All this is a gradual undermining the wall until the whole structure is overthrown. You, as a Christian, ought to have the calm settled consciousness that God, looking on you, discerns not one spot or stain, but only the blood of Jesus Christ His Son that cleanses from all sin. The allusion in the last clause to the eternal inheritance (for everything is eternal in the Hebrews, standing in decided contrast with Jewish things which were but for a season) leads the Holy Spirit to take up the other meaning of the same word, which was and is rightly enough translated covenant. It only covered their sins. In every point of view, therefore, the superiority of the Melchisedec priest was demonstrated over the line of Aaron. It 'became Him that Christ should suffer. Social snobbery is bad but spiritual and intellectual snobbery is worse. Matthew 1-10 Matthew 11-28 Mark Luke John 1-7 John 8-21 Acts Romans 1, 2 Corinthians Galatians-Ephesians Philippians-Colossians-1, 2 Thessalonians 1, 2 Timothy-Titus-Philemon Hebrews James-1, 2 Peter 1,2,3 John-Jude Revelation 1-5 Revelation 6-22 . Christ, therefore, goes into heaven, and will come again apart from sin. 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. But He that shall come will come and will not tarry. Always there had been voices crying out for God that the only sacrifice was that of obedience. So the reason why God is waiting and delaying the coming of Jesus Christ is to give opportunity for others to come on into the kingdom. He who has promised is faithful. With a true heart, without any allowed guile or hypocrisy. This will make a rich amends for all they can lose and suffer here. Some think this refers to the dreadful destruction of the Jewish church and state; but certainly it refers also to the utter destruction that awaits all obstinate apostates at death and judgment, when the Judge will discover a fiery indignation against them, which will devour the adversaries; they will be consigned to the devouring fire and to everlasting burnings. "It's a fearful thing to fall in the hands of a living God.". No argument could be more distinct or conclusive. This, he says, must be from a father who loves his true and faulty children: others enjoy no such care. before God on high? Hence the right hand of the throne is introduced, but, besides, "of the Majesty in the heavens." The day of the Lord will come. 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. But then comes far more definite instruction, and, beginning with Abraham, the details of faith. Every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins ( Hebrews 10:11 ): So they're busy. It was hid in God from ages and generations. This was the very difficulty that the Jew pleaded; but now, in point of fact, it was only what the Psalm of Messiah insisted on, the law itself bearing witness of a priest superior to any under the law. Although the blood on which that covenant was founded may be now long shed, when the covenant comes into force for them will it not be as fresh as the day the precious Victim died and shed His blood? They must draw near in conformity to God, and communion with him, living under his blessed influence, still endeavouring to get nearer and nearer, till they come to dwell in his presence but they must see to it that they make their approach to God after a right manner. Obviously far more people in the ancient world read Greek than Hebrew. The word he uses is skia ( G4639) , the Greek for a shadow, and it means a nebulous reflection, a mere silhouette, a form without reality. 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. Again, she was brought to trial and now the verdict was to be given. Thus you see, either corrupt passion on the one hand or profanity on the other, are unsparingly condemned by the grace of God. He sat down there as of His own right and title, but nevertheless making a part of His divine glory to be witnessed in, as indeed His person was necessary to make His blood efficacious to the purging of our sins. Its force implies that it is not merely what He did once, but what He is also doing still. "For the law made nothing perfect" is a parenthesis. It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Do not throw away your confidence, for it is a confidence that has a great reward. Can there be a doubt that Christianity is meant? The priests stand offering sacrifice; Christ sits at the right hand of God. The duty itself--to hold fast the profession of our faith, to embrace all the truths and ways of the gospel, to get fast hold of them, and to keep that hold against all temptation and opposition. In the beginning ofHebrews 11:1-40; Hebrews 11:1-40 we are told what faith is. We are still walking here below; we are in the place therefore where infirmity is felt, where Satan tempts, where we may fail through unwatchfulness. 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. As to the outer man also, we must learn to what we are called now. 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. First, they were to remember those that once ruled them. He does not require to add more to the person and facts of Christ than the Old Testament furnishes, to prove the certainty of Christianity and all its characteristic truths with which he occupies himself in this epistle. . 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. 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. [Note: Ibid., p. This We Know to Be the Carnal Israel: Circumcision and the Erotic Life of God and Israel (Critical Inquiry 18). But in those sacrifices there was a reminder again made for sins every year ( Hebrews 10:3 ). Notice it is going to devour God's adversaries. The appeal of the writer to the Hebrews is one that could be made to every man. What comes in between the two? The father of the faithful was the one first called out by promise. The reference here I cannot but regard as exclusively to the two houses of Israel. They from Italy salute you. "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." There in the darkness a fierce battle ensued, until finally the princess could hear the death throes as the last bit of life was leaving, and then just the dripping of blood.As it became daylight, the men from the city came to take the remains of the princess and bury them. Have you come to mock me because of the fate that I have?" (2) Willful sin shall certainly result in eternal destruction. 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. "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)." 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. Hence the apostle applies the type distinctly now, as far as the "order" of the priesthood goes. 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. Thus the chain of blessedness is complete. The value of the studying of Leviticus and the studying of the law, to the Christian, is that it foreshadows the work of Jesus Christ, the offering of Jesus Christ, and the high priestly nature of Jesus Christ. ( Hosea 6:6). What man could not offer, Jesus offered. ( Hebrews 12:1) Application of the demonstrations of enduring faith in Hebrews 11 . In short, Christians will never advance two paces without fainting, except they are sustained by patience. ], Now was not the time to discard that confidence in a better reward (cf. (iii) Let us put our minds to the task of taking thought for others. "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. Offering and burnt offerings and the offering for sin thou wouldst not, neither did you have pleasure therein; those things that were offered by the law. 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. 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. To mark that as yet the veil was unrent. The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God for ever after the order of Melchisedec. When they had suffered: In former days, after they were illuminated; that is, as soon as God had breathed life into their souls, and caused divine light to spring up in their minds, and taken them into his favour and covenant; then earth and hell combined all their force against them. 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 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. 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. But the apostle takes all this difficulty by the horns, as good as telling them, that their having suffered all this was simply because it is the right road. He presses a conversation without covetousness, and a spirit of content, founded on our confidence in the Lord's care. 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. A simple word of scripture settles a thousand questions. 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. 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. For in a short time, a very short time, "He who is to come will come and he will not delay. Without faith it is impossible to please God; and the stronger our faith is the more glory we give to God. . . As it was God's will and the work of Christ, so the Holy Ghost is He who witnesses to the perfectness of it. 36 Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. He begins by saying three things about Jesus. He may try to be what Moffatt called "a pious particle," a Christian in isolation. This is the point of the next chapters (He 11 and 12). Hebrews 10:36, NASB: For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. It remains. Indeed, not being revealed of old, according to the apostle, it is altogether a mistake to go to the Old Testament for that truth. This was the burnt offering, and it was symbolic of just consecrating my life to God. ", But again the solemn notice of Jehovah's oath is enlarged on. Nowhere does the apostle give the smallest occasion for such a thought. Was this Paul's doctrine? I ask my brethren here if they are looking to God strenuously, earnestly, for themselves and for their children, not to allow but to oppose as their adversary every thing that tends to weaken either of these truths, which are our highest privilege and our truest glory as Christians here below. They had looked for advance and triumph and peace and prosperity everywhere; on the contrary, they had come into reproach and shame, partly in their own persons, partly as becoming the companions of others who so suffered. "Thou hast given me an open ear," means, "You have so touched me that everything I hear I obey." But instead of leaping upon the princess, it met the unsheathed sword of the prince. Then you will receive all that he has promised. Then we hear of the practical use of all. If one lives by faith during times of duress, then he will receive reward from God. Hence, in Hebrews 8:1-13, the apostle draws his conclusion. And it seems even in those times there were some who forsook these assemblies, and so began to apostatize from religion itself. If they reject him, they can expect only judgment (26-27). I say not absolutely all its great truths. On these things I need not now dwell farther than to characterize all, from Abraham inclusively, as the patience of faith. All scripture, at its deepest, declares that the only sacrifice God desires is obedience; and in the life and death of Jesus that is precisely the sacrifice that God received. The lamb will do nothing. 30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. 279.]. The first covenant that God established with man is over. All I can say to that is, "Amen!" (iii) He stresses the final triumph of Jesus. 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 . (iii) We must encourage one another. How could any believers put a slight upon it? The one is what may be called the objective glory; the other is the subjective condition of those that compose the bride, the Lamb's wife. There were in the apostles' times, and should be in every age, Christian assemblies for the worship of God, and for mutual edification. Because His people had no heart for His promises, He imposed a system of law and ordinances that was unjudged in them, which provoked the sin. "This is the covenant," says he, "that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. We must thankfully acknowledge the compassions our Christian friends have shown for us under our afflictions. For a similar reason we never find life treated in the epistle, nor righteousness. (1.) does not express eternity (which would be , or some such form of words) but "for continuance." Thus, the "saving of the soul" here has to do with ruining the Christian life. Are those two things true of you? "In the volume of the book it is written of me" a book which none ever saw but God and His Son. Nor is it pleasant to nature. It is the obedient car of which the psalmist is thinking. 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. 5. (1.) Added to that there was the daily meat-offering of the High Priest; it consisted of one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with oil, and baked in a flat pan; half was offered in the morning and half in the evening. 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. Perseverance is one of the great unromantic virtues. Christendom prefers the middle course; it will have neither the conscious nearness, to God, nor the place of Christ's reproach among men. I may, of course, see what is before my eyes, and. Jesus is the substance that casts the shadow. And as thus were shown the people immutably blessed (for salt shall not be wanting to that covenant) in the scene that will soon come, we finally hear of the earth itself joyful in the curse removed for ever. 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. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins." as He will appear to the salvation of His own people. 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