";s:4:"text";s:18797:"IV. Here's a letter to help them keep going. At the heart of Christianity there remains for ever a threat. 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. But if so, He was the Priest after the order of Melchisedec, as well as seated at Jehovah's right hand a cardinal truth of Christianity, the import of which the Jews did not receive in their conception of the Messiah. 28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: 29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? [Note: Morris, pp. There was also a drink-offering, which consisted of a quarter of a hin of wine. 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. For Christians the promised reward will be at Christs return, when he judges between those who persevere in faith and those who turn back (36-39). Christ, therefore, goes into heaven, and will come again apart from sin. 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. ( Hosea 6:6). My sins have been put away. The reason appears to be, because he is going to tell us of the Old Testament saints. Actually, he is saying we should gather together all the more as we see the day of the Lord approaching. Hebrews 10:36-39. And it seems even in those times there were some who forsook these assemblies, and so began to apostatize from religion itself. This is the point of the next chapters (He 11 and 12). I speak, of course, of our entrance there only in spirit. If the writers concern had been the salvation of those readers who were unbelievers, this would have been an opportune time for him to exhort them to believe in Christ. In order that in this body, He might become the perfect, complete sacrifice for man. We are those that believe to the salvation of our souls.Now the just shall live by faith, and as we go into chapter 11, we're going to get the hallmark of faith, the hall of fame for those who believe. It is implied here that this promise will not be received unless we are patient in our trials, and the prospect of this reward should encourage us to endure them. For this, knowing His grace in the work of Christ for them, they do not look; on the contrary, they rest in the assurance of the perfection with which their sins are effaced by the precious blood of Christ. For, says he, "we have an altar," yea, more than that, an altar, "whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle." Because the Holy Ghost bears this witness, and nothing less, to the perfectness of the work of Christ. As in chapter 6 he declares that he is persuaded better things of them, than that they would abandon the Holy Ghost; so here he expected better things than that they would thus dishonour the sacrifice of Christ In that case, he says, God was not unrighteous to forget their work and labour of love; in this case, he lets them know that he had not forgotten the way in which they had suffered for Christ. [ k] Yet who beforehand would have anticipated either? It is "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." The day of execution came and she was led into the woods and tied securely to the post there in the bottom of the pit and was left to her fate.As it grew darker, she heard the crunching of gravel above her head. He demonstrates its vicarious nature and value from the sacrifices so familiar to all then, and to the Jew particularly, in connection with the covenant that required them Now his rapid mind seizes, under the Spirit's guidance, the other well-known sense of the word, namely, as a testamentary disposition, and shows the necessity of Christ's death to bring it into force. 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." He is talking about a heart that is void of hypocrisy and deceit. In Hebrews 10:1-39 he applies the matter to the present state of the believer. It is sinning wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, sinning wilfully against that truth of which we have had convincing evidence. He is my sin offerer. Now accordingly, by virtue of His death which rent the veil, God and man stand face to face. It endures for ever, because it has perfected for ever them that are sanctified. In fact, they'd probably become a better Jew than they ever were. (ii) He stresses the exaltation of Jesus. By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned." "By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king." If I know what Christ's redemption has accomplished for all who believe, I must know that God has given me this. the sense of the word which had been used before), what would be the aim of the "also?" The sacrifice acceptable to, God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou, "For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge. 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. Hebrews 5:11-14)." He understands our weaknesses: "Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. 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. "There was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called holy. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. But in chapter 8. Their expectations were founded on a misinterpretation of the scriptures, but it was none the less a real disappointment. So then I said: 'So then I come--in the roll of the book it is written of me--to do, O God, your will."' 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. They knew they had possessions that no man could take away, the enduring substance in heaven. This is the meaning of the phrase, not that He will sit there throughout all eternity. It is not so much the glory of a promising start that the Lord desires as it is the glory of a faithful finish. We are not those that draw back. The NT does not reject the notion that Christians will receive rewards, though, of course, that is never the prime motive for service." So the writer to the Hebrews says with prophetic vehemence: "The sacrifice of animals is powerless to purify a man and give him access to God. There was a kind of priestly tread-mill of sacrifice. The battle which Abraham fought, the first recorded one in scripture, is the type of the last battle of this age. 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. How easily we even forget that we are not Jews but Christians! Again, she was brought to trial and now the verdict was to be given. "If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?" His purpose utterly failed to secure the blessing for his profane but favourite son. "He taketh away the first." 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 He acted in faith, not policy. The end of the chapter reminds us that faith is and it is for we who follow in the footsteps of the faithful men and women of previous ages. We must never forget that there is no such thing as a "common" man in the sight of God. But then there are impediments as well as sin, by which the enemy would keep us from the race set before us; whilst God carries on His discipline in our favour. Totally forgiven by your commitment of your life to Jesus Christ, or if you fail, then the death from which He died to save you will come and there will be no hope of any escape. It is no longer effective. Here the apostle warns those that turn their back on Christ's one sacrifice. He brings proof. "For," says he, "there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof (for the law made nothing perfect)." Heaven, therefore, by man's own conviction, must be arrayed in justice against earth because of sin, But the day is coming when Israel shall be no more rebellious, and the nations shall be no longer deceived, and Satan shall be dethroned from his bad eminence, and all idols shall flee apace, and God shall be left the undisputed and evidently Most High, the possessor of heaven and earth. does not express eternity (which would be , or some such form of words) but "for continuance." The Christian stands between the cross and the glory of the Lord Jesus. Vindictive justice is a glorious, though terrible attribute of God; it belongs to him, and he will use and execute it upon the heads of such sinners as despise his grace; he will avenge himself, and his Son, and Spirit, and covenant, upon apostates. God alone who spake it into being can pronounce upon it. 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