By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned." 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. 806. Their abject ruin placed them just in the circumstances that suited the God of all grace. Hebrews 10:36, NLT: Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God's will. But would a Jew infer hence that it was only the city of David he was speaking of? They from Italy salute you. "" Be a Godly-trained disciple: (7) "Don't throw away your confidence" Hebrews 10:32-36 Pastor Florence Luo . (a) He may not go to church because of fear. That we should consider one another, to provoke to love and to good works. But here is One who proffers Himself to come, and does come. They really mar the sense, because they draw attention not to the truth in itself so much as its application to us, which is not the point in Hebrews 9:1-28, but rather ofHebrews 10:1-39; Hebrews 10:1-39. If we examine the historical facts as found in the Old Testament story, what is it rises up before all eyes as to Zion? (b) He may not go because of fastidiousness. When Caesar was murdered he faced his assassins with almost disdainful courage. Hence in Hebrews we never find the body of Christ as such referred to. For in a short time, a very short time, "He who is to come will come and he will not delay. He begins by saying three things about Jesus. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the Holy of Holies by the blood of Jesus ( Hebrews 10:19 ), I can enter in where He entered in, right in to the presence of the Father. In essence the meaning is the same. Patience is stressed as the opposite of that impatience which began to develop in the hearts of many who expected that the Lord should have come already. It is easy to laugh at men's ideals, to pour cold water on their enthusiasm, to discourage them. They had never known so great and frequent and constant trial. With a true heart, without any allowed guile or hypocrisy. For ye have need of patience: Every Christian needs patience to be able to endure physical, mental, or spiritual difficulties. Partly, while you were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, while you became companions of them that were so used ( Hebrews 10:33 ). From the beginning to the end of it the Christian in Hebrews is not thus dealt with apart from the old nature, as we may see him regarded in the ordinary epistles of Paul, where the old and the new man are most carefully separated. You can't go back to the old system. Nothing but obedience could open the way to God; disobedience set up a barrier that no animal sacrifice could ever take away. They don't understand that to become a Christian is to become a completed Jew. But it is not possible to repeat the Fifth or the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven; no one else will ever write anything like them. There is no necessity for considering anything else, but that the Spirit of God, forecasting the future, was pleased to conceal the line of Melchisedec's parentage, or descendants if any, of their birth or death. And the story ended, which door?But as you see the story, you realize that we are the guilty princess, and that we rebelled against the Lord, who loved us so much that He came to prove His love by dying in our place. 4. He that possesses the one must not eschew the other. 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. Their own Psalm, in its grand prophetic sweep, and looking back on the law, pointed to the place in which Christ is now seated above; and where it is of necessity He should be, in order to give Christianity its heavenly character. But how? But meanwhile, confessedly, the Spirit of God directs attention, not to the exercise, but to the order of the Melchisedec Priest. In fact, they'd probably become a better Jew than they ever were. It became us to have a Priest, "holy, harmless, undefiled, made higher than the heavens.". "He taketh away the first." Let them not throw it away. ( Hosea 6:6). For indeed He was a man as really as any other, though infinitely above man. It is called the Septuagint. There is no further sacrifice. It is perfectly true that, if we think of Christ, He was here below absolutely without sin; but He who was without sin in His person, and all His life, had everything to do with sin on the cross, when God made Him to be sin for us. He is my mediator. 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. With the attribute of true patience, not only can one overcome spiritual afflictions but he can also experience these troubled times with joy. 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. Our danger is that to become so involved in this world that we forget the other. He does not reason from the singular circumstance that there was no incense, any more than sacrifice. Hannibal wintered his troops in Capua which he had captured, a city of luxury. For by one offering and for all time he perfectly gave us that cleansing we need to enter into the presence of God. A lot of them had their possessions taken away, but they didn't care. 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. Verses 19 to 21 tell us of the privileges we have as Christians: The way to God . He is suddenly ushered upon the scene. (See under 10:25.) Sin is not disobedience to an impersonal law; it is the wrecking of a personal relationship and the wounding of the heart of the God whose name is Father. 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. The difference is very great. A priest is always in connection with the people of God, never as such with those that are outside, but a positive known relation with God "seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. Next, it is a " counting of the blood of the covenant an unholy thing .". Now accordingly, by virtue of His death which rent the veil, God and man stand face to face. 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? But this man [Jesus Christ], after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God ( Hebrews 10:12 ); It's complete. 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. I speak, of course, of our entrance there only in spirit. 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. They wouldn't have to offer animals every day. 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. Have patience; He has a few more yet to save. 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. 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. After the Babylonian captivity, the Hebrew language was almost dead. "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. It is the setting aside of God, and the setting up of man; it is the precursor of the apostasy that is coming, which again will issue in man taking the place of God, and becoming the object of worship, instead of the true Creator. 279.]. It is sui generis; it is one of these masterpieces which can never be done again. 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. Only Jesus can really cleanse a man. 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? By a testament, to be sure, as every one knows. His purpose utterly failed to secure the blessing for his profane but favourite son. What it was that enabled them thus to bear up under their sufferings. 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." This would be a day of dispersion and temptation to the chosen remnant. And for this cause he is mediator of the new covenant, that by means of death, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance." But the apostle lets them know that if they understood their true blessing, this was the very part of it that was inseparably bound up with their present nearness to God, as set forth typically by the central and most important rite of the Jewish system. So before fellowship can be experienced, sin has to be put away.In the first covenant there were two of the offerings that dealt with sin. 129.] For Jesus was the Messiah that God had promised in their scriptures. For men to enter into that presence the veil would have to be torn apart. 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. 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. Such is a main point, not ofHebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 4:1-16 only, but of the epistle. Then by accident he discovered who it was who had laid information against him--it was his own son. (i) He stresses the achievement of Jesus. To everyone it is sometimes given to mount up with wings as eagles; in the moment of the great effort everyone can run and not be weary; but the greatest gift of all is to walk and not to faint. It actually does mean a portrait, and would mean a photograph, if there had been such a thing in those days. Look unto Jesus. II. They must first do the will of God before they receive the promise; and, after they have done the will of God, they have need of patience to wait for the time when the promise shall be fulfilled; they have need of patience to live till God calls them away. I give Him His portion to eat, the best part of it, being a gracious host, and I then partake of the rest and we eat together. You cannot come to God by the first covenant.There are always those who want to come to God on their terms. For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise. Remember how, after you had been enlightened, you had to go through a hard struggle of suffering, partly because you yourselves were held up to insult and involved in affliction and partly because you had become partners with people whose life was like that. The gracious Lord gives and designs that we should take His own place both in heaven and here. That is still true. At the heart of Christianity there remains for ever a threat. 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. Totally forgiven through Him, accepting this new covenant that God has established, your sins are completely put away. Those who have been kept faithful in great trials for the time past have reason to hope that the same grace will be sufficient to help them still to live by faith, till they receive the end of their faith and patience, even the salvation of their souls. 1. Please feel free to link to pages on this site, but do not copy articles without authors' permission. "And, as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, paid tithes in Abraham. This exhortation is a good summary of the whole message of Hebrews. We must bear in mind that Melchisedec was a man like any other. Hebrews 10:23-25 23 Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. This is, as is well known, the special characteristic of the millennium. such power and prosperity as, was never reached again. 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. This Esau never sought; and there never was one who did seek and failed to find it. A priest, as such, could no more draw near into the presence of God in the holiest than any of the common people. Christ, therefore, goes into heaven, and will come again apart from sin. Jesus was the perfect sacrifice because he perfectly did God's will. It is a way that will always be effectual. 297. There it was in the Psalms. King James Bible Psalm Chapter 126 Sermon . 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. Jeremiah, speaking of the new covenant which will not be imposed on a man from outside but which will be written on his heart, ends: "I will remember their sin no more" ( Jeremiah 31:34). So the encouragement is to hold fast the profession; don't waiver. But the apostle goes farther, as indeed was due to truth. What, then, is man's actual estate? Finally, as is his habit, the writer to the Hebrews clinches his argument with a quotation from scripture. IV. Thus the chain of blessedness is complete. 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. There we find these two facts. They were to suffer patiently their trials, looking forward to their termination; and in order to encourage them patiently to endure, he reminds them in the next verse that it will only be for a very short time. Read full chapter Hebrews 10:36 in all English translations Hebrews 9 Hebrews 11 King James Version (KJV) Public Domain Bible Gateway Recommends We have need of it because there is in us so much disposition to complain and repine; because our nature is liable to sink under sufferings; and because our trials are often protracted. 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 . Read xodo 40:5 bible commentary from Treasury of Scripture Knowledge by Samuel Bagster FREE on BiblePortal.com They had been mightily supported under their former sufferings; they took their sufferings patiently, and not only so, but joyfully received it from God as a favour and honour conferred upon them that they should be thought worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Christ. 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