All that Christians can do in such cases is to be patient - to lie calmly in the hands of God, and submit to his will day by day, and year by year; see James 1:3-4; notes, Romans 5:4. For although outwardly, no doubt, the prosperity lasted in the time of Solomon, it was mainly the fruit of David's suffering, and power, and glory. 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. What infinite thoughts are those that God's word gives; as glorifying for Himself as elevating for our souls! His answer is that condemnation must necessarily follow, "and so much the more because thou hast read this book." As they are companions, so do they test a walk with God; one is faith, the other is suffering. The third point is how to walk with God, and this again is by faith. The writer to the Hebrews quotes it differently and in the second line he has: The explanation is that he was not quoting from the original Hebrew but from the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament. But instead of leaping upon the princess, it met the unsheathed sword of the prince. He honours the work of Christ, according to His estimate of its efficacy, as it is only according to His counsels about us for Christ's glory. The unsatisfactory Christian undermines the very foundations of the Church. The communion of saints is a great help and privilege, and a good means of steadiness and perseverance; hereby their hearts and hands are mutually strengthened. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. God then has provided some better thing for us. They wouldn't have to offer animals once a year in the Holy of Holies. If, therefore, when you find the word "testament" anywhere else in the authorized version, you turn it into "covenant" in my opinion you will not do amiss. Hebrews 10:36 King James Version 36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. We belong to the holiest of all, and we act upon it, if we iet rightly, when we worship God; nay, when we draw near to God in prayer at all times. 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Hebrews 3:6 b and Hebrews 10:23; and Hebrews 3:17 and Hebrews 10:26). 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. He is my righteousness. This, managed with a true gospel spirit, would be the best and most cordial friendship. It only covered their sins. This shows that, beyond question, among the Jews of that day, Psalms 110:1-7 was understood to refer to the Christ alone. It is no definition of what it is to believe, but a description of the qualities of faith. 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. They can trust God, and live upon him, and wait his time: and, as their faith maintains their spiritual life now, it shall be crowned with eternal life hereafter. Now the just shall live by faith: and if any man draw back, [God said] my soul shall have no pleasure in them. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. So far from that, in them there is a year by year reminder of sin. That can't be. 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. It is easy to laugh at men's ideals, to pour cold water on their enthusiasm, to discourage them. There were in the apostles' times, and should be in every age, Christian assemblies for the worship of God, and for mutual edification. 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. 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. He could know nothing of the mystery of the church, Christ's body, nor of her bridal hopes; but he did look for what is called here the "heavenly Jerusalem," that city "whose maker and builder is God." (a) He may not go to church because of fear. Heaven and earth have not been united, nor have they been in fact possessed for the blessing of man by the power of God, since sin severed between the earth and that which is above it, and the prince of the power of the air perverted all, so that what should have been, according to God's nature and counsels, the source of every blessing, became rather the point from which the guilty conscience of man cannot but look for judgment. He first brings us into the joy and nearness of His presence. "The priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. Then he adds: "And to myriads of angels, the general assembly" for such is the true way to divide the verse "and to the church of the firstborn," etc. He presses them to perseverance, by telling them that this is their distinguishing character and will be their happiness; whereas apostasy is the reproach, and will be the ruin, of all who are guilty of it (Hebrews 10:38; Hebrews 10:39): Now the just shall live by faith, c. Hebrews 10:36 "For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise." King James Version (KJV) < Previous Verse Next Verse > View Chapter Hebrews 10:36 Context Actually, he is saying we should gather together all the more as we see the day of the Lord approaching. The Hebrews were Jews in Palestine who had got converted upon the preaching of the apostles. God meant to have His will done, and thereby a people for Himself capable of enjoying His presence and His nature, where no question of sin or fall could ever enter. Arranged all beforehand, neither Isaac's partiality nor Jacob's deceit was able to divert the channel. He is showing us the efficacy of Christ's death. For whom it may be is another thing, of which he will speak by-and-by. "Who needeth not daily," therefore says He, "as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's." The Jews themselves acknowledge that Psalms 110:1-7 must be fulfilled in Christ, in His quality of Messiah. "Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. No other seat was suitable to such a One. It is not only that we believe it, but we understand it thereby. Which door? This is just what the believer receives, feeds on, and lives accordingly. This one simple act to hear and or read with your heart the ospel of our Lord Jesus g Christ and The greatest context of any book of the Bible is the "argument of the book." For example, the argument of Romans is "the righteousness of God." In various forms the root dike(right) occurs 60 times. Accordingly he became just the more the vessel of divine power to the glory of God. 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. The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. They must draw near in humble adorations, worshipping at his footstool. So here he tells them to "follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: looking diligently lest any man lack the grace of God." On the other hand, the priests, Aaron's family, among the sons of Levi, "have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham." He takes them into the hand of his justice; he will deal with them himself; their greatest misery will be the immediate impressions of divine wrath on the soul. evil, learn to do good" ( Isaiah 1:11-20). Christians ought to have a tender consideration and concern for one another; they should affectionately consider what their several wants, weaknesses, and temptations are; and they should do this, not to reproach one another, to provoke one another not to anger, but to love and good works, calling upon themselves and one another to love God and Christ more, to love duty and holiness more, to love their brethren in Christ more, and to do all the good offices of Christian affection both to the bodies and the souls of each other. He only removes obstructions, and maintains our communion with Himself; surely this ought to settle every question for the believer. 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. (2.) (1.) Then there was the meal offering, which was the consecration of my service to God as I brought the grain that I had cultivated and grown. In short, Christians will never advance two paces without fainting, except they are sustained by patience. In effect, he says: "Be what you were at your best." Ye have need of patience Having so great a fight of sufferings to pass through, and they of so long continuance. 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. To "hold unswervingly" to this hope is to live according to it. [ k] divers: Hebrews 11:36-Zechariah :, 1 Peter 1:6-Ruth :, 2 Peter 2:9, Revelation 2:10 Reciprocal: Judges 14:14 - Out of the eater 1 Kings 17:17 - the son of the woman Job 23:10 - he hath Proverbs 18:14 - spirit Proverbs 27:17 - so Proverbs 29:6 - but Ecclesiastes 7:3 - by Daniel 11:35 - to try Habakkuk 3:18 - I will rejoice Matthew 5:12 - Rejoice . This, he says, must be from a father who loves his true and faulty children: others enjoy no such care. He reasons that, while our parents only chastise us the best way they can (for after all their judgment might not be perfect), the Father of spirits never fails. They needed to persevere, to keep on keeping on. 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. The first was the sin offering, which is sins general. To the writer to the Hebrews life was a thing that was on its way to the presence of Christ. Social snobbery is bad but spiritual and intellectual snobbery is worse. It is not mere rebelliousness against law; it is the wounding of love. The wisest man is a fool in the sight of God; and the strongest man is weak in the moment of temptation. This was the very thing that these Jewish Christians were shrinking, from, if not rebelling against. A new covenant shows that the other must have thereby become old, and therefore is decaying and ready to vanish away. 39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved. ", But now, returning from this striking instance of Paul's habit of going off at a word ( ), let us resume the regular course of the apostle's argument. And here we are favoured with a magnificent picture of Christianity in contrast with Judaism. In effect he is saying: "Without Christ you cannot get beyond the shadows of God.". It cost many of them their families. He is one of the deepest theologians in the New Testament but all his theology is governed by the pastoral instinct. This text has been the occasion of great distress to some gracious souls they have been ready to conclude that every wilful sin, after conviction and against knowledge, is the unpardonable sin: but this has been their infirmity and error. All he does is to interpret that will, and to apply it to what was wrought on the cross. They had never known so great and frequent and constant trial. Every one can understand, when once we find that the word means almost always covenant," how great the temptation is to translate it so in but two other occurrences, especially as before and after it means "covenant" in the same passage. Endurance is essential, since there must always be some waiting time before a promise can be fulfilled. Notice it is going to devour God's adversaries. 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. On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses he that is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness. ; also Hebrews 4:14) of our hope without wavering (, agreeing with "confession"); for he is faithful that promised: and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works; not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one . Let them not throw it away. There it was written, "Lo, I come to do thy will, O God." If he thinks that the Church has faults, it is his duty to come in and help to mend them. Observe, The greatest part of the saints' happiness is in promise. It is a living way. But in chapter 8. He took himself and said to God: "Do with me as you will." If God had reserved the epistle to the Hebrews until after He sent forth His armies and burned up their city, destroying their polity root and branch, it might have been retorted that the Christians valued the Jewish ritual as loner as it was available, and only gave it up when earthly temple and sacrifice and priest were gone. Oh how happy is the man whose sins are covered. (iii) We need the memory of the end. The foundation is sacrifice; the Power is of the Holy Ghost. Man was tried by all sorts of tests from time to time God knew perfectly well, and even declared here and there, the end from the beginning; but He would make it manifest to every conscience, that all He got from man in these His varied dealings was sin. Here it is the grand truth itself in its own character. It meant that a man was taking something dear to him and giving it to God to show his love. For if these sacrifices could achieve that, would they not have stopped being brought because the worshipper had been once and for all brought into a state of purity and no longer had any consciousness of sin? There remains for them only a certain fearful looking for of judgment, Hebrews 10:27; Hebrews 10:27. Brought nigh to God by the blood of Jesus, we have perfect access, so that there is nothing between God and us; for Christ suffered once to bring us to God, as He intercedes that we may have communion. It is Jesus Christ and him crucified for the forgiveness of sins who will save those who believe and repent, and who will return again in glory to judge the living and the dead. NASB Compact Reference Bible 9780310918868 ? 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. [2.] It was not the church, I repeat, but what God prepares above for those who love Him. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; for he is faithful that promised ( Hebrews 10:20-23 ); Notice now this new covenant: hold fast, hang on, don't worry, because God is faithful who made the promises. 3:4; Heb. There is this purging. They do not belong to heaven like the angels; but God had an eternal purpose, which brought them by an extraordinary favour there. It is evident that in these we have the two main parts of Christianity. "With Hebrews 10:19-39 the great central division of the sermon (Hebrews 5:11 to Hebrews 10:39) is drawn to a conclusion. The millennial day will see this. All jokes aside, Hebrews 10:26 is an oft-abused scripture. It was for all men, not only for the respectable classes, that Christ died. 12:4 a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while # Phil. However, the latter part of the quotation, "a body thou hast prepared me," is not as your King James reads, but this was translated from the Septuagint version.The Septuagint version of the scriptures was a Hebrew to Greek translation of the Old Testament that was made by seventy scholars two hundred years before the birth of Christ. Because the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins ( Hebrews 10:2 ). Men who have seemed before to have the blood of Christ in high esteem may come to account it an unholy thing, no better than the blood of a malefactor, though it was the world's ransom, and every drop of it of infinite value. Christ with Belial and all." For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. As Matthew Arnold wrote: (ii) Let us hold fast to our creed That is to say, let us never lose our grip of what we believe. 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. This is the meaning of the blood carried within, and of the body burnt without. 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. Think of the shaking of heaven and earth being a promise! They don't understand that to become a Christian is to become a completed Jew. 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. For you had compassion of me and in my bonds, and you took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and an enduring substance ( Hebrews 10:34 ). A good example given to others is the best and most effectual provocation to love and good works. Sin separates man from God. Thus you see, either corrupt passion on the one hand or profanity on the other, are unsparingly condemned by the grace of God. From henceforth [or from now on] just waiting until his enemies be made his footstool. It is the conflict which introduces the reign of peace founded on righteousness, when God will manifest Himself as the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth. "With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself. Reason is ever drawing conclusions; God is, and reveals what is. "In those sacrifices," referring to the law to which some Hebrew Christians were in danger of going back, "there is a remembrance made again of sins every year. Don't you see what a sacred thing it is?" In Hebrews 10:1-39 he applies the matter to the present state of the believer. 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."' What, then, is man's actual estate? A simple word of scripture settles a thousand questions. Nor is it that redemption only is denied, but creation also; so that there is very great importance in maintaining the rights and the truth of God in creation. Reason can appreciate not grace but law; and so people are apt, when things go wrong, to bring in the law. The death of Christ, both in the sense of a victim sacrificed, and of a testator, though a double figure, is evident to all, and tends to the self-same point. "Then would they not have ceased to be offered?". 2. The real presumption, therefore, is to pretend to be a Christian, and yet to doubt the primary fundamental truth of Christianity as to this. 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. (ii) We must worship together. In burnt offerings [the Lord said in Psalms] and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. You are to be one with God and if you then go out and sin you are making God a partner in your sin. And, (3.) We are not men to shrink back from things and so to come to disaster, but we are men of a faith which will enable us to possess our souls. How they had suffered. Apostasy is the mark and the brand of those in whom God takes no pleasure; and it is a cause of God's severe displeasure and anger. 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. After the Babylonian captivity, the Hebrew language was almost dead. He that possesses the one must not eschew the other. 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