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God had one Son without sin, but he never had a son without suffering and the Son who was without sin was the “Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.”. And in perfect songs adore him, The next verse illustrates the worship of faith. At the death of Christ, that veil was rent from the top to the bottom, so now there is nothing to keep us back from the mercy-seat. He was no unauthorized priest, self-appointed and unordained. You cannot soften them, but you can harden them. Hebrews 11:10. This is the triumphal arch of faith. In his own body on the tree. Faith made them so mighty. Amen. Ay, heaven itself will not be complete without us who are on the road to it. It has been done once, and there is no need of a repetition. Faith can bless other people as well as the believer himself. “Consider him.” Consider how he suffered far more than you can ever suffer, and how he is now crowned with glory and honor; and so you are to be like him, descend like him into the depths of agony, that with him you may rise to tho heights of glory. Be like the brave Spartan who would never lose his shield, but would come home either with it or on it. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. Science and reason are of little or no avail here, but the opening words of divine revelation explain the great mystery: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”. Hebrews Commentary. He stooped to conquer. To reject Christ willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth is to reject God’s only sacrifice for sins and to fall under His certain, terrifying judgment ( Hebrews 10:26, 27 ). It is for me not to ask the reason why, but to obey thy command.”. You must push on; you have already defied the foe, to turn back is certain destruction, for you have no armor for your back. If we neglect that salvation, is there any other way by which we can be rescued from destruction? The Jewish high priests went once a year into the Holy of Holies. But as to all that wearied me before, and made life a continual task and toil, it is ended now.” God is not a cruel taskmaster to his people; he gives rest to those who trust in him, and some of us have entered into that rest. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. He was a better man than Cain, and his offering was a better offering than Cain’s was; but at bottom here was the difference between the two brothers, Abel had faith, and Cain had none. Do not put yourself into every man’s hand to let him play with you as he pleases. If your God is not a living God to you in whom you live and move and have your being, if he does not come into your daily life, but if your religion is a dead and formal thing, then you will soon depart. He must make us like himself before we can see him. If so, that reminds you that, however much you may, in spirit, sometimes soar to heaven, yet you are still “partakers of flesh and blood.”. He has gone “into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.”, He has gone within the veil;-not the veil of “blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work;” but within the veil that hides “heaven itself” from our eyes, and there he is “in the presence of God for us.”. In that dread day, he will separate the goats from the sheep, the tares from the wheat, and the dross from the gold; his fan will be in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor; he will sit as a refiner of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi; he shall be like a refiner’s fire, and like fuller’s soap. From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. It comes by a medium which we must not dare to question, it has confirming seals in it which it is blasphemous for us to dispute. It has never come to a bloody sweat with you as with him, nor to death upon a cross, as in his case. Hebrews 10:36. I will not, I will not desert to his foes; A sure proof that he believed they would come out of Egypt, for he would not be buried among the Pharaohs, though a prominent place would have been assigned to him there; but he would have his bones lie with those of his ancestors, Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob. He who never examines himself is sure to be self-deceived. The worlds were not made, not one of them was made, out of something pre-existent; but they were framed by the Word of God, and the things which are seen were not made of things which are seen. Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. So, my brethren, let us live in the joy of heaven, let us live in the joy of ultimate victory, and this will enable us to bear all the toils and trials of our present life. God will not give to his people their full reward yet. Our supply of that virtue is often very short; it is an article of which there is very little in the market, and all of us have need of more of it: “Ye have need of patience,”-. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. Of our High Priest above; By wandering off, one way or another, away from the living God. That is the posture of one whose work is done, and who is taking his rest: “He sat down on the right hand of God. They want a heaven, and he is preparing heaven for them, and preparing them for heaven. Hebrews 10:14-17. So it was written, in the olden time, that believers “obtained a good report;” and this second verse shows that they obtained it by their faith. Hebrews 10:5-7. they shall enter into my rest: That is God’s rest, the rest of a finished work, and into that rest many never enter. Hebrews 10:34-35. A man could go to the Levitical sacrifices twenty years running, and yet be no forwarder. (For he is faithful that promised;), God gives us no cause for wavering, for he never wavers. Our supply of that virtue is often very short; it is an article of which there is very little in the market, and all of us have need of more of it: “Ye have need of patience,”-. Our Lord Jesus Christ had neither ignorance nor sin of his own, but he has become so completely one with his people, bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh, that he can have compassion upon us, ignorant and out of the way as we may be. That is looking to your-self. Christ’s second coming will be “without sin,” and without a sin offering, too, wholly apart from sin, unto the salvation of all His chosen. It is heaven begun below. The fact that Christ is free from sin, is a circumstance which does not diminish the tenderness of his sympathy with us, but rather increases it. As he is faithful, let us also be faithful, and hold, as with a death grip, the faith which has been revealed to us and wrought within us by the Holy Spirit; ay, and the profession of that faith too, never being ashamed to own that we are followers of the Nazarene. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. So you perceive that Christ is no created angel. These are the things with which faith always deals; — not with the things that are seen or are apprehensible by the senses or the feelings. There was a wondrous confidence in God in that weak, strong man, which though it does not excuse his faults, yet nevertheless puts him in the ranks of the believers. It would not be chastening if it were a joy to us; it is necessary, in order that it may be chastening, that it should be grievous. Never imagine, dear friends, that the old Jewish ceremonial law is to drag on its existence, and to be intermingled with the Christian dispensation. Men could not constitute themselves high priests; for the appointment was made by God alone. Perhaps the reference is to Abraham, who was as good as dead, being so old; or to Isaac, who was as good as dead, for he was laid upon the altar, and was practically “offered up” as a sacrifice unto the Lord. That to which the Holy Ghost bears testimony must never be questioned by us. Come, children of God, do not be despondent because of your tribulations. This was one of the grandest achievements of faith. That is the question, and here is the answer: —, Hebrews 10:39. O Christ, what burdens bow'd thy head! Thus entering into the very faith of his people. Is it not wonderful that we, who bring up the rear of the army of faith, are necessary to its completeness? Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Joshua had not given them rest, or else David would not have spoken of entering into rest. All these sacrifices and ceremonies, although full of instruction, were not in themselves able to give peace to the conscience of men. Does not every day bring us nearer to the coming of the Lord? I'll never, no never, no never forsake. The movements of God’s servants may be controlled by prayer. And my bright hopes disappear: “But Christ”-, Christ has entered into the true holy place, — not into that which was curtained with a veil, which was but a type, and which was put away when the veil was rent from the top to the bottom as Jesus died; he has entered into the immediate presence of God, and he has entered there once for all, “having obtained eternal redemption for us.”. “God can raise the dead,” says Faith, and that is a most comforting truth. In this chapter he exhorts them to seek to attain to this standard. Their anchor goes within the veil of the waters into the deeps of the sea; ours goes within the veil of glory, into the heights of heaven, where Jesus sits at the right hand of God: “within the veil;”. Trifle not, therefore, with that salvation which cost Christ so much, and which he himself brings to you with bleeding hands. However puzzled Abraham may have been by the command to offer up the son in whom his seed was to be called, his plain duty was to obey that command, and to leave the Lord to fulfill his own promise in his own way. That is, the will of God as done by Christ: “By the which will “ —, Hebrews 10:10-12. With such a Leader what manner of people ought we to be? You have to come to no angry Christ; you have to approach One who will be very gentle toward you. I know of no punishment that can be too severe for the man who treats with contempt the Son of God, and tramples on his blood; and every individual who hears the gospel, and yet does not receive Christ as his Savior, is committing that atrocious crime. Hebrews 10:25. He never repented of his sin, but only of the consequences of it. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Do you not remember that hymn that our Brother Chamberlain sings so sweetly? If there be a drawing back from faith, God can have no pleasure in us; but shall we draw back? Hebrews 10:1. “Being made perfect.” “What,” says one, “did Christ need to be made perfect?” Not in his nature, for he was always perfect in both his divine and his human nature; but perfect as a Savior, perfect as a Sympathizer,-above all, according to the connection, perfect as a High Priest. The Lord's word lays us bare and opens up our secret selves. That is a rich word, they “embraced them.” They were fax off, and yet faith brought them so near that they seemed to receive them to their ,hearts and feel the comfort of them. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together. We ought to be ashamed of ourselves if we grow weary in a race that is so easy compared with that of the men and women who laid down their lives for Christ’s sake. “Expecting.” That was the subject of this morning’s sermon. We are come to that blood, and it is that blood which has made such a change in us. See how faith consecrates natural affection. Hence, our Lord Jesus Christ took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.” The Jewish high priests were ordained for men; they acted on behalf of men, and they stood in the place of men. While we keep all the wall with diligence, let us set a double guard at the most vulnerable point. He said to his disciples, “I am among you as he that serveth.” Yet it is in him that the dominion once given to man is to be seen most clearly displayed. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. Used by Permission. Paul is still keeping to his illustration drawn from the wrestling at the Olympic games. It was by faith that he blessed both his sons, and therefore I gather that a faith which blunders, if it be faith in God, is an acceptable faith. Note in the fifth verse, the two evils of which we are in danger,-either of deepening God’s chastenings or else of fainting under them; either of thinking too little or too much of them. In Jesus we see far more of God than in all the teachings of the prophets. A backslider may be restored, but anyone who should wilfully, after receiving the truth, reject it, has rejected the only Saviour; he has rejected the only regeneration; and, consequently, he is without the pale of the possibilities of restoration. “ But by faith he did it. These men, of whom we are now briefly to read, are a company of God’s witnesses; and the apostle calls them, in the next chapter, “a cloud of witnesses,” who, from their lofty seats above, are watching us who are now running the Christian race. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; and having an high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. As man, he fills the throne of God. Men need forbearance and sympathy, hence the priests of old were men of like passions with the people. We are the preachers of it,— not the angels; and the great Author and Finisher of our faith is the Man Christ Jesus,— not an angel. Nobody ever grew holy without consenting, desiring, and agonizing to be holy. That great He, — that Divine He, — our Savior and our God. Let us not be solitary pilgrims along the road to heaven, but join that glorious host of God’s elect who march beneath the guidance of our great Master. When faith takes to working, how mightily she works. Oh, how glorious it is to realize our position in Christ, and to see how he has lifted us up, not merely to the place froze which the first Adam fell, but he has made us stand so securely there that we shall not again descend around the ruins of the Fall! Hebrews 10:15-17. Hebrews 10. He here quotes the 22nd Psalm as the words of the Messiah. Not that Christ needed to be made perfect in nature, but perfect in his capacity to be the Captain of our salvation, complete in all the offices which he sustains toward his redeemed people. If you run with the footmen, and they weary you how will you contend with horses? The most gorgeous ceremonies are as nothing in his sight; it is the faith of the heart which {me accepts. And took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. Though almost driven to desperation, he would not give up his faith in God. To draw back totally would be fatal. He who does not give earnest heed to the gospel treats with disdain the Lord Jesus Christ, and he will have to answer for that sin when the King shall sit upon the throne of judgment. The Lord, as our loving Father, makes use of the rod that he may make us to be truly holy. By his one sacrifice he has ended all the fruitless labor of the ages; and, now, as many of us as have believer] in him have all the benefits of his perfect work. Moses kept the law and was a good example to Israel save in some point of weakness, but Christ perfectly carried out his Father’s commission, and he is worthy of more honor than Moses. He was old and blind, so that he did not know which of his sons came for the first blessing, yet he could see into the future sufficiently to bless both his sons “concerning things to come.” What wondrous power there is in faith even when it is exercised by very imperfect individuals! May you and I possess “like precious faith” at; that of which we have here the story! They may think that, because they sin in secret, therefore they shall escape punishment; but it shall not be so. That is the posture of one whose work is done, and who is taking his rest: “He sat down on the right hand of God; He would not have sat down if his work had not been done. By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace. Pride has already begun to work in them; and where pride can work, every other sin finds elbow-room. May we be given to hospitality, for that should be part of the character of saints. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. Those that were sprinkled with the blood of the Old Testament sacrifices did not feel that their sin was for ever put away. 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