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St Christopher (c. 1496-1505)
Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450 - 1516)
Early Netherlandish Style
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Image Source: Web Gallery of Art
Explanation: In Hebrews 10 the writer says that the law had a shadow of things to come, so it's required sacrifices could not make anyone perfect. If it had made anyone perfect, the worshipers would have ceased to make offerings because their consciences would have been cleansed. Instead, sins are remembered every year because the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sins (1-4).
So when Christ came into the world, he came bodily without sacrifices and offerings because God did not want them. Christ came to do God's will. And God's will was to sanctify those who believe by offering the body of Christ once for all (5-10).
Priests offer sacrifices repeatedly. But Christ offered a single sacrifice and sat down at God's right hand until God makes his enemies his footstool. That single offering perfected for all time those who are being sanctified (11-14).
And the Holy Spirit bears witness to us by writing God's laws on our hearts and our minds. And God remembers their sins and lawless deeds no more. Where these are forgiven no further sacrifice is needed (15-18).
Therefore, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way, we should draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, cleansed in heart, conscience, and body. So we should hold fast our hope without wavering, because the one who promised is faithful. Also, we should stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, especially as you see the day drawing near (19-25).
If we forsake Christ's sacrifice and continue to live in sin after we know the truth, there is no longer a sacrifice for sin, only a fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries. Under the Mosaic law, anyone who set aside that law died without mercy. A far worse punishment awaits those who trample underfoot the Son of God, profane the blood of the covenant, and outrage the Spirit of grace. God has said that vengeance is his and he will repay; and he has said that he will judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God (26-31).
The author, having said these things, offers strong encouragement to his readers. He tells them to recall the former days, after you were enlightened and endured a hard struggle with suffering, sometimes being publicly reproached and afflicted, and sometimes being partners with those who were so treated. You had compassion on those in prison, you sacrificed your property, knowing that you have in heaven a better and abiding possession. Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has great reward. Endure in doing God's will and receive what is promised. For in a little while Christ will come. His righteous ones will live by faith. But he will have no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back. but the writer assures his readers that he is confident that they are not of those who shrink back, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls (32-39).]
[Sermons: Eric Alexander. Kim Riddlebarger. Various. ]
[Illustration: Today's painting is of Saint Christopher who travels having Christ always with him, symbolically never departing from Christ. This is precisely what the author of Hebrews urges upon his readers in today's chapter. Under no circumstance must they depart from Christ. ]
RESOURCES
[THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES:
Hebrews 10: Psalm 40:6-8; Exodus 29:38; Psalm 110:1; Jeremiah 31:33-34; Isaiah 64:1; Deuteronomy 17:6; Deuteronomy 32:35-36; Habakkuk 2:3-4. ]
[ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]
[ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]
[ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]
*** For Additional word studies use one of the Greek Interlinear Bibles below. ***
Book Outline:
1. The Doctrine of Christ & its Implications (Hebrews 1:1 - Hebrews 10:39) - 60 A.D. Italy
2. The Exhortations to Believe Christ and to Obey Him (Hebrews 11:1 - Hebrews 13:25) - 60 A.D. Italy
Hebrews 10
1. The Doctrine of Christ & its Implications (Hebrews 1:1 - Hebrews 10:39) - 60 A.D. Italy
1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
8 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;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever [into perpetuity], sat down on the right hand of God;
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever [into perpetuity] them that are sanctified.
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant 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;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 And having an high priest over the house of God;
22 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.
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.
26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully [with gladness] the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving [acquiring] of the soul.
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