He is thinking of the Second Coming of Christ when things as we know them will be ended. But then comes far more definite instruction, and, beginning with Abraham, the details of faith. THE FINALITY OF CHRIST ( Hebrews 10:11-18 ). This would be a day of dispersion and temptation to the chosen remnant. The motive or reason enforcing this duty: He is faithful that hath promised. (i) He stresses the achievement of Jesus. A new covenant shows that the other must have thereby become old, and therefore is decaying and ready to vanish away. It is not so much the glory of a promising start that the Lord desires as it is the glory of a faithful finish. As it was God's will and the work of Christ, so the Holy Ghost is He who witnesses to the perfectness of it. 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. He is all the way through, interwoven in all of the types, in all of the shadows, in all of the books. As the rending of the Tabernacle veil opened the way to the presence of God, so the rending of the flesh of Christ revealed the full greatness of his love and opened up the way to him. The door is open. The writer here declares his confidence in them. . We know that he has said, Vengeance is mine. He will submit to the discipline of training because of the end in view. Then comes a second exhortation as to their guides, or leading men among the brethren. It is a new way, both in opposition to the covenant of works and to the antiquated dispensation of the Old Testament; it is via novissima--the last way that will ever be opened to men. I am not going to enter into any statement of facts as to this now, but there is no truth in its own place more important than that with which the apostle commences in this chapter, namely, that "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. Barrie somewhere wrote to Cynthia Asquith: "Your first instinct is always to telegraph to Jones the nice thing Brown said about him to Robinson. 30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. Chapter 6 warned about the consequences of falling into doubt and disbelief. The favourite thought is "development;" and so they hold a development or genesis of matter, not a creation: matter continually progressing, in various forms, until at last it has progressed into these wise men of our day. Even non-believing Jews keep Sabbath; eat kosher. Are those two things true of you? An effective thing does not need to be done again; the very fact of the repetition of these sacrifices is the final proof that they are not purifying men's souls and not giving full and uninterrupted access to God. [Note: Cf. The apostle argues that, just as the blood of the beast was brought into the holiest of all, while the body of the same animal was taken outside the camp and burnt, so this too must be made good in our portion. Their abject ruin placed them just in the circumstances that suited the God of all grace. ( Hosea 6:6). Indeed it is only the body that is here spoken of. Here observe, A natural state is a dark state, and those who continue in that state meet with no disturbance from Satan and the world; but a state of grace is a state of light, and therefore the powers of darkness will violently oppose it. This supposes the people of God not actually settled in the land, but still pilgrims and strangers on the earth; and the epistle to the Hebrews, we have already seen, looks emphatically and exclusively at the people of God as not yet passed out of the wilderness; never as brought into the land, though it might be on the verge; just entering, but not actually entered. 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). 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. Always there had been voices crying out for God that the only sacrifice was that of obedience. It is the fact that there He sat down; but in this place it will be observed that His taking His seat there is the reward of the life of faith. 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. Yet it also anticipates what is to come by introducing the triad of Christian virtues, which the writer developed in chapters 11-13 (cf. In addition to giving his people the promise of his power, God demands that they exercise self-discipline and effort. Accordingly he now turns to set forth the contrast between the weakness and the unavailingness of the Jewish sacrifices, which, in point of fact, only and always brought up sins again, instead of putting them away as does the sacrifice of Christ. We have a great high priest.The danger was these Jews who had received Jesus, returning back to Judaism, taking a lamb, dragging a lamb to the priest again to make a sin offering for them. Those were now gone from the scene of their trials and labours, of "whom, considering the issue of their conversation, imitate the faith. Christ has obtained redemption, and this is witnessed by the token of the veil rent from top to bottom. Most people can start well and almost everyone can be fine in spasms. 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. The word he uses is eikon ( G1504) , which means a complete representation, a detailed reproduction. I speak, of course, of our entrance there only in spirit. They made what they called the kophar for sins. In establishing of the new covenant, He has put away the first. They must draw near to God. 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. Over on your left is another door, behind which are several tigers. "Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. There had been a time when those to whom this letter was written had been up against it. A man is ill. A bottle of medicine is prescribed for him. Charles Wesley in his great hymn appealed to men: It was when the flesh of Christ was rent upon the Cross that men really saw God. Thus does the apostle reason on it: "For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh" (which the Jew would not contest): "how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to do religious service to the living God? 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. If in these two verses we bear in mind that it really means "testament," growing out of the previous mention of the "inheritance," I am persuaded that you will have better understanding of the argument. 39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. Thus the apostle closes this most striking and precious epistle, brimful to overflowing with that which had an especial and very touching interest to a Jew, but nevertheless needed as certainly by us, and as rich in instruction for us in this day as for those at any time that has passed away. Thus the first part of the chapter shows us simply what God holds out to the new man; but the epistle to the Hebrews never looks at the Christian simply in the new man, but rather as a concrete person. Thus another and a higher priesthood was incontestably acknowledged by the father of the faithful. (196) Or, patient waiting, as rendered by Erasmus and Stuart, and not perseverance, as rendered by Macknight. Year by year the sacrifices of the Tabernacle and especially of the Day of Atonement go on. You have sown a lot of happiness that way." "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 it seems even in those times there were some who forsook these assemblies, and so began to apostatize from religion itself. The cleansing of our heart occurs when we receive our pardon and we are deemed pure by God. During a time of rebellion, she went out and lived in open adultery with the leader of the rebellion. 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 . But He that shall come will come and will not tarry. The undivided place of Christ is more fully witnessed now, when there are no others to occupy the thought or to distract the heart from Him as seen by faith in glory on high. Sin is the failure to realize the sacredness of that sacrifice upon the Cross. Here the meaning is the saving of one's daily life (He 10:32-39). This then is the monument for such as we are. Are they both true of you? Few writers have such a sense of the sheer horror of sin. Now the tone becomes bolder with them, and shows clearly that the Jew had but an empty form, a foreshadow of value once, but now superseded by the true antitype in the heavens. The writer to the Hebrews has this horror of sin for two reasons. But once I had made the sin and trespass offerings, then I could bring the burnt offerings.You notice the burnt offering here, and then the sin offerings. All he does is to interpret that will, and to apply it to what was wrought on the cross. 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. And the apostle would that their work of watching might be done with joy, and not groaning for this would be unprofitable for the saints. In order that in this body, He might become the perfect, complete sacrifice for man. Then he descends to a new or fresh covenant (not , as elsewhere, but ), the recently inaugurated covenant for the two houses of the ancient people. The Romans will do the last sad offices. [Note: Morris, pp. 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. By faith we understand ( Hebrews 11:1 and 11:3 ). No argument could be more distinct or conclusive. Again, she was brought to trial and now the verdict was to be given. And again, pointing not to our faithfulness, but the faithfulness of God. You could use this verse to present a "balanced" view of God, like this: "He is a God of grace and He is a God of judgment. Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? We can understand, therefore, both the delicacy that thus entreated them, and the meaning of the added words, "for also in few words I have written to you." Ed. Another point follows, connected with what we have had before us, and demanding our attention. 10:1-10 Because the law is only a pale shadow of the blessings which are to come and not a real image of these things, it can never really fit for the fellowship of God those who seek to draw near to his presence with the sacrifices which have to be brought year by year and which go on for ever. 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. He will soon come to them at death, and put an end to all their sufferings, and give them a crown of life. The classic example is what happened to the armies of Hannibal. When he punishes them by creatures, the instrument abates something of the force of the blow; but, when he does it by his own hand, it is infinite misery. In Hebrews 6:1-20, we saw that the Spirit of God brings in a most solemn warning for those who turn their back on the power and presence of the Holy Ghost, as bearing witness of Christianity. Choose a verse from 'Hebrews 10' to begin your 'Verse-by-Verse' study of God's Word using the more than 100 commentaries available on StudyLight.org. It is a better substance than any thing they can have or lose here. 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. Such was the Priest of whom God spoke. Verse 39. Thus the Pentateuch and the Psalms bore their double testimony to a Priest superior to the Aaronic. How can such a consciousness as this be the portion of the Christian? 4. He argues that the word "new" puts the other out of date, and this to make room for a better. Hebrews 2:1-4 and Hebrews 10:28-31; and Hebrews 6:4-8 and Hebrews 10:26-31) and repeats characteristic expressions (cf. Again he insists upon the honour and purity of the marriage tie, and the abhorrence that God has for those that despise and corrupt it, and the sure judgment which will come upon them. But here is One who proffers Himself to come, and does come. In effect he is saying: "Without Christ you cannot get beyond the shadows of God.". Every hour a bulletin went out throughout the kingdom telling of the condition of the prince as he fought the battle for life. (ii) Sin is the failure to see the sacredness of sacred things. Jesus' flesh is what veiled his godhead. "But now once in the consummation of the ages," this is the meaning of "the end of the world;" it is the consummation of those dispensations for bringing out what man was. Those who know the joy that results from the favour of God can thereby judge of the power and dread of his vindictive wrath. 3:4; Heb. (iii) We need the memory of the end. III. And there is no further sacrifice that can be offered, of a goat or a lamb or a calf or anything else. This deeply interesting chapter closes with the reason why those who had thus not only lived but died in faith did not get the promise: "God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." There is nothing capricious about the usage. . to the foundations, which became apparent too, too quickly in Solomon's son. (b) It need not be repeated. He presses a conversation without covetousness, and a spirit of content, founded on our confidence in the Lord's care. Christendom precisely takes the middle ground of Judaism between these two extremes. Who was this One? This epistle insists on the blood of Christ, making all to turn on that efficacious work for us. He acted in faith, not policy. The reference is therefore plain and sure. 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." 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. I could now be made one with God. 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. "But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, nor by blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood entered in once into the holies, having obtained eternal redemption." 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