We have just the fact of their passing through the Red sea, and no more; as we have the fall of Jericho, and no more. The fulfilment of the Melchisedec Order is found in Christ, and in Him alone. Dick Sheppard spent much of his life preaching in the open air to people who were either hostile or indifferent to the Church. Christians are one body, are animated by one spirit, have embarked in one common cause and interest, and are the children of that God who is afflicted in all the afflictions of his people. 2. As far as the soul is concerned, Christ would not go up to heaven until sin was abrogated before God. (4) Patience should be exercised in order to win the crown of life. 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." Here observe, (1.) 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. He is describing, then, the indwelling of Christ by the Spirit, the recognition of an indwelling Christ who offers to clothe himself with our personality and is prepared to live his life over again in our circumstances, right where we are. So here the Psalms acquire a meaning self-evidently true, the moment Christ is brought in, who is the truth, and nothing less. To mount Zion. So far from erasing his sin, they underline it. From the description he gives of the sin of apostasy. He does not draw attention here to the account, that there was only blessing from man to God, and from God to man. We have many duties required of us in our Christian callings, and in our particular vocation (for the honour of God, and the service of our brethren), which we have need of patience to go through (526). 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. It was not only that there had been at the beginning such a priest, but that fact became the form of a glorious anticipation which the Holy Ghost holds out for the latter day. He may shrink from contact with people who are "not like himself." Looking at Jesus, we can say: "That is what God is like." 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." As the result of enduring the cross, having despised the shame, the word for sitting down here has a remarkably beautiful shade of meaning different from what is given in all the other occurrences. 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. But this time is not yet come. Thus you see, either corrupt passion on the one hand or profanity on the other, are unsparingly condemned by the grace of God. 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 is so with the sacrifice of Christ. But these things were ineffective to remove the real pollution of sin. They may be cleansed from guilt, from filth, from sinful fear and torment, from all aversion to God and duty, from ignorance, and error, and superstition, and whatever evils the consciences of men are subject to by reason of sin. Observe, The greatest part of the saints' happiness is in promise. Finally, as is his habit, the writer to the Hebrews clinches his argument with a quotation from scripture. 38 And my righteous ones will live by faith. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompence of reward. How can such a consciousness as this be the portion of the Christian? I should like to ask whether (or how far) all the believers here assembled can take this as their place with simplicity. The priests stand offering sacrifice; Christ sits at the right hand of God. The appeal of the writer to the Hebrews is one that could be made to every man. But they are completely gone; and therefore at God's right-hand sits down He who is its witness. God's purpose is that man should know Him, that he should fellowship with Him and that he might cooperate with God in the accomplishing of God's purposes here on the earth.Now sin creates a breach between man and God. The first is, that in spirit the Christian is now brought by redemption, without spot or guilt, into the presence of God. There was no end to this process and it left men still conscious of their sin and alienated from God. Click to Sign Up Now! The cynical voices may try to take our faith away; the materialist and his arguments may try to make us forget God; the events of life may conspire to shake our faith. It is such a fidelity to the end that is urged by the author here. I could now be made one with God. 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 If we examine the historical facts as found in the Old Testament story, what is it rises up before all eyes as to Zion? These are not Christians falling from grace into damnation; rather, these are believers failing to obey and suffering the consequences. III. How happy is the man whose sins and iniquities, God said, I will remember no more. Hence, in Hebrews 8:1-13, the apostle draws his conclusion. as well as done by him, extraordinary. "God, I'll do this for You if You'll do this, this and this." 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. This leads into the life of faith, which was a great stumbling-block to some of these Christian Jews. Now, in looking at these words, two things are noteworthy. But the writer to the Hebrews goes on to outline our duty to others in the most practical way. God is the searcher of hearts, and he requires truth in the inward parts. 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? The atonement was at least as real as our sin; and God Himself dealt with Christ as laying sin upon Him, and treating Him, the Great Substitute, as sin before Himself, that at one blow it might be all put away from before His face. It is given to every man to live in two worlds, this world of space and time, and the world of eternal things. The writer to the Hebrews began this chapter speaking of faith in the present tense: Now faith is. Let us next apply the word "covenant" here, and you will soon see the insuperable difficulties into which you are plunged. He has brought in redemption in present accomplishment, and at the same time He has given scope for a brighter hope, founded on His mighty work on the cross, measured by Christ's glory as its present answer at the right hand of God. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins ( Hebrews 10:4 ). Before that he served as director and teacher at Calvary Chapel Bible College, Germany, following more than 20 years of pastoral ministry. The consequence is, that many have tried (and I remember making efforts of that kind myself, until convinced that it could not succeed) to give , in the English Bible rightly rendered "the testator," the force of the covenanting victim. Hebrews 10:36 Context Crossref Greek Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. 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. King James Bible Psalm Chapter 126 Sermon . "Then would they not have ceased to be offered?". The "confession" here is our trust in God's promises, of what God eternallyaffords the believer. Indeed, at no time will its order be more apparent than at present; for I think there can be little doubt to any unbiassed Christian who enters with intelligence into the Old Testament prophecies, that there is yet to be an earthly sanctuary, and, consequently, earthly priests and sacrifices for Israel in their own land; that the sons of Zadok, as Ezekiel lets us know, will perpetuate the line at the time when the Lord shall be owned to be there, in the person of the true David their King, blessing His people long distressed but now joyful on earth. By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned." It is the purpose of God that man should fellowship with Him. This means that Jesus not only shows us the way to God but also when we get there introduces us to his very presence. Certain things can be repeated; but all works of genius have a certain unrepeatable quality. Was this Paul's doctrine? At the heart of Christianity there remains for ever a threat. It was accomplished in Christ, exalted as the great Melchisedec in heaven. Then he shows us others higher than these, by a divine call "and to the church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven." Christ's baptism ( Matthew 3) - This was specific to Jesus and His anointing (commission) to be our Savior and the associated testimony of the Holy Spirit and God. To their astonishment, they found that the princess was in good shape, still tied in the center of the pit. They could not understand how it was they should come into greater trouble than before. Let us take an analogy. There were some amongst those to whom the writer of the Hebrews was writing who had abandoned the habit of meeting together. (196) Or, patient waiting, as rendered by Erasmus and Stuart, and not perseverance, as rendered by Macknight. This is just the closing practical word of the epistle to the Hebrews. The Jews themselves acknowledge that Psalms 110:1-7 must be fulfilled in Christ, in His quality of Messiah. The intention here was not to dwell either on the scene in which their waiting was put to the test, the wilderness, or on anything that could insinuate the settled position of Israel in the land. It is not only that we believe it, but we understand it thereby. 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. It was therefore never something that could be allowed to drift; it was its end which made the process of life all important, and only the man who endured to the end would be saved. It was for all men, not only for the respectable classes, that Christ died. "Now of the things that are being spoken of this is a summary: We have such an high priest, who is set down on [the] right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; a minister of the holies, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man." It is the assembly composed of certain individuals that make it up, regarded either as brethren, as in the second chapter ("In the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee"), or as the church of the first-born ones, as in Hebrews 12:1-29, persons who drew their title from Christ the first-born Heir. the book of Hebrews A W Tozer preached these messages as part of a 40 sermon series shortly before his death . This epistle insists on the blood of Christ, making all to turn on that efficacious work for us. He will soon come to them at death, and put an end to all their sufferings, and give them a crown of life. 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. But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions ( Hebrews 10:32 ); Remember what you went through in the beginning of your faith. This, managed with a true gospel spirit, would be the best and most cordial friendship. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? I. There had been a time when those to whom this letter was written had been up against it. One of the highest of human duties is that of encouragement. Amen.". Christians should know this in themselves, they should get the assurance of it in themselves (the Spirit of God witnessing with their spirits), for the assured knowledge of this will help them to endure any fight of afflictions they may be encountered with in this world. They could not deny it to be written in the fortieth psalm. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary. 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. "Your identification with Christianity really cost you a lot," and it did. And to this the Holy Spirit is our witness, for after he has said: "This is the covenant I will make with them after these days, says the Lord. At that very moment therefore the tide begins to turn. His purpose utterly failed to secure the blessing for his profane but favourite son. And again, pointing not to our faithfulness, but the faithfulness of God. Therefore is it that men so naturally slip into, or rest on, second causes. "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. II. The scholarly Bloomfield, writing on the importance of patience, says: 1. And here we are favoured with a magnificent picture of Christianity in contrast with Judaism. In their names and reputations (Hebrews 10:33; Hebrews 10:33), by many reproaches. And they need not fear to cease being a Jew by becoming a Christian. There are two kinds of sacrifice to which we are now called. There is something unrepeatable about any great work. It is not so much the power but the love of God which must conquer in the end. Hebrews 10:36, NLT: Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. If one lives by faith during times of duress, then he will receive reward from God. It was only known by the biblical scholars. And why? Of Christ who was given up to death, who is risen and gone above, in whom we find all the blessing promised, and after a better sort. He goes out, deliberately and knowingly, just at the time of life when a man is most sensitive to the value of a grand sphere of influence, as well as exercise of his powers, wherein, too, he could have ordinarily exerted all in favour of his people. 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. He is not simply a saint who lived a lovely life; not simply a martyr who died an heroic death; not simply a risen figure who returned to company with his friends. 3. To us Christ is all. There remains, therefore, a sabbath-keeping for the people of God. These two things, the cross on earth and glory on high, are correlative. In truth, the substratum was the same, and therefore it was not only quite lawful so to call it, but if he had not, the design would have been marred. iii. "Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, in virtue of the blood of the everlasting covenant, perfect you in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight "through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for the ages of the ages. He has not been of by the reader before; he is never heard of again in history. 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. "By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king." We must never forget that there is no such thing as a "common" man in the sight of God. 6. as He will appear to the salvation of His own people. For Jesus was the Messiah that God had promised in their scriptures. Since such a way of access and return to God is opened, it would be the greatest ingratitude and contempt of God and Christ still to keep at a distance from him. Then you will receive all that he has promised. 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. He is my sin offerer. (i) Jesus is the living way to the presence of God. And what is the effect of it? Jesus sits down in perpetuity. Verse 38. The grounds why Canaan could not consistently be made prominent in this epistle as a present thing, but only as a hope, we have already seen. Because of Jesus the barrier of sin is for ever taken away. Accordingly we find everything about Moses. You need fortitude so that, after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise. Those were now gone from the scene of their trials and labours, of "whom, considering the issue of their conversation, imitate the faith. And he sprinkled likewise with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. But if people and priest and king were proved thus vain, God was there, and His grace could not fail. For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. (a) He may not go to church because of fear. 2. God alone who spake it into being can pronounce upon it. 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 ). [Note: Lane, Hebrews 9-13, p. This, however, does not mean the church, but rather the future seat of general heavenly bliss for the glorified saints. For ye have need of patience - They were then suffering, and in all trials we have need of patience. And almost all things are according to the law purged with blood; and without shedding, of blood is no remission. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children." In this unity and fellowship, we are strengthened in our faith and our individual walks. This was also a grand point of distinction. 23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) 24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: 25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Paul tells us this in Colossians, chapter 2, where Christ through His death blotted out the handwriting and the ordinances that were against us, nailing them to His cross and triumphing over them in it. And it seems even in those times there were some who forsook these assemblies, and so began to apostatize from religion itself. 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. Because Christians are a heavenly people, and none but a heavenly Priest would suit them. All through this, one thing comes out. This was a final call; and how gracious! 35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. Its members must be loyal or nothing. It is continually cleansing us from all sins. Such has been the usual form in all countries not savage, and in all ages. 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? 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