But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant." Thus it will be observed, at the end of all the moral and experimental dealings with the first man (manifested in Israel), we come to a deeply momentous point, as in God's ways, so in the apostle's reasoning. Bible Study Tools. Scripture: Hebrews 10:23-25. Next, it is a " counting of the blood of the covenant an unholy thing .". You ought to have the consciousness that there is no judgment for you with God by-and-by, however truly He, as a Father, judges you now on earth. This new covenant is predicated upon the promises of God, and God is faithful who has made these promises to you. 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. (2.) There are types that suit the mystery when it is revealed, but of themselves they never could make it known, though illustrating particular parts when it is. 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." He will soon come to them at death, and put an end to all their sufferings, and give them a crown of life. (2) Willful sin shall certainly result in eternal destruction. We have the church, but even when the expression "church" occurs, it is the church altogether vaguely, as inHebrews 2:12; Hebrews 2:12, or viewed in the units that compose it not at all in its unity. They have trodden under foot the Son of God. But Christendom has wholly failed to profit by the call, and is doomed to perish by a judgment yet more solemn and wide-spread than that which swept away the ancient temple. The exhortation is based on a number of considerations, among which are these: (1) We have a great high priest who has opened up the new and living way through the veil, that is to say, his flesh. If only we were always at our best, life would be very different. The sin here mentioned is a total and final falling away, when men, with a full and fixed will and resolution, despise and reject Christ, the only Saviour; despise and resist the Spirit, the only . By doing this they would do Gods will and eventually receive what He promised, namely, an eternal reward (Hebrews 1:14; Hebrews 3:14; Hebrews 9:15; Matthew 6:19). The other descendants of Abraham honoured the house of Aaron as Levitical priests; but Abraham himself, and so Levi himself, and of course Aaron, in his loins honoured Melchisedec. For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins ( Hebrews 10:26 ). The prophet tells his people that if they hold fast to their loyalty, God will see them through their present situation. Then you will receive all that he has promised. And he is a living God; he lives for ever, and will punish for ever. His shadow was cast over the past history. No doubt all will be good and right in its due season then. "For this he did once, when he offered up himself. Hebrews 10:23 2 nd "Let Us" [Heb 10:23 KJV] 23 Let us hold fast the profession of [our] faith (hope) without wavering; (for he [is] faithful that promised;) Hope is important in the new and better covenant. Reason is ever drawing conclusions; God is, and reveals what is. It was not so of old, when the Israelite brought his goat or calf. The Jews would not have Him living. (iii) We must encourage one another. 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. He knew that in Isaac his seed was to be called. "With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself. Further, that this Priest was to be a living one, in some most singular manner to be an undying Priest, was made evident beyond question, because in that Psalm it is said, "He testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." This was also a grand point of distinction. You're trying to bargain with God or come to God on your terms, and it can't be done. Arranged all beforehand, neither Isaac's partiality nor Jacob's deceit was able to divert the channel. He reasons that, while our parents only chastise us the best way they can (for after all their judgment might not be perfect), the Father of spirits never fails. "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." Hebrews 3:6; Hebrews 4:16; Hebrews 10:19). The writer here declares his confidence in them. This was in the ways of God the necessary moral consequence of his self-abnegation. Hebrews Series (10:26-36) Based upon Ron Philips book "Hebrews: Finding the Better Way" June 10, 2014 Chester FBC Chester, IL Dr. Mike Fogerson, Speaker Introduction: A Tonight, we will discover the fourth of five warnings given .read more Scripture: Hebrews 10:26-36 Denomination: Baptist Turning Back Unto Destruction 37 "For in just a little while, the Coming One will come and not delay. ", This naturally leads the apostle to bring before them One that never ends "Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday, and today, and for ever." They may be in neighbourhoods where the social status has come down; and the members who have remained faithful to them would be as much embarrassed as delighted if the poor people in the area came flooding in. He could have written, "For you have need of regeneration." (iii) Jesus is the one person who can really cleanse. Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me ( Hebrews 10:5 ): Now this is a quotation from Psalm 46 . It made a covering for their sins, but it did not put their sins away. By that hope, then, "we draw nigh unto God. Thus Melchisedec, "whose descent is not of Aaron nor of Levi," like Jesus, "received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises!" I am made righteous through Jesus Christ. He always keeps up the evidence of the utter inferiority of the Jewish priest, as well as of the accompanying state of things, to that of Christianity. Let us take an analogy. On these things I need not now dwell farther than to characterize all, from Abraham inclusively, as the patience of faith. may so far have sensible evidence of what exists now; but it is only God who can tell me that He in the beginning caused to be that which now is. Others doubtless could speak of their Ararat, their Olympus, their Etna; but which boasted of the true God that loved His people in the way that Zion could? They were the only ones that used the Hebrew language. And I sit down and eat with God the peace offering. It was for all men, not only for the respectable classes, that Christ died. Attack by an enemy he could bear; attack by one whom he loved killed him. The great exposition of Christ as priest and sacrifice is thus framed by parallel parenetic units . Now the apostle puts them upon observing what signs there were of the approach of such a terrible day, and upon being the more constant in meeting together and exhorting one another, that they might be the better prepared for such a day. 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. This warning passage is in a sense central to all the hortatory passages in Hebrews. This is, as is well known, the special characteristic of the millennium. They do not belong to heaven like the angels; but God had an eternal purpose, which brought them by an extraordinary favour there. It is probably a bad translation. "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. By abandoning meeting together, believers can drift away and cease to thrive. "He taketh away the first." In the Greek, it is present perfect tense. For by one offering he has perfected for ever them that are sanctified ( Hebrews 10:13-14 ). 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. 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. 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. When the rebellion was subdued, the princess was brought to justice and the court decreed that she should die in the tiger's pit. "Promise" (epaggelia) refers to "the blessing promised by my Father" (Thayer 227), that is, eternal life in heaven with all the blessings associated with it. There is a trying day coming on us all, the day of our death, and we should observe all the signs of its approaching, and improve them to greater watchfulness and diligence in duty. 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. It actually does mean a portrait, and would mean a photograph, if there had been such a thing in those days. There is this purging. 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. 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. These are not Christians falling from grace into damnation; rather, these are believers failing to obey and suffering the consequences. 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. 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? "In the volume of the book it is written of me" a book which none ever saw but God and His Son. But meanwhile we have not yet entered on the rest of God. Psalms 110:1-7, which, as all the Jews owned, spoke., throughout its greater part at least, of the Messiah and His times, shows us Jehovah Himself by an oath, which is afterwards reasoned on signifying that another priest should arise after a different order from that of Aaron. Therefore is it that men so naturally slip into, or rest on, second causes. It is hard to keep clear of both. 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. In the early days of the gospel there was a very hot persecution raised up against the professors of the Christian religion, and the believing Hebrews had their share of it: he would have them to remember. Peter said, "God is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness. 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. "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp." On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses he that is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness. At first it was (ver. 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. For you have need of patience, and after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise. The lamb will do nothing. 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. Then we hear of the practical use of all. He has set His mind upon making us, patterns of His holiness. With that, he waited silently in the pit until again there was crunching at the top of the pit. How that will come is not ours to know; but it may be that this final subjugation will consist not in the extinction of his enemies but in their submission to his love. Man never did nor could settle it without the word of God. Amen.". Click to Sign Up Now! No Jew could or ought to pretend to such purgation as its result. Hence the apostle takes care to keep up the real link with the past witnesses for God in faith and suffering, not in ordinances. 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. In that day it will be the joy of Him who is the true Melchisedec, to bring out not the mere signs, but the reality of all that can be the stay and comfort of man, and all that sustains and cheers, the patent proof of the beneficent might of God, when "no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.". Viewed from the perspective of the homiletical and literary structure of Hebrews, this concluding exhortation is symmetrical with the preliminary exhortation found in Hebrews 5:11 to Hebrews 6:20 . He may shrink from contact with people who are "not like himself." In the pit was a post, and those victims, who were so executed, were tied to the post. If one member of the body suffers, all the rest suffer with it. 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. He has so absolutely swept it away for those who believe on Him, that when He comes again, them will be no question of judgment, as far as they are concerned, but only of salvation, in the sense of their being cleared from the last relic or result of sin, even for the body. The Jews themselves acknowledge that Psalms 110:1-7 must be fulfilled in Christ, in His quality of Messiah. (196) Or, patient waiting, as rendered by Erasmus and Stuart, and not perseverance, as rendered by Macknight. Who ever walked in faith as He? If by five o'clock this evening you do not go to the door on your right and enter that door declaring to all within the kingdom that from now on you will be a faithful and devoted wife, then the door on your left will be opened and the death which he almost died to save you from will come upon you, and this time without any hope of escape. It often means one who arranged or disposed of property, or anything else, such as a treaty or covenant. "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.". that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise: The doing and the receiving Paul speaks of here are in the future, and both require the Christians patience and steadfastness in obedience to the will of God. 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. All that Christians can do in such cases is to be patient - to lie calmly in the hands of God, and submit to his will day by day, and year by year; see James 1:3-4; notes, Romans 5:4. 24 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. All that such sacrifices can do is to remind a man that he is an uncured sinner and that the barrier of his sin is between himself and God." . The door is open. After the people had been tried and found wanting; after the priests had wrought, if possible, greater corruption; after the king of Israel's choice had reduced them to the lowest degradation. Then comes a total change: God takes up the matter Himself, acting in view of man's sin; but in Jesus, in the very Messiah for whom the Jews were waiting, he has put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself, and has accomplished this mighty work, as admirably befitting the goodness of God, as it alone descends low enough to reach the vilest man, and yet deliver him with a salvation which only the more humbles man and glorifies God. Our way to heaven is by a crucified Saviour; his death is to us the way of life. He may believe that he does not need the Church or that he is intellectually beyond the standard of preaching there. It is easy to laugh at men's ideals, to pour cold water on their enthusiasm, to discourage them. 38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. So you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.". This I take to be a general description of the scene of glory for which Abraham looked. 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