to rest on God and not on the creature. Then we hear of "Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant" the pledge of Israel's full and changeless blessing. Finally, the writer to the Hebrews says that our Christian duty to each other is all the more pressing because the time is short. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is witness to us: for after he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their hearts, and their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more ( Hebrews 10:15-17 ). 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. Offering and burnt offerings and the offering for sin thou wouldst not, neither did you have pleasure therein; those things that were offered by the law. He presses a conversation without covetousness, and a spirit of content, founded on our confidence in the Lord's care. What a surprise to the Hebrew believers to find such truths as these so strikingly shown out in type even in the Jewish system! And, (3.) Why should His saints be carried away with questions about meats and drinks? . Then by accident he discovered who it was who had laid information against him--it was his own son. It is once and for all. The millennial day will see this. 271.] Only Jesus can really cleanse a man. (See under 10:25.) I give Him His portion to eat, the best part of it, being a gracious host, and I then partake of the rest and we eat together. But this essential difference separates between the city for which Abraham looked and the bride so symbolised in the Apocalypse. The truth on the contrary is, that there was but one offering and but one suffering of Christ, once for all; in witness of the perfection of which He is gone into the presence of God, there to appear for us. This section is meant to inspire Christians to be confident, courageous, and uplifted in living out their faith. Faith brings God into everything. "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. 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. He is labouring for this, and with divine skill accomplishes it, by the testimonies of their own law and prophets. 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 This is the point of the next chapters (He 11 and 12). Few writers have such a sense of the sheer horror of sin. We are not men to shrink back from things and so to come to disaster, but we are men of a faith which will enable us to possess our souls. (4.) Therefore his sacrifice cannot and need not ever be made again. How happy is the man whose sins and iniquities, God said, I will remember no more. The only way you can come to God is as a guilty sinner and cast yourself upon His mercy and grace and just ask for mercy and grace. These characteristics he proves to be really found in Christ Himself. "The priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. The first chapters of Acts describe that thousands of Jews came to believe. ; 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's a fearful thing to fall in the hands of a living God.". I want to be listed in that hall of fame, those who believe in the promises God. 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. Every one can understand, when once we find that the word means almost always covenant," how great the temptation is to translate it so in but two other occurrences, especially as before and after it means "covenant" in the same passage. Even non-believing Jews keep Sabbath; eat kosher. He faced it all with gallantry and emerged erect and unbroken. 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. It is just what he had been speaking of throughout, if covenant were still meant. ( Heb 10:29) The Mosaic covenant was ratified with blood; and with that blood both the tabernacle with all its vessels, and the people who worshipped before it, were sanctified, and set apart as holy to the Lord. Of how much worse punishment, do you think, that man will be deemed worthy who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, who has failed to regard the blood of the new covenant, with which he was made fit for God's presence, as a sacred thing, and who has insulted the Spirit through whom God's grace comes to us? 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. it is not the dulness of Jewish prejudice only, but exactly what is denied by every system of which men boast in Christendom. Patience is stressed as the opposite of that impatience which began to develop in the hearts of many who expected that the Lord should have come already. Then, having finished this part of the subject, the apostle turns to another characteristic in believers the mighty power of faith which knows how to draw on God, and breaks through all difficulties. Salute all your leaders, and all the saints. In this passage his thoughts are going back to the grim instruction in Deuteronomy 17:2-7. it is there laid down that, if any person shall be proved to have gone after strange gods and to have worshipped them, "you shall bring forth to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones. In order that in this body, He might become the perfect, complete sacrifice for man. They have access to God, light to direct them, liberty of spirit and of speech to conform to the direction; they have a right to the privilege and a readiness for it, assistance to use and improve it and assurance of acceptance and advantage. I refer to the fact just to exemplify on the one hand the true bearing of the epistle, and what I believe will be discovered in it, and on the other hand to guard against the mistake of importing into it, or trying to extract from it, what is not there. Commentary on Hebrews 10:26-31. Here he refers to their own consciences, to judge how much sorer punishment the despisers of Christ (after they have professed to know him) are likely to undergo; and they may judge of the greatness of the punishment by the greatness of the sin. (i) We need to keep our hope before us. It is impossible that they could actually take away your sins. Those who are tempted to go back to Judaism are reminded that apart from Christs work there is no way of salvation. To "hold unswervingly" to this hope is to live according to it. It is what He carries on now. How is it that anybody ordinarily gets an inheritance? 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. They had met that situation with gallantry and with honour; and now, when they were in danger of drifting away, the writer to the Hebrews reminds them of their former loyalty. As Moffatt translates it: "Your words have kept men on their feet" ( Job 4:4). In the Hebrew, kophar, which is translated atonement. He brought to God for men what no man had been able to bring--the perfect obedience, that was the perfect sacrifice. 5. God honoured the son for the father's sake. (ii) He stresses the exaltation of Jesus. It became us to have a Priest, "holy, harmless, undefiled, made higher than the heavens.". Ease had ruined them when struggle had only toughened them. There is no despair in "hope." "Be mindful of those in bonds, as bound with them; and of those which suffer adversity." Indeed both should die; for it usually consists of two parties who are thus bound, and therefore, were the maxim true, both ought to die, which is an evident absurdity. 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. Once again the writer to the Hebrews is drawing a series of implicit contrasts between the sacrifice that Jesus offered and the animal sacrifices that the priests offer. Now notice the law was only a shadow of the good things to come. He said, "Don't you realize that if you have relationships with a harlot you become one with her? 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." Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. 3. 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. V. Having mentioned these means of establishment, the apostle proceeds, in the close of the chapter, to enforce his exhortations to perseverance, and against apostasy, by many very weighty considerations, Hebrews 10:26; Hebrews 10:27, c. 1. 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. The Lord has waited, but the days of waiting are almost over. Over on your left is another door, behind which are several tigers. Attack by an enemy he could bear; attack by one whom he loved killed him. But it is not possible to repeat the Fifth or the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven; no one else will ever write anything like them. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. They had looked for advance and triumph and peace and prosperity everywhere; on the contrary, they had come into reproach and shame, partly in their own persons, partly as becoming the companions of others who so suffered. Theirs is the position of a servant; his is the position of a monarch. Baptizing by the disciples - This was done apparently under the direction of Christ ( John 3:26; 4:2 ). Let us hold fast to the undeviating hope of our creed, for we can rely absolutely on him who made the promises; and let us put our minds to the task of spurring each other on in love and fine deeds. 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. They had not made up their minds to suffer: to be despised was odious in their eyes. 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