It was for all men, not only for the respectable classes, that Christ died. Thus the only time when he comes into notice he is acting in the double capacity here spoken of: King of righteousness as to his name, King of Salem as to his place, blessing Abraham on his return from the victory over the kings of the Gentiles in the name of the Most High God, and blessing the Most High God the possessor of heaven earth in the name of Abraham. 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. StudyLght.org. We hear first of Melchisedec (King of righteousness), next of Salem or peace; without father, without mother, without genealogy. He encourages them to this by assuring them that the reward of their holy confidence would be very great. First of all, it is love that calls us to the path that Christ trod; next, it is love that chastens us. God was going openly to set aside the Jewish system, as it had already been judged morally in the cross of Christ. If you have and prize one alone, you have only got the half of Christianity yea, of its foundations. So the three things: he's trodden under foot the Son of God, counted the blood of Christ as nothing, and has done despite to the Spirit of grace. They must draw near to God, and that in a right manner. Without faith it is impossible to please God; and the stronger our faith is the more glory we give to God. This was a final call; and how gracious! He is "minister of the holies and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not of man." Isn't that glorious? It is fit that believers should know the honours and privileges that Christ has procured for them, that, while they take the comfort, they may give him the glory of all. Here ye must be workers together with God. He is my sin offerer. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. 110-11. 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. But he offered one single sacrifice for sin and then took his seat for ever at the right hand of God, and for the future he waits until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet. Where could they find such a Priest? 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. 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. If one member of the body suffers, all the rest suffer with it. "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the. It is quite legitimate to employ it in an fortiori way, as the apostle does in Ephesians 6:1-24. The point to which he directs the reader is the evident and surpassing dignity of the case the unity too of the Priest and the priesthood; and this for an obvious reason. This, however, only by the way. About 270 B.C. The Jew never understood his law until the light of Christ on the cross and in glory shone upon it. Social snobbery is bad but spiritual and intellectual snobbery is worse. 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. 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 wisest man is a fool in the sight of God; and the strongest man is weak in the moment of temptation. Another point follows, connected with what we have had before us, and demanding our attention. From henceforth [or from now on] just waiting until his enemies be made his footstool. In its ordinary usage, it has a much deeper force. Accordingly the epistle to the Hebrews, while it does put the believer in association with Christ, does not, for all this, dissociate him from whatever is good in the saints of God in every age. 1:16 in my chains, and # Matt. Remember how, after you had been enlightened, you had to go through a hard struggle of suffering, partly because you yourselves were held up to insult and involved in affliction and partly because you had become partners with people whose life was like that. The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. "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. Let them not throw it away. With all this Christianity is contrasted. 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. Consequently, when He comes again to them that look for Him, it is simply to bring them into all the eternal results of that great salvation. There is no despair in "hope." Which door? But whether the one or the other, all was by faith. They were to leave the dead to bury their dead; and they did so. Anyone who regards the law of Moses as a dead letter dies without pity on the evidence of two or three witnesses. 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. He that despised Moses' law [that is, the first covenant that has been set aside] died without mercy under two or three witnesses ( Hebrews 10:28 ): Very severe punishment, capital punishment for those who despised the first covenant that God established through Moses. But this essential difference separates between the city for which Abraham looked and the bride so symbolised in the Apocalypse. Nor is it pleasant to nature. 36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. Over a month, we're looking at verses 19 to 25. The sacrifice of Jesus was made once and is effective for ever; the animal sacrifices of the priests must be made over and over again, and even then they are not effective in any real way. Next the apostle, with increasing boldness, comes to the proof from the Old Testament that the legal institution as a whole was to be set aside. Satan craftily suggests every kind of trouble in order to discourage us. He proceeds to show the Hebrews the duties binding upon them on account of these privileges, which were conferred in such an extraordinary way, Hebrews 10:22; Hebrews 10:23, c. 1. This shows that, beyond question, among the Jews of that day, Psalms 110:1-7 was understood to refer to the Christ alone. It was only owing to the blindness of Israel. Christ is doing nothing there to take away sin; nor when He comes again will He touch the question of sin, because it is a finished work. Its members must be loyal or nothing. I should like to ask whether (or how far) all the believers here assembled can take this as their place with simplicity. Again and again the High Priest bathed himself in the laver of clear water. 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. 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." He doesn't have to do it every day. Redemption was the first thought of God a counsel of His previous to the dealings with man which made the necessity of redemption felt. Christianity. Such is the true sense of the passage. A most searching and practical question, the very unseen hinge in God Himself on which not Christianity only, but all blessing, turns for heaven and earth, at least as far as the fallen creation is concerned. ], "What they had endured for Christs sake entitled them to a reward. Our way to heaven is by a crucified Saviour; his death is to us the way of life. Let us next apply the word "covenant" here, and you will soon see the insuperable difficulties into which you are plunged. 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. Those who begin to waver in matters of Christian faith and practice are in danger of falling away. 271.] II. For indeed He was a man as really as any other, though infinitely above man. Then comes a second exhortation as to their guides, or leading men among the brethren. The reference is therefore plain and sure. "For how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?" 19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, The Full Assurance of Faith. So that, let the Jews say what they might, there was only found what answered to their own scriptures, and what proved the incontestable superiority of the great Priest whom Melchisedec shadowed out, and of whom it was now for the Christian justly to boast. The apostle is dealing with the saints as to their walk; and as he had shown how Christ alone had purged the sins of the believer, and how He is on high, as the Priest in the presence of God, to intercede for them in their weakness and dangers; so now, when he is come to the question of the walk of faith, Christ is the leader of that, walk. In essence the meaning is the same. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? Hebrews 3:6 b and Hebrews 10:23; and Hebrews 3:17 and Hebrews 10:26). Sin is not disobedience to an impersonal law; it is the wrecking of a personal relationship and the wounding of the heart of the God whose name is Father. Every night a thousand priestesses would come into the city of Corinth from the Acropolis above Corinth, the temple there of Aphrodite. We are not told the details of what preceded the great week when God made the man and the woman. And during the night the tigers, drawn by the scent of human flesh, would come and devour the victims. They were afflicted in themselves. The letter of Hebrews was written to answer just that question. "And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better." "For this he did once, when he offered up himself. Passage Lookup: Hebrews 9:4-: general search And almost all things are according to the law purged with blood; and without shedding, of blood is no remission. [All that remains is] the certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries ( Hebrews 10:27 ). He is showing us the efficacy of Christ's death. Such is the emphasis. It is no definition of what it is to believe, but a description of the qualities of faith. For the sacrifice of Jesus Christ is complete. And there is no further sacrifice that can be offered, of a goat or a lamb or a calf or anything else. When the Messiah was crucified, Judaism was in principle a dead thing: if it was in any sense kept up, it was no more than a decent time before its burial. Both are true; and Moses is the type of the latter, as Abraham of the former. One of the hardest things for the fleshly mind to realize is that the victory of faith is not achieved by one brilliant campaign but a lifetime of patient and faithful service. 24 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. Don't you see what a sacred thing it is?" Accordingly it is shown that such an one becomes an adversary of the Lord, and God will deal with him as such. Christ with Belial and all." We are exposed to manifold injuries, obloquies, and sufferings, which we have need of patience to bear; 4. 32 But # Gal. So hold fast this profession of faith. 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. This leads to a further contrast with the action of the Aaronic priest. It is just what he had been speaking of throughout, if covenant were still meant. Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.". Thus you see, either corrupt passion on the one hand or profanity on the other, are unsparingly condemned by the grace of God. 36 Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. This change was clearly taught in the book of Psalms. It was not the church, I repeat, but what God prepares above for those who love Him. And what then? In effect he is saying: "Without Christ you cannot get beyond the shadows of God.". Therefore all such recurring sacrifices only call sins to remembrance; but what the blood of Christ has done is so completely to blot them out, that God Himself says, "I will remember them no more. 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. Would he give up Isaac? Hebrews 5:11-14)." He is everything. She recognized him to be the prince, her husband that she had betrayed. They wouldn't have to offer animals once a year in the Holy of Holies. 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.". We may remember how the dying soldier lad looked up at Florence Nightingale and murmured: "You're Christ to me.". All I can say to that is, "Amen!" 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. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we areyet he did not sin. Because the Holy Ghost bears this witness, and nothing less, to the perfectness of the work of Christ. (ii) He stresses the exaltation of Jesus. 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. All the effort of Christendom is first to deny the one, and then to escape from the other. Ease has ruined far more men than trouble ever did. 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. [2.] It is sui generis; it is one of these masterpieces which can never be done again. This will make a rich amends for all they can lose and suffer here. You are to be one with God and if you then go out and sin you are making God a partner in your sin. But what punishment can be sorer than to die without mercy? There we find these two facts. The Jews would not have Him living. Give them a chance too. He is warning against these things. He is suddenly ushered upon the scene. (iii) Let us put our minds to the task of taking thought for others. 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. All the people of the kingdom gathered in the great arena to hear the verdict against the princess. The reference here I cannot but regard as exclusively to the two houses of Israel. It became us to have a Priest, "holy, harmless, undefiled, made higher than the heavens.". Had he merely referred to the covenant ( i.e. 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 The Lord forbid that anything should enfeeble our sense of the value and necessity of such daily grace, There may be that which calls for confusion of face in us, but there is unceasing ground also for thanksgiving and praise, however much we have to humble ourselves in the sight of God. ", Finally, he beseeches his brethren to hear the word of exhortation. This means that Jesus not only shows us the way to God but also when we get there introduces us to his very presence. What they say is that God wants not animal sacrifices but obedience to his will. Accordingly observe the change of expression. "Be mindful of those in bonds, as bound with them; and of those which suffer adversity." Then he shows us others higher than these, by a divine call "and to the church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven." It remains. It is that which infinitely exceeds the deliverance out of Egypt, or any ceremonial atonement ever wrought by a high priest for Israel. This is, as is well known, the special characteristic of the millennium. It may mean the worlds governed by dispensations; but still that the idea of the whole universe is in it cannot be fairly contested by competent minds. (1.) But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. They have persevered through insults, violence, imprisonments and robberies, because of their confidence of a lasting reward (32-35). In all the covenants of scripture the man that makes it has never to die for any such end. What fellowship hath light with darkness? What the wise men of antiquity, the Platos and Aristotles, never knew what the modern sages blunder about, without the slightest reason, after all the word of God has made the possession of every child of His. 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. (b) He may not go because of fastidiousness. The difference is very great. The greater the knowledge, the greater the sin. 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. He may infer that there must be; but he never can say that there is. They had never known so great and frequent and constant trial. 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. From this point on in the epistle the writer made application from the great truths concerning Jesus Christ that he had now finished explaining. 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. 39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved. Which of these two most commends itself as the unforced meaning of the passage it is for the reader to judge. But they had to be taken care of before I could have fellowship with 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. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God." In the most admirable manner he proves that this was what God was all along waiting for. In their own persons; they were made gazing-stocks, spectacles to the world, angels, and men, 1 Corinthians 4:9. By abandoning meeting together, believers can drift away and cease to thrive. When you spread forth your hands. ", Having laid this as the first application of faith, the next question is when man fell, how was he to approach God? 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. General Search for 'Hebrews 9:4-:' within 'New American Standard Version' on StudyLight.org. NASB Compact Reference Bible 9780310918868 ? One, by your coming to Jesus Christ, they can be totally and completely washed away. Jesus' flesh is what veiled his godhead. 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